Figured I’d try to do some horse archery since it looks cool, I was wrong, my arrows was very inaccurate not to mention you go through arrows as you do water, I figured combining arrows and bow damage would make the bow better.
I found horse archery viable so long as you are leading the target, and upgrade enough to cripple with most hits.
As Marcospt said, levelling your horses’ accuracy is super useful. On top of that however, heavy aimed attacks are where the damage and accuracy comes into play I found, not light attacks.
Rn, id max str, vit, and split the rest between grit>aig>encumberance
After the update this us likely to change alot
Accuracy is the bow stat, and right now at max level the damage isnt up to par with melee, tac on the fact that you need to spend loads of extra resources on it… id fully recommend melee unless you get to sharp shooter levels
EDIT: im also a pvper 99% of the time so it may be different in pve