Another M'avina's Amazon build guide.

@moonlit recently posted a build for an MF Zon utilizing the M'avina's set, which actually was something I had planned ahead as well. Our builds differ, so I thought I would share mine as well for ideas.

I usually try to build my characters around moderately quickly achievable levels. So I aim for completed builds at or below level 90. The extra 9 or more skill points usually go towards synergies of some sort. That being said, I too have planned out a "M'avazon" build.

Feel free to edit and tweak to your liking. Skill wise I have 2 versions depending on your preference. Even with a base level 1 skill your end

Pierce percentage will be around 70-75% which is more than enough without

Razortail for this build, so keep that in mind.

Level 87-90: Variant 1 (

Valkyrie Version) This version is what I plan to use, requires level 87, technically 90 if you max

Valkyrie but 87 is enough. After the

Valkyrie reaches level 17 you can choose to max it over the next few levels, or start pumping

Pierce,

Penetrate, and

Critical Strike. Keep in mind that your

Freezing Arrow doesn't benefit from

Penetrate or

Critical Strike, but your

Multiple Shot and

Guided Arrow do. Overall you benefit from a beefy

Valkyrie and will end up with a 24 arrow

Multiple Shot after a few charms.

Guided Arrow will be used to handle most bosses in combination with your Mercenary.

Level 84: Variant 2 (Dual Element Version) This alternative version requires level 84 and drops

Guided Arrow along with

Valkyrie in favor of splitting elements between

Freezing Arrow and

Exploding Arrow. You lose a bit of single target damage sacrificing

Guided Arrow, but you can easier deal with cold immunes thanks to

Exploding Arrow. Once your synergies are maxed, feel free to start adding points to

Pierce or other skills of your choosing. This build still uses

Multiple Shot, but the value of

Critical Strike and

Penetrate are much less because you will be using

Multiple Shot far less due to having two other forms of AoE between

Freezing Arrow and

Exploding Arrow. Feel free to drop

Multiple Shot from the build entirely if you wish to invest more skill points into

Pierce. Anyway, let's move on.

With a few easy to get charms, the build aims for the 52% FHR breakpoint, and an additional 10% run/walk to compensate for the heavier armor class. You'll need two small 5% FHR charms, and 12% FHR on a grand charm to hit the 52% breakpoint. The run/walk can be achieved by a 3% small charm, and a 7% grand charm. Secondary mods won't matter on these, but aim for useful secondary stats if possible. The main goal is to reach those breakpoints.

Since you'll be running with M'avina's Battle Hymn you are limited in options in a number of slots. You can play around A LITTLE bit but not too much since you will require 20% more IAS from either a

Shael rune or an amulet to hit the 89% attack speed breakpoint, sadly a 15% IAS jewel won't help you here.

Highlord's Wrath or

The Cat's Eye depending on your preference if you're not running a

Shael'd bow. If you choose to use

Shael in your bow, you can run with

Crescent Moon Amulet or

Atma's Scarab, yet again preference. That being said, if you do run with a IAS amulet, you can use a

Nef rune in your bow for knockback, or slot in a

Perfect Skull for some extra leech. An

Ist Rune in your bow is another solid option if you want some extra Magic Find. Since this build lacks significant leech, you will probably want to have an alternative bow and amulet setups to swap to depending on the situation. Such as a

Atma's Scarab or

The Cat's Eye and Sheal bow, with a

Crescent Moon Amulet in the stash for when you need additional survivability. Some things won't require having a lot of leech, while other areas will. Ideally this build will work the best with a nice Dual Leech Ring, but you don't NEED one. You can use a

Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band to great effectiveness with this build too.

The basic stats and gear is as follows:

STR: Enough for gear
DEX: Enough for gear
VIT: YES
ENE: NO

You could alternatively choose to run a split between energy and vitality since your mana pool will be shallow. Or you could run limited vitality and heavily invest in dexterity for some additional damage. Keep in mind that the Amazon heavily favors the vitality stat so you can make the most of it with heavy investment. Plus you're going to be kind of squishy as it is. Lot's of choice here honestly, the stats are very flexible. As for the gear...

Weapon:

M'avina's Caster *(Socket:

Shael Rune -or-

Nef Rune -or-

Perfect Skull -or-

Ist Rune)
Helmet:

M'avina's True Sight **(Socket:

Perfect Topaz -or-

Ist Rune -or-

Cham Rune)
Armor:

M'avina's Embrace (Socket:

Perfect Topaz -or-

Ist Rune -or-

Um Rune)
B elt:

M'avina's Tenet
Gloves:

M'avina's Icy Clutch
Bo ots:

War Traveler (Magic Find) -or-

Gore Rider (Power) -or-

Goblin Toe (Budget)
Amulet: *

Crescent Moon Amulet -or-

Atma's Scarab -or-

Highlord's Wrath -or-

The Cat's Eye -or-

The Eye of Etlich (Budget)
Ring 1: **

Raven Frost (Required without

Cham'd Helmet)
Ring 2:

Carrion Wind -or-

Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band -or-

Manald Heal (Budget) -or-

Cathan's Seal (Budget) -or- Dual Leech Ring

*Your amulet and weapon socket will vary based on which corresponding thing you have chosen.
**If you use a

Cham Rune in your helmet, you can swap out the

Raven Frost for another ring of your choice.

Your Mercenary will be from Act 2 Nightmare, Offensive with the Might aura.

Weapon:

Hone Sundan (Sockets:

Shael

Shael

Amn)
Helmet:

Andariel's Visage (Socket: 15% IAS Jewel)
Armor: Treachery

Hone Sundan gives your mercenary 45% Crushing Blow. He will be your boss damage, during bosses you will become support. With

Andariel's Visage and Treachery along with a 15% IAS jewel he will meet the highest breakpoints with a

Yari or

Ghost Spear. Ideally you want Ethereal versions of all 3 items, and an upgraded

Hone Sundan. Between your

Valkyrie from the first build variant and your mercenary he should be quite self sustaining. A decently good damage with up to 17% Life Leech. If you find his survivablity is acceptable without the

Amn Rune, feel free to socket something else. However the only real alternatives are a

Ber rune, which adds negligible damage since his Crushing Blow chance is already good enough or an

Um Rune. Mercenaries do not benefit from a

Mal Rune's Prevent Monster Heal since it can only be applied by the player character.

You can also feel free to scrap this entire Mercenary and use an Insight, you'll need to recalculate the breakpoints for his attack and

Jab though depending on his weapon. Another option would be to use an Infinity, especially if you decided to go with the second build variant and wish to take advantage of dual element types. Your mercenary in this regard is a yet another flexible part of the build.

Overall this build for being an M'avina's based build and fairly budget, will get the job done. It's capable of Hell

Chaos Sanctuary and pretty much all other areas with varying player counts. Your charms other than the ones mentioned initially are very flexible. You'll want to be carrying a

Gheed's Fortune,

Annihilus, and

Hellfire Torch EVENTUALLY, but they aren't needed. The initial skill point distribution takes the additional +4 skills into account, however until you get your end game charms, you can supplement your skills with a few other skill charms of preference. Aim for resistance, life, mana, and max damage/attack rating charms as inventory space allows.

Here is an example of the first skill allocation at level 87 after +3 from Fletcher's charms, the +1 from

Annihilus, and +3 from

Hellfire Torch bonuses have been accounted for. If you want 2% more

Pierce, feel free to swap 1 Fletcher's charm for an Acrobatic passive charm. Doing so however will require an additional point in

Multiple Shot to maintain the 24 arrow max. Feel free to experiment with skill charms here. Your total MF won't be anything near a dedicated MF build, but you'll have enough to feel comfortable hunting without feeling like you're missing out as long as you're running with

War Traveler's and

Gheed's Fortune. You should be hovering around 230% MF in total plus or minus a few charms or a

Perfect Topaz or two if you decided to socket

Cham or

Um Runes in their place. Rare rings can also add some additional magic find if you have some that meet the other requirements for your chosen setup. Hopefully between @moonlit's build, and mine someone can put together something really interesting.

I’m getting the feeling that we’re going to be trying so many configurations of this build. I’ll probably end up with like 4 instances of Mavs bow, armor, and

Diadem, each socketed differently. E.g. one all cold facets, one

Ist

Topaz

Topaz, one with

Ohm in bow. And prolly will end up resetting skill points a bunch of times along the way! Good luck!

Holy shit this is an amazing build. It looks so hard to create though.

moonlit wrote: 3 years ago

I’m getting the feeling that we’re going to be trying so many configurations of this build. I’ll probably end up with like 4 instances of Mavs bow, armor, and

Diadem, each socketed differently. E.g. one all cold facets, one

Ist

Topaz

Topaz, one with

Ohm in bow. And prolly will end up resetting skill points a bunch of times along the way! Good luck!

For sure. I have 4 more builds ready to make guides out of. A 3-piece hybrid element Tal Rasha's Wrappings MF Sorc, a melee Passion and dual Dream enchantress Sorc, a pure physical

Windforce and Faith based Bowazon, and a hybrid

Blade Of Ali Baba MF Gold Find Barbarian. I just haven't written everything up yet. Usually they're cookie cutter with a twist somehow. So many new things to do in resurrected, the wait is ALMOST over.

IronLesbian wrote: 3 years ago

Holy shit this is an amazing build. It looks so hard to create though.

Actually this is the most budget of the ones I mentioned above. The hardest part of this M'av build I'd say would be to get

War Traveler's. A lot of the rest can be done really budget with items I listed in the other categories. I'm still fairly confident than M'avina's set pieces will be fairly cheap, because not very many people utilize them. The mercenary for example can be almost anything as long as you're getting the Might aura. His equipment doesn't matter, and can be substituted for quite a few things.

Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest instead of

Andariel's Visage, a variety of weapons, Treachery is cheap, but even

Duriel's Shell would work fine for a good while. Out of the whole M'av set, the most expensive piece would probably be

M'avina's True Sight the rest should be cheap.

UnrivaledPiercer wrote: 3 years ago

For sure. I have 4 more builds ready to make guides out of. A 3-piece hybrid element Tal Rasha's Wrappings MF Sorc, a melee Passion and dual Dream enchantress Sorc, a pure physical

Windforce and Faith based Bowazon, and a hybrid

Blade Of Ali Baba MF Gold Find Barbarian. I just haven't written everything up yet. Usually they're cookie cutter with a twist somehow. So many new things to do in resurrected, the wait is ALMOST over.

Sounds like a blast. I only wish I had time to run several chars to endgame but will have enough fun just with an Amazon since I’ve never made one before and since respeccing changes everything really, much less likely to get bored (or frustrated) when we have the option of resetting skills and stats any time! Plus I like that Amazon benefits so much from higher levels in terms of just increasing chance to hit, phys damage, etc. The builds in this class rely on a healthy mix of skills, gear, and stats…depending on the details of the build.

I'm a sucka for set builds (well, and unique item builds as well), M'avina's set is one of my favourites. I'm right in-time to find this topic as I'm progressing my character with all items possible socketed already and some of them furnished with a whatever I managed to find/trade for cold facet by now. Thank you for sharing, that's gonna be fun.
I'd add as my M'avina's builds are always around cold damage first, I prefer my Act 2 mercenary wielding an ethereal based polearm Doom.