Bowazon

As far as I know, CTA will buff any of your minions unless you're a Druid and they are birds.

Knappogue wrote: 2 days ago

ganseng wrote: 2 days ago

thanks.. do i read it correctly

Grand Matron Bow will have same max attack speed as

Matriarchal Bow if i have

Fanaticism lvl 12, Mist, 20% ias gloves and

Andariel on?

What skill are you using?

Strafe, multi shot,

Freezing Arrow?

No, you'll have a a 1 frame attack difference. If using a standard skill for amazon you'll hit 8FPA with your 35IAS, lvl 12

Fanaticism, and a

Matriarchal Bow and 9FPA with a GMB.

This is because a GMB has a base speed of 10 and

Matriarchal Bow has a base speed of -10.

hmm for

Strafe @ lvl 12

Fanaticism it says 4/2/6 with

Grand Matron Bow at 54 ias (gloves + runeword +

Andariel). it also says 4/2/6 as max speed for

Matriarchal Bow

or am i missing something?

ganseng wrote: 2 days ago

Knappogue wrote: 2 days ago

ganseng wrote: 2 days ago

thanks.. do i read it correctly

Grand Matron Bow will have same max attack speed as

Matriarchal Bow if i have

Fanaticism lvl 12, Mist, 20% ias gloves and

Andariel on?

What skill are you using?

Strafe, multi shot,

Freezing Arrow?

No, you'll have a a 1 frame attack difference. If using a standard skill for amazon you'll hit 8FPA with your 35IAS, lvl 12

Fanaticism, and a

Matriarchal Bow and 9FPA with a GMB.

This is because a GMB has a base speed of 10 and

Matriarchal Bow has a base speed of -10.

hmm for

Strafe @ lvl 12

Fanaticism it says 4/2/6 with

Grand Matron Bow at 54 ias (gloves + runeword +

Andariel). it also says 4/2/6 as max speed for

Matriarchal Bow

or am i missing something?

Strafe is calculated differently. But yes with 55IAS and lvl 12

Fanaticism, you'll reach max FPA with either bow base.

IAS difference between GM and Matri. bows.

quote from OP "Did I miss some bow or

Crossbow that would have been good inbetween?"

at lvl1 armor with 2*20 poison jewels+ helmet with 3*20 Poison jewels(no lvl requirement) also can have a bow with 5 facets or 3-5 small emeralds. wipes everything until lvl 12 especially after you get access to multishot. Saves skillpoints too. Bow with emeralds on lvl 12 .
And at lvl 17 you put on a bow with 5*

Tal runes and progress to lvl 27 where you can put on Insight runeword. before Insight prepare to drink lots of mana potions. Bosses killed slow,but bearable. Hsarus

Boots+

Belt and Angelic amulet+ring+ body gives you lots of AR .
For more damage on early levels : any 2 pieces of Cathan set gives you 15-20 added fire damage.
After Insight either Harmony or Buriza, both are good till lvl 75 .

dionisy_cn wrote: 6 hours ago

quote from OP "Did I miss some bow or

Crossbow that would have been good inbetween?"

at lvl1 armor with 2*20 poison jewels+ helmet with 3*20 Poison jewels(no lvl requirement) also can have a bow with 5 facets or 3-5 small emeralds. wipes everything until lvl 12 especially after you get access to multishot. Saves skillpoints too. Bow with emeralds on lvl 12 .
And at lvl 17 you put on a bow with 5*

Tal runes and progress to lvl 27 where you can put on Insight runeword. before Insight prepare to drink lots of mana potions. Bosses killed slow,but bearable. Hsarus

Boots+

Belt and Angelic amulet+ring+ body gives you lots of AR .
For more damage on early levels : any 2 pieces of Cathan set gives you 15-20 added fire damage.
After Insight either Harmony or Buriza, both are good till lvl 75 .

thanks for addressing the question!
it confirms what I suspected: there are just no good leveling unique options except for

Skystrike (28 to ~ 40), lycander (42 to ~60) and kuku maybe for fire builds

i think next time i will level a zon i will use either poison jav or fire bow

i think it's unfortunate considering i have a full mule for bows and a half mule for crossbows..

Just make armor,

Cap and 3-5 socket bow with 20 poison facets I mentioned. On single player it levels any character till the point they start having damaging skills . You just oneshot everything . Then kill

Blood Raven, give this set to your A1 hirieling and she will continue generating XP for you.

I main bowa for a while now, and I tested everything that the guys mentioned. I will tell you my thoughts. All is based in personal tastes, try them for yourself.

Atma's Scarab >

Highlord's Wrath, but the last is necessary if you are playing gmb bow (I use

Atma's because you can handle immunes and bosses a lot better).

Best helms are those magic diadems/tiaras with 3 soc, 30 frw or 20 fcr, socketed with ias max dmg jewels, or ias %dmg jewels, whatever you can pay. (I have both fcr and frw). This is because ias breakpoints.

Best belts are

Razortail, Arachnid's Mesh, Gheeds Wager (I use wager).

Best armor is Enigma for frw and

Teleport reasons. You can use Fortitude for dmg reasons. I use Enigma.

Best

Boots are

War Traveler's, or Gore riders, depending or ur tastes (I used Gores for some time, but I am using travs right now). New Horazon's is a possibility.

I use fcr res mana rings, because I am a min max bitch, I must have 75 all res (recommended in my opinion).

Best gloves are

Laying of Hands. Yes I have some very good crafted options, still this is better. I tried having a lot of crushing blow for some gear, you give up lots of damage, for me it didnt pay off.

Best grand charms are +10 dmg whatever attack rating. Small charms can have res or dmg, and I have fast run walk in ALL my charms (yes it was damn expensive).

Bows are the core of course, and it will dictate ur items (if you plan to beat ias breakpoint).

Best damage output in number will be

Windforce + Faith ia1 merc, BUT this is not the fastest cleaner. Need 95 ias, need highlords and maybe

Nosferatu's Coil.

Fastest cleaner, humanly payable is Faith gmb + Pride a2 merc. Same 95 ias.

Best in slot in my opinion is either Faith

Diamond Bow or Faith

Shadow Bow, plus a2 Pride. Need 65 ias, and a LOT more freedom to swap gear. This is the go to for any tele bowazon.

Faith

Matriarchal Bow is a option too.

I wont mention

Witchwild String, this is beautiful only in paper, is not good enough for end game. Yes I had a perfect one with all kinds of jewels.

I use

Shadow Bow, and have almost 40 fcr. I navigate the best for both worlds, I can run fast and can

Teleport fairly, and can kill fast (except for

Baal).

Honorable mention: fastest killer is rare bow with godly stats, jeweler's armor with 15 40's. This is expensive, but is the best out there (but you dont have any resistances).

Let me know if I can help u further.