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==MagazonMageazon==

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, but with recent patches this has changed, a fact which can let many aspiring Mageazons breathe a sigh of relief. A Mageazon's two main skills, freezing arrow and immolation arrow, are very mana-intensive, so being able to leech some of that cost back is extremely helpful. There are two primary ways of regaining mana with a Mageazon - through mana leech, perhaps with the help of other skills that do physical damage such as Strafe, or through mana regeneration.

Over the patches people have come Magazons are also often found to see Magazons as amazons that mainly use +skills items to boost the damage of their elemental skills Freezing Arrow and Immolation Arrow. That they needed to kill quicker, but that depends a lot of Energy and mana replenishment gear was not visible by the skills they use. Nowadaysgreat deal on personal preference, manaleech is available for these skills and a second Magazon class has emerged, one in which manaleech is used to replenish manawealth. People still consider these new Magazons (also referred to as Vamps) as true Magazons because they somewhat wrongfully have that idea stuck in their head that:

and they totally forget '''Magazon build A: "the fact that Magazons invest a lot of points in energy and the importance of mana. traditional Mageazon"'''

Magazons are also often found In previous patches, the "traditional" Mageazon would pour a great deal of her stat points into energy, using mana-increasing and mana-regenerating items to keep her blue bulb up. That may still be the case with Diablo 2 Classic, but in the expansion, we have a number of new options open to use +skills us. New items make it much easier to gain large amounts of items, such as Tal Rasha's mask, which gives a large mana boost , and Silkweaves, a pair of boots that increases mana by 10%, as well as gives additional mana for every kill you make. Also, we have access to the damage runeword "Insight", which gives us a constant Meditation aura, increasing our mana regeneration by over 300%! This allows us to forget about mana steal, and instead focus on getting the most out of their elemental our attack skills to kill quicker, but that is personal preference.

I will describe both of the Magazon subclasses.  '''Magazon build A: "the traditional Magazon"''' The Magazon is considered the amazon that spends the main part of her statpoints in energy. Well.. some say all points should go in energy and that strength and dexterity requirements should be made up with items and charms. In this case the Magazon walks around with extremely little life unless it is made up by items or charms giving either vitality or life bonus. The traditional Magazon relies on mana and mana replenishment gear to keep her manapool intact like a sorceress, while she is using the most mana-intensive skills available. Her build is not oriented on doing physical damage nor on leeching and therefore the damage she does is purely elemental which originates mostly from her skills. By choice she is often found to use a weapon that does do high amounts of elemental damage types other than cold or fire. Skills that are predominantly used are Ice Freezing Arrow and Immolation Arrow as her main attacks or Freezing Arrow and Immolation Arrow. She does not use any of the central bowskills because these mainly require Attack Ratingwould detract from the elemental damage she's pouring out. With Also, with low dexterity these amazons don't have high attack rating and hence don't use these skills a lot. Guided arrow sometimes does get used to deliver possible elemental damage that is on the bow to a single stray monster. The reason for the difference in the choice of cold damaging arrows can be related to the fact that both skills do good and similar damage. Ice Arrow does strong damage, though on only 1 (or after pierce a few more) creature(s) whereas Freezing Arrow is a high mana costly area attack. In hardcore Freezing Arrow often cannot be used continuously due to the fact that in hardcore many points are put in vitality and less in energy, so less mana is available.  Why not also Exploding Arrow is chosen nowadays relates to the fact that Immolation Arrow has a timer now and therefore can only be spawned once in a while. This lowers the mana cost over time and in between each Immolation Arrow the Magazon can now change to her cold damaging skill. In the traditional days, Exploding Arrow was a skill open for choicehowever.

| Nightwing's Veil<br /> Harlequin's Crest<br /> Peasant Crown<br /> Victorious Rare/magic Circlet| 96<br /> 50<br /> 20<br /> -

| "Chains of Honor" (Dol Um Ber Ist)<br />Que Hegan's Wisdom<br /> Skin of the Vipermagi<br /> "Stealth " (Tal-Eth)| -<br /> 55<br /> 45<br /> -

| Laying of Hands<br />Frostburn<br /> Magefist| 30<br /> Dragon's Gloves| 60<br /> 45<br /> -

| Gloom's Trap<br /> Razortail<br /> Serpent's BeltCaster belt

| Civerb IconMara's Kaleidoscope<br /> Bahamut AmuletHighlord's Wrath<br /> Amulet of EnlightenmentMagical/rare amazon skill amulet

| Stone of Jordan<br /> Manald HealBul-Kathos'<br /> Bahamut RingManald Heal<br /> Bahamut Ring of Enlightenment

| Kuko Shakaku"Ice"<br /> SkystrikeKuko Shakaku<br /> DoomslingerLycander's Aim<br /> Langer BriserSkystrike<br /> Pus Spitter<br /> Venom (TalBuriza-Dol-Mal)do Kyanon| height="96" | 53bow<br /> 2553<br /> 4073<br /> 5225<br /> 32<br /> Bow110| height="96" | 49bow<br /> 4349<br /> 50110<br /> 61<br /> 2843<br /> Bow80

* Strength: up to 65, or enough for your bow* Dexterity: up to 65, or enough for your bow* Vitality: your preference depending on softcore and hardcore play.As much as possible* Energy: restPreferrably none, though some if you're playing untwinked can't hurt too much

'''Note''': one can only put points in energy Vitality and fix strength, and dexterity and life issues with items and charms.

The tactics are easy enough. Use Immolation Freezing Arrow, provided the monsters are immune and switch to your preferred cold skill unless your foes are immune freeze enemies in place, then drop Immolation arrows to thatlite pyres underneath their feet. Continue using Freezing Arrow pins your foes arrow to the spotkeep them in place until Immolation's timer has run out, on which Immolation Arrow lays down a smoldering wall of fire under their feetthen use Immo again. By using a Decoy and Valkyriecan be used to hold enemies in place, a mercenary and a Decoy as bait you have little problems with can be particularly useful if your foesenemies are cold immune.

The idea is to get a good freezing time by using the cold skills and for that you can add cold damage gear and a few charms to lengthen the freezing time (each charm adds 1 second chill/freeze duration in normal, this is ½ in nightmare and ¼ in hell). This helps greatly for your freeze length, which increases your Immolation Arrow 's fire damageover time.

Add a few lightning damage or poison damage charms for cold+fire immunesmight be a nice backup, or use a fitting bow that does lightning or poison damage. Magical ones can be bought at act vendors, but you can also socket your own. Try to find a 4-, 5- or 6-socketed bow and use either Topazes, Ort runes and jewels to add lightning damage, or use Emeralds and Tal runes to add poison damage.

* Ice Cold Arrow: 0-20* Freezing Arrow: 100-20* Fire arrow: 20

* Guided Arrow: 0-1 just in case you meet stray creatures or cold and fire immune in one.* Critical Strike: 1* Penetrate: 1+ (Extra points to be placed here to flavor)* Peirce: 0-10* Valkyrie: 0-20

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.