marksman questions

[Spartan_Spearman]

So I just started a few days ago and was between marks and barb, so I decided I'd get try both and see how I liked each. The results kind of shocked me. Marksman seems to have very little damage output especially from my normal attacks which seem to do less than 50 damage each whereas my barb does well over 100 and sometimes even in the 200's on normal attacks just in these lower levels. Bows seem to have slow-medium firing rates compared to the very slow spears I use but regardless they do 1/3 of the damage.

So basically my questions are:

1) How do marksman do in wz with damage output?

2) Do skills Marksman get later make up for this huge deficit in normal attacks or does the difference between the two start to decrease?

3) I've been using longbows, which logically (to me at least) would be the weapon of choice for a marksman. Are longbows the way to go or do shortbows edge them out? Or is it a preference thing?

Thanks in advance, I've always been a fan of the "marksman"-type character and hope that I can get this sorted out.