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=Bowazon Subclasses=

Theme: Like a sorceress this amazon relies on her manapool. She has more mana than life and replenishes it the natural way. Like the sorceress the main idea is that she can spawn her most mana-intensive elemental skills without interruption or the pressing need to drink mana potions. In several of the previous patches, Freezing arrow and Immolation Arrow could not leech and thus mana had to be replenished the natural way.

The theme of these subclasses is that a Frostmaiden does not pick fireskills nor does an Immozon use cold skills. This limits the subclasses to just one damage type and it is often seen that instead of picking a build related to the modern Magazon. This means that next to either cold or (NOT "and") fire damage, the amazon now has also physical damage at their disposal, which makes it easier to compete with immune creatures later on.

Frostmaidens focus their build initially on doing massive cold damage. They max the cold skills Ice Arrow and Freezing Arrow. At times they even max Cold Arrow for the early levels, but that's an extreme. They try to get as high as a freezing length with these skills as they can. This is done by using more cold damage gear and more cold damage charms than Magazons. Since Frostmaidens should be able to spawn Freezing Arrow without having to switch to alternative skills, they need a good balance between manaleech and physical damage.

For dual-immune cold/physical creatures, the Frostmaiden is forced to use either lightning, fire and poison damage charms or switch to a bow that does good fire, lightning or poison damage. Kuko Shakaku, Skystrike, 6 Emerald socketed Bows, Venom bows, or magical bows with good fire or lightning damage mods are often put on weapon switch.

Immozons max Immolation Arrow and often also Exploding Arrow. Fire Arrow is sometimes also maximised for the early levels, but in the current version 1.09 it is kept at level 1. Immozons are a lot harder to play with than Frostmaidens because it's natural not to choose any source of cold damage for these characters. The lack of a chilling factor for the Immozon can be fixed by a few different methods.

For physical immunes Fire Arrow, Exploding arrow and Immolation Arrow will all do well, but for fire immunes you need another damage type. You can use Multiple Shot and Strafe for if you choose physical damage and build your Immozon as a Vamp. You can also build the traditional way and deal by using either lightning and poison damage charms or switch to a bow that does good lightning or poison damage (remember that cold is rarely used for this subclass). Skystrike, 6 Emerald socketed Bows, Venom bows, or magical bows with good lightning or poison damage mods are often put on weapon switch.

After these elemental builds I could discuss my elemental Maiden, but since that build can be created for both Spearazon and Javazon alike, I'd best discuss that later. So it's now up to discuss the builds that have as a main purpose the doing of physical damage. First up...

The theme of the Dexazon is to invest as much as she can into acquiring the highest dexterity possible. This means they increase their physical damage tremendously. They also focus on at least 1 physical damage skill, but are often also found to make use of 1 or more elemental skills for variation or as use against physical immune creatures. As for the Magazon there is a lingering debate about what a true Dexazon is. This actually falls apart in two arguments of which one is on statpoint allocation and the other on equipment choice.

For Dexazons, dexterity requirements aren't a big problem, however, without allocating statpoints in strength, the strength requirements can be problematic. You can lower requirements by using Hel runes or the lower requirement mod that can spawn on jewels. Socketing those in armor, weapon and helmet can save some problems, and by equipping strength charms you also fix a part of the problem. Other equipment can still need high amounts of strength though, so this is why people are accepting strength-Dexazons nowadays. Simply to prevent body-popping.

Strength to wear items/base

Energy: base

The second debate on the nature of true Dexazons is whether they need to wear only gear that adds dexterity or if they are allowed to use any gear they prefer. There is not much I can say about this other than that I myself use the following full Dexterity gear. It's just an example of what's possible.

Note that this setup is slow, but using Strafe as attack and seeing the killing power it doesn't matter.

Amulet and Rings: anything to make up for your deficiencies.

The Dexazon is an amazon that is built for doing high physical damage. Due to it's Dexterity it also has extremely high Attack Rating, perfect for the non-autohit bowskills. The main bowskill choice is therefore either Multiple Shot, Strafe or Guided Arrow. More often Guided arrow is just used as a secondary skill because it is lousy in crowd control. Secondary an elemental skill is used. This is most of the time Freezing Arrow for area effect and good cold damage. Because physical damage is so very high leeching is easy and 5% manaleech is enough to spawn Freezing Arrow continuously.

Physical immune creatures give problems and the Dexazon needs some way to solve this problem. They cannot shoot freezing arrows too much because they don't have the large amount of mana and fast replenishment as the Magazons do. Their options are elemental damage charms, using a mercenary that is filled with elemental damage sources or use a bow on switch that contains good elemental damage. For a group of physical immunes the amazon can attack each of them separately, but another option is to use strafe to deliver the damage to multiple creatures at the same time. When mana runs out however, it's back to normal attack or skills that cost little mana like magic arrow, high level guided arrow or one of the low level elemental arrows.

* Multiple Shot: 1-15 or Strafe: 6-20

* Pierce: 8+ (65%+)

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