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I am a 57 ranger. Last night I hit a crit with my bow (Blessed Faydark Thunderbolt) using serrated steel shaft arrows for 648. I'm sure there are others that can surpass that. I was using TS, FQ, 21% haste gloves, the mob was fleeing (so dbl dmg) and it was a crit, but the best i've done with Windblade under similar circumstances was a double hit for 2x295.
As Friar pointed out, it's not a good way to judge DPS.
I did some extensive parsing when I was getting archery AAs for my ranger during the levels 59 - 61.
Before any archery AAs, with nightmare compound bow and summoned arrows, 41% haste, my ranger was doing about 40 dps.
With duel wielding 13/19 150DD proc and epic (41% haste), it was about 60-80dps.
With Windblade and 36% haste, it was about 80 - 110 dps.
With EQ/AM 1, Stonewood bow, 11 + 4 dmg arrow, 41% haste, archery damage started to come close with windblade dps.
It wasn't until EQ/AM2 archery became a worthwhile primary dps method.