Re: MA amazon stuck
MA zon is probably the best of the bow zons. she's like the "hammerdin" of the (bow) zons. magic damage is very effective through nearly the entire game (again, think about the hammerdin and his magic damage blesed hamers skill). there's very few magic immune monsters (only the undead can be magic immune, with one exception. there is a living animal type monster who's magic immune, who happens to be the only monster the hammerdin can NOT kill) and the magic resistant monsters are usually killed easily, since u get such high damage, it overides their resistance.
this is what i'd do for a MA zon who has party protection (playing together with party members) (change as u need to if you're playing solo with no help from others):
stats: enough str for gear. rest into dex.
skills: 20 MA, 20 critical strike, 20 pierce, 20 penetrate, 20 inner sight
weapon:
high damage gothic bow or balista xbow. mods u want: +2 amazon, 20% IAS, 182-200% enhanced damage, +20 max/min damage, cold damage, poison damage, etc..
gear:
IAS, CB, OW, +skills, resists, AR, LL, ML, etc.. gear.
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u just need to find a good-godly rare gothic bow (~150 is good damage) or balista xbow (~170 ? is good damage) with much more damage.
how damage works in d2 (or any game):
DAMAGE (total final damage) = damage (damage per attack) x speed (# of attacks in given time)
*the more damaging the weapon, the more dex u have, the more total final damage u do
*the more base speed your weapon has, the more IAS mod u have, the more total final damage u do
