You will only see your bow slung across your back when it is the last weapon you used before the mob died. When this happens, your melee weapon(s) will not be visable.
You didn't mention what class you are...if you're a Predetor/Ranger, you'll need a few extra stacks of arrows since that is a primary damage dealer for you.
As a Troubador, I just use the bow for pulling, then do melee attacks.
Rangers (pkus their poison) get the bigger DPS, but I get the cool musical notes that float. :)
Yea i'm a Predator, I have around 50 arrows on me at the moment, I hope that should be enough. And from what I understand you can either see the bow or the melee weapons, right? I have 2 sais and the bow, so I could either see the bow or sais?
And on the other topic, are other people's servers still down?