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1) i find that decoy is useless, and valk is to slow, as a bowzon you run alot and it just cant keep up with you, maybe if you were a tele zon it would be useful.
2) COA does in fact have a extremely high str requirement. The points you loose into strength could obviously be used in vitality. However, less life is compensated by the fact that you have 15% DR and 30% res, this means you will take less damage PER hit, but have less over all life. If u look earlier in his thread i explain why you get better results with the DR and res than just having a life bonus. Plus having to switch to your ss anytime something gets near you is annoying, and the ss doest give you the fhr or the res bonus that coa give you ALL the time, not just when switched.
3) the rare boots/treks are used not primarily because of the res but because of the fhr! This is why i do not recommend war travs.
4) First off, FHR in no way effects the zon passive tree (dodge, avoid, evade). It only effects the rate at which you recover from a hit. And when you build a vitality amazon with massive life, lots of dr and maxed res, you are expecting to be able to take a lot of hits/damage. It is important to be able to recover quickly from a hit and continue to fight. You can have 20k life but if you have a terrible fhr rate it will all be pointless because they will just get you locked in FHR animations and will never be able to fight or run. FHR has always been considered useless on amazons only because they typically have had 1k life or less with no dr, and no resistance. Meaning they would die in one hit and if you die in one hit what the point of having something thanks makes you recover from a hit more quickly....you're dead anyways.
5) i could use jav and ss and a cta in stash but thats just a straight up pain in the ass. If you have the patients to constantly switch back and forth go for it. However, high life is key to this build and my zon doent go anywhere with out cta and sprit/ss
6) Just like you said, this IS a ZvA build, which for some reason so many people fail to realize when they begin yo analyze the build. This type of zon is many times moire effective in public duels. She can fight almost every character imaginable and does a much better job vs her common weakness such as the charge/smiter that so many peopel complain about.
1) Decoy and valk are not entirely useless. They can be used to tank projectiles and can avert FoH. IMO that's more valuable than having maybe another 1% in dodge/evade/avoid (probably not even).
2) You're forgetting the statistics here. Using CoA will give you LESS damage/dr/life/fhr than if you substituted the appropriate charms and a 40/15 ber ber 30 frw circlet.
3) Even with the absolute perfect prepatch rare boots, the tradeoff is about 50 life for +15 minimum damage whilst maintaining the same FHR and resists. + Minimum damage is extremely vital to a bowazon because they tend to have rather pathetic min. damage overall and nothing else (minus rings) can compensate it.
4) The fact that FHR doesn't affect the passive tree was exactly my point. This makes getting in stunlock rather hard, and dodgelock will happen anyway.