What I am about to quote / link is old, but I hope it helps broaden you thinking... I am only a LoD player and bowazon is one of the easiest characters to play hardcore and complete Hell difficulty even with gear that is totally crap compared to what you are using:

#1 This is a quote from my WT: https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=68926021&f=161



This is my gear in Hell difficulty posted in the 4th page... all images do now not exist now.

#2 This is an old guide of mine... Iron Frostmaiden, you may find it funny... I still think it works.

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

#3 And of course the classic M'Avinas Frostmaiden build:

https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=26320203&f=87

Hope you get some inspiration out of something old that MAY be helpful.

This post was edited by izParagonzi on Jul 24 2024 07:01am

this seems cute... but not sure if it would be even close to a 08 wf?



the other gear seem more like useful items but not end game gear slot choices?

That setup was my Walkthrough gear that I had on hand, if I had a WF, I would have used it, if I had Faith I would have used that, however, I made it through Hell Difficulty with just that gear and even killed DClone ... there was no way I could do Ubers with that crap gear either.

Witchwild is very handy for res, and 2 sockets... I chose Shael for the IAS, I could have used Nef for KB and Shael and switched out Cleglaws, there are other items to put in it of course, and it can be upped to increase damage.

Your setup is using very specific Rares / Crafts that are hard to find/create. Damn, even an 08WF, never ever came across one of those, only a colleague online had those for trading with his hex charms and other gear.

saying you had infinite funds or the ability to summon any gear you would want...

how would you decide to make a top of the top strafe zon?

That defeats the purpose doesn't it? No point playing you would kill everything with no reward, not even drops, so you wouldn't need a cube in your inventory at all, you can just put 4 TP scrolls in your Belt, like the 4th column, which is something I guess you are doing with your setup.

Andys 15 ias / 30 fire res (think there is a jewel like that. (35 ias)
WF 40/15 (35 ias)
Laying of Hands simple IAS, fire res and the 350% dmg to demons
Fortitude
Amulet +2 zon / all res / teleport charges / dex / str
Ravenfrost perfect
Rare/Craft ring 5% AR / Str / Dex all res (since it has 5% AR, that means it also gets +5 Light Raduis)
War Travs, just for the added damage, or Aldurs boots fire res and frw, could use a number of boots, like Marrowwalk for life tap, charges .... doesn't really matter
Belt... simple razortail because of the Pierce and other mods.

Since we are talking about Strafe and the 89% IAS breakpoint is perfect (don't need more using strafe, only other bow skills)

Skills is based around Strafe initially, so in my inventory I would just use Hex charms, don't need Torch or anni, those are obsolete. 40x +7 all skills, res etc (can not remember the rest of the mods)

It is overkill... shit you can add 1 point into every damn skill and be maxed out in all of them, put Titans and SS or spirit on switch.

CIAO everything... oh as for your merc, anything you want, damn, you could have a Dream shield on switch and use an act 3 lite mage and do the Aurabug with him... he has 2x dreams and CoH and Call to arms? do the aura bug with him, then your set to go.



I see: 3 user(s) are reading this topic: izParagonzi, ekoe, adingee here, good pointers from this person also. howdy.

EDIT: forgot, max strafe (hard points only needed), Valk (don't really need but nice to spawn to lure monsters like decoy) maxed. Of course on switch you are using LC etc as a javazon, so you can max out the synergies to pump up the volume, up to you... your dodge, evade pierce and everything is OP ... simple... pure dex build, I believe the Hex charms gives +All stats, so your life is going to be way better as well.

This post was edited by izParagonzi on Jul 24 2024 06:46pm

Many years of playing diablo and ive never seen a 14/76
What a game.

ta-dahh...

Hax!
Its beautiful

I had some time to run the calculations (using a Regular Windforce bow*)... the math was surprising to me close to me... Seems as i level and add more dexterity the dexterity from charms start not to help as much as just RAW dmg (especially with mini dmg being so low)

Here is the Math... using max/ar/dex LCs & SC

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Swapping to using 14 Max GCs and 4 Max SCs

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