Quite a nice coincidence for me since i'm trying to build an ice bowazon currently. As a newb runewords, places to farm, skill-stat distribution it's a whole world to figure out. Thanks for this awesome vid
Burak Uçak just so you know, lighting fury javazon is much more powerful, especially with good high level equipment. That being said bowazons just “feel” more satisfying, idk why.
great videos man. i played d2 back in 2000 no runewords no ubers no synergy skills, just farming cow level. lightning nova sorc was so epic for it. then i played game religiously for like 6 years. Did it all. Eventually i just duped and gave free shit away and took people on Uber tristram runs all day and gave torches away. good times. The remaking of this game has brought me to your videos. Im kind of excited for remake and playing D2 again after its been like 15 years. D2 definitely my favorite game of all time. Great vids man. cheers
A merc with Hone Sundan is really great to use as well. If you build your merc around crushing blow for an Amazon, it eliminates the lack of single target power towards bosses to a large degree. You become the support during boss fights while your merc chunks the HP down with CB.
Been around when Dbrunski was a new channel. Watched him grow and happy to see where he is now. He's got charisma unlike some other Diablo focused channels.
1 Bow many underestimate for this build ... The CTA Bow. in a +3 Base its basically +4 to skills + BO. Also a nice bow to start out with is the Memory (Shael Ko Nef) with +3 to bwoskills and some ias.
I LOVE that you said you don't like the evade skills, they are not worth it. They hurt pretty much every zon but a melee spearzon. And Valk is amazing but being required to get those 3 dodge skills to get it makes it not even worth it. Plus, the decoy can distract anything long enough to kill them. The only 2 things I do different is I don't bother with razortail anymore. You already have 73% pierce personally I don't think a higher percentage makes any difference or a notable difference in kill speed. The last thing is I really wish people would listen and give WitchWild String serious consideration. I Up it and socket it with ias/ed jewels and the Average damage is the same at that point as ANY BOW in the game. It comes with 1 deadly strike per level so in hell you are double damage everytime which makes it superior to even Windforce. It has insane attack speed so you can flex your other items because you don't need to stack much IAS, AND it offers 40 all res which allows even more gear flex and a ton of survivability on a squishy glass cannon. Overall, best guide you've put out yet and my personal favorite Ice Maiden build video
@@equinox3861 freezing arrow is my favorite for elemental damage and strafe is my favorite for physical damage. You can max both of them no problem in most build freezing arrow only takes 41 points total to max that and it's 1 damage synergy
I played a Frostmaiden back when D2 was new. Built very similar to this. It is refreshing to see individuals like this fellow so engrossed in a game that was mainstream when he was too young to even know about it much less play it. I hope D2 Resurrected is all you hope it to be.
I'll ask you because your comment is only 1 month old : do you know why he says he adds points to penetration to increase his chance to hit, in the video? His two main attacks are Freezing Arrow and Explosive Arrows, and both act like magic and always hit, so I'm a bit confused. EDIT: never mind, I think it is to make use of the 35% chance of Deadly Strike on his amulet.
Another option bootwise would be caster crafted boots. Could have frw fhr 60mana 10regen 5%max res etc. May take forever to craft tho before u get what u want. Great vid as usual bud!
I've been playing and building the same Amazon since pre 1.09 and it still works in 1.14 and PD2; freezing arrow as main, multishot and secondary skill. Multishot for leach and killing outside your screen, freezing arrow for damage and keeping monsters at bay. Effectively you barely need Energy with this build. Would work well as "ice bowazon" too I imagine
Full mavs with highlords, ravenfrost, and a dual leach ring works pretty well too. Slightly higher freeze arrow damage, higher resists, 90ias. but no -enemy res or tele.
Just wanted to add: If you're looking for a fun and different char to farm around all areas of the game, like he said - This is a fun and fairly effective build for farming...the lowish MF isn't ideal, but serviceable sure. IF you are looking to farm primarily AT (presumably mostly for TC87s) - for the love of god, just make a blizz sorc with cheaper gear and crank that MF to the sky :D
My very first char was a bowazon, my friends (paladin, sorc, barb, etc.) laughed at my class/spec, until I got up to about level 90 and could waste pretty much anything on my own irrespective of players in game (even more so with a physical damage character such as said barb or pally as an ally, cause I play(ed) in bnet)
Same. You can blast through everything pre ubers by level 75 with a buriza. *in deckard voice* Back in my day, a wf or 6x 40/15 grand matron was the shiznit, but unneccesary. A hellrack was a luxury. But even phys immune creatures would crack to the might of guided arrow. Used to be guided or strafe with the rest of the points in your valk/dodge/evade depending on usage... Then dump into multi for clearing/rushing. Safest hellrush build EVER. No enigma at the time, sadly. And I didnt even know you could buy a tele staff/orb and use it. So Id use my meterorb sorc to rush thru nm til, idk, it became a problem (when my sorc was younger)...then switch to my zon. Til I had a solid barb. Then Id use him in acts 3-5 in nm. No respecs then. So rushing was PARAMOUNT.
Always wanted to try one of these. Ice is such a cool runeword. Also want to try Brand too (the one that procs bone spear). I hope the elemental bowzons become more viable in d2r. And poison Javazons! What about 2h spear zons? Maybe I'll try to make one
May not be the most powerful amazon build but i always built 1 on bnet when i started to get rich because of how fun it is, silkweaves, a decent pair of gloves and rare ring with mana leech always solved my mana problems but at first i did put points into energy to keep the arrows flying. I went the valkarie route because i didnt use enigma so dodge etc wasnt such a problem. Both options are just as good as each other by the sounds of it ^^
Love this build -- always was my favorite character in Diablo 2. She puts on a fantastic show. I personally use Strafe instead of Exploding Arrow, because I love the look of Strafe.
Fun build I used to have try it out if you want: Hurricane Fury Druid. Max Huricane/Tornado/Twister/Lycanthopy & Fury. Slap on a Doom Zerk & Nightwing. Lot of fun too use. Was very B/M back in the day. It was always fun to bate unsuspecting smiters w/ the Werewolf then transform and cast a couple nados. Man i miss this game.
Good option for this build skillpoints not in strafe or magic arrow. On my opinion best choice - charged strike + lfury and synergies to this skills. On swap - Thunders +4 javelin and lightfaceted Head Hunter Glory or Monarch (Jmod if you reach). Awesome hybrid ama for fun. Gosu gloves 2/20/str/dex ++ (with ml are really cool). Nw 5-5cold . Razor. Wt or cow boots. rare ring dual leech dex life mana/raven/hlw or cat. Eni or Ormus 15l 15c with crap skill, good choice if use GMB- Treachery (ias @rez dr%). On inventory cheap skillers bow 40+hp, @rez sc or life mana. Merc - infi gt + forti + gaze ias ed or andy ias fres. Optionally
In a cold build, it is not necessary to have a lot of defense, monsters are frozen, and even up glovs, boots, ... , is not a significant improvement in defense, maybe u gain a +1% to monster not hit you
At last someone paid attention to how much damage you can do with cold and ice arrows. Everyone is like strafe/multishot but I find this build a lot better. Lot's of damage and AOE. Also cat's eye also has 20% ias
when you list your stats you shouldn't tell us the max strength and stuff. you should tell us the base strength. Like you have 159 strength sure, but that's after gear. To me it is more important to tell us base stats than total
How about using act 1 cold arrow merc with ice? Does it make any sense damagewise or is it just waste of runes? Trying to build that with my fire druid😅
Hey DB! Loving your guides and I keep looking back at them when I find something relevant to a build, and I think I just have found a GG Tiara for this (at this point I basically only start builds I find some dope rares for, or really weird ones, like beast/bear builds and stuff). It has 2 skills, 19 all res, 29 strength and 29 life as the stats to look at (no 2 sockets, so not d2jsp GG, but still). How important is Nightwing's to the build's damage output? I haven't played a "caster" character in ages, as I like my melees, but iirc the damage bonus on items such as Nightwing's is additive to the skill's synergies, making its damage bonus marginal (plus tiara on a 'zon has a lot of style points). Only amazon I ever played was a very basic budget javazon, so kinda excited about making my bowazon build for a while (also due to a GG rare MF zon amu I found), and Freezing Arrow builds always appealed to me, basically anything that has Holy Freeze looks fun to me for some reason.
1 point into strafe with the amount of leach you have will solve your mana issues. If you want to try physical damage instead of exploding arrow for immunes then make cta in a bow and use strafe/multi.
Don't think I'll have enough Jah runes anytime soon to try this build out(only have ever had 1 drop and that went to my first ever Enigma) to it's full potential. An upped Wizendraw could be a decent substitute I guess. May be worth a shot if I get bored of pitzerker runs and sorceress runs.
Hi Dbrunski I love Diablo 2 and you channel. You make great builds. Why you maxed penetrate ? Runeword „Ice” have „Ignore Target Defence” so always hit in target.
@@Dbrunski125 Well here is the quote from Fandom wiki: diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Freezing_Arrow "Cold damage items have a "hidden" chill duration. This chill duration gets added to the freezing time of Freezing Arrow. This additional time is added after the Ice Arrow synergy bonus. Stockpiling on small Charms of cold damage, regardless of the amount of actual damage on the small charm, adds 1 second, which in Hell difficulty is reduced to 0.25 seconds. Ice Arrow, on the other hand, only adds 0.10 seconds per level. Generally, a single small charm of cold damage is worth 10 hard points in Ice Arrow."
I'm suprised you haven't mentioned Lycander's Aim as an option for bows! That bow carried me right until I finally got Ice. I even decided to upgrade it and put a Shael rune into it to get that IAS up. The + 5 - 8% to regen mana on hit was very welcome. Now I am grinding to get my final missing piece for my gear, the Nightveil. I am wearing a Dream mask ATM and It does wonders for survival IMO because of 15% to Confuse on strike, even if the 1% to bone fetish is annoying to deal with when it happens. I don't have Enigma right now, and I probably won't get one. I'm alright with a Duress and Harmony on switch if I need to move fast. For my skills, I wanted to use fire arrows to deal with immunes, but I was kind of worried that my fire arrows wouldn't do as much as my ice arrows, especially when i switched to the Ice runeword. I like to have my damage consistent. I decided to focus on my Valk and to replace my act 2 merc with an act 1 merc with fire arrows and Faith. (because why not lol.) It's pricey and probably not as good as Infinity, but surprisingly enough, it does well against cold immunes! Plus I get a nice boost from fanaticism.
Yeah I'll agree. The moment I used my LA on hell i saw how lacking it was on damage. I had to focus on making or finding groups of enemies if I wanted to kill fast with the splash dmg of the skill sometimes.
I like Ice bowzon with jav on switch, charged strike is so good at bossing lol. but i have to use insight because no BO for mana. but jav is so strong anyways, and it can handle players up to 4/5 until it starts to slow down.
Nicolás Bascuñán nah. Basically I use strafe and freezing arrow but focus on a lot of physical damage as well as cold. So, windforce and fortitude and then my merc has reapers. in the end it comes to me doing around 7k( 3.5k of both types) damage with merc might aura
Trying to get through Hell for the first time with this build on SP and it was a breeze normal and nightmare. I know Hell is supposed to be brutal, but it just feels somewhat tedious grinding for the necessary gear for this build. I'm sticking to it though, because it really is fun to play.
if you are having trouble, you can try to build jav on switch to help you get thru hard areas. 20 lightning fury and 20 charged strike (for bosses) gets u thru hell like cutting through butter. Best part is you dont need infinity because you have Ice and lightning, two best elements in the game.
This is another great video.... i wonder if the cold arrow effect would transfer fire damage to the targets as well when enchanted....... I always build my bowzon with a companion chanter for GG damage.
Unfortunately, Immolation Arrow is subject to a cast delay timer. You can’t just spit out a series of Immolation Arrows the way you can with Freezing Arrow, you can shoot only one then you hav ego wait until you can shoot another. You can shoot using other skills while waiting for the delay timer to run out but it’s generally better to just use Exploding Arrow.
Awesome build britha! So thorough!!!!! Bowazon in general doesn't get enough love, so I appreciate the zon respect. Although, I gotta say, I still like ww barb more. Too much fun. Another great video to add to the collection. Thanks DB.
Melody is probably best, but harmony is great if you also have Peace runeword for your armor, a free lvl 15 Valk that doesnt go away after 10secs in which you didnt have a spend a single hard point is amazing.
I finally found a +3 mat bow base and i made my first ever ice. came out -20 cold res lol! oh actually nvm its always -20. but it came out +28 cold skill damage!! 2 away from perfect
@@outlawzqc i dont remember. Prolly chaos sanctuary lol. But that being said. Ive only ever found white ones. U will rarely ever find +3 with 4 sockeys already. Ur gonna have to cube white ones to get 4 sockets. superior items cant be cubed. If it wasnt chaos sanctuary it was the pit or worldstone. The pit is awesome. I just found a jah there yesterday
Yeah, and the possibility to find this stuff from start ... I mean the idea is great, but let us strip that merc from conviction aura (finding the runeword is a p i t a), and use whatever weapons and gear you (normally ) find without grinding 18 hours a day for weeks. Then send her out in the fields in hell ... I don't need to say that you won't pass act 1, do I? In short: If you're starting out (o don't get me wrong, this is a great game), you have a lot of grinding to do before you can achieve THAT equipment. I've always been a causal player, but during the 10 years I played the first run, I saw some of that gear he uses in the video, but certainly never any runes above ist. I did have an enigma, but I realized that I got that from another player. Puts this video in a new light. Hail the lords of players who can achieve this, I'll certainly try, but as I've gone out hard with never trade or take any for free as of late, I probably be the forever noob ...
Abdul Ghattour fortitude is a physical damage based runeword, this is a magic damage based build where you get more from the skill points and the ability to teleport. Fortitude is better for a classic physical damage bow build like a faith or wind force.
Playing this game singleplayer for a normal semi casual player is just good luck finding an infinity. 2 BER runes will take you forever to find. I played for thousands of hours back in the day and I have never found a BER rune.
Can someone tell me how can I make this game playable when it comes to graphics please? Like.. I cannot deal with it being so small on window mode, So id love to have at least some what larger and not lose the graphics completely. sadly, im on 28inc monitor. So that is my problem if i decided to go full screen... helppppppppppppp
@@zebfischer6088 I do have POD in mind. I tried setting it up, try different things throughout, and it's either stretched AF or super small... No middle option...
Miss the gold ol days, this was the best diablo game... damn they really messed this up so hard. I had made a melee amazon build turning into a werebear with max dodge/avoid/evade, fun times.
rly nice build ;) never seen this rw before "ice" , rly nice, but expensive af :D nice vid, if you `ll find a way to create a "fire" bowa lets tell us xD peace
@@kindnessofwooedandwooer2494 thank you, man! I didnt know that.. its a pity It does less damage... because bow amazon is more beautiful than javazon...
Im gonna have to strongly disagree with the "points into energy" part. The build is mana hungry for sure but a bit of mana leech and/or spamming the odd mana flask is not the end of the world. Also, if you really wanted, you can run Insight on merc and not have to worry about mana at all, and it wont "destroy your dps" like Dbrunski is saying. You can reach over 50% cold penetration with this build even without Infinity at which point Infinity doesnt make a huge difference. And even with just the pen from Ice RW, the inifinity gives a nice boost to damage but you wont feel like your damage is destroyed if you dont use it.
That Ice Bowazon hits like a truck hauling liquid nitrogen.
Quite a nice coincidence for me since i'm trying to build an ice bowazon currently. As a newb runewords, places to farm, skill-stat distribution it's a whole world to figure out. Thanks for this awesome vid
Burak Uçak just so you know, lighting fury javazon is much more powerful, especially with good high level equipment. That being said bowazons just “feel” more satisfying, idk why.
great videos man. i played d2 back in 2000 no runewords no ubers no synergy skills, just farming cow level. lightning nova sorc was so epic for it. then i played game religiously for like 6 years. Did it all. Eventually i just duped and gave free shit away and took people on Uber tristram runs all day and gave torches away. good times. The remaking of this game has brought me to your videos. Im kind of excited for remake and playing D2 again after its been like 15 years. D2 definitely my favorite game of all time. Great vids man. cheers
A merc with Hone Sundan is really great to use as well. If you build your merc around crushing blow for an Amazon, it eliminates the lack of single target power towards bosses to a large degree. You become the support during boss fights while your merc chunks the HP down with CB.
Been around when Dbrunski was a new channel. Watched him grow and happy to see where he is now. He's got charisma unlike some other Diablo focused channels.
Yeah. Dbrunski should be the official Diablo 2 youtube channel
@@Private-lw1td Agreed :D
Hé sucks at Diablo 2 tho
A great build to try during this lockdown.
1 Bow many underestimate for this build ...
The CTA Bow. in a +3 Base its basically +4 to skills + BO.
Also a nice bow to start out with is the Memory (Shael Ko Nef) with +3 to bwoskills and some ias.
If you want another budget option and be old school like me, try
"Blizzard's Cannon" aka Buriza do Kyanon 👍
burrito cannon
Bro I remember back in the day buriza was a badass dueling weapon cuz the guided arrows pierced back and forth it was so OP and awesome
@@ryu-ken exactly
Or slap on full Mavinas :P
I remember ppl using Bruzia to tppk hc chars back in the day lol..
I LOVE that you said you don't like the evade skills, they are not worth it. They hurt pretty much every zon but a melee spearzon. And Valk is amazing but being required to get those 3 dodge skills to get it makes it not even worth it. Plus, the decoy can distract anything long enough to kill them. The only 2 things I do different is I don't bother with razortail anymore. You already have 73% pierce personally I don't think a higher percentage makes any difference or a notable difference in kill speed. The last thing is I really wish people would listen and give WitchWild String serious consideration. I Up it and socket it with ias/ed jewels and the Average damage is the same at that point as ANY BOW in the game. It comes with 1 deadly strike per level so in hell you are double damage everytime which makes it superior to even Windforce. It has insane attack speed so you can flex your other items because you don't need to stack much IAS, AND it offers 40 all res which allows even more gear flex and a ton of survivability on a squishy glass cannon. Overall, best guide you've put out yet and my personal favorite Ice Maiden build video
I've never made a bowzon before, but since I have a witchwild I guess I'll try a bowzon thanks
@@equinox3861 yeah dude do it! I just got done shredding players 7 with it
@@cassiuscarter2832 I played amazon once like 10 years ago. What's the main bow skill you use?
@@equinox3861 freezing arrow is my favorite for elemental damage and strafe is my favorite for physical damage. You can max both of them no problem in most build freezing arrow only takes 41 points total to max that and it's 1 damage synergy
@@cassiuscarter2832 Cool thanks!
I played a Frostmaiden back when D2 was new. Built very similar to this. It is refreshing to see individuals like this fellow so engrossed in a game that was mainstream when he was too young to even know about it much less play it. I hope D2 Resurrected is all you hope it to be.
I'll ask you because your comment is only 1 month old : do you know why he says he adds points to penetration to increase his chance to hit, in the video? His two main attacks are Freezing Arrow and Explosive Arrows, and both act like magic and always hit, so I'm a bit confused.
EDIT: never mind, I think it is to make use of the 35% chance of Deadly Strike on his amulet.
Another option bootwise would be caster crafted boots. Could have frw fhr 60mana 10regen 5%max res etc. May take forever to craft tho before u get what u want. Great vid as usual bud!
I've been playing and building the same Amazon since pre 1.09 and it still works in 1.14 and PD2; freezing arrow as main, multishot and secondary skill. Multishot for leach and killing outside your screen, freezing arrow for damage and keeping monsters at bay. Effectively you barely need Energy with this build. Would work well as "ice bowazon" too I imagine
Full mavs with highlords, ravenfrost, and a dual leach ring works pretty well too. Slightly higher freeze arrow damage, higher resists, 90ias. but no -enemy res or tele.
Minus enemy res absolutely destroys the higher arrow damage
Just wanted to add: If you're looking for a fun and different char to farm around all areas of the game, like he said - This is a fun and fairly effective build for farming...the lowish MF isn't ideal, but serviceable sure. IF you are looking to farm primarily AT (presumably mostly for TC87s) - for the love of god, just make a blizz sorc with cheaper gear and crank that MF to the sky :D
I'm farming AT like crazy with a frenzy barb, full clears, currently switched to 0 MF for socketables and runes, he is quite good there :)
My very first char was a bowazon, my friends (paladin, sorc, barb, etc.) laughed at my class/spec, until I got up to about level 90 and could waste pretty much anything on my own irrespective of players in game (even more so with a physical damage character such as said barb or pally as an ally, cause I play(ed) in bnet)
Same.
You can blast through everything pre ubers by level 75 with a buriza.
*in deckard voice* Back in my day, a wf or 6x 40/15 grand matron was the shiznit, but unneccesary.
A hellrack was a luxury.
But even phys immune creatures would crack to the might of guided arrow.
Used to be guided or strafe with the rest of the points in your valk/dodge/evade depending on usage...
Then dump into multi for clearing/rushing.
Safest hellrush build EVER.
No enigma at the time, sadly. And I didnt even know you could buy a tele staff/orb and use it.
So Id use my meterorb sorc to rush thru nm til, idk, it became a problem (when my sorc was younger)...then switch to my zon.
Til I had a solid barb. Then Id use him in acts 3-5 in nm.
No respecs then. So rushing was PARAMOUNT.
Always wanted to try one of these. Ice is such a cool runeword. Also want to try Brand too (the one that procs bone spear). I hope the elemental bowzons become more viable in d2r. And poison Javazons! What about 2h spear zons? Maybe I'll try to make one
May not be the most powerful amazon build but i always built 1 on bnet when i started to get rich because of how fun it is, silkweaves, a decent pair of gloves and rare ring with mana leech always solved my mana problems but at first i did put points into energy to keep the arrows flying. I went the valkarie route because i didnt use enigma so dodge etc wasnt such a problem. Both options are just as good as each other by the sounds of it ^^
Love this build -- always was my favorite character in Diablo 2. She puts on a fantastic show. I personally use Strafe instead of Exploding Arrow, because I love the look of Strafe.
Fun build I used to have try it out if you want: Hurricane Fury Druid. Max Huricane/Tornado/Twister/Lycanthopy & Fury. Slap on a Doom Zerk & Nightwing. Lot of fun too use. Was very B/M back in the day. It was always fun to bate unsuspecting smiters w/ the Werewolf then transform and cast a couple nados. Man i miss this game.
love your videos man, so in depth but at the same time, easy to understand. keep it up!
What's the "hotkey" to quickly emptying the cube at 17:35 ??
Good option for this build skillpoints not in strafe or magic arrow. On my opinion best choice - charged strike + lfury and synergies to this skills. On swap - Thunders +4 javelin and lightfaceted Head Hunter Glory or Monarch (Jmod if you reach). Awesome hybrid ama for fun. Gosu gloves 2/20/str/dex ++ (with ml are really cool). Nw 5-5cold . Razor. Wt or cow boots. rare ring dual leech dex life mana/raven/hlw or cat. Eni or Ormus 15l 15c with crap skill, good choice if use GMB- Treachery (ias @rez dr%). On inventory cheap skillers bow 40+hp, @rez sc or life mana. Merc - infi gt + forti + gaze ias ed or andy ias fres. Optionally
Why not up the gloves and boots since you have the str to support it?
In a cold build, it is not necessary to have a lot of defense, monsters are frozen, and even up glovs, boots, ... , is not a significant improvement in defense, maybe u gain a +1% to monster not hit you
At last someone paid attention to how much damage you can do with cold and ice arrows. Everyone is like strafe/multishot but I find this build a lot better. Lot's of damage and AOE. Also cat's eye also has 20% ias
Need to see Hydra bow(15ed) BoTD sir plus fortitude and bone visage on Dream runeword
how did you see the item level for your gear? (e.g. your gloves shows item level 99, but required level 35)
Hi, you don't seem to be wasting 19 lvl in cold arrow when it doesn't add any bonus to Freezing Arrow.
when you list your stats you shouldn't tell us the max strength and stuff. you should tell us the base strength. Like you have 159 strength sure, but that's after gear. To me it is more important to tell us base stats than total
How about using act 1 cold arrow merc with ice? Does it make any sense damagewise or is it just waste of runes? Trying to build that with my fire druid😅
Waste of runes, +cold dmg doesnt work for you this way
So sorry if you mentioned this, but what merc did u get? Did you go for might or something else?
Ice with ice gmb
Windforce i had guided/multi or strafe also great build could even use magic arrow for immunes
Hey DB! Loving your guides and I keep looking back at them when I find something relevant to a build, and I think I just have found a GG Tiara for this (at this point I basically only start builds I find some dope rares for, or really weird ones, like beast/bear builds and stuff). It has 2 skills, 19 all res, 29 strength and 29 life as the stats to look at (no 2 sockets, so not d2jsp GG, but still). How important is Nightwing's to the build's damage output? I haven't played a "caster" character in ages, as I like my melees, but iirc the damage bonus on items such as Nightwing's is additive to the skill's synergies, making its damage bonus marginal (plus tiara on a 'zon has a lot of style points). Only amazon I ever played was a very basic budget javazon, so kinda excited about making my bowazon build for a while (also due to a GG rare MF zon amu I found), and Freezing Arrow builds always appealed to me, basically anything that has Holy Freeze looks fun to me for some reason.
you can spec Ice bowazon with 20/20/20 on all the tree skills then put the rest on immolation arrow and support to it. works fine for player 1-5
16:39 sorry maybe i missed but from what item comes the MIGHT AURA??
Offensive hire act 2 nightmare
why is needed so much STRENGHT for this build? isn't it better to put on DEX , for more damage ?
dex is more for a physical bowazon, as their damage scales on it, just enough for gear is good enough really for freezing arrow.
@@Vlammenzee got it... but what does she takes with so much STRENGHT (more than whats necessary for gear) ??
@@JoseHenrique-mj6km i definitely agree on you with the strength, there's just no need for so much lol.
“You’ll lose out by not using infinity”. Meanwhile, I played D2 for about 10 years and never got a Ber rune.
Infinity doesn't break cold immunity.
1 point into strafe with the amount of leach you have will solve your mana issues.
If you want to try physical damage instead of exploding arrow for immunes then make cta in a bow and use strafe/multi.
1 point into multishot will do that even better.
Damn this shows even more how much I sucked at that game lmao
Don't think I'll have enough Jah runes anytime soon to try this build out(only have ever had 1 drop and that went to my first ever Enigma) to it's full potential. An upped Wizendraw could be a decent substitute I guess. May be worth a shot if I get bored of pitzerker runs and sorceress runs.
Sick music at the end!
Hi Dbrunski I love Diablo 2 and you channel. You make great builds. Why you maxed penetrate ? Runeword „Ice” have „Ignore Target Defence” so always hit in target.
I think it’s because ignore target defense doesn’t work on bosses.
What is your opinion on lightning fury / freezing arrow hybrid?
Currently at the middle of A5 with my Bowa using an Insight. This easy runeword eliminates the frantic potion usage.
Dont like youtube build vidoes very much, but i appreciate your work here, good job dude
Fun fact, you can stack small charms with cold damage to increase freeze duration of Freezing Arrow.
Oh really 🤔 ill have to look in to that
Adds to the duration of cold yea at 25% effectiveness to normal but not frozen duration. Unless thats what you meant 🙂
@@Dbrunski125 Well here is the quote from Fandom wiki:
diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Freezing_Arrow
"Cold damage items have a "hidden" chill duration. This chill duration gets added to the freezing time of Freezing Arrow. This additional time is added after the Ice Arrow synergy bonus. Stockpiling on small Charms of cold damage, regardless of the amount of actual damage on the small charm, adds 1 second, which in Hell difficulty is reduced to 0.25 seconds. Ice Arrow, on the other hand, only adds 0.10 seconds per level. Generally, a single small charm of cold damage is worth 10 hard points in Ice Arrow."
can you do a ice bow , with Dream helmet, with dragon armor. Holy Freeze, Holy Shock, Holy Fire. do they stack?
I tried this build back in early days. Long before ice runeword or harmony. I used full mavs set and it was terrible lol it way low damage
Why was Faith never mentioned? And what are everyones thoughts with Faith with this build?
I'm suprised you haven't mentioned Lycander's Aim as an option for bows! That bow carried me right until I finally got Ice. I even decided to upgrade it and put a Shael rune into it to get that IAS up. The + 5 - 8% to regen mana on hit was very welcome.
Now I am grinding to get my final missing piece for my gear, the Nightveil. I am wearing a Dream mask ATM and It does wonders for survival IMO because of 15% to Confuse on strike, even if the 1% to bone fetish is annoying to deal with when it happens. I don't have Enigma right now, and I probably won't get one. I'm alright with a Duress and Harmony on switch if I need to move fast. For my skills, I wanted to use fire arrows to deal with immunes, but I was kind of worried that my fire arrows wouldn't do as much as my ice arrows, especially when i switched to the Ice runeword. I like to have my damage consistent. I decided to focus on my Valk and to replace my act 2 merc with an act 1 merc with fire arrows and Faith. (because why not lol.) It's pricey and probably not as good as Infinity, but surprisingly enough, it does well against cold immunes! Plus I get a nice boost from fanaticism.
Yeah I'll agree. The moment I used my LA on hell i saw how lacking it was on damage. I had to focus on making or finding groups of enemies if I wanted to kill fast with the splash dmg of the skill sometimes.
Where the hack do I find a matriarchal base?! Running 20 cow lvl and found one in a bad condition.... very frustrating...
How about using Metalgrid to create Iron Golem from Insight? I wonder if it would stay alive without the passives.
I like Ice bowzon with jav on switch, charged strike is so good at bossing lol. but i have to use insight because no BO for mana. but jav is so strong anyways, and it can handle players up to 4/5 until it starts to slow down.
Solid build man, will probably never make it since I’m happy with my hybrid build, but good job
Fury/Frozen?
Nicolás Bascuñán nah. Basically I use strafe and freezing arrow but focus on a lot of physical damage as well as cold. So, windforce and fortitude and then my merc has reapers. in the end it comes to me doing around 7k( 3.5k of both types) damage with merc might aura
Why so many points into penetrate? Freezing and Exploding arrows always hit.
Ive read somewhere that best armor for frost bowzon is tyrael might or coh runeword .
both viable options yes
Trying to get through Hell for the first time with this build on SP and it was a breeze normal and nightmare. I know Hell is supposed to be brutal, but it just feels somewhat tedious grinding for the necessary gear for this build. I'm sticking to it though, because it really is fun to play.
if you are having trouble, you can try to build jav on switch to help you get thru hard areas. 20 lightning fury and 20 charged strike (for bosses) gets u thru hell like cutting through butter. Best part is you dont need infinity because you have Ice and lightning, two best elements in the game.
Would using Pride on a A2 merc with might and 19+ Conc be viable as well?
You got med back into this classic 👍 thx for your videos
Db whats the most powerful character class in diablo 2?
This is another great video.... i wonder if the cold arrow effect would transfer fire damage to the targets as well when enchanted....... I always build my bowzon with a companion chanter for GG damage.
Is the character being played in the first few minutes of the video hacked? How do you break 1k mana??
What about Buriza? My favorite with multi shot back in the day
i thought 1 multishot refills your mana atleast with eny e manaleech used on monsters that are not skeles
Hello, Doesn't Immolation arrow do more damage than Exploding arrow per same investment of skill points ?
Unfortunately, Immolation Arrow is subject to a cast delay timer. You can’t just spit out a series of Immolation Arrows the way you can with Freezing Arrow, you can shoot only one then you hav ego wait until you can shoot another. You can shoot using other skills while waiting for the delay timer to run out but it’s generally better to just use Exploding Arrow.
What's the most powerful build you have?
Javazon, all day. Best PVM charecter in the game with infinity
What kind of merc? You get holy freeze from bow, maybe a might or prayer ?
Might will increase your mana steal, blaissed will make sure you never miss
What if, ice fire or light was just an aura and just applied to physical bowazon skills.
I have made this on bnet so most the time I am on players 1. What is the best place to farm?
Awesome build britha! So thorough!!!!! Bowazon in general doesn't get enough love, so I appreciate the zon respect.
Although, I gotta say, I still like ww barb more. Too much fun. Another great video to add to the collection. Thanks DB.
i might watch this later. I'm guessing you didn't try the ice/strafe wrath build I recommended on your "making wrath viable" build guide.
What the heck is a "melee damage bowazon"?
I meant physical dmg bowazon l😂
Hey Dbrunski, I am planning on building a lightning javazon, what do you think about the spec?
Type it into TH-cam.. there are dozens of videos out there I'm pretty sure he even has one
Im doing a poison jav hybrid with ice bow build on single player (vanilla, no mods).
Mana is definitely a problem....
Very Nice build ! I love bowazone
harmony vs melody for midgame bow? which is mathematically more damage in a +2 matriarch bow?
Melody is probably best, but harmony is great if you also have Peace runeword for your armor, a free lvl 15 Valk that doesnt go away after 10secs in which you didnt have a spend a single hard point is amazing.
I finally found a +3 mat bow base and i made my first ever ice. came out -20 cold res lol! oh actually nvm its always -20. but it came out +28 cold skill damage!! 2 away from perfect
Where did it drop?
@@outlawzqc i dont remember. Prolly chaos sanctuary lol. But that being said. Ive only ever found white ones. U will rarely ever find +3 with 4 sockeys already. Ur gonna have to cube white ones to get 4 sockets. superior items cant be cubed.
If it wasnt chaos sanctuary it was the pit or worldstone. The pit is awesome. I just found a jah there yesterday
@@outlawzqc omg i just got another +3 white mat bow from the Pit lvl1!
Im a noob but i do love d2 up until now. How did you change the rejuvenation potion name drop?
Hes either using a plugin or hes playing on one of the clones.
Very nice! Build looks fun. Would probably be fun for runefinding in arcane sanctuary too.
I totally love this build with ice on bow
Yeah, and the possibility to find this stuff from start ...
I mean the idea is great, but let us strip that merc from conviction aura (finding the runeword is a p i t a), and use whatever weapons and gear you (normally ) find without grinding 18 hours a day for weeks. Then send her out in the fields in hell ... I don't need to say that you won't pass act 1, do I?
In short: If you're starting out (o don't get me wrong, this is a great game), you have a lot of grinding to do before you can achieve THAT equipment.
I've always been a causal player, but during the 10 years I played the first run, I saw some of that gear he uses in the video, but certainly never any runes above ist. I did have an enigma, but I realized that I got that from another player.
Puts this video in a new light. Hail the lords of players who can achieve this, I'll certainly try, but as I've gone out hard with never trade or take any for free as of late, I probably be the forever noob ...
Hi
Why not fortitude armor?
I heard it's better than enigma for Amazon
Abdul Ghattour fortitude is a physical damage based runeword, this is a magic damage based build where you get more from the skill points and the ability to teleport. Fortitude is better for a classic physical damage bow build like a faith or wind force.
Playing this game singleplayer for a normal semi casual player is just good luck finding an infinity. 2 BER runes will take you forever to find. I played for thousands of hours back in the day and I have never found a BER rune.
Very very cool build that I will definitely try out!
Cool build. Very chill.
this guy gets it
Can someone tell me how can I make this game playable when it comes to graphics please? Like.. I cannot deal with it being so small on window mode, So id love to have at least some what larger and not lose the graphics completely. sadly, im on 28inc monitor. So that is my problem if i decided to go full screen...
helppppppppppppp
Look up glide wrapper. I use it for Path of Diablo, but i think people use it for vanilla too.
@@zebfischer6088 I do have POD in mind. I tried setting it up, try different things throughout, and it's either stretched AF or super small... No middle option...
this video I made should help you with that th-cam.com/video/Y8qgeR-7pfY/w-d-xo.html
Hey, what stats do you look for when id`ing rare assassin`s weapons?
40 IAS with +3 skills to whichever build you aim at, I guess.
Miss the gold ol days, this was the best diablo game... damn they really messed this up so hard. I had made a melee amazon build turning into a werebear with max dodge/avoid/evade, fun times.
rly nice build ;) never seen this rw before "ice" , rly nice, but expensive af :D nice vid, if you `ll find a way to create a "fire" bowa lets tell us xD peace
For Multiplayer (4 player++), whats the best build for Amazon? This one???
Javazon all day. Bow ama is weak and it needs crazy expensive gear to be viable late game.
@@kindnessofwooedandwooer2494 thank you, man!
I didnt know that.. its a pity It does less damage... because bow amazon is more beautiful than javazon...
@@JoseHenrique-mj6km well you can always try it and respec later, or start javazon and respec to bowazon when you've found better stuff. 🥳
@@kindnessofwooedandwooer2494 true,... Theo best tô Begin must be magic finder sorceress, to find gear
@@JoseHenrique-mj6km you can mf with javazon too when you start out, but you're more limited to pit/frigid-shenk/pindle.
Every char with Enigma... for pvm?
I always called this build the "Freezzon" . I use Harmony Bow
That vigor is nice I put that on my barbs merc w shafts and p kiras she never dies
maybe fort instead.. eth tits and ss on switch maybe? for max block. passive agility abilities could be sweet thats how i run like a glass cannon
Cool build man!
i really like ur videos! keep rockin!
Why no Valkyrie?
Shouldn’t use enigma on a zon. Coh or fort are the best options
I'm pretty sure critical strike works with elemental damage.
Anyone here plan on playing Diablo 2 Resurrected when it releases later this month?
You know it 👍
Im gonna have to strongly disagree with the "points into energy" part. The build is mana hungry for sure but a bit of mana leech and/or spamming the odd mana flask is not the end of the world. Also, if you really wanted, you can run Insight on merc and not have to worry about mana at all, and it wont "destroy your dps" like Dbrunski is saying. You can reach over 50% cold penetration with this build even without Infinity at which point Infinity doesnt make a huge difference. And even with just the pen from Ice RW, the inifinity gives a nice boost to damage but you wont feel like your damage is destroyed if you dont use it.
I love the FreezeZon, but dude, the mana usage is ridiculous.