Is bowazon fun and good?

pretty self explanatory. i have a lightning javazon, but i have a ton of bowzon gear dropping lately. Ive never used ranged weapons on ay character in 20 years

Fun is subjective so...yes for me, not necessarily yes for you.

Good (once geared) absolutely.

Suffers the same issue as any amazon though in that travel times suck as you're left with either pure run speed or abysmal

Teleport cast frames.

One of my favorite chars to play. It's very subjective though, but several players around here rate their zon, should be bow ones or jav ones to be very fun to play. And you can even choose between

Windforce and Faith (or even

Witchwild String) as a main bow if you wanna go physical, or even others (M'avin'a set, Ice) if you want to go the elemental route.

Pretty fun, yeah.

I had a

Strafe amazon on the PS4, which used

Buriza-Do Kyanon

Crossbow. Super fast attack speed, she was like a tower in a tower defence game. Stands still and shoots

Arrows at everything. But once I got her an amazon torch (in offline) she started proccing

Firestorm all the time, one after the other, which lowered the fps to like 2, making the game unplayable.

So I respecced to Freeze Amazon. The build is safe because you freeze your targets. The skill explodes, dealing AOE damage. The only problem was that the skill uses way too much mana. Even with using an Insight runeword bow, I had mana issues. If the skill gets buffed in the future, and by buff I mean reduce the mana usage, then the build would be fun. Though I saw people using items with mana after kill, so you could try that.

If it is the Explosion Arrow you want to try, then I recommend using either

Kuko Shakaku bow or

Demon Machine

Crossbow... with a sorceress. The enchantress is a better explosion arrow amazon than the amazon herself. Fun build.

For me playing a bow character is fun, because you need to keep your distance from monsters, shoot and run. So your survival depends on your skill as a player and not on your stats like defence, damage reduction, resistance, life leech, like on the barbarian. The barbarian is fun too and requires skill to survive, but the bow amazon (or sorceress) is a different kind of fun.

Yes it's fun. No it's not good, not without Faith or at least Fortitude.