1. She is surprisingly safe even with zero points invested into vitality and no resistances. She can use Decoy as a really convenient tank which can easily catch attention of Gloams and Stygian Dolls.
2. Slow Missiles is a very underused skill that basically disables Gloams and Witches because it slows down their projectiles a lot. It also makes them shoot more rare, because they wait for a previous projectile to land before they shoot the next one. Not to mention that they deal 32% less damage. Bowazon is the only character I feel comfortable with around dolls and gloams (even though she has about 600hp). Slow Missiles saved my skin more than a few times in the throne room.
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3. + to Passive Skills gives you more DPS than +bow skills because it bumps the Critical Strike skill which increases the chance of double damage. Double damage chance gives you more DPS overall than just bumping Bow & Crossbow skills. So the worst charms to have in inventory are +Bow, second best are +Passive, best are +max dmg +frw.
4. You can bump Double Damage chance by using Highlord's Wrath and Gore Rider. It does not stack with the Amazon skill " Critical Strike" although the effect is the same. So if you have 74% Critical Strike and 50% Deadly strike it does not amount to 124% but to 87% instead (1 - (1 - 0.74)*(1 - 0.5)) if I remember school maths correctly
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5. You can achieve max IAS breakpoint with Faith (92 with 15 Fanaticism) while still using Fortitude . The cheapest setup is M'avina's True Sight with 15IAS jewel (the most expensive would be Artisan's Diadem of Speed with 3 IAS jewels) + Nosferatu's Coil (or Goldwrap if you really want that mf) + Highlord's Wrath (or The Cat's Eye) + Laying of Hands (or crafted +passive/20ias gloves) which is 45 + 10 + 20 + 20 = +95 IAS . Although the second best breakpoint is usually good enough (so you can use Giant Skull for knockback if you like). You can compensate lack of Razortail by just bumping Pierce skill, so you will have 90% Pierce without it (which is more than enough).
6. Wrath is a really underappreciated runeword. This is a great debuff weapon. Bowazon lacks boss damage and has issues with physical immunes (yes, you can spam Magic Arrow or use Atma's Scarab to proc Amplify Damage), but it still will be hard to clear packs of Spectres or Hell Temptresses . Wrath has +magic damage, chance to proc Decrep and 20% crushing blow which combined with Slow Missiles and 10% slowdown from Nosferatu's Coil makes Hell Temptresses (and most other enemies) harmless, also killing Baal becomes manageable, it is faster than Faith with bosses. It is not good enough in all situations to be the primary weapon, but I really like using it on swap with Faith, it solved physical immunes issues for me. Alternatively you can use Harmony, which for me is the less DPS and less utility version of Wrath (although you might like Vigor aura). Harmony is not even close to be good with bossess though and does not have any debuffs
7. Witchwild String is an underrated bow (although I think it's a temp before you get Windforce or Faith). It's still really strong if you socket something good in it (like Nef + Eth or Shael + Shael)
8. You can make Insight in a bow and use it yourself, it has a good damage (before you get Faith or Windforce
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9. If you are using Matriarchal Bow and want to use Jewels in your helmet, +15IAS +15max damage gives you more overall damage than +15IAS +40% ed (because it's the low damage bow)
Bonus tip (for magezon):
10. You can use Phoenix in a bow the same way you can use Ice. Phoenix has minus to enemy fire res, you can even use Phoenix and Ice on swap.
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TL;DR - use Slow Missiles and Decoy more, make Wrath ruenword, invest all points into dexterity.
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glhf!
Also, a wish I have - I really hope we will get magical quivers at some point in D2R to buff bowazons at least a bit more.
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If you know any more good tips let me know.
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