Oh no! Do NOT use an Enigma on a physical bowazon. Total waste imo. If you can afford an Enigma, go for Fortitude instead.
I agree with KremBanan that dont use Enigma with all dex, 300...500 life bowama.
LONG OFF:
But its still one of the best armors if you build char around it.
I borrowed friend's enigma and made bowama around it. Its not THAT bad armor for bowama. Can clear all typical tc85 areas just fine with 300MF fast and safely with 1-2 players setup. Can't use torch in full games, so this was made for low player settings anyway. I even use rogue merc, might merc is kind of useless when you have enough damage already. Rogue still uses wws, but uses faith eventually. Then full games should be possible.
This char is pure bowama, but not pure physical. Actually its freezing arrow/multi arrow zon with little higher life than normal bowama. And its not typical freezing arrow either, after lvl73 I have used windforce. No more massive mana bottle drinkings after that. I made this for 1-2 players games, so full dex (I aim for around 400dex) is not needed. And lvl31 freezing arrow with windforce kills just fine, more than fine.
Haven't used any life leech so far, (2x20dex raven) enigmas 14 life per kill keeps red full just nicely. 2nd raven helps with freezing arrow damage and gives more ar to leech even better.
Pits: faster than before and more mf. Multishot area.
Ancient tunnel: Easy to locate and faster. Freezing arrow area
Maggot3: Easy now, quite hard before. Freezing arrow
Travi temples: Easy with both freezing arrow and multi
Meph: Easy, but useless to run, because TC85 areas drops much better
Diablo: Easy and much faster than before. Both multi and freezing arrow works here
Ancient Q: Was easy too, but took time.
Baal: Its easy now, was almost impossible to run for typical all negative resist low life amas. Both freezing arrow and multi owns all waves.
Both act1 and act2 key runs are easy now, but going for des key after I get tired with pindle. In tower freezing arrow kills those PI and multi cold immunes, same with arcane.
Run faster (in town and field), more mf, enough tele speed. Havent get killed so far in hell, been soloing from 65 to 82. So far testing been more than success. Need to make my own when I return this armor. Hard to give up that safe and 'fast' tele after 2 days trying period. I am hooked with this armor.
Its not that bad for bowama, lets check typical tele side. Or does ama have typical teleside, but anyway.
Bow ama has huge dex -> gives max block with Spirit shield.
Low resist -> Wizpike at teleside and you can jump over soul areas. And jump over those immune mages at lvl3, that usually ruins baalruns for bowama.
And you can use this max resist, max block teleside while scouting, entering new room or lvl. Find that safe spot and start killing.
68 fcr gives 13 frame tele speed
99 fcr gives 12 frame tele ( I use 102fcr, and its fast enough, much faster than running with Enigma).
That 12 frame is not that bad, I soloed whole hell (started with lvl65 and ended lvl75 after baal was down), all Q while testing armor. And without any given wps, combined even that flail in act3. Teleing from act5 town to arreat summit takes time, but it was much safer than with my typical sorc.
So with max block, all ress max, 1000 life, 800 mana,+13 passive skills,so high evade, avoid etc., 18% damage reduced, lvl33 valkyrie, so its almost impossible to get killed during tele. BUT you need to build char around it, typical bowama cant use it safely.
Needed to kick razortail out and bring arach belt in for end game use. Its not that bad, gives one frame faster tele at teleside. And that +1skills gives damage for freezing arrow and some mana. With +13...15 passive skills, pierce is quite high anyway.
I tried that enigma too with 20 vit, lvl91 bowama with only 20fcr, it was painfully to tele, but still managed to tele middle of chaos (book empty) and back, but needed to use couple of purples. So BIG NO for enigma for pure dex builds. That 350 life was not enough.
You'll love it in open areas assuming you have insight merc around.
