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.

Fun when you play open area non boss fight.
It might be best.

I have one full with max dam and Faith, dual Last Wish merc. It is soso when fight boss, even non tz hell

Baal.

This is LoD situation, not rotw...rotw will be better.

Was my first lvl 99 so yes I had fun with her.

Mavina set is cheap and pretty good , also very safe as you freeze everything on an Ice build

phys bowazon is pretty fun, if u enjoy sitting behind a meatshield and laying waste to everything. It's got great AOE, the best tank in game (if u prebuff ur Valk to level 27-30 or more she becomes rediculous) but it's also pretty repettitive, weapon reliant, glass cannon

Ur ed is much better in LOD with 400% synergies but it's still the lowest in game like Wolf,

Zeal,

Whirlwind, so A2 might is mandatory, Fortitude is your most wanted item, ravenfrost is core as well.

Windforce, Faith,

Eaglehorn, buriza all good, options
even simple Insight colosus

Crossbow, Harmony weapon may suffice to clear hell


for twinking , Special mentions go to
Iratha's set is amaizing for the sheer resistances for entering hell.

Arctic Gear, (as you can basically avoid your first respec and bank points till lvl 24 straife)
Vindala's, Saigons,

Bloodfist items are also great, normal/nightmare