2024 UPDATED VERSION: CeeJay's PVP TeleBowa Zon Guide

09/07/2024 - We got stickied guys! Let’s goooo! To celebrate, I’ve given this guide an update accounting for the new patch and updates to the game.

Before we start, special shoutout to 2 of my good friends who are also top duelers in the game for giving me tons of zon knowledge to help with the build .

This guide has been highly requested from people in game and from my Twitch stream, and she's loads of fun. Presenting, my Telezon!



Table Of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Items
3.Charms
4. Stats
5. Skills
6. Strategy



Index

FRW - Faster Run / Walk
AR - Attack Rating
DMG - Damage
Switch - 2nd Weapon
KB - Knockback
FCR - Faster Cast Rate
IAS - Increased Attack Speed
ED - Enhanced Damage


1. Introduction

Hey what's up! I'm CeeJay and this is my Telezon Guide. I play this build a lot on my twitch stream,
and also made a YouTube video with a guide and gameplay, as well as a Maxroll-D2 Planner for this build; all links below:

My Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/ceejaycarter
Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/ULHA4f8bdAI
Maxroll-D2 Planner: https://d2.maxroll.gg/d2planner/g60106jo


Now Let's Get into it!

Breakpoint Goals:
Let’s start with the bow choice to center your build around
45 IAS - Gear Optionality, less damage (Matriarchal or Great Bow) - 65 IAS more damage, leas options for gear (Shadow Bow *I do not use Diamond Bow, but that’s your choice*)

Depending on which Faith/Helm you go with, your main goals at all times are to maintain 68% Faster Cast Rate (FCR), 45-65 Increased Attack Speed (IAS), 20-32 Faster Hit Recovery (FHR), and Knockback (KB).

2. Items

Helm
There's basically 2 Options;
1. Jewelers Tiara/Diadem etc of the Magus (3os, 20 fcr) with 3x 15 ias / 40 ed jewels (for use with the Shadow Bow / 65 FCR setup
2. Rare Circlet: 2 Amazon Skills 20 FCR 2 Sockets (Preferably with 30 FRW) with 2x 15 ias / 40 ed jewels (for use with the Matriarchal or Great Bow / 45 IAS setup) good adds are things like Life, Rep Life, Resists, Mana, etc
Armor
Enigma in a light, low strength required base, such as a Breast Plate, or Mage Plate (teleport duh lol)
Gloves
Crafted 2 Passive & Magic 20 IAS Knockback - Look for Resists, Replenish Life, or Mana on these. I used to go for Strength or Dexterity but now I prefer to be able to swap my gloves depending on situation/matchups
Weapon
Bow Side:
Shadow Bow Faith (with helm 1)
Matriarchal or Great Bow Faith (with helm 2) *Great Bow is a slept on option as it provides higher top end damage for bigger crit’s at a lower dexterity requirement.
Javelin Side:
Ethereal Upgraded Titans
Ethereal Replenish Quantity Rare Javelins with big ED and preferably 40 IAS.
Shields
Stormshield (socket with ED / - Requirements Jewel)
Swordback Hold - Double Upgraded for block%, socketed with some kind of ED%/Dex/Rep Life/Resist All or Resist cold jewel (I also have one with a 15 ias / 40 ed jewel)
Amulet
Crafted Amulet 2 Amazon Skills, atleast 18+ FCR / good adds are Life, Mana, Rep Life, Resists
Belt
Arachnid's, I also keep Dungo's, String of Ears, Tgod's, and a Crafted Open wounds belt with resists in stash
Boots
War Travelers for the DMG boost, I keep Gore Riders, Infernostrides, and Tri Res Replenish life boots or crafted rep life boots stashed
Rings
Ring 1. Ravenfrost - You will wear this 24/7 unless vs necro (Nature’s Peace)
Ring 2. FCR Ring - Ideal Stats: 10 FCR / 120 AR / 40 Life / +9 Replenish Life / 90 Mana / 11 All Resists (try to get 4-5 of these mods)



3. Inventory

Horadric Cube - You will store your CTA, 2 Soj/BK rings, Maras or Seraphs and Demon Limb in here to buff before each duel.
Grand Charms - 7-8x 10 Max / 76 AR / 45 Life GC's (Just aim for 10/70+/35+) - I prefer GC's as they give more Damage and Attack Rating. 2 Crucial Aspects to this particular build. You are fine with 3/20/20 small charms too.
1x Psn SC, 451 PSN is best but pricey, I did fine with a 313. It's just to negate the opponent's Replenish Life or eat through Sorceress Energy Shield.
Remaining Small Charm slots: Fill as you see fit with Resist or Damage charms depending on your needs for each matchup. I have swaps in my stash. You can save some FG by getting 3 FRW ones instead of 20 Lifers. Just because you tele, doesn't mean FRW isnt important! For FHR, I run the 32 FHR BP, with 4x 5fhr small charms (resists or max damage depending on needs), and a 12 FHR / 10 Max / 76 Attack Rating Grand Charm
Torch
Anni

4. Stats

Strength - Base
Dexterity - Enough to wear your bow without Ravenfrost on (remember Nature’s Peace), and Max Block with Stormshield on
Vitality - Rest here
Energy - None


5. Skills (UPDATED)

The skill allocation is all preference, but I'll tell you what I use:

Bow Tree
1 pt Strafe (I personally don’t use it that much anymore but it’s strong, but has its flaws)
Max Guided Arrow
Max Multishot

Java Tree
1 Jab
1 Impale (Impale always hits, can’t be blocked, dodged, or claw blocked)
1 into Lightning Fury

Passive Tree
1 in all Passives
58% Dodge on Bow side (some people prefer only 1 pt here)
70% Avoid on Bow side
58% Evade on Bow side
Atleast 70% Critical Strike
Anything else, put into Critical Strike

6. Overall Strategy

The strategy is pretty straightforward. You trade Damage from Fortitude, for Mobility! A great way to leverage this is to Spam Multi-shot , tele to a diff spot, Spam more, to cover tons of ground. I love to chase people and get Right-Click namelocks with Guided arrow, into a Telestomp into Strafe, or swap while holding namelock then telestomp into Lightning Fury. This combo absolutely melts Casters. But I love to play anggressive annd I don’t only use my bow. And just because you’re a telezon, doesn’t mean you need to teleport all the time. Also, Sometimes if pays off to play like an walkzon. Against barbarians, I namelock guided but I don't telestomp, and if they're on me I swap to Javaside and Lightning Fury them. I also use walk only vs Barbs.

Detailed Strategies:

Vs Druids: Wear String of Ears (15% Damage reduced, 8% Life stolen per hit) this belt not only makes you tankier, but also helps you heal off of the druids pets! I throw Lightning Fury and that extra 9% Life leech on Titan’s gets me back to full life with the quickness!
Simple: Spam multi on approach to kill oak/summons, as he gets to your screen, swap to javelin and prepare to throw Lightning Fury. I typically step down then throw up to avoid eating a Tornado. If he runs to recast, chase him with Javelin side throwing Fury’s. If he is too far, go back to Multi on bow side rinse repeat. Yes you lose FCR taking off Arach, but you don’t need to Teleport much in this fight anyways.

Vs All other casters: Swap Stormshield for Swordback Hold. The open wounds is your best friend. You can proc its open wounds by either firing arrows and swapping to your Shield side before the arrows hit, OR (my preferred way) throwing Lightning Bolt at them. It always hits, so the chances of the Open wounds is way higher. This is especially needed vs Energy Shield Sorceresses, or any character using Max block. I like to draw them in by shooting multi, then I swap to Javelin side as they approach and aggressively go for namelock Lightning Bolts, then I hold name lock into Fury if they stick around, but if they teleport away, i hold the name lock and swap to bow side and hold guided arrow. I also try to have Replenish life in this setup.

Vs Smiters: If they’re any good, you’re toast. This is not a matchup you can win vs an actual good smiter. This is your only true unbeatable matchup… any Pally who is skilled at Tele-Smite. If you get caught, you’re dead. But I’ve beaten even some good ones with really high FRW and playing mostly Java side, but I switch to bow side here and there to get arrows in. But nothing you can do vs an actual good smiter. Luckily, there’s not many GOOD smiters


Follow my twitch for the best representation on how to properly play this build. Any feedback/questions are encouraged! I've had many requests for this guide to be made, and a lot of people are making this type of zon because after seeing mine! Thanks for giving this a read, and I hope to see you in the Moor!

This post was edited by ceejay3 on Sep 9 2024 06:56am

PVM or PVP? 2.3 or 2.4?

good questions! This is a PVP build, it does great in Pvm though, with minor adjustments. This is a 2.3 Guide, that will only get stronger in 2.4 with the Strafe / Guided Arrow buffs.

If 1+ point into strafe was allowed in your league how many points would you allocate to it?

id max it, strafe to the face rips, thats why its restricted

Probably even worse than that hilarious ” Hakkabibu’s” or what ever Bowazon guide for PvP.

e: Stopped read after titles ” PvP TeleBowa ” part.

This post was edited by Soppamies on Feb 16 2022 12:33am

Check out the video I linked. It’s an actual viable build and I destroy with it daily on stream lol

It’s alright, however with this much skills from enigma diadem and amulet you might aswell go for a hybrid version

Especially with 2.4 coming and multihybrid gonna be absolutely bonkers

You’ll have plenty of dodge skills from circ torch anni bc eni amu tbh, there’s not much point in taking that over a strong java swap with 35k+ plague and a 7k cs dmg while maintaining nearly the same bow dmg

I actually usually play that exact build and some of my viewers remember that, but the tournament rules I play in doesn’t allow any plague I am currently leveling another zon so I can play that version without excessive tokening hehe

But I’ll be sure to drop a guide on that version of this build too

This post was edited by ceejay3 on Feb 16 2022 06:34am

Somehow i can’t belive there is anything serious going or worth to watching. But GL& HF.