Any good this build?

[lotrlars]

Any good this build?

hi guys,

i am thinking of making a nice fa amazon, but i need to know what i have to do to make it work, i have the following setup planned, can you tell me if it is any good?

Skills:

20 Freezing arrow
20 Cold arrow
17 Valkery
10 dodge
10 avoid
10 evade
rest of the points in penetrate

Gear:

armor: Chains of Honor
Weapon: Faith bow
Helm: shako or Crown of ages with cold facets in the sockets
belt: have no idea, help me plz
amulet: mara's
rings: 1 ravenfrost 1 bk ring
gloves: no idea, help me plz
boots: no idea, help me plz
charms also help me out here

 

[Liliel]

It puzzles me that someone as item rich as you should even need help...

First off... have you considered an Ice bow?

If you do go with Faith, I don't think you'll really need to put more than a point in Penetrate. As a bowazon I'm assuming you're putting a heavy investment into dex. With 300% bonus on your AR, along with a Fanaticism aura, Penetrate with +skills, and 300 or so dexterity, your chance to hit should be pretty good.

I don't know if you've noticed, but you don't seem to have any mana leech, so you'll probably want that on your gloves. The best gloves would be a rare +2bow skills 20ias mana leech glove. For the belt, you may want Razortail as it seems you aren't investing heavily in Pierce. FA needs piercing shots. I would switch the BK for a SoJ if possible, or even a Manald Heal for extra mana leech, and use Silkweave for boots. Finally, I'd use a Nightwing's Veil for the helm.

 

[lotrlars]

ok, seems like a nice setup you gave me, thx for the info.

i have never played a amazon, so i don't know much about it, that's why i need help from more experienced guys like you

 

[Peregrine]

1) Faith is useless for a freezing arrow amazon. Use Ice instead, it's infinitely superior. Huge cold damage increase, and a holy freeze aura to keep you well protected.

2) You have no leech skill, so you're going to run into mana problems very quickly. Spamming freezing arrows quickly drains your mana supply. I'd invest in strafe or multi for leech (I use max strafe). Since you'll want to cut points elsewhere, you should have extra skill points for this.

3) 17 in valkyrie is a waste, most monsters are going to be frozen (and always slowed, if you use Ice), so a 1 point valkyrie is more than enough. It doesn't die that often, and you can always re-cast.

4) 10 in each of your passives is a bit high. You've got lots of +skills items, so 5 base points at most is enough to get to the point of diminishing returns.

5) Penetrate doesn't need very many points. The area damage of freezing arrow is auto-hit, so you only need AR for leeching. You can easily get 75%+ chance to hit with only a point or 5 in penetrate.

5) I'm pretty sure you need more IAS.

 

[Omikron8]

Pvm bowazons do not need dodge/avoid/evade beyond one. Valk/decoy and merc should be sufficient.

Gloves : Laying of Hands/*Insert godly +2 bow skills/IAS/etc. rare here*

Boots : War Travs, nothing else compares

Charms : Mix of elemental, life, damage

 

[Godz Deathz]

Its completely neccessary that your use ice instead of faith, preferably in mat bow.
100% Chance To Cast Level 40 Blizzard When You Level-up
25% Chance To Cast Level 22 Frost Nova On Striking
Level 18 Holy Freeze Aura When Equipped
+20% Increased Attack Speed
+140-210% Enhanced Damage (varies)
Ignore Target's Defense
+25-30% To Cold Skill Damage
-20% To Enemy Cold Resistance
7% Life Stolen Per Hit
20% Deadly Strike
3.125-309.375 Extra Gold From Monsters (Based on Character Level)

The main thing to look at is the +cold dmg,-cold res, aura, and 20 ias

Nightwing would be nice, with a ias jewel
and with ice, gives you 35 ias

Instead of maras, use highlords for the ias losing res and +1 skills, but giving 20 ias and good ds. With the ds from ice it give u around 50 ds total. The Ias with highlords comes to 55.

With 20 ias gloves, u hit 75 ias, which is the 8fpa bp, or about 3 attacks per second. You should get some with +2 bow mod and mana leech.

For belt, razortail is your best belt, because with enough points in pierce, this will give u 95% to pierce, hitting up to 5 times through a bunch of monsters. A lvl 35 freezing arrow will do about 2600 with ice, hitting 5 times is 13k dmg.

The boots depends on your strategy. If you find yourself retreating a bit then re-attacking, it probably would be good to get boots with a lot of run/walk. ik boots are a cheap choice, sanders even cheaper. The better choice would to get rare boots with 30 r/w and decent mods (res, str, fhr, dex)

For charms, your best bet would be to get bow gcs. They are cheap, and add quite a bit to your dmg.

You wont need so many pts in the dodge skills (im assuming you're pvm) and you will need some in pierce, not penetrate. Ice has itd on it.

You will want just one into strafe, to leech back mana when u get low.