Good luck with hitting a 60+ DCI Mage with 35 HCI. Even with HLD active you hit less than 50%. If you are not getting extremely lucky, mages will laughing and dancing around you firing spells at you without getting hit.
Btw. even with 60 SSI a comp bow swings at 1.5 sec delay at 150 anf also at 180 Stamina. And SSI is capped at 60.
When all things are even, IE the mage has 120 wep skill and say 70 DCI for sake of argument, and the dexxer/archer has 120 wep skill/archery 45 HCI and HLD, during the HLD the hit chance should be exactly 50% except for the rare chance to parry with weapon in hand and/or a shield should the mage be a human. However, I'd like to see a poll on mages to see how many have 70 DCI. AOF, jewels, weapon makes 60, robe and quiver now make 70, so it's even more possible now with those six items, just curious how many people have the AOF/Jewels combo. Meanwhile, takes the dexxer/archer maybe three-four items to get that 45 HCI and whatever HLD they have.
Either way, Drowy is right about the less than 50% assuming there are humans in the field; how it translates when archers can hit ya while moving, well, that's another debate. However, I love when an archer dismounts you 1 v 1 when you're on a mage and you kill them right after. I never understood the 1 v 1 dismounter w/o pet...