The only reason i fight bow and arrow style is do to the fact that when i try to deflect the fireballs with my sword it doesn't work and i explode. But the one way i can deflect the fireballs is to shoot them with an arrow. So I feel like I am in "The Hunger Games" (as previously stated). To clear it all up I am a boy version of Katniss.
CreppaNinga235 that has to be the best sword in the game! Also i have been looking at the middle mob of your profile picture its a Ghast.
I use sword when up close but that's rare as they avoid getting close, so mostly its bow power 1 maybe.
I get really freaked out when fighting them, even if one is emitting crys and it's 200 blocks away it still sounds as if it is right above your head.
Oh also, it's awkward when making a pillar really high to get to glowstone, then a ghast comes along and shoots a fireball at it knocking you into lava.