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Hypersmurf said:Becasue for the cost of one attack, he gives the monk a weapon he can use for multiple attacks.
Unless one has arrows being destroyed when used as melee weapons as well as ammunition, in which case he would be better off shooting at the fiend...
... except in certain circumstances - for example, the fiend is invisible and the monk has Blind Fight, giving him a better chance of hitting than the archer.
-Hyp.
Especially if you can talk the DM into allowing you to treat the arrow as an improvised Siangham and use Flurry of Blows with it.