Since everyone said guided arrow sucked for PvM
I'm obviously going to make a guided zon. Well, that's an outright llie, she's level 65, nightmare act 5, and in a few levels she'll move right along to Hell. I play hardcore, so no, I haven't encountered any serious problems yet (else she'd be dead

though it is quite funny.
So, what did I do for my build? Well, erm, that's easy... I maxed guided, dumped quite a few points into critical strike, and have a slvl 17 (after +skills, but tha tmight chance) valkyre. Apart from that, I am currently maxing out magical arrow for dealing with PI's. You see, the problem with most PI's is that you cannot leech back any lost mana, and magical arrow quite nicely doesnt need anything at higher levels.
Soo.... I'm sure you all consider me stark raving mad, even more because I am using that nifty amazon bow which is called err, whats its name again, see, I never used it before so I tend to forget it wait let me look oh yes CLIFFKILLER thats its name. I did shael the bastard, but its not really god's gift to amazones. Then again, for some reason I like the KB it offers ^_^.
On switch I have a 3 socket blade bow with tir-tal-amn, that nifty cheapo 3 socket runeword which lets me smite daemons and undead like there's no tomorrow. Well, almost. Oh to hell with it, it sucks, but it fires fast and its cheap ^_^.
The rest of my equip consists of the following:
30% res all ammy
dury shell with mmm no i didnt socket that yet.
rockstopepr with ort in it
some 4% mana leech ring with some res and 15 to dex
some triple res ring (I think) with mana and life
some 20% IAS gloves with res and 3% mana leech
some ubar godly triple res boots (I'm talking a bout 29% FR 19% LR 39% CR 20% run/walk and 25% poison reduce here, which to my eyes consisttutes godly).
edit: oh yes, the belt, its a 16 slot belt with 96 to life and 25% lighting resist.
I have a supplement of +life charms, and my stats look like this atm:
90-ish str
117 dex
the rest went into vit, quite predictable, and I have about 240 of it atm. I'm dubbing whether I want to pump the next 35 or so levels into dex, or vit, as dex constititutes a 1% bonus for dam, and dam is nice.
My might merc has a duskdeep for helmet, and then that uniqe trellised armor (Iron Pelt? yes, thats the one), and erm, *giggle* a 7% life leech pike. No, those are all the mods on the pike. Surprisingly, he survives all but the most hazardous situations.
So, I'm going to level my zon to 70, perhaps 75, and then I'm going to enter hell. And here's my question:
How far do you think I'll get before I die? Today I'll level, tomorrow I'll start. Solo. Please place your bets!
edit2: obviously I voted for option number 10. I shall live to tell the tale! :xmas16: