Pure Dexazon w/ Shadow Bow "Harmony"?

[maiku]

Pure Dexazon w/ Shadow Bow "Harmony"?

After I finish up a few more new characters (my MA sins & Bonemancer) for more socket quests and Hellforges, I was thinking of coming back to my beloved zons. I still have my old Bowies, but I think I want to give a pure Dexazon a try after reading several threads in the forum the past few weeks. That's right, no Str, just pure Dex. Here's kind of what I'm thinking as far as gear goes:

Shadow Bow w/ 10 or 11% ED on it --> "Harmony" (hoping for a good roll)
Atma's Scarab
"Treachery" Wire Fleece (my standard zon armor) or "Duress" WF
Goreriders/War Traveler's (which boots depends on total CB on her/armor)
LoH (good gloves, standard)
Razortail
Dual Ravenfrosts/dual leech ring (I have some very nice ones now)
Stealskull w/ IAS jewel, later Andy's Visage w/ IAS jewel

Skill layout will be for a typical Strafer (max Valk, 100% Pierce w/ Razortail, max Strafe, decent Critical Strike, etc.). Apparently I need 90% (i.e., 86%) IAS to hit 2 fpa Strafe according to the inDe calc. Any ideas of what kind of damage I might be looking at by pumping all Dex into my 80s? Going with the Shadow Bow, because it has such a low Str requirement.

If not this one, I may also give a fully dedicated Burizon a try...although a little modified in build from its previous days of glory. I have an almost perfect Buriza rotting on a mule.

 

[HellPlayer]

I use a similar zon to run pit lvl(and eldritch and pindle is the basic run for this char), dmg at lvl ** is 3148 with a might merc, from gear you listed only the stealskull is what after some time I replaced for a giant skull with 2x15ias jewells, running pindle with 400life whitout knockback was more dangerous than I like, now is just fine, few seconds to kill pindle and his pack is always good xp and chance for good drop.
This is a fun char if you have no problem in running specific areas, is good enough to clear chaos sanctuary but isnt so faster and you will hate the merc and iron maiden combo, wsk isnt a good area either due low resists the zon have and again merc/im combo, any other area is ok for the zon but if you never played a dexazon before you will die more than normal, just keep playng and you will learn how is correct way, before you learn 2 things will be your zon best friends:kb and decoy, use and abuse these to not die.
About rings, use a raven frost, two if you go with stealskull, if not use at least one, frozen zon is in half way to be a dead zon.On the gore/WT, CB is something I always leave my zons whitout, is nerfed and the added dmg from WTs sounds more good to me.
HellPlayer
Edit: just to mention, why you say the shadow bow is a good choice with low str req if you are going to use a wire fleece(111 str)?Other thing to say is that my harmony is a crapy one, 231ed, higher dmg for a decent roll.

 

[NASE]

Why shadow bow, gores and war trav need enough str to use mat bow anyway. So I'd go for mat, that way, you can go easy on the ias and use giant skull (with some nice -req jewel or just hells.) That's what I'm doing, although I did put mimimal points in str.
You are missing knockback, so unless you ditch loh, you'll have no knockback.

Let me warn you, vigor aurea is very addictive. You'll never want to go to an other bow ever again. Unless you use harmony on your merc that is.

P.S. my set up has 45 ias (treachery) 20 ias (lavagount) and 15 in my giant skull and I hit the /8 multi breakpoint with my mat bow. I'm doing about 750-1800 IIRC, though this isn't a all dex build (have about 200 vita:embarassed, and this is without loh and with act 3 cold merc, although I have 250 roll. You'll do find as long as you don't want to rule 8 players chaos runs.

 

[maiku]

You guys are right. Gonna drop the Shadow Bow and go for a 4os Matriarchal. I should have a couple on mules, and I'll search for the best one I have this weekend. I'll also check into a 2-socket Giantskull, although I don't know how much those are going for. On this build, knockback would probably be quite a lifesaver.

 

[HellPlayer]

Maybe I was not so clear as wanted, you can keep the shadow bow for higher max dmg, I just pointed that armor you use will need to add str points to use it but with gskull isnt a problem.
HellPlayer.

 

[maiku]

I have "Treachery" made in a couple different armors. IIRC, Dusk, Wyrmhide, Archon Plate, and I can make one in a Wire Fleece. I have a few 3os ones floating on mules. WF definitely looks the best, although you are right the Str requirement is a bit higher. Actually, I may go with the Shadow Bow after all, just for style points.

My mind's not totally on D2 at the moment. Learning C++.