Tried the Mouse Bow out instead of avoiding it like a plague before. The damage seems nice at first and can still increase with some more short arrows, would love a dodge armor too. Unfortunately, I couldn't do much against poison as well as burn with this build. I wonder if there will be a rag equivalent to burn or something like that in the future. Maybe future burn weapons, too.
I found that if you have the belt of knives, you want to pack your arrows as tightly as possible, and pick up as many as you can. The stacking bonus from the knives with 9 tightly packed arrows (3 horizontally along the bottom, then 6 vertically above them, bow to the left) vastly outweighs any bonus you will get from the arrows having empty space in front of them. Also, your arrows only get bonuses from space in front of them, rather than from all sides. (unless that bow changes that?)
this is why you stack energy bro, i see you have mousewood. its the most imbalance item in the game since it adds modifiers rather than flat atk. it adds everytime you hit with the weapon but resets after turn ends. thats why you need lots of energy, i just one turn all battles, enemies didnt even get a chance to act.