The PIE on almost all the new bows threw me off as well.

I kinda looked at it as melee have 3 stats to build. STR/VIT/DEX. And mages had 3. PIE/MND/INT(aware lots of mages build VIT too). I am already having enough problems as it is on Archer with determining which stats to raise when considering some stats barely do anything at all(hello dex!). Throwing PIE into the mix just hurts my brain even more. I would bet a lot of us, me included, have only base PIE, so 13 or something. Don't think none of us ARC where aware we were suppose to be building up our PIE stat as well lol.

Maybe I have just been brainwashed though in thinking Archer should be str/dex builds and mods. Something is definitely up though if they are putting PIE on almost all the bows now though. Maybe it effects Bloodletter DoT? Maybe our damage mods on weapon skills are dex/pie, like how DRK in XI was str/int?

idk...