Some people here mentioned that crossbows are better in this mod. I disagree with that opinion. For pure damage, yes, but there are many ridiculously OP weapon-based debuffs and bow is perfect to apply them (especially if rolled with -1 AP). So we have natural separation of roles here - xbow is for pure damager, bow is utility/support/damage role. And it's wrong to measure everything in damage numbers, because more control/utility is often much better than more damage.
Also, because your hero will mostly use his basic attacks you may even successfully use bows without investing many ranger points which creates possibility for different interesting builds not possible with xbow.
Just my 2c so that people don't underestimate bows.