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I have been told that people like to know my setup and gear and such. Here it is. sillyBinLaden is level 80

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60 Increased Attack Speed [IAS] armor

Stormshield (shael, I don’t know if the shael is needed)

Javelin tree: these are the BASE levels 20 Lightning Fury 20 Jab 20 Plague Javelin

8 Dodge 3 Avoid 8 Evade 4 Critical Strike 1 Penetrate 1 Pierce

I carry 20 small charms on inertia, my Horadric cube, Tome of Town Portal and tome of Identification.

This Javazon is my strongest Javazon. I have power-acted, include hell Chaos Sanctuary, with this character. I can kill the ancients. I can kill 4k poisons and high level barbarians.

This is where I start. I go through and decide what items I have/want/will use and then factor in the bonuses. For an all purpose build, you will want to have several sets of gear, for different purposes. I will endeavor to provide for you good choices.

Vampire Gaze is what you want for dueling. Duel leech and DR are a very good combination.

Harlequin Crest is very popular, although I only recommend it if you want to magic find and already have mana leech. A Steelskull for magic finding is just as good.

60 IAS armor is my favorite. I am not rich enough to afford an ed/IAS armor, so I settle for IAS. As I will cover later, IAS will play am important role when you start jabbing. This armor is better for dueling against certain characters. However this is very much all-purpose armor.

Twitchthroe is a good armor if you wish to keep your dexterity low and your blocking high, but there are better armors out there.

Titans revenge is the weapon of choice, if you plan on doing more PvP, try to find ethereal ones. For cows, use a set of regular titans, as ethereal titans, once depleted, are useless.

Rare javelins can be pretty good as well. Look for +skills, enhanced damage, etc.

Stormshield is the shield of choice for both PvM and PvP. High blocking, faster blocking, and a huge 35% damage reduced, along with solid cold and lightning resistance make this shield worth the price.

Rhyme shield is a runeword spelled shael eth. Drop into a trolls nest or monarch and you have a shield that adds mf, high blocking, and cannot be frozen. Great for magic finders as you '''don’t''' need Raven Frost,

Thundergods vigor is a fantastic belt. With a huge increase in strength, as well as lightning absorb, max lightning resist, and +3 to lightning fury, this belt is great for dueling and PvM alike.

Trang ouls belt is a hidden treasure. Not many people use it, however it has the cannot be frozen mod and 66 to life making it not too shabby a belt if you have high pdr and leech.

War travelers are my favorite boots. With magic find, increased damage, vitality and strength, this boot is a melee characters dream.

Rare/crafted boots are often better than uniques if you can find them. Look for resistances, lightning being most important, run speed, and maybe magic find. crafted blood boots have life leech which may make them a good boot if you are a bit lacking.

An un-duped Raven Frost needs to be one of your rings. The only exception is if you have the ‘cannot be frozen’ mod from another items. If you use rhyme, cham rune in armor, Trangs belt, Death's Sash, Spirit Shroud, Duriel's Shell, etc. the ring is also important for the added dexterity to keep your blocking at maximum.

Magic Rings. Mana, if you’re having trouble keeping mana in your orb, use a Bahamut's ring. Otherwise just find mf/resist rings.

Cat's Eye is my favorite amulet. With run/walk, dexterity, and IAS, you have everything you need in an amulet, short or resistances and skills.

Highlord's Wrath is a very popular amulet as well. with IAS, + skill and massive lightning resist, this amulet is great for sorceress duels.

Skip this section if you already know what you want to wear. For those of you who cannot afford to mix and match, I have included this section. Here I will give you what are, in my opinion, strong setups and tell you for what purpose they are strongest. This section can help you to pick your gear before you start your character, which is important. These are by no means the only setups available, simply the more common. We will go ahead and assume you are using Titans Revenge as your weapon.

For now there will only gear suggestions. Strategies will come later.

This is where you will spend much of your time. If your goal is simply to hit level 99 with a javazon, you will spend ALL of your time here. The following is a setup which will allow you to clear cow levels, short of the king and some boss cows along with providing magic find. This setup focuses on +skills and then some MF.

Charms: MF, +skills (I would suggest MF)

This setup should allow you to play outside of cow levels, and inside as well. Gear will focus on speed and resistances instead of skills and magic find.

Charms: Vita Charms, resistance charms

This setup is a decently effective one against amazons and barbarians.

Charms: life charms, run/walk charms

This is basically against bowazons. If focuses on run speed and attack speed.

Charms: run/walk charms, life charms

Hard duels, unless you have proper resistances and life this setup gives maximum lit resistance as well as high cold resist

This is mainly against necromancers who use bone spirit and p nova. This may also be effective against amazons who use a lot of poison

Charms: life and run/walk

This section will be short and sweet. Stat allocation for PvP, and PvM.

Energy – base

If you depend on your weapon or shield to use any other item on your body, you run the risk of popping. Simply remove your weapon and shield and see that you can equip your gear.

In this section, I will tell you which skills I believe you should use and why. I will give you a few opinions which I have picked up from other players and give them to you. If I give out your advice and do not credit it to you, please contact me and I will correct it immediately. I am going to assume that you know to put 1 point into prerequisites.

Lightning Fury – 20 for PvM, 1 for PvP

Now for the thing which separates the new player from the veteran. This section will cover herding, non-cow PvM, and a tiny bit of PvP.

Begin the game by clearing the blood moor in a full game. When you are able, move on. Keep advancing through act 1 until you hit the black marsh. This is the first area where you will want to stay and level your character. A javazon should be able to handle this area at around level 8 or 9 in a full game. Before then play solo or in smaller games, use whatever weapon you wish, it doesn’t matter at this point.

When you feel ready, move on to nightmare and hell difficulties.

You have an advantage over many builds as a javazon. You have both ranged and melee attacks. Take advantage of this, try to bunch your enemies together, kill them all, and then run in to pick off the stragglers. In the chaos sanctuary, keep your distance and throw a lot of spears, be very careful of iron maiden, and be careful not to get surrounded.

I constantly see javazons throwing LF at every single cow they find. You should only throw LF when you see a cow part of a herd. Otherwise break out your melee skill and lay them out. Let’s get started:

Once you’ve decided how many cows the tricky part is getting the attentions of the cows you want to kill without calling all of the cows in your area. Run in between packs of cows that you wish to herd. They will start walking towards you trying to kill. Run between them as many times as possible to bring them close together. This is where having low evade comes in handy, I weave in between them until a few of them attack me. You should have a good sized pack in a few seconds. Run around the entire herd, stay as close as you can comfortably, to pack them tighter, then run away until you can see only the closest few cows of the pack on screen. Let loose your LF until the pack thins out. Tighten the pack again if there are a lot or else run in and finish them off with melee attacks.

I am no incredible dueler, but I have picked up a few things while playing. I am not going to give you a class by class strategy list, as this is primarily a PvM guide. Here is what I know (no laughing):)