The bow is better in damage, is you never use sic Em like me it was a buff to ranger, i play survival + stance skills (and the trait than share it) you can perma protection and have fury and quickness up to 25sec, one wolf pack stance is very good to extra damage with quickness and its shared with mates. I play always with medium armor clases, in squad i bring moa stance, dolyak stance and one wolf pack. i hope devs made the stance share trait range bigger.