So Shaver, good call on the merchants. I am used to games where the drops tend to be way better than purchasing items from vendors, but apparently this game has a good mix. When I got home I looked at my bow, and it had 1-3 physical damage, and 2-4 or so magical damage. I went to Derk and got a bow with 4-40 phys damage, and 6-10 mag damage... what a surprise, enemies go down in 2-3 hits now!

Funny thing is, all of a sudden last night after playing for 3 hours or so, I had about 4-5 different bows drop as loot in the bandit camp area. Of course that happens just as I buy a new one, but these weren't as good as what I got anyways.