Bows of swiftness

[FireIceTalon]

Correct in both cases. Just to clarify, it's not just useful when shooting at one target, it also works great against a LINE of targets. When the first one dies, the arrows simply pass on to the next one. Lining them up is pretty easy, just retreat to the nearest corner and walk a fair distance around it hugging the wall. The monsters will round the corner and come at you in a nice line which you can cut to shreds. If they get too close simply retreat and repeat. Of course this strategy works with all bows (and a lot of spells).

If you wish to compare the damage per time unit of a swiftness bow to a normal bow, just multiply the damage displayed on the character screen by 7/6 (almost the same as increasing it by 17%). The result will be damage per 0.35 second, which is the attack time of an normal bow.

True enough.

One thing id like to mention though, swiftness in pvp does make a huge difference, unlike pvm. Swiftness is indespensible on a rogue dueling, that fast attack makes it alot more difficult for your opponent to teleleport, thus controlling their movement better. Dueling w/o a swift bow is fine, but at high lvl pvp I rarely use anything else (ill pull out the Merciless Burning for fun sometimes vs warriors) and one who experiments with both types of bows should surely get better results using swiftness, vs almost any opponent.