Finally, a +30 ranged accuracy increase is maybe a 15% increase of your total bonus, since ranged gear already has attack bonusus. Goes up exponentionally etc and also melee has more other boosts than ranged (unless you buy rigour but thats another 140k tokens), I heard 30-40% faster arma kills in a 3 man team (I think lol). Especially considering the price of ranger boots, I can't see why people wouldn't want a crossbow. And yeah I pulled that rapier attack bonus out of nowhere so apparently its even less :P So I agree you should at least get rapier and maybe maul or something first, but after that its pretty stupid to consider a shield over cbow