It's really disappointing that bows have lost so much popularity and for good and bad reasons. They lack armor, appear to the naked eye to be weaker in normal damage, despite having the hidden 200% modifier, and have weaker skill damage.
The fact is I hate how clumsy daggers are. When spamming normal skills I only hit my target half the time!! It takes two hits to actually break a barrel, I mean c'mon!!
Bows are just more fluid and fun but because of stats are less desirable for the most part.

I wish STS could implement a way to do targeted normal attacks with daggers so they wouldn't be so terrible/clumsy with normal attacks

I definitely prefer bows though, just wish they had same armor as daggs.