Good All Round Bow

You should ALWAYS have a longbow with you, and for barraging i'd use a Vamp 15^50 long bow of FORTITUDE (very important). I actually dont like recurves cause i don't give a shit for the Arc.

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recurve bow is the best all around, most accurate bow, medium range and shortest flight time.
longbow gives you a little more range which is useful especially for pulling or reaching opponements from behind obstacles but has a higher arc.
flatbow gives you range and fast refire rate but the highest arc and thus most inaccurate bow. flatbow is only useful when using the spirit favourable winds and the preparation read the wind as anything less just leaves you too big an arc.
shortbow has the shortest range, but fast refire rate and medium arc.

overall recurve is the bow of choice if you want just 1 bow.

barrage and volley will end the preparation before it fires, therefore, it will never poison anything.

poison tip signet probably only works on the target you chose to target, and won't poison any additional targets.

If you simply must run Barrage, use either a Zealous or Vampiric bow and drop the preparation. Barrage is only really useful when there's hordes upon hordes of foes that like to stay together... otherwise there's a whole lineup of other elites that outclass it: Burning Arrow, Broadhead Arrow, Prepared Shot, etc.

As for bows, definitely carry a Longbow (even if you only use it to pull) and a Shortbow weapon set to switch to if you find yourself close to the front lines. If you want to PvP, Recurve is definitely the way to go to make it harder for targets to dodge your shots... though personally I have grown addicted to Recurves and use them for general PvE use as well.

For barrage you really want a zealous longbow of fort. A recurve is also good on any build definetly the best all rounder. Dazing bow strings are good so are zealous and vamp, even if your using poison though i wouldnt take a poison string, bit of a waste...

Also, take into account which elite you plan to use. If you intend to use prep shot, you won't need a zealous bow. If using BHA, then a silencing bow may be used, yet the concept of extending conditions isn't as useful in PvP as it is in PvE.

In retrospect, you will end up with a variety of bows. For example, if an elementalist is using Mark of Rodgort, it would be to your advantage to have a fiery bow of some type. If a necromancer wants to use Spinal shivers, it would be best to use an icy bow. If you're playing interupter, then you may chose an elemental shortbow or even sundering-though I would rather go elemental and use a conjure enchantment to give a higher damage output.

Like I said, you will end up with a variety of bows.

Once again thanks alot guys. I'll do abit more research on Wiki to find what mods to put on my bows, and I'll take your replies under major consideration.

Thanks alot!

I Suggest make multiple bows (one for barrage, one for daze/distract, one for cripple) etcccc, I don't think there's a good all around bow tbh.

- Ganni

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Most rangers have several bows. I have about 10 atm, it varies though.

For your two bows, I'd say
Poisonous Recurve of something (health possibly)
Ebon Short Bow of Enchanting

The Ebon Short Bow is for several reasons - Short Bows have a high RoF, so you can get more attacks off - this helps spread conditions. With an 8 second Blind from EDA for example (I believe at 10 Earth?) you can still manage 4 attacks with the Short Bow, but only three with any other. It has lower range, but you're unlikely to need long range for blinding, it's likley to keep melee under wraps. Enchanting is pretty obvious since EDA is an enchantment.

The Poisonous recurve is a bit tough - Recurve is the best interrupting bow, and a solid choice, but it depends what build you'll be running with it - if you are doing Crip Shot I'd even go with a Crippling string instead, since the duration on the cripple is low to start with. If it's just for poison, then poisonous is fine. I have a recurve for each of barbed, silencing, poisonous and crippling, since I swap builds a lot.

You'll want at least one long range bow in your arsenal. A ranger who can't pull a target from a range in PvE is just too funny. Long or Flat, doesn't really matter. I prefer Flatbows in PvE for the DPS benefit. For GvG though I bring a Crippling longbow typically - if ganking you re-apply damage often enough to not need "poisonous", but if you want to snare a target at range the crippling Longbow can make the difference.

Long or Flat with a Recurve if you use interrupts.Barrage is good with short bow with mobs right on you.

This is a nice skill to start with [skill]Hunter's Shot[/skill]
[skill]keen arrow[/skill] can deal massive damage if u have enough points in marksmanship (critical hit rate)
[skill]distracting shot[/skill] can bust healing sig spammers very well
[skill]Greater Conflagration[/skill] is a nice skill to use with a vampiric bowstring,conjure and mark the + thing bout this elite is that other players will trigger mark with his/her physical attacks to

Have Fun

Ultiamtely, you want to have a short, recurve, and long bow for each string set you plan to use IMO (with some variation) If you aren't that serious of a player however (not a bad thing) Recurve is your best bet, with a long bow always on standby if nothing else for the ability to pull monsters out of their patrols.

Also, running any ranger without both savage shot and distracting shot is a crime punishable by being hung by your entrails and paraded across lions arch.

Half Moons are about the most rounded bow I think. By lookin at the pictures that is.

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My recommendation is to go to Resplendent Makuun and collect 10 Skree Wings. Then go to Nuwisha just outside Bokka Amphitheatre and trade 5 of the Skree Wings for a Sturdy Recurve Bow (+5e) then modify it with string and grip of your choice. I have a selection of these with Vamp, Zealous, of Enchanting, etc etc. Superb interrupters bow.

And the other 5 Skree Wings?.....why, swap for Nesting Material of course!

Ummm ... Shanaya speak wisdom! +5e much more important than some damage bonus. Recurve Bow is my choice for best all around, if you have to choose just one. But a Longbow also for pulling, doesn't have to be anything special.

I mount a Recurve, a Longbow, and a Zealous Flatbow for recharge when energy is low.

No, Shanaya is wrong. +5 energy is not needed 90% of the time. You may want one as a weapon swap if you really need 5 energy when bottomed out.

A bigger energy pool is useful only for a few things:
Big costs (you must have enough energy to pay them)
Attack Chain (enough energy to cover the chain/spike)
Exhaustion

Anything else and you should be planning to manage your energy, using a skill bar that allows you to be effective without bottoming your energy out. +5 energy from a bow will allow one or two additional skills before you hit 0 energy; is it worth sacrificing 15% bonus damage (base) on every shot to get one more attack skill off? Nope.