4. Items

What Bow to use?

When it comes to Bows, you have multiple choices. i.e. Shadow Bow, Spider Bow, Matri Bow & Blade Bow. Shadow and Spider fire at 8FPA with 105IAS and 125IAS respectively. Matri and Blade fire at 7FPA with 145IAS. You can also use either of the 7FPA bows as 8FPA bows and use funky jewels to get to the 8FPA max damage numbers. I recommend Shadow Bow as it has the highest Max Damage possibility.

What Armor to use?

When it comes to Armors, there are now two choices: (a) Jewelers Dusk Shroud of the Whale (4sox 100life) and (b) Hustle(65frw, 40ias, 10all res, 20FHR, +6 Evade, 50% slower stamina drain and 10 Dexterity). We use Dusk/Mage plate because they dont have a FRW penalty (most other have a FRW penalty). In order to use Hustle you need to somehow make up for the lost IAS. The best way to do that would be to find a Shadow Bow with 20IAS base. So something like 400ed 2sox 20ias would work. A brief comment on Hustle - With Hustle you do not need any FRW small charms, so you are getting a life boost at the expensive of damage. Hustle is pretty amazing all round.

Helmet

1. Rare 2PSM 30frw 2sox Circlet (x2 15ias/30ed Jewels)
2. Magic 3PSM 30FRW 2sox Circlet (x2 15ias/30ed Jewels)
If you have IAS on your shadow bow you can ditch one of the IAS jewels for a 30ed 18max 9dex jewel. or even a 30ed 9str 9dex 9max jewel.

Armor

1. 4Soc Dusk of the Whale 100 life
2. Hustle (in Dusk or Mage Plate)

Weapon

1. Shadow Bow 400% Enhanced Damage with 2 open soc
2. Matri Bow 400% Enhanced Damage with 20ias and 2 open soc
3. Spider Bow 400% Enhanced Damage with 20ias and 2 open soc
4. Blade Bow 400% Enhanced Damage with 20ias and 2 open soc

Shield

1. Artisans Dragon Shield of Deflecting
2. Artisans Kite Shield of Deflecting
On a Dex build the shield type (Kite/Dragon) does not matter, but for a Vita Build you want a Dragon Shield for the higher Block Chance. x3 30ed 9str 9dex jewels in it. You will need a -req jewel to wear the Dragon shield as it has a higher Str Req.

Javs

1. Erep 30ias 400%ed+ Stygian Pilums
2. Erep 400%ed+ Matri Javs
3. Eth Titans

I do not recommend Hyperion's. If you have amazing Hyperion's, build a barb.

Amulet

1. Rare 2PSM 50-60life, 80-90mana + adds (Str/Dex/Res/Repl)
2. 3psm/100 Life Amulet

Gloves

1. 2PSM/20ias/9Str/15Dex Gloves + adds (Resistances)
2. 3PSM/20ias

Ring 1

Raven 20 Dex, any AR (We dont use Jab or Multi or AR for anything)

Ring 2

Rare dual stat 15str/15dex/90 mana ring + adds (Repl Life, Resistances)

Belt

1. String 15/15
2. Mavina Set Belt (20FRW)
3. Crafted 24fhr 70-80life +OW
4. Rare 24fhr 60 life 15str + Resistances

Boots

1. Sanders Boots - In D2LOD you wanted to Str-Bug your boots. As thats no longer a thing, Sanders are now the Best Boots to wear.
2. WaterWalks - In certain matchups you will not need as much FRW and can consider using Waterwalks (Vs Light Sorc / Pala).

Resistance Gear

Any lack of Resistances should be made up via charms until you have gear that gives you 75 all res. 3frw/11single res and 20life 11single res are worth using over having sub optimal resistance gear.[/QUOTE]

Can you explain the discrepancy here?

In section 8:

As Bowa's are so strong, we allow only Max 1 Point Multi Shot and Max 1 Point Guided Arrow.

In section 9:

2. GM MLD Duels - 1 Point Multi, 15 Points Guided, 1 Point Fury, 65% Crit, rest in Dodge/Avoid & Evade

We allowed 1 point or 15?

thanks for spotting, its max 15 points guided, not 1 point. max 1 point multi, ill fix that later, thx again