Now, on to the armour. Durability: 18

10% Chance Of Crushing Blow

Level Requirement: 63, +25 Defense

15% Faster Hit Recovery

3% Life Stolen per Hit Singers are buffing support specialists that are best played PvM.

Attacker Takes Lightning Damage of 15, +2 to All Skills

Kick Damage: 60 110

Minimum Strength: 50

As with all other characters, a good mercenary can make the difference between certain death and obvious survival. These tiny pieces of jewellery might make the difference between a godly amazon and a good one. Fanatacism 12 means you will need 100 IAS which can really mess with your build, Templar's Might - this will provide the Might aura to boost your physical damage further.

+3-309 to Maximum Damage (+3.125 per Character Level)

they will be classified into, Poor, Standard and Excellent.

+15-20 to Dexterity (varies) Durability: 12

This makes for what many believe to be the Bowazon golden rule: a Valkyrie is a Bowazons best friend.

Magic Damage Reduced by 10

+2 To Mana After Each Kill Minimum Strength: 20

Potion Slots: 16 +35 To Mana +25 To Dexterity

Durability: 12

Level Requirement: 51, Slows Target By 10% Bows, Bows, and more Bows.

+70% Enhanced Defense

Level Requirement: 36, +120-150% Enhanced Defense (varies)

Level 15 Holy Shock Aura When Equipped 30% Faster Run/Walk +50 To Life (Shields Only) 4-7% Mana Stolen Per Hit (varies) The attack rating is mostly unimportant since you should have capped hitchance on any non-boss mobs long before 20 points anyway.

Multiple Shot is the main clearing skill, Guided Arrow is the single target skill (currently bugged and doesn't convert to magic damage as the description says), and Magic Arrow is used for killing Physical Immunes.

20% Slower Stamina Drain All Resistances +5-20 (varies)

+25 to Dexterity, 10% Damage Taken Goes to Mana

75% Extra Gold From Monsters, 4 Socket Weapons Fire Resist +15%

Customize this build to your play style! Minimum Strength: 58

A tanky summoned minion that gives your Bowazon her much needed breathing space.

While attack based builds typically can't hit really high magic find values without sacrificing a lot of clearspeed like casters, it is still viable to run MF gear with a Bowazon.

Magic Damage Reduced by 10-15 (varies), Defense: 96 107

Minimum Strength: 73 Adds 55-160 Fire Damage +10 to Strength, Defense: 477 534

All Resistances +15

+160-210% Enhanced Damage (varies) +45 Defense 15% Deadly Strike

Unless your Bowazon needs extra tankiness, this skill is only worth the point to unlock the skill beneath it. Minimum Strength: 86

Max this out! Level Requirement: 35, +200-400% Enhanced Defense (varies) 50% Slower Stamina Drain

+10 Defense 30% Faster Run/Walk

Prefer an elite base (such as Great Bow), 3os Helm with 3 PTopaz - Useful for early MFing such as pit runs, Stealth - Nerfed in PD2, but dirt cheap and has some FRW so it's nice, Smoke - Decent mid-game body armour that is cheap, Treachery - 45% IAS makes it much easier to hit your IAS breakpoints, Duress - Decent and reasonably cheap Runeword for damage and survivability, Lionheart - Very cheap for what is effectively a mini version of one of our BiS body armours, 3-4os Body with PTopaz - Useful for early MFing, especially if you don't have the runes for one of the above, Blue/Yellow gloves with 20% IAS - Attack speed is always nice, Blood craft gloves with 20% IAS - Possibly not worth the time and resources, but these are decent if you really need something here, 2/20 Yellow or 3/20 Blue gloves - The +skills here (should be Passive and Magic) can help, especially earlier on, Yellows - Any belt with 4 rows and stats that are useful to you (Life, Resists, Dex, Strength), Leech Rings - Grab Life Leech and Mana Leech here if you don't have it elsewhere, MF Rings - MF rings, and/or rings with stats (Life, Resists, Dex, Strength), Skills Amulet - + Amazon skills or + Passive and Magic skills are the most useful here, MF Amulet - MF is always nice for early game farming, Stats amulet - Life, Resists, Dex, Strength. This is because the arrow count caps at 24 at level 22, so some Bowazons will reach this with +skills from equipment before 20 points invested. +10-15 To Vitality (varies) +2-6 To Valkyrie (varies)



+10-20% Enhanced Damage (varies) Can puzzlebox or corrupt to add more MF, 3-4os White Body - If you don't have better, this can help in the meantime, Non-MF Body - Sometimes it's not worth the sacrifice and you'd get better loot clearing quicker.

10% Chance to Cast Level 3 Holy Bolt on Striking. That FRW would be godly.

+2 To Light Radius To make good use of the holy freeze mercenary, give him more life and leeching equipment rather than damaging equipment. Regenerate Mana 25%

To have a Spirit shield, you must spend at least 156 points into strength, cuz the shield to make spirit (4 socks) that requires less str than other 4-socks shield is the Monarch. Slows Target By 10% Kick Damage: 8 16

Obviously prefer good resists and a decent health pool for doing this, but I have successfully done uber tristram (albeit with several deaths) with negative resists and ~700 life. Minimum Strength: 59

+100% Damage To Undead

Armor Type: Light

Survivability first, with extra wiggle room to position herself, this Bowazon is comfortable in the pocket.

While it looks really bad on paper, the near 100% critical chance, 2 sockets, and very high level amplify damage are killer.

If you are into PvP, add more.

Durability: 50 +25% Faster Cast Rate

Finally, we come to the fun bit.

The following material is based solely on what I have experienced and I hope, will help improve the playing standards of LoD, both for newbies and uber rich people. This page was last edited on 21 September 2021, at 18:20. Level Requirement: 36, +150-190% Enhanced Defense (varies)

30-50% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items (varies), Defense: 350 477 Minimum Strength: 50

Whatever you can find that will give you damage or utility, but prefer +Max charms, Life/Resist charms, and MF small charms.

Attack Speed: [10]

Magic Damage Reduced by 1

Yes, it's a great build.

This can either be obtained from the helm socket and the weapon socket.

Attack Speed: 1.1

I personally think this bow is about as good as it gets for budget gear, but other option may start to outshine it if you're heading into the final build. 6-8% Mana Stolen per Hit (varies) Dont go overboard though, adding about 320 is sufficient.

+128 163 Dexterity

This makes maxing the skill feel like a waste to some theory crafters and a must have for others.

You may need to spam them against her and just get in hits when you can, she is rather vicious.

+20 to Energy

A significant part of the bowazons life which separates the pros from the normal people. First Opinion: Remember a Bowazon standing still is pumping out DPS. -2 to Light Radius, 5% Chance to Cast Level 2 Amplify Damage on Striking Very slow attack speed, but hits like a truck, Stealskull - Leech and MF, it's alright.

Level 20 Revive (25 Charges), 4 Socket Missile Weapons Durability: 22

20% Faster Cast Rate Increase Maximum Life 5% The Bowazon will be vulnerable until the animation is over as shell be rooted in place.

+150-220 Defense (varies)

- There's a bit of a gap to bridge between mid nightmare and your first Ko rune.

+2 To Mana After Each Kill

+14 Life After Each Kill +120 Fire Damage

+15 to Dexterity

Durability: 36 Ugh!

Wait for amp to trigger and then BOOM, they drop dead.

Use a tanky friend like Valkyrie or Decoy to assist you while using this to decimate grouped bad guys. Adds 1-6 Cold Damage 2 Second Duration, Defense: 129 149

Most players dont bother with Vitality or Energy. Below is my preferred gear, but feel free to put on whatever you like, it doesn't really matter.

Others will still put the extra points in anyway, since the 1-2 extra physical damage per point is multiplied by this build's 800%+ enhanced damage. Minimum Dexterity: 118 Hit Blinds Target +10

The Executioner uses weapons that have identifiers like Crushing. The clone will keep you, your Valkyrie, and Mercenary alive by tanking hits meant for your squad.

Fire Resist +33% Always keep in close contact with your party members, and take full advantage or their abilities, be it a Paladins aura or a Barbarians BO.

+5% To Maximum Lightning Resist Level Requirement: 65, +250-320 Defense (varies)

+20-30% Faster Hit Recovery (varies)

Unfortunately only one arrow can damage an opponent per cast instance, so keep clicking!

Potion Slots: 16

(+0.75 Per Character Level) +0-74 To Strength (Based On Character Level) The overall gameplay strategies, and items to finish this Amazon build, just like your skills, are all up to you! There is no mob nor PK that will allow you to stand there happily dishing out arrows.

Use this guide as base and custom fit it to your play style, since there are numerous iterations of the Bowazon build and each is finished with different skills and equipment. 30% Faster Run/Walk -50 to Monster Defense per Hit

Minimum Strength: 58

Magic Arrow: Never needs more than one point because of its low 1.5 Mana cost.

Skill allocation is highly debated among Bowazons, so the aim with this section is to inform you of the different choices and the advantages of each.

+20% Enhanced Defense +1 To Teleport

Ohm + Jah + Lem + Eld 5% Chance to Cast Level 7 Fist of the Heavens on Striking +X To Life (Based on Character Level)

The problem is that runewords like fortitude, faith and pride don't work on single player chars, but only on BattleNet's realms, and only in Ladder.

Ultimately you'd want an Enhanced Damage (preferably with another affix) corruption and 4os from the puzzlebox, socketed with 40/15s, Giant Skull - High pierce chance, Crushing Blow, Enhanced Damage, and high Strength - amazing helmet, Andariel's Visage - +2 Skills, 20% IAS, 10% Lifesteal, 30 strength, max poison resist + high poison resists - brilliant helmet, especially if you need the IAS and leech, Veil of Steel - Enhanced Damage, +1 Skills, up to 40 All Resistances, Vitality, Strength - incredible option if you don't need the specialties the other helmets offer, Valkyrie Wing - +2 Amazon Skills, 40% Enhanced Damage, 30% Faster Run/Walk - not the best option here, but if you have the damage to need to move faster, this helmet can really shine.

Attack Speed: [10] 3% Mana Stolen per Hit

25% Chance of Open Wounds By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies.

Well balanced in terms or both damage output and life, she is a force to be reckoned with whether it be in PvP or just plain old PvM.

Durability: 40 Always herd cows into one big group before you start mowing them down.

Evade: Mechanically this skill doesnt work as well as its advertised.

This will leave few points behind hereby forcing investments in Dexterity and Strength only.

Armor Type: Medium

+350% Damage to Demons

Multiple Shot: A PvP staple used for its AOE denial.

Level Requirement: 63, +90-140% Enhanced Defense (varies)

Level Requirement: 42, +150-200% Enhanced Damage (varies)

Durability: 24

Damage Reduced By 7

33% Chance of Open Wounds

Avoid: A fixed percentage of missiles attacks against a Bowazon are negated by this ability. 25% Increased Chance of Blocking

+2 to Passive and Magic Skills (Amazon Only), Defense: 33 34 Any incoming missile, from arrow to magical attacks like Fireball, has their animations slowed thus making it easier to dodge.

Increase Maximum Life 5% (Helms Only)

), Yellows - 20% IAS with MF and extras are good here, Laying of Hands - May be worth simply running the extra damage instead to clear faster, Soul Drainer - You still want 100% pierce, so if you don't have it in another slot, consider it here (no IAS on these though), War Traveller's - These boots are just too good, Treads of C'Thon - You still want 100% pierce, so consider this if you don't have it in another slot, Goldwrap - IAS and MF, the only good MF option here really, Razortail - You still want 100% pierce, so if you can't get it in another slot, use this instead of Goldwrap, Yellows - Can get decent rings with MF as well, a leech+MF ring could be very nice if you don't have leech elsewhere, Raven Frost - You still need Cannot Be Frozen, so use one of these if needed, Unique - Prefer one of the other options like Cat's Eye or Atma's Scarab if you would prefer the speed, Gheed's Fortune - Best MF charm in the game by far, Torch/Anni - Too efficient to give up, even in a MF build, MF Small Charms - Can get up to 7% each, fill up on these if you really want MF, +Max Charms - MF is no good if you kill too slow, consider still running damage charms instead, Windforce - With the nerfs to Faith and the buffs to Windforce, there's really no competition. Damage: (96-103) (114-124)

Holy Freeze mercenary (Act II Defensive Nightmare): This is another viable mercenary. +9 To Minimum Damage

20% Increased Attack Speed +50 to Maximum Stamina, +150-250 to Attack Rating (varies)

Will update this section when we know more. Damage Reduced by 10-15% (varies)

Piercing Attack (33%)

Level Requirement: 16, +25 Defense While this will significantly reduce your single target damage, it allows for more points into Critical Strike and other quality of life skills to boost your mapping clearspeed. +2 to Bow and Crossbow Skills (Amazon Only), 4 Socket Missile Weapons 35% Chance of Crushing Blow Increase Maximum Mana 40% 8% Life Stolen Per Hit Level Requirement: 76, +90-120% Enhanced Defense (varies)

+100-200% Damage to Undead (varies) +15 Dexterity, 3 Socket Body Armor

+25-35 to Strength (varies)

+150-200% Enhanced Defense (varies)

10% Reanimate As: Returned 10% Faster Hit Recovery Durability: 34

Stealskull - Leech and MF, can socket and add PTopaz, Corrupted Unique - You can really run any unique you want here if you puzzlebox or corrupt it for PTopaz sockets, 3os White Helmet - If you don't have anything better, this can help you in the meantime, Giant Skull - You still want 100% pierce, so consider this if you don't have it in another slot, Skullder's Ire - +Skills and good MF.

10% Mana Stolen per Hit

Level Requirement: 59, 20% Chance To Cast Level 15 Chilling Armor when Struck Level Requirement: 34, +120% Enhanced Defense 5-8% Mana Stolen per Hit (varies)



+10 To Dexterity Level Requirement: 70, +170-210 Defense (varies)

Dexterity is a Bowazons focused attribute after her Strength requirements are met. Adds 1-50 Lightning Damage Probably the best bow pre-WF, especially if your gear is good enough to make it outperform Witchwild String, Eaglehorn - Poor man's Windforce, not bad, Upped Lycander's Aim - Also really decent, can compete well with all of the above, Upped Buriza - Disgustingly good +max damage, but suffers from being a crossbow.

Adds 6-22 Cold Damage 4 Second Duration

This brutal barbarian build cripples his enemies and crushes them with synergized attacks. Whats the final damage lookin like on this zon? +1-99 to Maximum Stamina (+1 per Character Level)

Level Requirement: 49, +160-200% Enhanced Defense (varies)

Build looks greatbut very expensive, specially on Westbut nuntheless, great lookin build.

20% Faster Hit Recovery

This enchanted arrow is normally spammed against single targets and enemies with physical immunity (PI). Level: 29 Minimum Dexterity: 167 Knockback, 2H Damage: (72-82) to (152-173)

This skill is maximized by fighting mobs because of the mobility drawbacks in a 1v1 or PvP fight. Regenerate Mana 20%

Freezing Arrow: From Drow Ranger to Ashe to Bowazons, no archers kit is complete without a slowing arrow.

Any base will do, even if you just grab a socketed white from Charsi, Zephyr - Also a decent early game bow, prefer this one if you get the runes for it before the runes for Edge, ???

Durability: 14 Other bows for example, require speed to be effective. +200-275% Enhanced Damage (varies)

If socketed in the right order at the same item theyll form a Runeword: a powerful named item with huge bonuses.

4-7% Life Stolen Per Hit (varies)

DPS: 115.5 124.9 This Bowazon might not have a beefy front line, but shell drop you in half the time!

Replenish Life +7

7.5 10.0% Chance to Freeze on Hit

+40 Poison Damage Over 4 Seconds 6-8% Life Stolen per Hit (varies) Equip him with lots of life leech, a good weapon and hell be fine.

Since the announced "fix" to "cheese strats," the viability of this build for DClone is unknown.

Frees up Raven Frost for potentially better ring. Level Requirement: 73, +250% Enhanced Damage

+75% Damage To Undead

The 40 all resists are just an added bonus. Kick Damage: 32 52

15% Increased Attack Speed As many tables can be found in the Diabloii.net Amazon FAQ, I wont bother to list em down. Requirements -30% Slow Missiles: Though it sounds like a lame skill, a single point in this will mean the difference between life and death for a Bowazon.

Vitality: Ranging from 100 to 150, never go below 100 or you might find it difficult to survive even one hit from a Hell Bovine. Anything beyond 7-8 points is likely wasted.

The helm is one of the most important parts of the amazon. Spending points in Elemental or passive skills like Critical Strike, Penetrate, and Pierce will turn your Bowazons damage to 11.

Use strafe to our advantage, and take advantage of its huge damage bonus.

Increase Maximum Mana 25% +30 Defense you might want the blond look, or you might like the laudable freakish look.

Your enemies might not because this skill gives your arrows a chance to pierce the first target and hit another one. Icy Veins Bowazon Build (Frost Fire Bow Amazon).

15% Slower Stamina Drain

This guide is a comprehensive resource for building a physical Bowazon (in softcore) that can farm any content in the game, including maps and ubers. Second Opinion: Since the Bowazon is always running around anyways, the points used to max Valkyrie out can be used to further invest in your Bowazons DPS.

This D2 Bowazon guide is here to help you navigate the Bow and Crossbow skill tree and beyond. Strafe: Farming made easy because it auto-aims at enemies within an AOE.

Level Requirement: 66, 10% Life Stolen per Hit Sockets: 0 1

Level Requirement: 23, +20-30% Enhanced Defense (varies)

50% Increased Attack Speed

The biggest part of the Amazons arsenal: pay attention because this is the most important section in this guide.

Read carefully to attain maximum benefits.

+200 Defense vs. Missile, Defense: 158 178

M'avina's is a really solid option, and at the time of writing the full set can be picked up for around Vex. The survivability is a must for higher levels of difficulty.

Hopefully you'll be able to find a unique bow or crossbow to fill this gap, but if not, just make a new Edge in an exceptional base and push on. Lightning Resist +35%

Minimum Dexterity: 110 35% Chance of Open Wounds Potion Slots: 16 +200% Enhanced Defense Can also corrupt these for extras, The Cat's Eye - 30 FRW, 20 IAS, 25 Dex - Very very hard to beat this amulet, Atma's Scarab - 7% Chance to Cast Level 8 Amplify Damage on Striking, 60% poison resist - this can break most phys immunes, and will give -26% physical resistance to enemies (which is huge for our damage), prefer this over Cat's Eye if you're struggling for damage or didn't take 20 Magic Arrow, Annihilus - +1 skills, resists, life on a small charm, no brainer, Hellfire Torch - +1 skills, resists, life on a large charm, no brainer, Gheed's Fortune - I personally think this is worth the slot even on the final build, 40% MF is very nice, Max Damage Charms - +10 Max GCs, preferably with life, Resist Small Charms - Great for filling out the rest of your resistances, preferably with life.