bow bows
Bows make excellent weapons for the skilled archer. Like guns, bows are ranged weapons and thus ignore auras, cannot be used for parrying and cannot be parried (but ducked). To use a bow, one must hold arrows in the free hand. The bow becomes most powerful when used with enchanted arrows which deal extra damage when a shot hits. The main drawback with bows it that they are designed for ranged combat only, and provoke a counter-attack whenever an arrow is fired against an opponent engaging the archer in close-combat. Therefore, archers usually rely on others to keep their opponents busy. See showskill bow for more details