Javazon - tips to deal with constant weapon repair

Hi

I'm doing my first

Lightning Fury Amazon (L39).

I noticed that I'm constantly going back to town to repear my weapon... (or using more

Charged Strike than I wanted just to not need to go to town too soon....)

Is there any trick to avoid/mitigate this?
Or the only option is to keep a second (or even third) weapon in Inventory (or Cube) and switch when the main weapon empties...

In special I'm a little worried of how things will be when I start to use my Etheral

Titan's Revenge (each town visit will become a 9 minutes waiting for full repair )

(Because of this I'm starting to thinking in changing from

Lightning Fury to

Lightning Strike )

fredkid wrote: 9 months ago

Hi

I'm doing my first

Lightning Fury Amazon (L39).

I noticed that I'm constantly going back to town to repear my weapon... (or using more

Charged Strike than I wanted just to not need to go to town too soon....)

Is there any trick to avoid/mitigate this?
Or the only option is to keep a second (or even third) weapon in Inventory (or Cube) and switch when the main weapon empties...

In special I'm a little worried of how things will be when I start to use my Etheral

Titan's Revenge (each town visit will become a 9 minutes waiting for full repair )

(Because of this I'm starting to thinking in changing from

Lightning Fury to

Lightning Strike )

I use an

Eth upped Titan's which is self-replenishing and has a 180 stack. If you don't want to keep repairing try not to get into spamming

Lightning Fury and use

Charged Strike more often. In many situations such as taking down Dclone,

Charged Strike is far more effective. After running Chaos tz for an hour I'm rarely down by more than 10 or 15.

What gear are you using?

You can use a normal Titan's at level 42. As mlhg said, it replenishes quantity and has an increased stack size of 180. You can a low rolled one for just a few pgems. I can do 2-3 entire cow games before needing to repair. As long as you aren't just spamming.

Leveling a javazon is also a bit painful. They are mana hungry and the available gear is frustrating. I built a bowazon first, and then respec'd her to java around lvl 75.

Later on, when you will have gigantic damage, you won't need to throw nearly as much javs to kill stuff, therefore your titans will barely lose any quantity.

No need to spam throw thingy that much, even less on low-mid levels. Use

Charged Strike much more and you'll be fine even without Titan's.

Once I figured out to not over-rely on

Lightning Fury and use

Charged Strike at least 50-50 of time the gameplay improved like a LOT. Now on the other hand I'm also someone who doesn't care about clearing speed or going back to town to repair, I'm like very old playstyle dude and everything that's in the game, for me, is part of the game (selling, repairing, dropping things to stash, etc.) but nevertheless, not spamming LF is the way to go if you don't want to repair all the time.

I keep an extra set of

Eth titans in the stash. If I am running zones over and over, I switch out when one is about half empty. I never go to town just for this, but will switch when I start a new game. This way, I am effectively regenerating twice as fast. I also have a set of thunderstrokes in stash just in case. Technically, tstrokes are higher damage, but I find them less convenient since they don't regen and they do less physical damage so I can't mana leech as efficiently.

mhlg wrote: 9 months ago

What gear are you using?

https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/pd1p20s0

Knappogue wrote: 9 months ago

Leveling a javazon is also a bit painful. They are mana hungry and the available gear is frustrating.

I use a 3

Tir

Kite Shield (and then

Silkweave) so mana was not a real issue (almost only use mana on Bosses).
And I have a reasonable good low level gear from my mules .

I like

Charged Strike too (and it was my main Skill L18-L29), in some ways it is actually cooler then

Lightning Fury (another reason why I'm thinking in

Lightning Strike )

My point is more on "Is it expected to my Javelins empty so quickly if I focus on throwing or am I missing some trick"?

I don't think have to go to town more frequently will make me quit the build, but is a change on gameplay...
On L29-, with

Power Strike and then

Charged Strike, I don't remember needed to repair... and even with my Fury Druid with a non-Indestructible elite weapon I had to repair each 2-3 games only, but now if I mainly throw javelins, I have to repair each 1-2 levels...

When in doubt..get 2.

As in..happily use your

Eth titans until they run low, then switch weapon set to yet another pair of

Eth titans to use until those run low. At that point, the first set can be switched back to as it'll have replenished a fair bit.

Mind you, as much as that generally works, if you actually chain run at a decent pace, you will out-throw the regen, meaning you replenish some of the javs but not all before you have to switch back so you slowly but surely switch back and forth to ever smaller stacks until you finally get to a point where you just have to take a break and do something else for a bit while you let everything replenish.

Alternatively (or..additionally), keep even more of them in stash to switch to or use non-

Eth stuff and deal with repairing every other run but honestly..both of those are just unacceptable imo.

Honestly though, that whole idea of "forced breaks/constant repairs...can't just keep going...ugh..." is one of the main reasons I don't really play throwing javas. Just too annoying to deal with. As a bowzon, you at least find enough

Arrows along the way to just keep going indefinitely. Java...no such luck.

fredkid wrote: 9 months ago

mhlg wrote: 9 months ago

What gear are you using?

https://maxroll.gg/d2/d2planner/pd1p20s0

Knappogue wrote: 9 months ago

Leveling a javazon is also a bit painful. They are mana hungry and the available gear is frustrating.

I use a 3

Tir

Kite Shield (and then

Silkweave) so mana was not a real issue (almost only use mana on Bosses).
And I have a reasonable good low level gear from my mules .

Gear im using now is mostly BiS. Once I made a Phoenix I stopped having mana problems, lol. That comment I made was for the leveling process. I hadn't mule'd good low to mid level gear so I was stuck using stuff I'd found.

Knappogue wrote: 9 months ago

That comment I made was for the leveling process.

The items I use:

- Amazon
Name Base Level

Arctic Binding

Light Belt 2

Arctic Furs

Quilted Armor 2

Pelta Lunata

Buckler 2

Hsarus' Iron Stay

Belt 3

Hsarus' Iron Heel

Chain Boots 3

Berserker's Headgear

Helm 3

Infernal Cranium

Cap 5

Death's Hand

Leather Gloves 6

Death's Guard

Sash 6

Greyform

Quilted Armor 7

Nokozan Relic Amulet 10

Angelic Wings Amulet 12

Angelic Halo Ring 12

Angelic Mantle

Ring Mail 12
3

Tir

Kite Shield 13

Manald Heal Ring 15

Tarnhelm

Skull Cap 15

Natalya's Soul

Mesh Boots 25
Lore

Bone Helm 27

Sander's Taboo

Heavy Gloves 28

Death's Guard (up)

Sash 29
Rhyme

Grim Shield 29

Skin of the Vipermagi

Serpentskin Armor 29

Razortail

Sharkskin Belt 32

Silkweave

Mesh Boots 36

- Merc
Name Base Level

Arctic Furs

Quilted Armor 2

Berserker's Headgear

Helm 3
5

Flawed Topaz

Short Battle Bow 6

Greyform

Quilted Armor 7

Razortine

Trident 12
Malice

Pike 15

The Face of Horror

Mask 20

Boneflesh

Plate Mail 26

Hwanin's Justice

Bill 28
Insight

Partizan 30
Insight

Bec-De-Corbin 37

Reach L42 today, and start to use my Ethereal

Titan's Revenge...

I have to admit that the Replenishes Quantity has been more than enough to keep my stack full / half full
I'm almost at L44 now and still didn't need yet to stop my run to wait for for the stack to replenish even once

I'm currently on L83 (finished hell on ~L80.6) and only waited in town for replenish once

Instead of waiting in town for

Titan's Revenge to replenish, you may switch

Lightning Fury for

Lightning Strike for a while and continue farming
(you will already maximize

Lightning Strike and its synergies anyway for the

Lightning Fury)