Unbalanced bow and sword damage in comparisson

[Ake]

Is it just me or is the damage between bows and sword hella unbalanced?

I play the game in coop and after I found a bow in a golden chest and decided to play with bows. My partner still goes with his sword and we just found the one in the golden chest.

We already noticed in a short duration that these two aren't that balanced. I mean - overal the bow hits more crits - yea. But that don't helps when my crits are as high (or less) as his normal damage and he makes even more when he crits. Not even the spells makes more damage for bow users.

Afterwards we also compared the weapons at the backsmith and the travelling salesman and also there the stats don't really balance. Yes - the bow crits more often, but that's not very effective when the sword haves like 200 more damage in total. And!! the bow is slower than the sword and can only hit one target at the same time.

Makes me a bit down to know that I'll always be behind him with my damage because bows don't do that much as sword. So It don't really makes sense to play with a bow, even when I really like bows more.

[Korhal]

Have a look at the skills not only the standard atk. Bow skills are very good and basically keeping the enemies at bay, while you still doing damage. Its just a different playstyle in the end in regards to the sword, which makes you mastering the evasion abilities and maintining some kind of "crowd-control".

Also certain magic schools synergize better with bow/sword.

[Mr. Moyer]

No, certain magic don't "synergize better" with anything. It's simply that the damage your magic spells do is based PURELY on your equipped weapon's damage. So equipping a bow not only cuts your physical damage in half, but also cuts ALL of your magic damage in half. The trade-off is that you have to dodge less often because the bow lets you stay farther away from enemies... but honestly enemies will CHASE YOU and with the bow's low damage usually they get into melee range before you can do enough damage to kill them anyway.

So yeah, bows are like NERF GUNS. Don't even upgrade any bows unless you just want the achievement. Swords are better in every way that matters. Double melee damage AND double magic damage, compared to bows. If you need crowd-control, the final sword skill will push enemies back as it shoots a giant wave out; or the Tornado skill will push enemies back away from you in four directions. Both of those do amazing damage, too, will kill most little enemies and even certain minibosses in a single hit if you have one of the two best swords equipped.