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Amazon skills coverage from D2C. Stats and some functions were changed in v1.09 and later. | |||
= | * See the [[Amazon Skills]] pages for up to date stats. | ||
== Javelin & Spear == | |||
All the skills in this tree work with javelins, either throwing them or using them for melee. When using spears, only the melee skills will work, since spears can not be thrown. All of the elemental type attacks in this tree are lightning or poison, there are no fire or cold attacks in this tree. | All the skills in this tree work with javelins, either throwing them or using them for melee. When using spears, only the melee skills will work, since spears can not be thrown. All of the elemental type attacks in this tree are lightning or poison, there are no fire or cold attacks in this tree. | ||
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This skill is it for a Javazon; most will want to max it out for the fastest killing speed possible. If you are using other skills as well, you might just put 10 or so points into this, which is enough to be quite effective, and will save you points for other skills. | This skill is it for a Javazon; most will want to max it out for the fastest killing speed possible. If you are using other skills as well, you might just put 10 or so points into this, which is enough to be quite effective, and will save you points for other skills. | ||
* [[Javelin and Spear Stats|Javelin & Spear Stats]] | |||
<span id="Passive & Magic"></span> | <span id="Passive & Magic"></span> | ||
== Passive & Magic == | |||
=Passive & Magic= | |||
This tree was originally called 'Healing, Movement and Repair' but as the skills changed, Blizzard changed the name to better reflect the collection of skills and spells in it. | This tree was originally called 'Healing, Movement and Repair' but as the skills changed, Blizzard changed the name to better reflect the collection of skills and spells in it. | ||
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How many points to put into Valk is open to debate. If you are only in Hell games with lots of players, 1 is probably enough. If you are doing solo runs or are in small games and have very low hit points, or lag a lot, or are Hardcore and nervous, you'll want more points in Valk to be safe, and should probably recast her every time she's anywhere near low. Higher level Valks also have a wider pool of potential mods on their random equipment, and can spawn better base gear, but since you don't know what their mods are unless they have something visible graphically, this isn't a real big bonus. The mana cost can get expensive if you keep adding to Valk, so consider your mana pool and how fast you can leech it back if you're getting your Valk up to high levels. | How many points to put into Valk is open to debate. If you are only in Hell games with lots of players, 1 is probably enough. If you are doing solo runs or are in small games and have very low hit points, or lag a lot, or are Hardcore and nervous, you'll want more points in Valk to be safe, and should probably recast her every time she's anywhere near low. Higher level Valks also have a wider pool of potential mods on their random equipment, and can spawn better base gear, but since you don't know what their mods are unless they have something visible graphically, this isn't a real big bonus. The mana cost can get expensive if you keep adding to Valk, so consider your mana pool and how fast you can leech it back if you're getting your Valk up to high levels. | ||
It's also worth noting that higher level valkyries have higher resistances. A valkyrie gains 2% resistance per level, and is synergized by Decoy (in addition to it's help with the valk's life) by increasing it's resistances another 2% per hard point placed into decoy. Each level a valkyrie has also gives it 12 additional dexterity, which increases her defense and attack rating appropriately (though this isn't shown in the skill description. The valkyrie's level also determines which gear she spawns with, as follows : | |||
Level 1 : Rare full plate mail and spear | |||
Level 2 : Add magic heavy gloves | |||
Level 4 : Add magic heavy boots | |||
Level 5 : Add magic heavy belt | |||
Level 7 : Upgrade rare full plate mail to rare chaos armor | |||
Level 8 : Upgrade rare spear to rare lance | |||
Level 10 : Upgrade magic heavy gloves to magic war gauntlets | |||
Level 11 : Upgrade magic heavy boots to magic war boots | |||
Level 12 : Upgrade magic heavy belt to magic war belt | |||
Level 13 : Add magic amulet | |||
Level 14 : Add magic circlet | |||
Level 16 : Replace rare chaos armor with rare sacred armor | |||
Level 17 : Replace rare lance with rare war pike | |||
Level 19 : Upgrade magic war gauntlets to rare crusader gauntlets | |||
Level 21 : Upgrade magic war boots to rare mirrored boots | |||
Level 23 : Upgrade magic war belt to rare colossus girdle | |||
Level 25 : Upgrade magic amulet to rare amulet | |||
Level 27 : Upgrade magic circlet to rare tiara | |||
These changes are, of course, cumulative - most amazons choose one of four options. Use no valkyrie, invest one point in it, get it to level 17 after bonus skills, or max it. Each choice has it's benefits and downfalls; Not getting a valkyrie leaves you with one less meat sheild, while getting one point into it gives you a relatively weak one. Getting your valkyrie up to level 17 provides you with one that is packing potentially awesome armor and weapon, while maxing it ensures she has rare gear in every slot except rings, and lots of hit points. | |||
One last advantage of a valkyrie is that she can become immune to elemental attacks. After adding up her resistance bonuses from valkyrie and decoy, if she spawns gear that gives her resistances, they add to that base. If this total goes above 100% resistance, she will be immune to that element. | |||
==Pierce== | ==Pierce== | ||
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'''Casting Delay:''' | '''Casting Delay:''' | ||
* | * Passive skill | ||
'''Synergy Bonuses:''' | '''Synergy Bonuses:''' | ||
* | * None | ||
'''Description:''' | '''Description:''' | ||
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As you can see your odds for hitting the first target increase a little, but the odds of getting 3 or 4 or 5 hits increase much more with higher levels in Pierce, making them very worth it if you're doing huge mob areas, such as the Secret Cow Level. | As you can see your odds for hitting the first target increase a little, but the odds of getting 3 or 4 or 5 hits increase much more with higher levels in Pierce, making them very worth it if you're doing huge mob areas, such as the Secret Cow Level. | ||
How much Pierce a Bowazon wants varies, depending on her skill choices and weapon. Some bows give | How much Pierce a Bowazon wants varies, depending on her skill choices and weapon. Some bows give a bonus to Piercing, so you need fewer points in the skill. Testing has shown that Piercing doesn't work 100% of the time, regardless of your bow or other bonuses (+piercing is found on some unique items) but is capped somewhere around 95%, but that's not going to effect your play too much. | ||
At least 70% is a good rule of thumb, and if you are counting on Guided for your boss killing, you'll want it higher, probably 80% or more. Pierce helps a lot with Freezing, Immolation, and Strafe as well as Multishot when dealing with huge mobs. For smaller mobs you don't need Pierce with Multishot, since you'll have more arrows than monsters anyway. | At least 70% is a good rule of thumb, and if you are counting on Guided for your boss killing, you'll want it higher, probably 80% or more. Pierce helps a lot with Freezing, Immolation, and Strafe as well as Multishot when dealing with huge mobs. For smaller mobs you don't need Pierce with Multishot, since you'll have more arrows than monsters anyway. | ||
* [[Passive and Magic Stats|Passive & Magic Skill Stats]] | |||
<span id="Bow & Crossbow"></span> | <span id="Bow & Crossbow"></span> | ||
=Bow & Crossbow= | == Bow & Crossbow == | ||
The Bow is the weapon of choice for Rogue players from Diablo I, and there are a lot more options and techniques to using a bow in Diablo II than there were in Diablo. Long gone are the days of shooting nothing but a steady stream of normal arrows, in Diablo II there are ten bow skills to boost your attacks, which are also assisted by several skills from the Passive and Magic skill tree. There are also a number of types of bows and crossbows in Diablo II, all of them with varying damage, firing rates, and strength/dexterity requirements. See the Bows and Crossbows page in our Items Database for full info. | The Bow is the weapon of choice for Rogue players from Diablo I, and there are a lot more options and techniques to using a bow in Diablo II than there were in Diablo. Long gone are the days of shooting nothing but a steady stream of normal arrows, in Diablo II there are ten bow skills to boost your attacks, which are also assisted by several skills from the Passive and Magic skill tree. There are also a number of types of bows and crossbows in Diablo II, all of them with varying damage, firing rates, and strength/dexterity requirements. See the Bows and Crossbows page in our Items Database for full info. | ||
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Socketed bows can be very useful at early levels, especially with sapphires for cold damage and skulls for mana and life steal. They aren't the super low level weapon they were in D2C anymore, since Clvl requirements have been added to gems, but early on you can probably do a lot better with a bow that has 2 or 3 chipped or flawed gems in it than with any other bow you'll find at that point. | Socketed bows can be very useful at early levels, especially with sapphires for cold damage and skulls for mana and life steal. They aren't the super low level weapon they were in D2C anymore, since Clvl requirements have been added to gems, but early on you can probably do a lot better with a bow that has 2 or 3 chipped or flawed gems in it than with any other bow you'll find at that point. | ||
'''Bow Damage''' = [(Bow Damage + ED from bow) +min/max damage from equipment] x (Dex | '''Bow Damage''' = [(Bow Damage + ED from bow) +min/max damage from equipment] x [(Dex + ED from equipment other than bow + ED from skills]/100 + 1) | ||
In simplest terms, your bow + equipment damage is multiplied by your dexterity. If you are doing 50-200 with your bow and other equipment, and you have 200 Dex, you'll deal about triple your bow damage to targets. Critical Strike will then double this total damage, if successful. | In simplest terms, your bow + equipment damage is multiplied by your dexterity. If you are doing 50-200 with your bow and other equipment, and you have 200 Dex, you'll deal about triple your bow damage to targets. Critical Strike will then double this total damage, if successful. | ||
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Every skill in this tree works the same with bow and arrows, or crossbow and bolts. | Every skill in this tree works the same with bow and arrows, or crossbow and bolts. | ||
==Magic== | ==Magic Arrow== | ||
[[Image:magic-arrow-icon.gif]] | [[Image:magic-arrow-icon.gif]] | ||
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"Creates a magical arrow". Icon was previously for a skill called "Safe Shot", way back in the early development days before "friendly fire" was removed from the game. | "Creates a magical arrow". Icon was previously for a skill called "Safe Shot", way back in the early development days before "friendly fire" was removed from the game. | ||
This skill allows the Amazon to fire a bolt or arrow | This skill allows the Amazon to fire a bolt or arrow without using one from her quiver, creating the arrow/bolt from pure magic. More points in this skill lower the mana cost and raise the damage. The damage dealt at base is the same as a normal arrow/bolt from your bow/crossbow, and even at Slvl 1 it should be easy to steal enough mana per shot to keep using this skill indefinitely. | ||
Just one point is recommended in this skill, for emergency use. | Just one point is recommended in this skill, for emergency use. The most frequent use of this skill is to take advantage of the fact that it converts 1% of your physical damage per level into magical damage, bypassing the physical immune problem. | ||
==Fire== | ==Fire Arrow== | ||
[[Image:fire-arrow-icon.gif]] | [[Image:fire-arrow-icon.gif]] | ||
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'''Synergy Bonuses:''' | '''Synergy Bonuses:''' | ||
* | * Exploding Arrow : 12% fire damage per level | ||
'''Description:''' | '''Description:''' | ||
"Enchants arrow with flame". This skill adds a small amount of fire damage to your arrow or bolt attack, and can be helpful as a small light source as well.Until V1.09 this skill was nothing more than a prerequisite for the later fire damage bow skills. This changed greatly in v1.09 though, when a new, undocumented feature was implemented. Now when using Fire Arrow your total physical damage is calculated, and half of that is converted to fire damage, while half still counts as physical (which lets you leech as well). So if you are doing 1000 damage, 500 becomes fire, and 500 stays physical. If you get Critical Strike to work that shot, you'll do 2000 damage, which goes 1000 fire and 1000 physical. | "Enchants arrow with flame". This skill adds a small amount of fire damage to your arrow or bolt attack, and can be helpful as a small light source as well.Until V1.09 this skill was nothing more than a prerequisite for the later fire damage bow skills. This changed greatly in v1.09 though, when a new, undocumented feature was implemented. Now when using Fire Arrow your total physical damage is calculated, and half of that is converted to fire damage, while half still counts as physical (which lets you leech as well). So if you are doing 1000 damage, 500 becomes fire, and 500 stays physical. If you get Critical Strike to work that shot, you'll do 2000 damage, which goes 1000 fire and 1000 physical. Now, in 1.11b, that has changed again - at slvl 1, Fire Arrow converts 3% of your physical damage to fire, with an additional 2% per level beyond that. | ||
The " | The "convert damage to fire" calculation is completed after all other bonus damage, including Critical Strike, and it also includes the +damage to Undead or Demons you find on some items. Try some Laying of Hands set gloves with Fire Arrow on PI demons, and you'll be amazed. | ||
Fire Arrow always hits; there is no AR checked. If you shoot the monster, it will be hit and take damage. You can combine this with guaranteed piercing (such as on a Buriza) and make Fire Arrow a very useful skill. Try it when you have multiple monsters in a straight line, especially if your AR isn't very high; it can be great to kill either type of monster in the Bloody Foothills. | Fire Arrow always hits; there is no AR checked. If you shoot the monster, it will be hit and take damage. You can combine this with guaranteed piercing (such as on a Buriza) and make Fire Arrow a very useful skill. Try it when you have multiple monsters in a straight line, especially if your AR isn't very high; it can be great to kill either type of monster in the Bloody Foothills. | ||
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Keep in mind that monsters may resist or be immune to Fire Damage, and use it wisely. | Keep in mind that monsters may resist or be immune to Fire Damage, and use it wisely. | ||
==Cold Arrow== | |||
==Cold== | |||
[[Image:cold-arrow-icon.gif]] | [[Image:cold-arrow-icon.gif]] | ||
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'''Synergy Bonuses:''' | '''Synergy Bonuses:''' | ||
* | * Ice Arrow : 12% cold damage per level | ||
'''Description:''' | '''Description:''' | ||
"Enchants arrow to slow targets". The weakest of the cold-based arrows, this skill adds cold damage to each arrow, and chills (not freezes) the monster it strikes. While less powerful than Ice or Freezing Arrow, with some skill points the chill can last a very long time, and the mana cost for this skill is quite low. Chilled monsters have a 20% chance of shattering upon death. (Frozen monsters have a 100% chance of shattering.) The arrow hits for physical damage as well as the added cold damage, so you can leech with this skill. | "Enchants arrow to slow targets". The weakest of the cold-based arrows, this skill adds cold damage to each arrow, and chills (not freezes) the monster it strikes. While less powerful than Ice or Freezing Arrow, with some skill points the chill can last a very long time, and the mana cost for this skill is quite low. Chilled monsters have a 20% chance of shattering upon death. (Frozen monsters have a 100% chance of shattering.) The arrow hits for physical damage as well as the added cold damage, so you can leech with this skill. | ||
Right now, in 1.11b, Cold Arrow also has another, added effect - it converts a portion of your physical damage into cold damage. This is 3% at level one, with an additional 2% per level beyond that. The damage calculation is made after all modifiers have been added to your attack, including damage to demons, extra damage on gear, and enhanced damage from dexterity or gear. If you were to get it to 50% conversion, and you fire an arrow that would do 1,000 damage, Cold Arrow would make 500 of that physical, and 500 cold. If you were to land a critical hit with that same arrow, it would be 2,000 damage, of which 1,000 would be physical, and 1,000 would be cold. | |||
==Multi-Shot== | ==Multi-Shot== | ||
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'''Prerequisites:''' | '''Prerequisites:''' | ||
* Magic | * Magic Arrow | ||
'''Casting Delay:''' | '''Casting Delay:''' | ||
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Around 8-10 points in Multi-shot is sufficient for most areas of the game. If you're firing more arrows than you have targets, you are basically wasting shots, after all. However if there are more targets than shots, you're wasting time, so strike a balance. The Cow level is the biggest exception to the normal MS needs, since if you gather up a big herd, you really can't have too many arrows going out. | Around 8-10 points in Multi-shot is sufficient for most areas of the game. If you're firing more arrows than you have targets, you are basically wasting shots, after all. However if there are more targets than shots, you're wasting time, so strike a balance. The Cow level is the biggest exception to the normal MS needs, since if you gather up a big herd, you really can't have too many arrows going out. | ||
==Exploding== | ==Exploding Arrow== | ||
[[Image:exploding-arrow-icon.gif]] | [[Image:exploding-arrow-icon.gif]] | ||
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'''Prerequisites:''' | '''Prerequisites:''' | ||
* Magic | * Magic Arrow | ||
* Fire | * Fire Arrow | ||
* Multi-Shot | * Multi-Shot | ||
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'''Synergy Bonuses:''' | '''Synergy Bonuses:''' | ||
* | * Fire arrow : 12% fire damage per level | ||
'''Description:''' | '''Description:''' | ||
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The actual area of explosive fire doesn't increase with added skill points, but as you can see from the screenshot it's large enough for one shot to cover a reasonably sized group of foes. | The actual area of explosive fire doesn't increase with added skill points, but as you can see from the screenshot it's large enough for one shot to cover a reasonably sized group of foes. | ||
The damage from this skill is fire and physical | The damage from this skill is fire, and physical damage from a single arrow (as if fired using basic attack). Also, any +fire damage you have on your equipment (or charms) is added to the explosion, which helps the damage, but it's still far weaker than Fire or Immolation Arrow. It does have the advantage, however, that it isn't on a timer. | ||
==Ice== | ==Ice Arrow== | ||
[[Image:ice-arrow-icon.gif]] | [[Image:ice-arrow-icon.gif]] | ||
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'''Prerequisites:''' | '''Prerequisites:''' | ||
* Cold | * Cold Arrow | ||
'''Casting Delay:''' | '''Casting Delay:''' | ||
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'''Synergy Bonuses:''' | '''Synergy Bonuses:''' | ||
* | * Cold Arrow : 8% cold damage per level | ||
* Freezing arrow : 5% cold length per level | |||
'''Description:''' | '''Description:''' | ||
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"Enchants arrows to freeze enemies". A more powerful version of Cold Arrow, this skill adds ice damage to your arrow, and will freeze a target solid, rather than just chilling it. The damage isn't much more, and the freeze time is much shorter than the chill time of Cold Arrow, but every monster that dies to an Ice Arrow, or while frozen from it, will shatter. This is most useful with minions, since then their Shamans can't resurrect them. | "Enchants arrows to freeze enemies". A more powerful version of Cold Arrow, this skill adds ice damage to your arrow, and will freeze a target solid, rather than just chilling it. The damage isn't much more, and the freeze time is much shorter than the chill time of Cold Arrow, but every monster that dies to an Ice Arrow, or while frozen from it, will shatter. This is most useful with minions, since then their Shamans can't resurrect them. | ||
The added cold damage isn't very high, and if you want to do cold damage you should be waiting to put points into Freezing Arrow. One way to use this is to map it to your left click, rather than normal attack. | The added cold damage isn't very high, and if you want to do cold damage you should be waiting to put points into Freezing Arrow. One way to use this is to map it to your left click, rather than normal attack. In fact, there is no reason to put more than one point into this skill, since Freezing Arrow does more damage, and while Ice Arrow does give benefits to Freezing Arrow, those benefits are meager at best. | ||
The arrow hits for physical damage as well as the added cold damage, so you can leech with this skill. | The arrow hits for physical damage as well as the added cold damage, so you can leech with this skill. | ||
==Guided== | ==Guided Arrow== | ||
[[Image:guided-arrow-icon.gif]] | [[Image:guided-arrow-icon.gif]] | ||
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'''Prerequisites:''' | '''Prerequisites:''' | ||
* Magic | * Magic Arrow | ||
* Cold | * Cold Arrow | ||
* Multi-Shot | * Multi-Shot | ||
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They are also very good for getting the kill on Shamans, Oblivion Knights, Corpse Spitters, Fetish, or anything else that runs away or dodges, including teleporting boss monsters. Also note that the mana cost decreases every point, so at higher levels you will begin to easily steal enough mana per shot to use the skill indefinitely, even if your bow damage is low. | They are also very good for getting the kill on Shamans, Oblivion Knights, Corpse Spitters, Fetish, or anything else that runs away or dodges, including teleporting boss monsters. Also note that the mana cost decreases every point, so at higher levels you will begin to easily steal enough mana per shot to use the skill indefinitely, even if your bow damage is low. | ||
In v1.09, this skill | In v1.09, this skill had become the most powerful Bow skill due to it working with Peirce. Prior to v1.09 Guided didn't pierce. While it did, it was by far the fastest single-target killing skill, since you get at least two hits with every single Guided, if there's room around the monster for it to pierce and hit again. This was changed in v1.10, and Peirce no longer works with Guided Arrow.. | ||
One oddity is that if you have knock back the monster will always be knocked away from you, even if you shoot the arrow past the monster, and it hits them coming back towards you. | One oddity is that if you have knock back the monster will always be knocked away from you, even if you shoot the arrow past the monster, and it hits them coming back towards you. | ||
==Strafe== | |||
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[[Image:strafing-arrow-icon.gif]] | [[Image:strafing-arrow-icon.gif]] | ||
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'''Prerequisites:''' | '''Prerequisites:''' | ||
* Magic | * Magic Arrow | ||
* Cold | * Cold Arrow | ||
* Multi-Shot | * Multi-Shot | ||
* Guided | * Guided Arrow | ||
'''Casting Delay:''' | '''Casting Delay:''' | ||
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'''Description:''' | '''Description:''' | ||
" | "Fire a volley of arrows to strike multiple enemies". A very powerful Bow skill, Strafe was the skill of choice for most high level Bowazons prior to v1.04 fixing the bow damage bug. Since then Multi-shot has become more popular and generally more effective, but Strafe still can be used to great effect, though it requires proper positioning. Strafe was nerfed in D2X by being capped at 10 arrows, no matter the skill level.Care must be taken when using this skill, since the Amazon is locked into place while firing her arrows, and if there are a lot of targets within range, monsters can close in on her while she's shooting. This isn't much of a danger in D2X, with just 10 shots, unless you're chilled or being effected by Holy Freeze (or both). As with Multi-shot, some form of cold damage to slow the monsters down is very useful with Strafe. | ||
Strafe becomes most | Strafe becomes most effective once you have a Valkyrie to attract the monsters, and a Decoy should be used also, to get the demons clustered in a tight pack. You should use it on stationary monsters, or ones coming right at you; strafing at a target moving to the side will usually miss. The main benefit of Strafe over Multi-shot is the damage bonus, and the possibility of hitting the same monster with more than one arrow. Proper positioning is essential to using this skill well, and the Amazon will often need to move around the pack of demons, while their attention is on her Valkyrie, to get the most shots hitting the demons from the best angle. | ||
Prior to v1.09 and Piercing Guided, Strafe was the Amazon's best way to kill individual monsters. | Prior to v1.09 and Piercing Guided, Strafe was the Amazon's best way to kill individual monsters. Now that we've made it to 1.11b, however, it is once again shining. Some people prefer guided, for it's homing abilities, but strafe is equally popular because it has the potential to do more damage over time than guided can. Strafe is best used now (if it's not your main skill) to clean up the last few monsters on a screen, especially if they are scattered all around. You can also use it in a battle on a "broken field" when there are targets in all directions, but not grouped well enough for you to get numerous hits with Multishot. | ||
Strafe is useful with one point, if you're going to use it a lot you'll probably want to get it up to the maximum arrows, which comes at Slvl 10, or simply max it out for extra damage. | |||
==Immolation== | |||
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[[Image:immolating-arrow-icon.gif]] | [[Image:immolating-arrow-icon.gif]] | ||
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'''Prerequisites:''' | '''Prerequisites:''' | ||
* Magic | * Magic Arrow | ||
* Fire | * Fire Arrow | ||
* Mutli-shot | * Mutli-shot | ||
* Exploding | * Exploding Arrow | ||
'''Casting Delay:''' | '''Casting Delay:''' | ||
* | * 1 second | ||
'''Synergy Bonuses:''' | '''Synergy Bonuses:''' | ||
* | * Fire Arrow : +5% extra fire damage per second per level | ||
* Exploding Arrow : +10% extra fire damage per level | |||
'''Description:''' | '''Description:''' | ||
"Enchants arrows to burn enemies". A great-looking spell that adds fire damage and creates a mini-firewall under the feet of every target struck. (Multiple targets may be hit each shot if there are points in Pierce.) More points in Immolation Arrow up the initial fire damage and increase the damage per second a monster is in the fire, at the cost of more mana. Immo Arrow was the biggest damage per shot of any Bow skill in D2C, but it's been heavily nerfed in D2X with the addition of a casting delay, and the time cut on the firewall it creates. You can only shoot an Immo arrow every second now, and the mini-firewall they leave lasts just three seconds | "Enchants arrows to burn enemies". A great-looking spell that adds fire damage and creates a mini-firewall under the feet of every target struck. (Multiple targets may be hit each shot if there are points in Pierce.) More points in Immolation Arrow up the initial fire damage and increase the damage per second a monster is in the fire, at the cost of more mana. Immo Arrow was the biggest damage per shot of any Bow skill in D2C, but it's been heavily nerfed in D2X with the addition of a casting delay, and the time cut on the firewall it creates. You can only shoot an Immo arrow every second now, and the mini-firewall they leave lasts just three seconds. Immolation is now popular mostly for the novelty and pretty graphics, or else by Magezons, who use mostly elemental damage, with a less-damaging bow. It can still stack pretty well, and alternating it with other arrow attacks (such as Freezing Arrow) is the typical elemental bow strategy. | ||
The arrow hits for physical damage as well as the added fire damage, so you can leech with this skill, though it's hard to leech enough to keep firing it at higher levels, due to the heavy mana cost. The one-second firing delay is actually sort of handy there, since you can alternate with Guided or Strafe or Multishot to leech back the mana each Immo costs. | The arrow hits for physical damage as well as the added fire damage, so you can leech with this skill, though it's hard to leech enough to keep firing it at higher levels, due to the heavy mana cost. The one-second firing delay is actually sort of handy there, since you can alternate with Guided or Strafe or Multishot to leech back the mana each Immo costs. | ||
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'''Prerequisites:''' | '''Prerequisites:''' | ||
* Cold | * Cold Arrow | ||
* Ice | * Ice Arrow | ||
'''Casting Delay:''' | '''Casting Delay:''' | ||
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'''Synergy Bonuses:''' | '''Synergy Bonuses:''' | ||
* | * Cold Arrow : +12% cold damage per level | ||
* Ice Arrow : +5% freeze length per level | |||
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"Enchants arrows to freeze multiple monsters". The only Clvl 30 skill in the Amazon's Bow Skill Tree, Freezing Arrow is much like Cold Arrow, but adds an impressive splash of freezing shrapnel that will freeze the target, and any other monsters nearby. The drawbacks are a high mana cost and a freezing time and blast radius that don't increase with more skill points.Freezing Arrow is a great defensive skill, able to stop entire packs in their tracks. This one is very useful to keep your merc or Valk alive, and also to shatter corpses if there are shaman about. A good % in Pierce is a great help with this skill, enabling you to cut right through any mob with freezing splashes. | "Enchants arrows to freeze multiple monsters". The only Clvl 30 skill in the Amazon's Bow Skill Tree, Freezing Arrow is much like Cold Arrow, but adds an impressive splash of freezing shrapnel that will freeze the target, and any other monsters nearby. The drawbacks are a high mana cost and a freezing time and blast radius that don't increase with more skill points.Freezing Arrow is a great defensive skill, able to stop entire packs in their tracks. This one is very useful to keep your merc or Valk alive, and also to shatter corpses if there are shaman about. A good % in Pierce is a great help with this skill, enabling you to cut right through any mob with freezing splashes. | ||
Unless you are playing an elemental Bowazon like a | Unless you are playing an elemental Bowazon like a Mageazon, you may only want one point in this skill, and want to use it just every now and then, to freeze mobs. It's very useful to control groups of monsters, keeping them from scattering when low on hps, healing themselves or others, being resurrected, or killing your merc. It can also help kill PI monsters, though the high mana cost makes this exceptionally difficult, even if you can get the cold damage high enough to be worthwhile against a single target. | ||
Cold time (freezing or chilling) is 1/2 as long on Nightmare and 1/4 as long on Hell, so it helps a lot if you have other cold damage (such as from Buriza, Ravenfrost, or charms) since their cold times add to your Freezing Arrow time. With a Ravenfrost and a couple of charms you can get monsters to stay frozen for 3 or 4 Multishots. If you want them frozen, you should alternate, Freezing, MS, MS, MS, Freezing, MS, MS, MS, Freezing, etc. This deals the best damage while keeping monsters totally immobile. | Cold time (freezing or chilling) is 1/2 as long on Nightmare and 1/4 as long on Hell, so it helps a lot if you have other cold damage (such as from Buriza, Ravenfrost, or charms) since their cold times add to your Freezing Arrow time. With a Ravenfrost and a couple of charms you can get monsters to stay frozen for 3 or 4 Multishots. If you want them frozen, you should alternate, Freezing, MS, MS, MS, Freezing, MS, MS, MS, Freezing, etc. This deals the best damage while keeping monsters totally immobile. | ||
The arrow hits for physical damage as well as the added cold damage, so you can leech with this skill. | The arrow hits for physical damage as well as the added cold damage, so you can leech with this skill. | ||
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