[Sarinpa1]

Or perhaps we could look at this whole thing whole lot differently.
I don't know how you people, but never have I used or seen used the bows sub attack. It wouldn't be bad for it to be some sort of a bash (or arrow stab if you want)
It'd leave cannon skills untouched, along with snake shot and such and it would still give the desired option to actualy fight with bow in melee range.
With reduced damage by more than 50%, it'd still be better for you to move away and shoot, rather than shoot twice, if you wanted to simply damage your opponent. So the only thing that this would be boosting would be on-hit effects with bows. (Because if anyone is arbalesting, it's very safe to assume that they have a subweapon. Which one would use in melee range scenario anyways)