My first premise is that all of the hunter's (the ones that matter) attk power comes from the skill itself not the bow or stats. That can easily been seen on the link above. I researched this and paid the price with a some what screwed up character.
The logical question is then what does weapon matter. The answer is, not much. Allow me to explain. If you do an attk that does 7k damage and the attk of you bow 500. With a different bow that has attk of 300 you would do 6.8k.

When say attk of bow I mean the bow+ what dex stats.

This really affects dagger hunters more than bow hunters; because daggers have way less atk then bows. It also means that an extremely low level dagger can do serious damage to enemy. I have consistently done 7k+ damage in crespo with a level 20 dagger, and I only have 36 str. Not much different than my level 54+3 2 socket divine dagger I spent 1 mill on then 3 argates and a ton (millions)of cash and gems putting sockets in.

It is not worth buying and expensive dagger. Not really worth an expensive bow. Definitely not worth stating str. because health and def is more important

I could go into detail on how much money and time upgradeing and testing and restesting differnt gems and combonations but this sums it up.

if GM sees the hard work i put into this I hope he would reward me with a character restat