So i made a gadgets, bow speedster, and he's level 5, but i want to know if gadgets are any good at killing things, like in instances and stuyff
gadgets is arguably the best dps (damage out) power in the game. so yes. and with bow yes again but melee weapons do give you a 15% increase in crit chance and control resistance. if you use a bow stay ad mid range so that all your powers will hit, if youre too far away then some moves will miss.
I play gadgets dps right now (Cause I'm lazy) and I find most of the powers require you to at least be somewhat close range. One of the more standard loadouts consists of Gauss Grenade (Can be ranged for) using Cryo Field and Fear Gas. (Power interaction with Gauss Grenade) but Cryofield and Fear Gas require you to be relatively close/in the fray in order to do any real damage. Essentially what Meta Flare said. You can use bow and stay at a sort of mid range but the Gadgets best damage out generally comes from closer range attacks.
I personally use cryo foam over cryo field cuz it keeps me out of melee range. My load out is Gauss...cryo foam....fear gas...intimidation....defib (for clipping purposes) or napalm...and finally bunker buster.
If I have a good troll, Gauss, Intim, Bunker, Sticky Bomb, Napalm, and Photon, But other wise I switch out gauss for fear gas