Bows far too weak?

[Chnmmr]

Hey everyone.

Having a blast (mostly,) with this game. I have a question though. I'm definitely noticing bows being severely underwhelming later in game. My fighters are hitting for 40-60 with 120 crits, while my archer is hitting for 5-10 with 30 crits. Enchanting the arrows doesn't seem to be much of an improvement and the crossbow is somewhat better but still nowhere on par with melee. Should I have gone dagger/assassin route with my backline rogue?

Or does someone have advice on what I may be doing wrong?

[Pez]

Is your rogue DEX or STR based? Missile weapon damage is affected by STR instead of DEX, not intuitive at all, but thats how it works.

Read this, it throws some light in the use of dex and missile weapons.
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[Jack Dandy]

From what the devs say, the weapon skills have much larger impact on damage then character stats.

[Chnmmr]

Really... bows are strength based?!

And here I thought it was dex ><

[Jack Dandy]

Remember- skill stat makes more difference then character stats!