Fire or Strafe for Mavina?

[Etza]

Fire or Strafe for Mavina?

Hi!
I have an Amazon with full Mavina set using FA and Strafe but Im a little bit dissapointed with the damage from strafe and thinking of re making her. My FA is doing great but I have somewhat of a problem with Cold Immunes as strafe just doesnt cut it with Mavina bow, and also Im a bit tired of using strafe since every Amazon Ive built has used it.
Is the fire skills a good replacement or should I just stick with Strafe?
Remember that its only for back up as FA is her primary skill.
Also, what fire skill should I use, IA or EA?
Do I have to fully synergize it to be effectiv?
Is it possible to effectively combine Strafe and IA for Cold immunes with max Strafe and max immolation arrow but with no synergies?

Thanks
Etza

 

[NASE]

Re: Fire or Strafe for Mavina?

the fire three is a weak three. Some time ago, one of the forum fellows took a clasic magezon through the game using lots of good gear - faith mat as bow I think. That's much better gear then mavina's. And even he said that fire just isn't as good as cold or physical.

Now if you really want, you can give it a go. Use exploding arrow as immolation arrow has very long casting delays. Try getting some extra fire damage through charms as it will transfer to the explosion. Just remember that it will never get as powerfull cold - mavina's has +cold damage an no +fire damage IIRC.

I see your problem. Mavina's bow has little build in damage and therefore, strafe isn't at it's full power. Sadly, you don't have much other options. If you go with a javelin, you will lose your full set bonusses - that isn't good. Other option would be to use fire, though as said, don't expect miracles.
Your best option is strafe, possibly with some add chrusing blow and help from merc and valk and an inventory with +damage charms. Reapers toll on your merc and a might merc may help aswell.

Or you could sell your mavina's and try to get more balanced equipment.

P.S. yes you can use strafe with very little skill points. One point strafe should give you 10 arrows and ar and critical strike can be taken care of with +skill or charms. Just remember that your strafe will be again a bit less effective.

 

[prion]

Re: Fire or Strafe for Mavina?

try demon limb. and whatever charms and jewels you can stock up on.

I got guided arrow instead of strafe on mine, I wish I had gone with strafe.

Fire is not the answer IMO because the worst thing is WITCHES--they have a habit of moving....strafe will auto-target off screen, fire skills will not.

 

[Ugla]

Re: Fire or Strafe for Mavina?

Fire magezons are quite weak damage-wise, and you'd probably want as many +skill as possible, i.e. either 'Melody' or Kuko (50% pierce). That, however, kills the purpose of using the set.

I'd probably go with MA. It is often underestimated, but quite powerful against single targets, and takes a decent benefit of +skills. Both MS and Strafe are very effective even with few invested points, thus you can combine all three skills depending on your needs.

 

[Rane-]

Re: Fire or Strafe for Mavina?

Fire is weaker than Strafe for Mavina. You can test it yourself but I'm trying to save you the time - as bad as Strafe Mavina is, Fire is worse. There are only really two backup skills for a Mavinazon. It's either use Strafe and focus a lot on pumping phys damage as bets you can. Or you can actually use a Javelin switch fairly well.

Without the bow, the only set bonuses you lose are;
- 50 all res
- 3 skills
- 100 DEF
- 100 AR
- 100 MF
- 20% cold skill dmg
- Aura

Of those the Aura is probably the biggest loss really. The 20% cold skill damage is meaningless when you aren't using Freezing arrow. The 50 all res is easily made up by your shield. The +3A skills will essentially be covered by Titans +2A/+2J. So all youse lose is a bit of AR, DEF, and MF. While nice, none of this things are going to actually cripple your build the way most incomplete sets would be. Hell the loss of MF on your Jav switch actually makes her a good cow farmer for socketed items. Lightning Fury only needs 20 points to be effective anyway.