Ah ok.

Actually, the funny thing about bows is that can be used as effective melee weapons. A lot of their skills are at close range.

One suggested build I saw for Gadgets was a melee-bow build. I'm too low level to get all the powers in the build, but I have most of the skills, and it's pretty damn effective.

Also, now I stay in controller mode constantly and never switch to DPS. The power restoration makes it far better.