I took max avoid for survival, since my resistances are not closing, what do you recommend?
Pierce 1 I get +33% from the belt. This should be enough, or not?

This post was edited by Dimicandum on Dec 10 2025 05:42am

Well, since I only played D2LoD ... D2r still has the same mechanics VS resistances. Lightning & Fire, you can see it when you do all the Acts... there are more Fire & Light resistance monsters as well as DAMAGE.

Anyway, your build is PHYSICAL ... my build is not, personally, you wasted points on;
Critical Strike
Penetrate
Avoid (you could get locked animation, well something to that effect)
... saving you like 57 skill points.

As for the 20 GA (your personal choice)
As for Strafe... wrong choice for your build, that is because you need to "Draw in the monsters into a Pack" where Strafe & Pierce becomes 5 to 10x (+) more effective, also in Corridors like Caves and Pits etc.

Your Resistance issues are based about gear also... Hey, this is my D2LoD SP / P8 Hell Chaos run using the following CRAP GEAR and skill setup:





EDIT: if you notice... I am not wearing a Torch OR Anni. Oh this is HARDCORE... btw, I did complete Hell, and also got myself an Anni from Uber Diablo.

This post was edited by izParagonzi on Dec 10 2025 06:00am

This is a sketch for my next season, I plan to make such an amazon
I want to figure out the talents. What's wrong with them? The gear I wrote gives me +10 additional skills. The calculator shows 10lvl Pierce = +71%, +33% games with Razor. Total: 104%.
Why 20Guided Arrow and 20 Strafe? There's nowhere else to put skill points, Multiple Shot I will be around lvl 12-13 with skill bonuses. Whether there are 33 arrows on the screen or 13, the damage will not increase, but it will use much more mana. I'll repeat 20 Aviod just because I don't have resists, but I don't see where else they could be usefully used. Maybe I'm wrong? Again, I haven't played this character before, and I'd like to hear advice from more experienced players.

Okay... great points since you have not played a Bowazon and have doubts. I have been there, and I have played different versions with different gear and skills setups and also playing the game from level one(1) to clearing Hell Difficulty with mostly what I have found.

The only things I can say for you to look at are based on your Skill tabs (also looking up those skills on Arreat Summit first). You will see diminishing returns, you can reach % (percentages) based on wearing +X Skill items, administer appropriate stat points to wear gear and don't fall off.

So let me start off with Pierce & 100% wearing Razor Tail belt:
+33 Wearing Razortal (33%)
+09 Skill Pierce - 69%
... Total 102% = 100% (unless it changed for D2r)
NOTE: Items being worn with +X Skills (Like Andarials Visage or +2) will add to the 1 base point you add to all skills = +3 to Pierce (+X%)

+All Skills means addition to your Avoid, so why waste 20 points when you can reach it with one(1) item worn saving 2 skill points?

Are you seeing where this is going? it is not just Dodge or Avoid, but if you added 1 base point into those skills including Evade, Andarials Visage adds +2 and your % defense increases.

Anway, there is a caps on D/A/E for % before Diminishing Returns... google search it, also you may find out about how you get locked into "Animation" sequence. Thus you only need to reach a certain %... hence 20 hard points is over reaching... don't worry, I wanted it also... OH, ON ANOTHER NOTE... if you had a Valk, it would benefit from Avoid... even though that would be pointless.

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This is a link to my OLD ass guide (not a rule of thumb) for LoD when Iron Maiden existed.

Just check out the info, come up with your own conclusions and research what you may not understand. There is a ton of chatter I think.

https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=29553416&f=87