Whenever i make a bow and arrows, i have a power of a diamond sword, since killing a hostile mob with it costs two arrows, and two hits with a diamond sword kill a hostile, this is just a small suggestion saying to make bows a BIT less strong,
Sword does more with a critical strike. Anyway, pvping on my friend's server, even the stone sword beat the bow almost all of the time, because the bow takes forever to charge up, and the sword can swing really fast and get criticals.. yeah you get the idea. I think that the bow is balanced fine.
3 hits with a diamond sword, 3 shots with the bow.
its different?