[Autumn]

Battle maps are not reduced in size in PvP, your back was turned against your opponent so they gained even more hit from the flanking bonus and when I was watching that fight you didn't have any of your dodge buffs up. (at least to my knowledge)

I don't think farshot penalty or bows are the issue here, I think it was just feasibly impossible for you to dodge because dodging with no dodge buffs is hard as all hell.

That and gust arrows longdraw has a lot of range in general, that's up for another discussion.