What to do with Windforce?

I just found one. But I have no idea what to do with it. I am currently leveling a Javazon. But now I think, I should switch to a Bowazon. I have read, that Andi is good for Bowazon. I have already. Anything else I need for a Bowazon?

the thing with

Windforce is that its hard to reach the ias break point you want. back in the day you had to have a act 1 merc with Faith bow so you got fana aura to boost ias, and u needed a lot of 15 ias jools to. im unsure if the ias breakpoints for ama is changed a lot after 2.4. might need to look it up. so to put it short, you need a lot of other nice items for it to work including a forti and so on. hope that helps a litle bit. i would look for a full bow ama guide here on diablo.

Io or on d2jsp.

i have used this build a lot back in the days. https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=5088194

I havent read anything about IAS changes for bows and Amazon, only damage boosts.

Still, It requires so much gear to do a proper physical bowazon it's not worth it compare to

Lightning Fury.
Which is a shame, since the physical bowazon is one of the most fun build I ever played.

If you compare it to most other builds, getting a phys WF bowzon to top performance levels is actually relatively cheap. Fort alone (as compared to the Enigma in 95% of all other builds) basically saves you over a

Ber and a half which in itself nearly pays for everything else you need.

IAS breakpoints haven't changed. 80 to

Cap

Strafe with WF really isn't hard to reach. Neither is 89 to get other attacks down to 9 frames. Though yeah, 147 for 8 is a fair bit harder and 292 for 7 just won't happen. But you really don't need those. A WF build goes for raw dmg per hit over speed more than anything else.

Then again, I'm biased. I still love my WF bowzon and wouldn't trade her for any other zon build.

Onibasso wrote: 4 years ago

the thing with

Windforce is that its hard to reach the ias break point you want.

This applies to

Multiple Shot. But it seems to be much easier to reach the maximum frames with

Strafe. The d2planner says that

Windforce with a

Shael and

Laying of Hands is sufficient to reach 28 frames and 27 is the maximum. No Faith necessary. Instead Delirium and

Witchwild String with two Shaels is possible.

ceving wrote: 4 years ago

I just found one. But I have no idea what to do with it. I am currently leveling a Javazon. But now I think, I should switch to a Bowazon. I have read, that Andi is good for Bowazon. I have already. Anything else I need for a Bowazon?

I have a Faith and a

Windforce on my Strafezon. I started with a

Windforce because it was the easiest to obtain. It made it possible for me to farm anywhere in Hell, which in turn helped me find a +3 4 socket

Grand Matron Bow and the runes needed to make a Faith. If I didn't have a Faith, the

Windforce would still be an end game bow. When matched with a might Reaper wielding 25 leech merc , the

Windforce has higher physical damage than the Faith, and in some situations is better.

Onibasso wrote: 4 years ago

i have used this build a lot back in the days. https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=5088194

I tried the build and it works great. And even without Faith and

Andariel's Visage (still lvl 81) the Hell walk through was almost too easy. My merc had

Kuko Shakaku and I was using

Blackhorn's Face. The 20% slowdown together with the knockback makes it really safe even with just 55 vitality. But I have to concede, that I was using a torch for skills and resistence. But I think this was the first time I passed the ancients, without beeing killed.

ceving wrote: 4 years ago

Onibasso wrote: 4 years ago

i have used this build a lot back in the days. https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=5088194

I tried the build and it works great. And even without Faith and

Andariel's Visage (still lvl 81) the Hell walk through was almost too easy. My merc had

Kuko Shakaku and I was using

Blackhorn's Face. The 20% slowdown together with the knockback makes it really safe even with just 55 vitality. But I have to concede, that I was using a torch for skills and resistence. But I think this was the first time I passed the ancients, without beeing killed.

nice. glad you liked the build ^^ the Faith/andi setup is more like a perfect setup for multishot, but not needed.

Onibasso wrote: 4 years ago

nice. glad you liked the build ^^ the Faith/andi setup is more like a perfect setup for multishot, but not needed.

Admittedly I now have an

Andariel's Visage (socketed with 15IAS, 15 ED jewel), and a Faith, but I would've made it just as far with only a

Windforce. I have another build that is

Windforce and Harmony only and no

Andariel's, yet. I have a +3 5 socket GM bow and all the runes needed to make a Mist. So I'm waiting for a time when I will be able to make it.


Question; I've heard of those who've armed their Rogue merc with a Faith, to increase speed and damage of a Windoforce as main weapon. Has anyone made a Paladin with level 27

Fanaticism, and then armed their Rogue merc with

Windforce?