~ Welcome to the "Tankzon" guide 1.13 (inspired by US zons) ~
The tanking bow amazon (tankzon) is a very effective pvp build that focuses on tanking your enemy and shoot up his ass while he desperately tries to kill you.
In comparison to regular europe bowazons who aim for the best dmg output with their GMB bows and use their playing skills to avoid their enemies attacks, you are not
going to run away but rather face your enemies with your high life, res and DR amount in a last man (or in this case - last man/woman) standing match where YOU will
keep the upper hand due to the tanking/dmg dealing balance.
~ Gear ~Helmet: Gaze 08 "Ber"
Weapon: Faith diamond (perfect dmg/speed balance for our build)
Weapon switch: Eth upped Titans or some nice rare javs
Armor: 160ed 60 ias 100 life armor (perfect dmg/ias/life balance)
Shield switch: Phoenix for gozu dmg (we don't need max block since your high life and DR amount will keep us alive)
Gloves: 20 ias 10%CB 20 life crafted gloves (preferable with stats/res) - knockback ain't needed since we don't want to push our enemy away
Boots: Waterwalks (65 life
)
Belt: Dungo (40 vita and 15% DR
)
Amulet: 2 zon str dex life res
Ring 1: Raven
Ring 2: Str dex life res ring
InventoryAnni
Torch
Cube (with CTA)
33x 20 life 5@ scs
~ Stats ~Str: Enough for gear
Dex: Enough for gear
Vita: Rest
Energy: LOL
~ Skills ~+1 multishot (nn more than this)
+1 strafe (very gozu skill, must have this)
+20 guided arrows
+20 critical strike
+1 jab
+1 lightning fury
+1 lightning bolt
+1 plague javelin
+1 poison javelin
+1 penetrate
+1 pierce
+1 inner sight
+1 slow missiles
+1 decoy
+1 valkyrie
+1 magic arrows
+1 cold arrows
Rest into whatever you like. You CAN put them into dodging skills but that would be a waste since we are a tankzon and WANT the enemy to hit us. I'd rather go for the psn dmg - very nice to see the life of your enemy going down and see him go aggro against you - ezpk for our tankzon then.
~ Dueling strategies ~Amazon Javazon
Replace raven with wisp 20, dungos with TG (since DR is abviously useless) and gaze 08 with szacko for more life and see the javazon rage quit due to lack of dmg
Bowazon
If it's another tankzon it's going to be an exciting last woman standing match just as exciting as ZvZ or BvB. If it's one of those europe build fags just laugh at him when he dies - they're no challenge at all.
Assassin Trapper
Just stand still 80% the time and hold down GA lock, very ezpk. The other 20% of time you just need to change spot with WSG. Your high life amount and DR against mb will keep you from dying anyway.
Ghost and hybrid
They want to whirl you with their shitty ww dmg ? LOL gl against your 48% DR
Lower trap dmg and useless ww, even more ez than trappers.
Necromancer Bone
Just spam GA and tank those few spirits/spears they might be able to fire.
Poison nova
Same as bone nec, high life amount will let you stand longer than him
Barbarian BvC
One of the easiest matchups. Shoot GAs till they are close to you and start whirling. Then switch to javs/phoenix and throw them down. Yep that's all, very easy.
Sorceress All Sorceresses
You can get some OW with swordsback hold shield but not really neccessary. Just hold your GA lock and they'll lose.
Druid Ele druid
Same as BvC.
Ele DuDu
Only matchup you can't win. I'd alt + f4 instantly.
Fury
Same as BvC.
Paladin Smiter and charger
Same as BvC but you cannot stand still here. You have to
walk (for block chance) away from them.
Hammer
GA, sidestep, GA, sidestep, GA, sidestep, GA, sidestep, GA, etc. (you can also change your armor to eni and make a quick blindspot jab from time to tim) - ezpk at it's finest
Foher
Res = foh down, simple as that.