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Old 02-17-2005, 02:32 PM
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The Amazon

The Amazon is usually played with bow, javelin or spear. My favorite 1.10 built is the Strafezon, a Bowazon that uses Strafe as her main skill.

A Speedy Strafezon

Stat points
Very simple: I put everything in dex. Everything. I get strenght and life from items. Dex is how your Bowazon do physical damage. However, it may be more convenient for most players to have strenght enough for your equipment, and if you play HC, maybe some points in vita.

Skill points
Max Strafe and Penetrate, get Valkyrie to lvl 17 including +skills equipment. You can then put the remaining points in Critical strike and Pierce if you wish to play pure Strafer, or into Cold arrow or another elemental attack if you want an elemental attack for the physical immune monsters. I prefer the CS/Pierce, and then I use a Merc with Reaper's Toll to make the physical immune monsters not immune anymore.

Equipment

Suggestions for the average player:
Bow: Wildwitch String, Goldstrike Arch, Harmony
Armour: Lionheart, Smoke, Twitchthroe
Helm: Stealskull, Rockstopper,
Belt: Goldwrap, String of ears, Nightsmoke
Boots: Look for faster run/walk and resists
Gloves: Laying of hands, Sigons gloves and boots give IAS and str.
Amulet: Cat's eye, Highlords, + to Passive skills and resists
Rings: Look for life leach, mana leach, dex, max damage and resists

"Godly" (best possible equipment):
Bow: Windforce sck with 40ED/15max jewel (or 40ED/15IAS)
Armour: Chains of Honour or 4 sck armour with IAS/max jewels
Helm: Mavina's diadem sck with IAS/max jewel (or Kira's with IAS/max or IAS/res jewel if you need resists and don't have CoH)
Belt: Nosferatu's coil
Boots: Goreriders
Gloves: Rare or crafted +2 Passive & Magic, 20 IAS, resist and/or life leach (or Laying of Hands)
Amulet: Cat's eye
Ring 1: Perfect Ravenfrost 20 dex/250 AR (dex is most important, so go for 20 dex/as high AR as you can get)
Ring 2: max dam/life leach ring (with some resists if you need)

To reach the 9/2 breakpoint with Windforce (WF), you need 120 IAS, which is easily obtained by using for instance:
WF -20
Mav's diadem, sck IAS jwl -45
Cat's eye -20
IK boots and gloves -25
Nosferatus' coil -10

This way you don't need to Shael your WF, but can instead put in an ED/max jewel.

To hit the 8/2 breakpoint with WF, you need 157 IAS:
WF -20
4 sck armour with IAS jwls -60
Cat's eye -20
LoH or crafted gloves -20
Nosferatus' coil -10

is 130. You can find the remaining 30 IAS either by sck your WF with ED/IAS jewel and use Kira's guardian sck with IAS jewel, or by using Mav's diadem and still sck your WF with an ED/max jewel (my preferred choice).

My Strafezon also has her inventory full of max dam, life and poison charms, and a 19/20/9 Anni. A Might merc with a Reapers toll help increasing your damage and remove physical immunity.

Gameplay
A base vita/all dex Strafezon is very fragile but deal a massive amount of damage due to her attack speed. She must be played with a bit of hit-and-run strategy, much like a sorc in the old days. Use your Decoy often when you scout in dangerous areas. Make sure your merc and your Valk are alive and well. At Hell difficulty, look out for poison since your resists will likely be quite bad (mine are -80). A Strafezon with good equipment is an excellent Magic Find (MF) character. You can make Pit runs and Chaos Sanctuary runs faster than a cookie-cutter Hammerdin with Enigma, HoZ and all that
Have fun and may you find high runes in Chaos Sanctuary
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Last edited by C Elegans; 02-17-2005 at 03:38 PM.