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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gnfnrf" data-source="post: 3086992" data-attributes="member: 2373">Other ways to increase bow damage that haven't been mentioned yet (that I noticed) are Ranged Weapon Mastery from PHB II (+2 damage) and Plunging Shot from Masters of the Wild (+1d6 if 30' higher).As an alternate approach, you could build a rogue with Telling Blow and Arterial Strike, get a bunch of sneak attack damage, then the giant bleeds out unless he can make an untrained Heal check.  Sadly, a typical frost giant only needs a 13 to make it, and has about 80 rounds to try, but it COULD happen.On the other hand, it strikes me that many of the builds here, while effective, don't fit the spirit of this character as described.  If he's teaching people how to do this, you'd expect him to get his damage from classes and feats, not equipment.  I'd imagine his students feel ripped off if his class consists of "In order to be as awesome a bowman as me, buy all this stuff".--gnfnrf</blockquote>