Ulysses does 5d2 + 10 ordinary damage and 9–12 Water damage, and adds 50 to your accuracy

I can't remember the stats for a Griffin bow, but an item "of Darkness" decreases your recovery time (i.e. the bow will shoot faster) and is vampiric (i.e. some of the damage it does is added to your hit points until you are fully healed).

A bow "of Carnage" casts a fireball when it hits. It is extremely useful at long range, but dangerous at short range because your party gets caught in the fireball's blast.

The Perfect Bow is the most inherently accurate bow in the game, doing 5d2 + 12 ordinary damage, but that's all it does. Retrieving it is also one of the Archer quests.

Ania Selving is probably the least useful. It does 4d2 +9 ordinary damage, adds 150 to your accuracy and 5 to your bow kill, but it drops your armour class by 25.

You didn't mention this, but I think there's an enchantment in that game called "of the Dragon". If so, it causes additional Fire damage, and protects you against fire, and is one of the best enchantments for weapons.

I would rank these in the order:
1. Ulysses
2. "of the Dragon"
3. "of Darkness"
4. The Perfect Bow
5. Ania Selving

Realistically...how much would you guys pump bow skill?

do u think bows can spawn with this suffix too? might dosnt affect bows, does it?

btw, how far do u suggest taking Spear skill for them? Exper 4 or higher?

In party development, you need to get everyone up to expert in their core skills as quickly as you can. If you're running a party containing two archers, I would certainly develop all their magic skills, but how you do it would depend on how many other spellcasters are in the party. If the archers are the only two, I would get one up to Master in Water asap, so you have access to Town Portal, and the other up to Master in Air so that you can use Fly as effectively as you can. Fire is very tempting, I know, but I think those two spells take precedence. Also, when they are fully promoted, if you're on the Light Path, I recommend that everyone who can learns Light, and gets the Paralyze spell. It's the single most important combat spell for a Light Path party.

Don't boost your bow skill at the expense of your melee skills. Unless you're fighting against ground-bound opposition with a river between you, sooner or later, they're going to reach you, and bow skill is then useless You need to be good at both ranged and melee fighting.

You also need to find an item "of Thievery" or "of Disarming" if you're relying on one of your Archers to open treasure chests etc. for you. They're not good enough without that, and it's a wearying job to have to keep repairing your party because things keep blowing up in your face.

A decent bow "of the Dragon" is a top level weapon, and you will need to kill a top level monster to get it – a dragon would do nicely

Otoh, I have governor's Armour - nice artefact with inherent 50% only dmg from all missilies. Besides, GM Chain reduced by 33% all physical dmg and with a solo toon it might be a HUGE difference (life vs death sometimes).

But to grandmaster chain you need 54 points...a few levels in bow.

Wel, maybe I will GM Chain after all (acting on your experience too)

The last time I played MM7 it was a solo Lich and this guy ended up in his 130ish level and was unstoppable to the point of boring and overpowered.

Now I need to see for myself solo Archer as I have heard so much about GM bow with high levels. Besides Archer has magic