Man i can not not notice that initiative counts for ranged weapons too. It is impossible to have enough strength and agility to wear a good bow at the end of act 2 lets say, and have enough stats to get some survivor may be, to raise your initiative. with the low initiative you never hit first, so the enemy comes to me before i shoot. so where is the ranged atack??? i need to upgrade only the point blank skill i guess, because on hard difficulties enemies are always with higher initiative, especialy act 1 and 2. that is a complete bs larian. sry to say that but the initiative idea is very lame and unperfected.
also, initiative is a state of mind, not a physical state, and i am damn sure that everyone who is about to get stabbed will be initiative enough to shoot his bow before the enemy comes to him with a blow.