Today the user Violacea posted the following in reply to Haipaa on the Rift Forums:
This, please tell me there is, haven’t seen one so far so I don’t think there is one 🙂
Josh, Please for the love of god, add a Gun Relic to Maelforge, a Bow is terrible in so many ways, playing as Saboteur is one thing.
One day they will kill the disparity between guns/bows and make them equal mechanically, and probably even equal for bonus purposes. It is just too hairy and awkward a thing to maintain and people hate it. One day…
Which was then responded to shortly after by Josh York, Systems Designer (Itemization) Developer at Rift with the following:
This is on our to-fix list.
This is great news! I have long been annoyed by the travel time on bows and have just started using one again after replacing the guns I have had since around February with the Tarnished Bow of Carved Bones/Avarice Relic from Infernal Dawn.