Dragon string bow
Attack time + animation time: 1.1 + 0.3
Attacks per sec: 0.714
Damage: 61 - 68
DPS: 44 - 49

Dragon string crosbow
Attack time + animation time: 1.4 + 0.3
Attacks per sec: 0.588
Damage: 77 - 85
DPS: 45 - 50


Bow vs xBow
1. I though that the bow is atleast dominant with normal attacks. Unfortunately... score is pretty same.

2. While we are using skills then Attack speed is useless because it doesn't work (no less cooldown, no faster animation attacks, no less attack time... xbow with skills shots as minigun...).

=>In this case "Damage" is more important than "Attack per sec". Unfortunately... xbow has 25% more DPS and pvp bow is worse than non-pvp xbow.
So, if pvp xbow +24 deal you 300 damage (805 - 505), then pvp bow +24 will deal 141 damage (646 - 505).
(damage - armor)

3. It is ridiculous that extremely weak pvp bow cost same ingredients as powerful pvp xbow


4. no epic bow as iberian ender (nah, xD it is ok.).

*I heard that with using skills the bow is slower than xbow. I did small test with starter weapons without magic and didnt see difference. So I dont know if it is true.

My suggestion:
Please... rescue bows... I wanna try play 4story with bow! T_T

Ok.. by this video I am bit confused due to information "xbow is faster than bow with using skills"
I dont know if it is still possible do this combo with bow (I unsuccessfully tried it.. :D). But I believe that it is (or was) possible with xbow too... just with 1 less projectile due to 1.4 cooldown for xbow normal attack. I see that the guy in video just tried cancel all attack animation for faster spending all instant skills.