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Bowazone advice

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I started playing as a

Nova Sorceress and have farmed some currency (

Jah rune and a few smaller ones). I'm planning to invest everything into a Bowazon (Faith) build. Do you think this character can comfortably farm the

Chaos Sanctuary (1ppl) without an expensive setup with runes in the inventory? I love the bow feel / gameplay, but it looks like that all tier list rate Bowazones really low.

Thanks in advance for your answers!

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Letradanel `2`

8 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

I started playing as a

Nova Sorceress and have farmed some currency (

Jah rune and a few smaller ones). I'm planning to invest everything into a Bowazon (Faith) build. Do you think this character can comfortably farm the

Schnorki `3934`Moderator

8 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

As a general note, tier lists are typically relative rankings, not absolute descriptors of capabilities.
I.e. if a bowzon is ranked as B (or whatever they have her as), that generally means "regardless of what she can or can't do, she's just nowhere near a hdin/javazon/200nova/whatever". It does not mean "she B, she so bad she can't kill anything!". Also, all of those lists should be taken with a (massive) grain of salt, if bothered with at all.

More specifically, a bowzon can very comfortably handle P1 CS in largely budget gear and with no charms and such added. Case and point, my ladder zon did just that for the past few days with a Faith matri and budget everything else, alongside a crap torch, crap anni and no other charms (before then getting randomly insta-geared by a value drop ^^). You obviously won't be anywhere near as fast as a properly geared meta build (or a fully stacked bowzon for that matter) but you do just fine and still get through at decent speed and in (subjectively) a much more enjoyable fashion.
(Note: This applies to

Strafe, multi and a combination of both - it just all works)

Do note that Faith is optional. You can do the same thing even with a far lower budget using

Windforce. Only reason I opted for Faith on her was because my main zon (NL) is already using the "slower but harder hitting" WF approach (and she always will).

You caaaaaaaan actually do the same thing with a Hustle matri bow as well though at that point it does still take what I would describe as excruciatingly long so at that stage, I for one still opted for pits over CS. Though since you're starting off with your

Nova sorc and already a solid budget stacked up, that won't affect you.

Personally, I actually just replaced said ladder Faith zon with a sin now as I just much prefer WF (and didn't want a 2nd zon doing the same thing as the NL one) but either works just fine, with or without otherwise stacked gear or charms.

Flyhorse `142`

8 months ago (pre-Resurrected)

I have a Grand Matron Faith Bow

Strafe Amazon. What I have is GMB Faith, Hustle armor,

Giant Skull, +2 Amazon skill neck / Mara,

Raven Frost, one rare ring with +5% mana leech,

Laying of Hands,

Nosferatu's Coil,

Aldur's Advance. The offhand is CTA + Spirit. The Grand charms are +1 passive life skillers and The

Bone Break. The small charms are just crap ones, 3 / 20 / 20 are jsut too expensive. The last 2 are Anni + Torch.
The merc is Act 1 rogue with Matriarchal Mist Bow, Hustle armor and Cure

Helm.
1 pp

Chaos Sanctuary run is just too easy. Maybe not the fastest clearing speed, but it's really fun seeing those knights getting knocked back and die.