I absolutely love using a bow, and was very excited when they came out. But I was very disappointed to find that they can't compare to swords. I find that they can definitely stand up to swords if you spec right, but you have to use mostly skills and not your default attack the majority of the time, and if you don't spec at least 30 points into mana you go through a ton of mana potions. Though currently bows do less DPS but more regular damage. Now I could be wrong, but I believe that DPS is your weapon damage ONLY, and bonus dmg% and the other regular dmg attribute govern your skill damage. I find that I do much higher skill damage with bows than swords, but not enough to permanently use a bow as I would like to.