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Overall the rule is that Lightning Fury nor Freezing Arrow should be used as main killing tools, but that the other two skills get used to full potential as well.
I guess that brings us to my own customized idea for an amazon build. It can be created for any amazon classes, but is best put to right as a Bowazon. This is not a full guide, but a good introduction on the idea.
'''Main points'''
The build in the way that I play it is very challenging and is not recommended for new players. I will list my preferences and explain what you can do to play with options that I don't use. After creating many amazons and playing many different variants I have learnt to play with a very extreme style.
'''Resistance'''
For my Elemental Maidens I have -100% resistances in Hell. This is not really a problem for Elemental Maidens that use Multiple Shot or Strafe as their main attack, but can be troublesome for those that use Jab or Fend and come into melee range often where they are open to elemental attacks. My suggestion for other players is to get high fire and lightning resistance in Hell (50%-75%), to get moderate cold resist (0%-25%), but to leave poison for what it is and cure it with antidote potions.
'''Defense'''
Defense... I don't bother since I rely on my Decoy. Mercenary is not often used, but from time to time depending on area I do cast a Valkyrie. For melee-amazons I cast Valkyrie more often. High defense just isn't possible for the Elemental Maiden. She uses socketed armor, helmet and in the case of Javazons socketed shield as well. This leaves no place for Enhanced Defense mods, so by default, the defense rating of your Elemental Maiden will be terribly low. Nothing that can be done about this other than caution. A defiance mercenary will not help much, but a holy freeze mercenary will be more profitable in preventing monsters to hit you often.
'''Life'''
My vitality will be kept at base which keeps my amazons with less than 400 life throughout the entire game. For melee-Elemental Maidens I get it up to about 500, sometimes 600. Well... for less extreme players it is recommended to get around 600 life for Bowazons and 800 or more life for Javazons and Spearazons.
'''Leeching and physical damage'''
My own preference for Elemental Maidens is to go with as little physical damage as possible and not worry about leeching. Life will be replenished by a few minor replenishment mods and by using health potions. Mana is no problem due to high energy and useful mana charms and mods like mana per kill. For other people however I recommend getting an average magical or unique bow and socket it with elemental damage jewels, gems or runes. Too high physical damage will ruin the idea of the elements doing the killing, so extremely high dexterity or physical damage is prohibited. I'm afraid you will have to make use of multiple sources of manaleech and lifeleech instead. (Note: I'm certain people will change this limitation in the future, like the leeching issue with Magazons is changed, but what can you do?)
'''Stats and skills'''
My statpoint allocation for all Elemental Maidens will be like this:
* Strength: to wear items. For Spearazons keep a maximum of 200 for item requirements. Do not boost it further for physical damage with non-bow weapons because you will ruin the theme. * Dexterity: up to 200 for a good attack rating value and to wear items. Don't use it for damage increase for the same reason not to pump strength.* Vitality: as said I keep it at base. I don't leech, so potions are the way to regain health. Only for melee-amazons do I choose about 75 vitality instead of energy. Other players will benefit from a vitality value of 100 to 150.* Energy: the rest. Even though I have stated that you can finish the game with only using Strafe, Multiple Shot, Jab or Fend which require little mana, you have the option to use other elemental skills as well for a little bit more diversity. I will discuss that below.
Depending on if you play Bowazon, Javazon or Spearazon I would pick the following skills for the Elemental Maiden.
'''Bow skills:'''
Multiple Shot: 15 to get 16 arrows, but better is
Other Bowskills: 1, guided arrow is costless considering you're put quite a few points in energy.
'''Spear and Javelin skills:'''
Jab: 1. Jab can only hit one creature and more damage isn't needed unless you are considering leech
Other Spear and Javelin Skills: 1
'''Passive Skills:'''
Slow Missiles: 1-5
I also recommend when going into melee range to pick about 50% chance to Dodge, Avoid or Evade and when staying ranged to get about 35% chances.
'''Weapon choices:'''
Bow: Kuko Shakaku (fire), Sky Strike (lightning), Venom (Tal-Dol-Mal, poison), Pus Spitter (poison), 6-socket bow, magical bow with good elemental damage (can be bought at act vendors).
This can also be done for getting elemental damage charms.
{|
! Cube Recipes
|-
| 3 flawless same type = 1 perfect same type<br /> 3 Perfect Gems + magical jewel = new magical jewel<br /> 3 Perfect Gems + magical charm = new magical charm<br /> 6 perfect Gems + rare jewel = new rare jewel
|}
{|
! colspan="3" | Best socketing choices
|-
| Elemental Sources
| Rune in weapon<br /> Gem in weapon<br /> Jewel anywhere
| Elemental Damage
|-
| Poison
| Tal<br /> Emerald<br /> of Envy
| 75.20 in 5 seconds<br /> 100.49 in 7 seconds<br /> 20.12 in 2 seconds
|-
| Fire
| Ral<br /> Ruby<br /> of Burning
| 5 - 30<br /> 15 - 20<br /> (11-25) – (35-50)
|-
| Lightning
| Ort<br /> Topaz<br /> of Thunder
| 1 - 50<br /> 1 - 40<br /> 1 - 100
|-
| Cold
| Thul<br /> Sapphire<br /> of Icicle
| 3 - 14<br /> 10 - 14<br /> (2-3) -(6-10)
|}
=Interesting themes=
A few interesting subclasses have sprouted from the minds of a few visionary people that I want to share with you all. There are many more themes available if you only use your imagination. Hopefully the following ones will inspire you to come up with a theme of your own.
=Demon/Undead Hunter=
The Demon/Undead Hunter uses mainly items that give damage bonuses when fighting Demons and Undead creatures. The usage of sockets is again one of the ways to increase the damage of your character versus these creatures. It was kind of extracted from the Paladin subclass, the Undeadhunter, which uses the Sanctuary as his main aura to dispatch of the undead with little difficulty. The gear of choice is listed below. Skill- and statpoint allocation is all up to the player.
Helmet: Undead Crown (50% ED vs Undead, 50-100 AR vs Undead), The Face of Horror (50% ED vs Undead)
Armor: Black Hades (30-60% ED vs. Demon, 200-250 AR vs. Demon, 3 open sockets)
Bow: Goldstrike Arch (100-200% ED vs Demon, 100-200% ED vs Undead), Melody (300% ED vs Undead)
Spear: Spire of Honor (1.5% ED vs Demon/lvl)
Gloves: Gravepalm (100-200% ED vs Undead, 100-200% AR vs Undead), Ghoulhide (2% ED vs Undead/lvl, 4 AR vs Undead/lvl), Laying of Hands (350% ED vs Demon, 10% lvl 3 Holy Bolt)
Tankazon weapons: Too many to list.
'''Socketing of Weapons'''
Eld: 75% ED vs Undead, 50 AR vs Undead
Pul: 75% ED vs Demon, 100 AR vs Demon
'''Socketing with Jewels: Prefixes'''
Diamond: 25-40% ED vs Demon, 25-50 AR vs Demon
Pearl: 25-50% ED vs Undead, 25-50 AR vs Undead
=Goldfinder=
The Goldfinder theme was brought up by me as a guide on accumulating loads of money for gambling. After testing it showed to accumulate over a million gold when doing a Mephisto Gold find run, killing all creatures in sight and picking up all gold stashes that dropped. The listed gear shows the best way of accumulating better gold find. Skill- and statpoint allocation is all up to the player.
Helmet: Tarnhelm (75%), Crown of Thieves (80%-100%)
Armor: Wealth (Lem-Ko-Tir, 300%)
Ring: Dwarfstar (100%)
Amulet: Amulet of Wealth (41%-80%)
Belt: Goldwrap (50%-80%)
Boots: Infernostride (47%-70%)
Gloves: Chanceguard (200%)
Charms: Small of greed (5%-10%), Large of greed (5%-22%), Grand of greed (10%-40%)
Sockets: Jewel of Avarice (10%-30%), Lem Weapon (75%), Lem Armor, helmet (50%)
Shield: Rhyme (Shael-Eth, 50%)
Tankazon Weapon: Ali Baba (2.5%/lvl)
No specific Bowazon, Javazon or Spearazon weapons
=Angelzon and Stormcaster=
An idea we got from the forum was to create a passive amazon, like there is a passive paladin, who kills through thorns and items that give "attacker takes damage of X" and a "chance to cast spell when hit". Through some misunderstanding I thought that this subclass was called the Angel build, so I referred to her as the Angelzon. Later I found out that this was an error, that the Angelzon is an amazon build that I know better as the Stormcaster. This amazon uses items that give a "chance to cast spell on attack" and a "chance to cast spell on hit" to give a nice display of assorted skills.
Now I'm kind of in dubio on how to call both these amazons, but I will describe their gear anyway.
=False(?) Angelzon=
Passive amazon that relies on mercenary to kill, but more so on items that give "chance to cast skill when hit" and "attacker takes damage of X". A Thorns Act 2 mercenary is a must have. The idea is to cast a Decoy and a Valkyrie into the monster packs and have the thorns aura take effect. The idea was also that Decoy and Valkyrie spawn with the same "chance to cast spell when hit", but it doesn't seem to work, sadly. Gear is listed below... skills... well.. just Slow Missiles, Decoy and Valkyrie and 1 into their prequisites. You don't want to Dodge/Avoid/Evade with this build.
Statpoints all go into vitality and Strength to wear gear. Manacharms and manapotions fix manaproblems. Life potions and some Replenishment mods in gear help liferegeneration.
'''Gear'''
The best gear is that that contains "chance to cast static field when hit" for the obvious reason of instantly lowering an enemy's health by 25%. It is best to pick the Cow Set to gain this feature. The Hwanin set armor does provide this spell, but with a lower percentage. It is perfect on your Act 2 mercenary though.
Helm: Cow: Attacker Takes Damage of 10
Armor: Cow: 18% level 5 Chain Lightning when hit
Belt: Razortail: Attacker Takes Damage of 1/level
Gloves: Hit Power Crafted: 5% level 4 Frost Nova, Attacker Takes Damage of 3-7
Boots: Cow: to complete the set and gain set bonus: 25% level 5 Static when hit
Two-handed weapon: Stormrider: 15% level 5 Charged Bolt when hit, Attacker Takes Lightning Damage of 15.
Stormspire: 2% level 31 Charged Bolt when hit, 5% level 5 Chain Lightning when hit, Attacker Takes Lightning Damage of 27
One-handed Weapon: Dark Clan Crusher: 15 life after Demon kill, seems to work with thorns
Shield: Tiamat's Rebuke: 3% level 6 Hydra when hit, 5% level 7 Nova when hit, 5% level 9 Frost Nova when hit.
Amulet: Rising Sun: 2% level 1-10 Meteor when hit, Replenish Life 10, 0.75 Fire Absorb/level
Ring: Dwarfstar: Magic Damage Reduced By 12-15, Fire Absorb 15%
Ring: Hit Power: 5% level 4 Frost Nova, Attacker Takes Damage of 3-6
'''Sockets'''
Dol (armor, helmet, shield): replenish life +7, Amn (armor, helmet): Attacker takes damage of 14, Perfect Skull (shield): Attacker takes damage of 20, Perfect Skull (helmet, armor): Replenish life +5, replenish mana +19%.
Mercenary armor: Hwanin Armor: 10% level 3 Static Field when hit
=Stormcaster, Real Angelzon=
"Chance to cast spell on hit" and "chance to cast spell on attack" are the main characteristics of this build. Mainly this theme was designed for Bowazons which use mainly crowd control skills like Multiple Shot, Strafe and Freezing Arrow to trigger their spell effects, which results in a really impressive show. Often "Blind", "freeze" or "dim vision" is among the triggers, simple to keep monsters in one place while the spell effects kick in.
Helmet: Coif of Glory: Blind, Ondal's Almighty: 10% level 3 Weaken on attack
Armor: Iceblink: Freeze
Amulet: Atma's Scarab: 5% level 2 Amplify Damage on attack
Weapon: Pus Spitter: 4% level 1 Lower Resist on striking, Buriza-Do Kyanon: Freeze, Skystrike: 2% level 6 Meteor on striking, Witchwild String: 2% level 5 Amplify Damage on attack, Magewrath: Blind, Goldstrike Arch: 5% level 5-7 Fist of Heavens on attack
Gloves: Hellmouth: 4% level 12 Firestorm on striking, 2% level 4 Meteor on striking, Laying of Hands: 10% level 3 Holy bolt on attack
I hope this was informative... it sure was a lot to type. Egads!
Greets
''Celine, aka Kirsty''
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