i remember reading in a guide that bumping up bow skill isn't useful that you should do dex only, which is the damage. That bow skill is useful for shooting stuff far away, but isn't really needed.

I had thought that with gothic 2 gold rules, increased bow skill not only increases chance to hit at distance, but attack speed. Someone let me know before i start bumping up my bow skill when i just want max damage instead. If it doesn't boost speed, i consider it useless since im not really going to snipe stuff across the map.

Also they said that gold changes pickpocket different, that in normal game you got experience based on chapter, like 50 exp in chapter 1 compared to 250 in later chapters. Now in gold its based on how many people you pickpocket, not by chapter, so getting started early is useful. So let me know about this..