After the breach update, early game for archer is literally unplayable. Without a good set of focus gain and cost reduction armor it is unlikely to fire the bow at all, in fact equipping a shield is way more useful compare to bows if 95% of combat is in melee. Moreover multishot gives bosses enough time to kill me twice, i can understand that the developers dont want us to spam it like before, but you dont have to nerf it to the ground.
Agree on that there is no point getting a bow with the current changes. using focus for the basic bow attacks is to me a big mistake.