Mondains Legacy....
Pre Imbuing...
You Have Heartwood....
Arch
Tact
Anat
Heal
Resist
Ninja
Bush
With the Introduction of ML you had the Craftable Lightweight Shortbow that came with balanced on it. Get some HW kits and Make a butt ton of those until you get Hit spell, HLD, and swing.
Carry Shurikens. DP with shurikens wasn't based on your Poisoning Skill. You can DP from range just as well as a dexxer.
With Bushido You have Confidence which gives you a 3rd heal on top of bandis and Pots.
You can survive A Dismount, You have Mirror Images for Dealing with Close Range Dexxers, you can DP at range, Magical Shortbows Swing Fast, Interrupt Mages like Crazy.
Just like dxrom said too, if they built that freeshard around the time when Deathstrike was ONLY based on ninjitsu, you can Deathstrike with your magical Shortbow too.
Good Artifacts for that Genre
Mace and Shield Glasses
Jackals Collar
Rune Beetle Carrapace
Leggings of Bane
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