User blog:Sinthorion/Bow comparison

There were many dicussions and rumors about which bow is the strongest or fastest, so I researched the exact values. The values are modifiers to the vanilla bow attributes. Draw Time is the number of ticks you need to draw the bow. Default (vanilla) draw time is 20.
 * The Black Uruk bow was debuffed (slowed down) in update Beta 23.

Conclusion: The elven bows are unbeaten. The Black Uruk and Utumno bows make the same damage but are slower. The Harad bow nearly reaches the elven bows but needs nearly double as long to be drawn. The Wood Elven (Mirkwood) bow is very fast but not very strong.