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The flashbang part of the animation of the Flashbang skill plays. But the explosion thingy happens on the character.

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Ranger has two unique features:

Ranged Focus: This class starts out at 175% Crit damage, however each time a Ranged skill is used, the crit multiplier will go up by 25% damage, stacking up to 5 times for 300% Crit damage. With a maximum Ranged Focus, there is also a 50% chance to attack a second time on your turn. Using any of the four defensive skills, Quick Reflexes, Cripple, Kick, or Recover will break your focus, subtracting four stacks.
Ranger will gain a damage bonus of +5% for having either STR or DEX as your main stat. If you invest in both stats roughly equally (plus or minus your level/10), you'll instead gain a damage bonus of +15%. Bonus stats gained from your equipped items also affect the damage bonus, so be careful not to have one stat go too much higher than the other. Having INT as your main stat gives you no damage bonus.

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Since the Luk update, I'm not so sure. Even before the update, going Dex+Luk would give you similar, if a bit weaker, results; slightly more damage on the ranged skills, except for Purge which was about the same, but quite a bit less on Dual Wield, the only Melee skill that's used for damage. Since Luk was buffed by quite a bit, going Dex+Luk is generally stronger now. Using 91 average weapon damage and 30% crit chance and comparing 200 Str+Dex to 200 Dex+Luk, these are the numbers for the skills:

Str+Dex - 0 Focus ~ 5 Focus
----_Multi - 156.37 ~ 204.24 (multiply by 1, 3 or 5 to get Sky Assault's numbers)
--=Power - 183.57 ~ 239.76
----=Dual - 203.96 ~ 266.40
---_Purge - 349.65 ~ 849.15

Dex+Luk - 0 Focus ~ 5 Focus
-----_Multi - 175.33 ~ 238.85 (multiply by 1, 3 or 5 to get Sky Assault's numbers)
---=Power - 208.73 ~ 284.35
-----=Dual - 181.19 ~ 246.84
----_Purge - 377.52 ~ 900.24

So, here we can see that with a Dex+Luk build Multishot/Sky Assault are ~12-17% stronger, Power Shot is ~14-19% stronger, Dual Wield is ~11-7% weaker, and Purge is ~8-6% stronger. So you lose out slightly on Dual Wield, but you gain more than that on Power Shot so the normal Power -> Dual and repeat combo ends up slightly stronger. Meanwhile you also have stronger multis and Purge, and get more of a benefit from using Spotter since your crits are stronger. But the main benefit is that you can use Dex+Luk just as well with any other class, whereas with Str+Dex half your stats are wasted with anything but Ranger.

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The way I know it a longbow overpowers a crossbow(of that era and place).
The reason why crossbowmen were used instead of longbowmen is because they take a long time of training an was very expensive since they had to be archers professionally while crossbowmen were far easier to train and did not need specific workout to be able to use the weapon.

I don't dispute that there are crossbows that are on par with a longbow, since there were pretty monstorous ones(they took forever to reload tho), but the reason crossbows pushed out warbows from the battlefield is the cheapness and easy use.