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Jul 4 2026 08:02am
Hellrack is interesting in your situation. No pierce on it, but respectable physical damage and nice elemental damage to help clean up mobs, but still I'd say buriza is better(and I don't like buriza).
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Jul 4 2026 08:18am
Also, for HC self found, consider a harmony demon crossbow. The elemental damage helps, vigor speaks for itself, and you only need hellwarden's ias to get to where you need to go.

That opens up items like your chest piece (skin of the flayed one? Authority?) and necklace. The mana regen/maek combined with hellwarden's means you can ditch an insight, and focus on an a2/a5 merc that slaps hard. I'd get a demon to give conc and cursed in this case, and you're styling.
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Jul 4 2026 09:15am
Wow is there sb who has read all that?
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Jul 4 2026 10:28am
Good man.

I think maxroll actually works, it just doesn't add the IAS from mirrored blades (or cleave for that matter) into the calc. But if you need 94 IAS, and you get to 67% on the calc, my limited testing leads me to believe it gets to 94.

Wind force is just so much ias needed for not a lot of benefit. A nef buriza is more damage, 100% pierce, and opens all your gear up.


I don't think Maxroll's Attack Speed is correct, as it doesn't show break points for it, while it displays break points for FBR, FHR or FCR.

And https://warren1001.github.io/IAS_Calculator/:
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Warlock has the exact same breakpoints as Necromancer for casting, hit recovery, blocking, kicking barrels, and throwing weapons. Cleave and Mirrored Blades use hardcoded sequence skills, so until someone datamines this out of the code or bruteforces every single EIAS breakpoint, those skills won't be included.

Therefore I believe Mirrored Blades is similar to, say, Dragon Talon or Fury:

An example of Dragon Talon is (3)+9, which means the first attack is 3FPA and the consecutive attack is 9FPA.
An example of Fury is 9+(6)+13, which means the first attack is 9FPA then followed by 6FPA and the last attack is 13FPA.

Mirrored Blades has similar manner.

And Maxroll shows Dragon Talon's attack speed as:
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Attack Rate: 10 frames per 2 hits (5 hits per second)

This is totally off.

And Hydra Bow(Windforce)'s max (normal) attack speed on Nec is 10FPA, while Ballista(Buriza-do) or Chu-Ko-Nu(Demon Machine) is 11FPA. So Windforce may provide faster attack speed than crossbows if you get enough IAS.

Buriza-do: dmg (82-99)-(139-412), avg dmg 110.5-255.5

Windforce: dmg - 35-(241-547), avg dmg 138-291. So physical dmg is much higher than Buriza-do, but req str/dex = 134/167. So life will be way too low :cry:

I'll use Demon Machine(non-upgd) :banana:
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Jul 4 2026 10:36am
Hellrack is interesting in your situation. No pierce on it, but respectable physical damage and nice elemental damage to help clean up mobs, but still I'd say buriza is better(and I don't like buriza).

The reason that I stick with Demon Machine is explosive arrows. It provides "Light Radius" in front of me. This is very important on HC ;)

Also, for HC self found, consider a harmony demon crossbow. The elemental damage helps, vigor speaks for itself, and you only need hellwarden's ias to get to where you need to go.

That opens up items like your chest piece (skin of the flayed one? Authority?) and necklace. The mana regen/maek combined with hellwarden's means you can ditch an insight, and focus on an a2/a5 merc that slaps hard. I'd get a demon to give conc and cursed in this case, and you're styling.

I have tried Harmony on Pally b4. Even with maxed convic, it didn't provide good dmg :lol:

Insight should be better than Harmony.
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Jul 4 2026 10:41am
The reason that I stick with Demon Machine is explosive arrows. It provides "Light Radius" in front of me. This is very important on HC ;)


I have tried Harmony on Pally b4. Even with maxed convic, it didn't provide good dmg :lol:

Insight should be better than Harmony.


Oh for sure. I'm 1000% brand/demon machine, and I'm sure I'd get tired of the drawbacks of literally every other bow choice
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Jul 4 2026 01:38pm
Kind of understating the laziness here, the whole reason the warlock levitates his weapon is so they didn't have to render the attack animations in 3d, and they didn't render sprites at all
And they recycled the goatmen/tainted/defiler models for minions, and the missiles for fire patches on flame wave / apocalypse, tainted fireballs and ring of fire. The eldritch attack skill missiles are literally just your weapon models, a bunch of skills are passive
They made very few skill animations, stuff like abyss, miasma chain, eldritch blast, sigils, apocalypse pentagram. Wew


Costs less money to hire less artists, I wouldn't be surprised if they used AI to help create the DLC

Is there a budget version ? Something without enigma at the start of ladder?


Buriza (or Demon Machine) and Hysteria and Teleport Staff on Swap

Enigma is a priority for sure, but you can also get the following items which you won't replace
Horazon Boots
Hellwarden's with Uber Magic Jewel
Sling Ring
Magic Dmg Opal
Arachs or 15 FCR Gheeds (ideally Gheeds)
Maras

Prayer Merc with Insight/Cure/Skin of the Flayed one (Um rune or Ort Rune)

But Buriza (demon machine), hysteria, tele staff and a cure insight prayer merc with as much + skills you can find is prio.

Once you get enigma that changes to trying to get fcr to reach 75 fcr bp

This post was edited by ahyp on Jul 4 2026 01:46pm
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