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Originally posted by zaphodbrx on May 22, 2013:
Matriarch Ygritte, the Icemaiden
LCS
Skills
20(38) Freezing arrow
20(38) Exploding arrow
20 Chilling arrow
20 Fire arrow
3(9) Pierce
6 Decoy ( rest )
1 Critical, penetrate, DAE, slow missiles, guided arrow, and prereqs
Other stats:
-eCR: 20%
FHR: 8 frame
IAS: 8 fpa
Gear
'Ice' matriarchial bow
Chains of Honor
Rune horn ( rare coronet )
Highlord's wrath
Ravenfrost
Razortail
Death track ( rare boots )
Eagle eye ( rare ring )
Spirit fist ( crafted KB gloves )
Switch: Call to arms ( 6 BO), Lidless wall
Inventory: 7x Fletcher's grand charms, some with life/fhr
Merc: A2 might merc, Fortitude, Andariel's visage, Infinity.
Readouts
Thoughts
Well, this one's been on the table for a long time, the goal being to make a frost amazon capable of kicking *** and being very smooth and easy to play. I had gathered up the items for a long time and used respecs on a lvl 94 alt to try it out in about 100 players 8 Worldstone keep runs, so there weren't many surprises. All that was left was to make a new character, and play it through the game..
With all the items equipped, this was a difficult character to play.. Not. I rolled through the whole game at p8 ( excepting bosses ). Turns out playing through the game is much easier than doing players 8 worldstone keep runs. Holy freeze aura and knockback shut down melee enemies, slow missiles and decoy shut down ranged ones, and anything non cold immune was frozen and shattered or slowed by mass frost nova procs. Exploding arrow did an okay job dealing with immunities ( why anyone would use strafe for this purpose, EA is 100 times better ), merc/GA killed dual immunes. A 1k manapool with 12% ML kept potion popping to a minimum and 23% LL helped too. I could have done with a little more frw though, and constantly needing to pick up arrows was irritating, but nothing to be done about that. I also avoided getting poisoned ( or used antidotes ), as I had low poison resists.
There was one part of the game that gave me pause, WSK1 with 2-3 bosspacks of frenzytaurs ( unaffected by freeze ), with might, fanaticism, extra fast with CI witches behind them with amp, multishot, extra strong. Boy, those took a while and a lot of retreating, slow missiles, decoy and many merc revives. But otherwise yeah, it's very strong and really enjoyable to play. Pierce+splash ownz. There is something hypnotic about shooting a few arrows and watching the whole screen explode into showers of tiny ice crystals.
Deaths: None ( lot of close calls though )
Finds: None ( well, some random Ist )
Amazon sept completion- 6/7
Matriarch Ygritte, the Icemaiden
LCS
Skills
20(38) Freezing arrow
20(38) Exploding arrow
20 Chilling arrow
20 Fire arrow
3(9) Pierce
6 Decoy ( rest )
1 Critical, penetrate, DAE, slow missiles, guided arrow, and prereqs
Other stats:
-eCR: 20%
FHR: 8 frame
IAS: 8 fpa
Gear
'Ice' matriarchial bow
Chains of Honor
Rune horn ( rare coronet )
Highlord's wrath
Ravenfrost
Razortail
Death track ( rare boots )
Eagle eye ( rare ring )
Spirit fist ( crafted KB gloves )
Switch: Call to arms ( 6 BO), Lidless wall
Inventory: 7x Fletcher's grand charms, some with life/fhr
Merc: A2 might merc, Fortitude, Andariel's visage, Infinity.
Readouts
Code:
Ice
Matriarchal Bow
'AmnShaelJahLo'
Two-Hand Damage: 56 to 132
(Amazon Only)
Required Dexterity: 187
Required Strength: 87
Required Level: 65
Bow Class - Very Fast Attack Speed
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 85
Fingerprint: 0x38f6a96a
+181% Enhanced Damage
7% Life stolen per hit
20% Increased Attack Speed
Ignore Target Defense
20% Deadly Strike
Level 18 Holy Freeze Aura When Equipped
+3 to Bow and Crossbow Skills (Amazon Only)
25% Chance to cast Level 22 Frost Nova on striking
100% Chance to cast Level 40 Blizzard When You Level Up
278% Extra Gold (Based on Character Level)
+29% to Cold Skill Damage
-20% to Enemy Cold Resistance
Socketed (4: 4 used)
Chains of Honor
Dusk Shroud
'DolUmBerIst'
Defense: 783
Durability: 20 of 20
Required Strength: 77
Required Level: 63
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 85
Fingerprint: 0x8f593e49
+20 to Strength
+70% Enhanced Defense
Damage Reduced by 8%
All Resistances +65
8% Life stolen per hit
Replenish Life +7
25% Better Chance of Getting Magic Items
200% Damage to Demons
100% Damage to Undead
+2 to All Skill Levels
Socketed (4: 4 used)
Ygritte's Rune Horn
Coronet
Defense: 52
Durability: 29 of 30
Required Level: 67
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 83
Fingerprint: 0x628bf950
+30 to Mana
+28% Enhanced Defense
Fire Resist +21%
8% Life stolen per hit
7% Mana stolen per hit
+2 to Amazon Skill Levels
15% Increased Attack Speed
Level 1 Attract (22/22 Charges)
Socketed (1: 1 used)
Spirit Fist
Chain Gloves
Defense: 13
Durability: 16 of 16
Required Strength: 25
Required Level: 59
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 97
Fingerprint: 0x19c51a58
+6 to Strength
+35% Enhanced Defense
Attacker Takes Damage of 3
Knockback
20% Increased Attack Speed
+2 to Bow and Crossbow Skills (Amazon Only)
5% Chance to cast Level 4 Frost Nova when struck
Razortail
Sharkskin Belt
Defense: 104
Durability: 14 of 14
Required Strength: 20
Required Level: 32
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 88
Fingerprint: 0x94d1d1d
+15 to Dexterity
+143% Enhanced Defense
+10 to Maximum Damage
+15 Defense
Piercing Attack [33]
Attacker Takes Damage of 89 (Based on Character Level)
Highlord's Wrath
Amulet
Required Level: 65
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 87
Fingerprint: 0xbb02c976
Lightning Resist +35%
Adds 1-30 lightning damage
20% Increased Attack Speed
+1 to All Skill Levels
Attacker Takes Lightning Damage of 15
33% Deadly Strike (Based on Character Level)
Eagle Eye
Ring
Required Level: 46
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 90
Fingerprint: 0xacf04f8e
+9 to Energy
+86 to Mana
+4 to Minimum Damage
Lightning Resist +11%
5% Mana stolen per hit
+1 to Mana After Each Kill
Death Track
Greaves
Defense: 19
Durability: 24 of 24
Required Strength: 70
Required Level: 38
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 86
Fingerprint: 0x85352526
+7 to Dexterity
+20% Enhanced Defense
Fire Resist +35%
Lightning Resist +36%
30% Faster Run/Walk
Raven Frost
Ring
Required Level: 45
Item Version: 1.10+ Expansion
Item Level: 85
Fingerprint: 0xc5159a36
+20 to Dexterity
+40 to Mana
+177 to Attack Rating
Adds 15-45 cold damage over 4 seconds
20% Cold Absorb
Cannot Be Frozen
Thoughts
Well, this one's been on the table for a long time, the goal being to make a frost amazon capable of kicking *** and being very smooth and easy to play. I had gathered up the items for a long time and used respecs on a lvl 94 alt to try it out in about 100 players 8 Worldstone keep runs, so there weren't many surprises. All that was left was to make a new character, and play it through the game..
With all the items equipped, this was a difficult character to play.. Not. I rolled through the whole game at p8 ( excepting bosses ). Turns out playing through the game is much easier than doing players 8 worldstone keep runs. Holy freeze aura and knockback shut down melee enemies, slow missiles and decoy shut down ranged ones, and anything non cold immune was frozen and shattered or slowed by mass frost nova procs. Exploding arrow did an okay job dealing with immunities ( why anyone would use strafe for this purpose, EA is 100 times better ), merc/GA killed dual immunes. A 1k manapool with 12% ML kept potion popping to a minimum and 23% LL helped too. I could have done with a little more frw though, and constantly needing to pick up arrows was irritating, but nothing to be done about that. I also avoided getting poisoned ( or used antidotes ), as I had low poison resists.
There was one part of the game that gave me pause, WSK1 with 2-3 bosspacks of frenzytaurs ( unaffected by freeze ), with might, fanaticism, extra fast with CI witches behind them with amp, multishot, extra strong. Boy, those took a while and a lot of retreating, slow missiles, decoy and many merc revives. But otherwise yeah, it's very strong and really enjoyable to play. Pierce+splash ownz. There is something hypnotic about shooting a few arrows and watching the whole screen explode into showers of tiny ice crystals.
Deaths: None ( lot of close calls though )
Finds: None ( well, some random Ist )
Amazon sept completion- 6/7
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