Jesus, I don't think they should've added the Metal Eater bow so early in the game. At level 7, when buffed with only Hurricane Bow, Cat's Grace, Bless and Prayer, the negro Ranger is fucking ripping through trolls and trollhounds alike on Challenging, doing 40-50 damage per round and that's without Haste.
Combine that with Web and Stinking Cloud, I feel like I'm slaughtering kittens instead of 14-feet-tall monstrosities.
EDIT: And I know that this is not due to the stat-stacking bug, because I'm still trucking it on 1.01.
Yeah, the Metal Eater bow is... kinda crazy. They probably should've taken it out, or nerfed it, or just placed it somewhere in the end-game, I dunno. It's introduction and placement just reinforces my belief that nothing was playtested and that they were planning to do an itemization pass, but never had time for it and then the game was pushed out the door. On one hand, don't think it should exist, or at least not be placed where it is, but on the other hand I detest the idea of "balancing" in a singleplayer game, with developers going in and changing things like that after the fact.
So I'm a bit torn.
It's a fucking insane piece of hardware. No idea what they were thinking. Combine it with Enlarge Person and that spell that increases the size of your arrows by one step. Theoretically you should be shooting, what, Gargantuan Arrows?
Edit:
Medium (Base)->Large (Oversized Bow)->Huge (Enlarge Person)->Gargantuan (Spell); yup.