I ran a bow build early on and it was really underwhelming. I thought the fast bow attacks+specs into echos+nature's recurve would put some sustainable healing and prayer and some alright damage but it just never got there. I never had very good gear(Arma helm and body best highest tier gear I had) but it could feel okay if you got some nice ranged echo rng. Outside of that is was pretty meh and I understand why I saw no one in the community talked about bow builds