please rate my glass cannon bow zon build

arbing

Diabloii.Net Member
please rate my glass cannon bow zon build

this is what i am going to build, a level 95 glass cannon zon.
helm- 120/45 30frw
ammy- cat's eye
weapon- 15/2/3 12ed faith gmb
weapon 2- 197% eth upped titan
shield- ss or 390 phoenix monarch (help me decide and please give explanation ^^)
armor- fort 1.5 life/ 30 resist
glove- crafted 2p&m glove with 20ias, dex and knock back
rings- 2 x raven
belt- nos. coil
boot- war trav.

charms- 20/20 zon torch, 20/20 anni, 37x 3max/15+ar/3frw sc.

skills
Bow:
20 guided arrow
5 multi arrow
1 strafe

Javelin:
1 lightning fury

P&M:
1 slow missile
19 critical strike
20 penetrate
1 pierce
8 dodge
5 avoid
19 evade

Stats:
level 95
590 life
316 mana

Bow side:
str: 136
dex: 579
vita: 70
energy: 55
1310-7142 guided arrow damage
903-4879 multi arrow damage w/31950 ar
931-5049 strafe damage w/31950 ar
196% frw

titan/ss side:
str: 186
dex: 599
vita: 70
energy: 55
1760-4489 phy. damage 1-212 light damage :tongue: of light fury
226% frw
 

mrJ

Diabloii.Net Member
That's quite an extraordinarily expensive zon.. a few tips though:

-Make your shield on switch an ss. The purpose of a shield switch on a zon is to gain survivability vs any type of physical damage.. without an ss you would never have any damage reduction whatsoever. In conjunction with your really low hp, having no dr is asking for a lot of trouble.. you can live without phoenix's damage (especially since you don't even have jab), but you can't live vs barbs/paladins/other zons without at least an ss

-You don't need to max penetrate, you are already a dexzon using faith and 37 ar scs.. you will probably have nearly 20k ms AR and Guided Arrow is itd. Leave penetrate at base and put those points into your passives

-Get Valk and Decoy, they come in handy

-Keep a pair of rare frw/stat/res boots stashed.. between those, fort, faith, and maybe a rare dual stat/res ring, you can potentially keep yourself from being 1hit by any elemental attack that bypasses your avoid/evade

-Even for a glass cannon your life is really low.. my zon is pure dex as well but uses 37x max/ar/life to get 1.3k life, and with even that amount she's brittle. Consider pumping your hp to at least 1k if you're going to use all frw charms

That's all I can think of for now
 

arbing

Diabloii.Net Member
thanks alot ^^ really glad you point somthing out. the reason i max penetrate is because i am afraid that my titan/ss switch wouldnt be able to hit things like smiters when they charge at me.
hmm pumping to 1k seems really hard esp i have no battle order and no life scs.
 

mrJ

Diabloii.Net Member
In a situation like that, throw Lightning Bolt at them, it is ITD like GA so you needn't worry about attack rating. Also, L.bolt converts 100% physical into elemental, so with those up'd eth titans, fort, and all of those dmg charms, it will hurt quite a bit.

Because you aren't using bo or any life scs, there is all the more reason to pump vita a bit. I would advise you to try out your zon well before level 95, so as to see if you can cope with that amount of hp before you invest a huge amount of time leveling.
 
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