hey i REALLY REALLY LOVED this topic. It mustve took u a lot of time to make this guide and i appreciate it, problem is, i alraedy made a bowazon, and i might have messed up the points a little bit. If u go on USEast you can probalby help me, im a bit poor right now. Can you probably PM me with a really indepth guide of what i should put my stat pts into and skil pts into every level? thanks.

right now im waering faith, ap fort, tal rasha mask, gorefoot, blue plated belt of remedy <--nub item (O.o), and bowyers gloves (+2 CnB, 3pct life leech).
base points:
100 str
150vit
dunno atm, i put dex everytime to it everytime i lvl up.
15 ene

lvl 71 Amazon - xBoWaZonzx
16 crit strike
10 multi shot
maxed strafe
maxed guided
1 to magic arrow with a couple boosts from items.
1 to dodge, avoid, evade
1 to the cold arrow or something i put by accident

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This post was edited by louisxsioul on May 29 2007 08:39pm

If you have a few pgems, you should be able to get razortail unique belt. This will help tremendously. The next thing you need to do is change out your Hat. Depending on what you have available to you, you can go with the delirium as suggested here, or you can keep tals mask and get an ATMA's ammy. Either way, you need to change out something to get better killing speed or safety. Delirium for safety, ATMA's ammy for killing speed.

I personally feel the 10 in multi shot are wasted as you need points into Valk. I mean if you spent 1 on each of the D/A/E then why not Valk? A maxed guided arrow sounds like this is more for PVP and not PVM as guided is overkill for monsters. Usually for PVM, magic arrow is a secondary skill as there is not a single monster who is PI/MI. Even if there was such a critter, you could slap on the ATMA's ammy and eventually Amp damage would kick in and the PI part would go away.

Get a decent ravenfrost ring for one finger and a dual leach for the other finger this way the ammy spot is free for whatever and then the hat can be interchanged as well. With a valk, merc, and decoy to tank for you, resists and def will not be a concern.

If the faith is not in a zon specific bow, maybe you could get an act 1 merc and stick it on her and then get a Windforce for yourself. I am not a big fan of Faith as I have done many a calculations and WF is far superior than Faith in every aspect. Most b.netters have CTA and Spirit on switch for most of thier characters and you can use this switch to cast your Valk. Do not waste your time or effort looking for a BOTD bow. This does not even come close to the damage that a WF can do. If you are worried about attack speed, stick a shael in the bow. This with some other IAS gear can garner you some serious speeds.

If your looking for handouts, best I have to offer you is a WWS with 2x shael in it. Its not upped so your faith would be a better choice at this time. I only have the one razortail and I use my Zon to chaos peeps when some one is looking for it for free. GL with your zon and if you decide to remake, be sure to get the following satisfied before you spend any other points nilly willy:

Maxed Strafe
Maxed Valk
enough into pierce so that the final sLvL is 13 so that when you are wearing razortail, your final chance to pierce is 100%
Atleast 5 hard points into Decoy to boost valk. This will double the valk's life and add an additional 10% resist all.
Atleast 1 into the remaining Passives

That ^^ is 57 or so points. The remaining points can go into magic arrow as a backup skill/single monster killer (boss) or you can alternate between magic arrow, critical strike, and penetrate. The only reason to deviate into the javalin skills is if you do not want magic arrow as your backup skill.

Stat points should be obvious, str enough for gear, vit enough for >700 life more if you are picky, rest into dex.

ive decided to rm my character. thanks for the help.

This post was edited by louisxsioul on May 30 2007 05:36pm

also if u have a wws string that is free i probably would need for the duration, its lvl 5 right now. and maybe will be hopefully way higher tomorrow.

LMK when you are around lvl 30 or so. I think that is the lvl req of WWS

whats lmk, and CtC i have no idea. and tyvm.

This post was edited by louisxsioul on May 31 2007 12:41pm

Let Me Know

Chance To Cast

Thank You Very Much

lol thanks. i havent been playing d2, for like 3 years, and im back stafezon doing good, lvl 42. cant wait till she mfs im past lvl 30 now . Also im online right now, but ill brb cuz of stomach ache

This post was edited by louisxsioul on Jun 2 2007 12:47pm

There are dangerous ranged attackers here, there are mages that can take your life down in seconds if you have bad res, so if youre playing hardcore, watch out

got any tips for hardcore players?

and nice guide

edit: although you should add a small summary of skills and best items to wear, hard to find it in all that text

This post was edited by Mischa on Jun 2 2007 06:14pm

Its not hard if you read the entire guide and followup posts. Take the 10 minutes out of your day and read the whole thing. Best advice for hardcore would be to use the delirium hat and decoy. beyond that, you should not need any additional help.