Dump the bow. Its so many SH runs its not funny. you'd be better off going for the S1 xbow
If done correctly, i.e counter-intuitively, it's not so bad. But if done the way I did it and the way most people do it, i.e. intuitively picking up quests in the HFP starting cities and running them, rather than grinding as much rep as is possible through kills and instance runs, then it is a huge chore.