Desirable HP for a Crossbowman

Hey all, I'm planning on washing a crossbowman to ideally do two things.

• Be able to attempt Pianus and Papulatus without hyper body
• Have enough HP for Horntail at 150 with hyper body

What I'm NOT trying to do is

• Tank a hit from Bigfoot, Anego, or The Boss (This all seems unreasonable... do crossbowmen even do Showa stuff?)
• Tank more than one hit from bosses (Double is a ton more HP)
• Do Horntail without hyper body (I'm under the impression that crossbowmen have a harder time washing than night lords)

I have a spreadsheet set up to do HP wash calculations already, the two questions I have are:

• What HP range is actually given using AP for a Crossbowman? I've seen two different answers on these forums.
• What's a good HP goal for this sort of crossbowman? ~6200 at 150 seems to be a good destination.

Thanks for any assistance on this.

 

Thanks for the Horntail info, specific numbers like that are very helpful.
What causes the need for 7.7k at papulatus? I'm not aware of any attacks of his that do that much.

 

I read up on fryber actually! Started pumping INT at lvl 80 or so throughout 80-120, till base INT was 170. According to my calculations, this got them ~5800 HP by 160, assuming what thugric said about HP increases being 16-20 is correct.

EDIT: Fixed to 170, wasn't 200

 

Alright, all the information here is very helpful! There's one last thing, and it's more of a sanity check than anything else.

I already have a crossbowman (made before I knew about washing) and it's level 65. It's quite a bit past when people normally start washing, but it's potentially not a lost cause.

The pros of keeping the old is the satisfaction of saving the character / not having to do PQs again / not getting to level 65 again.
The con is getting HP goal at a later level, and significant damage reduction going there, since base INT is increasing instead of DEX.

There are a couple options, but here I've broken down into five possible ones.
1. Have the current character reach 6.2k HP by lvl 150, with 11-25% damage reduced getting there.
2. Have the current character reach 6k HP by lvl 150, with 8-19% damage reduced getting there.
3. Have the current character reach 5.7k HP by lvl 150, with 5-13% damage reduced getting there.
4. Make a new character, reach 6.3k by lvl 150, with around 8-12% damage reduced.
5. Make a new character, reach 5.9k by lvl 150, with around 4-6% damage reduced.

... Actually, looking at the numbers here, deleting the character makes less and less sense.
Still, it's tough to pick a game plan, I'm really not sure how disastrous this sort of damage reduction is.

(fryber was operating under a 27% reduction at 120, getting to roughly 22% reduction at 148, as far as I can tell).

Any thoughts?

 

Alright, sounds like I'm keeping this character around, that's a relief (starts browsing zakum service threads).

Oh, unrelated question but a bit pressing as I'm almost at 70, what's the skill people usually leave un-maxed for crossbowman? There's Blessing of Amazon, Focus, Crossbow Booster, and Soul Arrow.

Is blessing of amazon maxed, focus maxed, crossbow booster maxed, and soul arrow 7 a good idea? (SA syncs up with CB's timer pretty well like that)