question about bows in diablo 1

[Mahida]

This is correct, although Massive starts at 96 rather than 93.

You are right, but my point remains valid: A brutal LWB of swiftness with +93% does excactly the same damage as a massive LWB of swiftness with +99%.

Another thing:

Merciless Burning: 119-170 (includes the 1-16 fire dmg, which isnt shown on the char screen) Smile
Merciless Thunder: 119-174 (1-20, though Burning actually has a higher dmg potential because of the elemental bug, which is multiplied up to 9 x on Burning bows, only 7 x for Thunder)

Merciless elemental bows are truly lethal, ive killed a lvl 50 warrior with 600 hp (with max resists and full life globe) with ONE arrow before in duels, using my Merc Burning. Pretty rare for this to occur, but its possible.

How is this possible? With the numbers you've given the max damage should be 174+9*16=314. In that case it would take two arrows to kill the warrior.