Immozon Help Please

[Pif]

Immozon Help Please

Hi,

I'm after some advice on my latest zon build. She's essentially an Immozon/frost maiden with maxed fire arrow, exploding arrow, cold arrow and freezing arrow. I would like to concentrate on the fire side of things and go for:

Phoenix bow (mat), dragon armour, infernostride, lava gout, rising sun but there is no obvious fire related helm.

The above ignores resistances and IAS so I guess I also need NWV with +15% IAS jewel; Nosferatu belt. Rings could be SoJ + ravenfrost.

Should I ditch this and go for more damage via fortitude armour and laying of hands?

Also, dragon armour looks good but isn't really that effective I dont think?(although the aura damage is added to the explosive arrow splash). I also like the idea of razortail but can I get by with just a few skill points in pierce instead? I have torch and anni to boost all skills. Perhaps I should use CoH/enigma for the armour instead as the extra skill levels may be useful? Also, perhaps a different amulet is better?

Please share your thoughts/experience!

Cheers

*Pif

 

[MrKaxe]

If you can get on with the spell timer delay then yeah, i found my Immozon to be a great laugh...she was pk ed (damn tppk HC gitz...) so i can't remember much but i used caster-type equipment mixed with ias with gear n charms which gave additional fire damage...seems like you have the right idea anyway equip-wise but get that Pierce up as high as pos if you are not using, say, Kuko + Razortail!

And NO knockback mods...baddies get pushed out of the Immo fire! Explo arrow is good crowd control with knockback (i use it on my FA zon against Cold immunes) and damaging in hell even with just Fire Arrow & Explo arrow maxed...if you are doing all the fire synergies then give em all a try!

dk

 

[Veilside]

I imagine max pierce is goin to be a must, just so you get the maximum effectiveness out of your freezing and immolating arrow.
You could always use a Hand of Justice bow instead of Phoenix, though the aura might be too good to pass up on phoenix.

If you use an act1 faith merc you won't need to sacrifice much gear for ias so you can maximise all your + skills to make it as effective as possible, with a decent valkyrie tanking for you, you shouldn't have too much hassle.
For amulet you'll probably get more out of a +2 skills unique/rare/crafted etc amulet. Lava gouts look like a good option though i'm not sure if it's better than +2 b/c, 20 ias xx mod rares.

 

[Vegetall]

well i had a frostmadein way back when Mavs set was the thing to use.... damn runewords... but anyways dragon armor is worthless... w/o synergys, the pulse is a waste.... better off with ughhh enigma or CoH... or even mavs armor....

thats all i got, dont know much about the build but i do know about that armor... well if u want a fire helm, why not a 3os faceted helm...

 

[Pif]

Hi,

Thanks for the info. Although I'm calling my zon an immozon I'm not sure that she'll actually use immolation arrow. Is it worth maxing along with exploding arrow and fire arrow?

Vegetall - Yeah maybe a fire facet circlet. Good idea!

Cheers

*Pif

 

[Vegetall]

well any build thats just stright 1 element will screw u in hell, like my all fire druid... all maxed but arma.. and hell is tough....

but u have access to strafe and mutli which even at low lvls are decen not PI killers....

but if ur going for it to be effective def max its synergys..

i owuld give it a while i been meaning to get my frostymaiden up and freezeing.. but so many builds so little time ..

good luck

 

[MrKaxe]

...Although I'm calling my zon an immozon I'm not sure that she'll actually use immolation arrow. Is it worth maxing along with exploding arrow and fire arrow?

If you are dead set on using fire skills and especially if they are going to be your main skill then yes its a must to max all of em...Exploding arrow is the way to go if you are using fire as main skill for the crowd control...if you have just fire and explo arrow maxed (as i do to back up my FA zon) then its no where near as efficient in Hell (takes way more arrows to kill)...depends what you want from the zon dude...my FA zon runs WSK a breeze; i eat souls for breakfast as they are frozen for at least 8 seconds (i stacked cold charms and cold dmg gear for duration time) when i shoot off into the distance so when i get to em they are harmless and die in 2-3 arrows lol

@ Vegetall

Dude! My FA zon is full Mavs with no facets (yet) and one plain bow skiller and FA is a killer in Hell! Give the set a try again!

 

[PhatTrumpet]

I think you guys missed his point. He wants to go Freezing+Exploding, not Immo, which I agree with since Immo isn't spammable.

Definitely go with 'HoJ' rather than 'Pheonix'. 'Pheonix' isn't really worthy of being placed in any weapon. If you combine that with 'Dragon' armor you'll have Hydras popping up all over the place and a lvl 30 Holy Fire aura, which is only 261-273 dmg, but it gets applied over the radius of your Exploding Arrow, plus it kinda goes with the theme of the build.

This is not a physical damage build, so forget about the 'Fort'/LoH.

You also might want to use a Demon Limb Enchant to give your Exploding Arrow a little more punch.

If you can live without the Fanat from a 'Faith' Merc (you'll already have 53%IAS from bow+gloves) definitely go with an 'Infinity' Merc.

Just popping the numbers into a skill calculator (with 9 bow skillers... shouldn't be too hard to get) I get:

1560-1805 Exploding Arrow (plus gear, aura, and Enchant fire dmg)
2618-2652 Freezing Arrow (without Nightwing's)

 

[Pif]

Hi,

Many thanks for the comments. Some nice suggestions too.

PhatTrumpet, I'm not sure about the Hand of Justice as the redemption aura from Phoenix means that the char won't need mana (as per mageazon) or leech (as per vamp build). I see what you mean about the stacked auras and the extra IAS but as I have a HoJ as well as Phoenix I can try out both :grin:

As fire arrow (and cold arrow) convert some physical damage to elemental I think that Fortitude could end up boosting fire (and cold) damage if I use fire arrow. I wasn't going to use immolation arrow (despite my char's name) but I probably should, even if I don't think it's that effective.

I'm not sure about weapon switch. Demon Limb is nice, as you say Phat, and a spirit shield would drop the valk points by 1 but I prefer another bow. Maybe HoJ or Ice or Harmony of Faith. All of these have merits/uses but I can't decide.. No idea. I need suggestions here! I rather like Brand as it looks cool but is not really in keeping with the build despite firing explosive bolts.

This is the build I'm currently working to:

Immozon (at 90th level + 9 from quests)
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Skills
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Inner Sight, 1 => 8
Dodge 1 => 8
Critical Strike 1 => 8
Slow Missiles 1 => 8
Avoid 1 => 8
Penetrate 1 => 8
Decoy 1 => 8
Evade 1 => 8
Pierce 1 => 8
Magic Arrow 1 => 14
Multiple Shot 1 => 14
Ice Arrow 1 => 14
Guided Arrow 1 => 14
Strafe 1 => 14

Fire Arrow 20 => 35
Exploding Arrow 20 => 35
Immolation Arrow 20 => 35

Cold Arrow 7 => 20
Freezing Arrow 8 => 21

Valkyrie 10 => 17

N.B. Still use some of these 1-pointers, e.g. multi, guided, slow missiles.

Skills beyond 90th level go into cold arrow or freezing arrow.

Equipment (for an ideal build) :wink3:
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Weapon/Shield - Phoenix MB (+3 bow) + Brand/Ice/Faith/HoJ MB (+3 bow)
Armour - Fortitude? (maybe Dragon armour)
Helm - NMV??: + fire facet (+2 skills) or +2 circlet
Charms- Anni (+1); Torch (+3); 3 or more bow skillers (+3 bow)
Gloves - Lava Gout (+20% IAS);
Boots - Infernostride
Belt - Razortail
Rings - Ravenfrost ;SoJ (+1 skill)
Amulet - Rising Sun (+2 fire)

Mercenary
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Rogue with Faith.

Fanatacism Level and IAS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

F0      F12     F13     F14+    Frames  Attacks/sec
~~~     ~~~     ~~~     ~~~     ~~~~~   ~~~~~~~~	
0 %	-	-	-	12	2
8 %	-	-	-	11	2.2
22 %	-	-	-	10	2.5
42 %	0 %	0 %	0 %	9	2.7
75 %	18 %	16 %	15 %	8	3.1 <- Usually here
102 %	48 %	46 %	44 %	7	3.5

All Comments welcome!

*Pif