Ice Bowazon Amazon Build Guide Diablo II: Resurrected Season 7

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Build Overview for Ice Bowazon in Diablo II: Resurrected Ladder Season 7Strengths of the Ice BowazonWeaknesses of the Ice BowazonKey Gear Considerations for Ice BowazonStat Priority for Ice Bowazon in Diablo II: Resurrected Ladder Season 7

Stat

Points to Invest

Notes

Strength

118

This will depend on your gear strategy. Some of the best bows for the Ice Bowazon have high requirements. Your endgame bow requires either 87 or 108 depending on which type is used as the base for the Runeword, but you'll also get some +Strength items in the meantime. 118 is the highest Strength requirement for a Light armor base for Runewords, so having 118 means you'll have full choice here.

Dexterity

187

Because most of your damage is Elemental rather than Physical, Ice Bowazons depend a little less on high Dexterity than other Bowazon builds. However, you'll need either 152 or 187 Dexterity for your end-game bow, depending on which you use.

Vitality

200 min

You'll want more if playing Hardcore, but you'll also be getting some with equipment. You want to have at least 1,000 life.

Energy

200+

As mentioned, Ice Bowazon is extremely mana intensive, and unless you have Mana Steal to use with Strafe, it's hard to get it back. You can't get away with putting no points into Energy; in fact, you'll be happier investing early and often.

Skills for the Ice Bowazon in Diablo II: Resurrected Ladder Season 7

Freezing Arrow

Strafe

Valkyrie

Skill Tree Distribution for Ice BowazonJavelin and Spear Point Distribution for Ice BowazonPassive and Magic Point Distribution for Ice Bowazon

Skill

Min cLvl

Description

Inner Sight
1 point

Prerequisite to Valkyrie.

Critical Strike
1 point

While this grants a chance to do double damage, it only applies to Physical damage, not Elemental. It's nice to have for your Strafe, but you'll get enough points through +Skill items to shore up this backup skill.

Dodge
1 point

Prerequisite for Valkyrie. Skill points will add more to this, as it serves as a defensive both for you and for your Valkyrie.

Slow Missile
1 point

Prerequisite to Valkyrie.

Avoid
1 point

Prerequisite for Valkyrie. Skill points will add more to this, as it serves as a defensive both for you and for your Valkyrie.

Penetrate
11 points

Penetrate improves attack rating and chance to hit, which are both important. 11 points is plenty with +Skill items shoring up the rest.

Evade
1 point

Prerequisite for Valkyrie. Skill points will add more to this, as it serves as a defensive both for you and for your Valkyrie.

Decoy
1 point

Prerequisite to Valkyrie. Although this also gives extra Life to your Valkyrie as a synergy, you don't need many points here. The Valkyrie is pretty tough on her own, even in high Hell levels, and skill bonus items will take care of the rest.

Valkyrie
20 points

The Valkyrie will be one of your best offensive and defensive skills. She is a summoned minion that acts as an effective tank/decoy for you. Even 1 point into the Valkyrie can provide a far more substantial distraction than Decoy, and your mercenary can help out with tanking. In addition, at high levels, Valkyries can have random immunities.

Pierce
8 points

Between +Skill items and the Razortail belt or Wisdom helm (available as of Patch 2.4), you'll have 100% pierce and may not even need this many points into Pierce.

Bow and Crossbow Point Distribution or Ice Bowazon

Skill

Min cLvl

Description

Magic Arrow
1 point

Prerequisite for Strafe. Also handy for taking out mobs with double immunities in Cold and Physical. You'll have enough +Skill items by endgame that this is useful to keep handy. Also requires no arrows, so a lifesaver if you miscalculate on your ammo midfight.

Cold Arrow
20 points

Cold Arrow is a single-target Cold attack that chills mobs when hit, damaging and slowing them, and also gives them a chance to Shatter on death. Shattered mobs don't leave corpses, which is handy for denying enemy mobs dead bodies, such as mobs that raise the dead or use Corpse Explosion (like Nihlathak). This single-target attack is not only useful for taking down bosses, but it has amazing synergy with both Ice Arrow and (more importantly) Freezing Arrow. It adds 8% extra Cold damage per level for Ice Arrow and a whopping 12% extra Cold damage per level to Freezing Arrow. It's somewhat more mana efficient that Ice Arrow, although it does less damage.

Multiple Shot
1 point

Prerequisite for Strafe.

Ice Arrow
1 point

Ice Arrow is also a single-target ability that does cold damage and freezes some mobs on impact. It only slows other players, Champion or Unique Monsters, and Bosses.

The reason Cold Arrow is preferred to Ice Arrow has to do with their synergies with Freezing Arrow (level 30), which will be your go-to attack for large groups. While Cold Arrow gives Freezing Arrow 12% extra Cold damage per level, Ice Arrow only extends the Freeze length of Freezing Arrow by 5% per level, which isn't nearly as useful. When buffed with +Skill abilities, you'll have more than enough in Ice Arrow that your Freezing Arrow effects will last all the time you need and then some, all for a single point invested. You'll add more with +skill items too.

Guided Arrow
1 point

Prerequisite for Strafe.

Freezing Arrow
20 points

This is what you've been working toward this entire time. Freezing Arrow delivers Cold damage that freezes any mob near the point of impact. It's an AoE ability perfect for wiping out large groups of monsters. It both gives and receives 5% extra freeze length per level with Ice Arrow, and receives 12% extra Cold damage per level from Cold Arrow.

Another point of interest on Ice Arrow/Freezing Arrow and cold duration: it's not as good as you can get from adding +Cold Damage Small Charms to your Inventory. Ice Arrow adds only 0.10 seconds per level, while +Cold Damage Charms each add 1/.5/.25 seconds in Normal/Nightmare/Hell difficulty. If you're finding the length of time you're keeping things tied up problematic, adding Charms is more effective than adding more points into Ice Arrow.

Strafe
20 points

Strafe received a major buff in Patch 2.4, removing the old weapon damage penalty and effectively increasing its power by 33%. Having Physical damage in your arsenal is a good thing because Cold Immunes are common in Hell and you need to be able to have an answer to those. Plus, having a hard and fast-hitting Physical attack means that you can also use the occasional switch for restoring Mana through Mana Steal. The Ice bow isn't an ideal Strafe bow, but you can weight your choice for a base bow on the elemental vs. physical damage decision, or you can also put a more Strafe-appropriate bow on swap.

Skill Rotation for Ice Bowazon in Diablo II: Resurrected Ladder Season 7

Cast your Valkyrie to have it with you for your adventures.

Use Freezing Arrow to slow and pin down incoming mobs.

Use Strafe to deal with Cold Immunes and to restore Life and Mana through Life Steal and Mana Steal.

Leveling as a Ice Bowazon in Diablo II: Resurrected Ladder Season 7Best Mercenary for Ice Bowazon in Diablo II: Resurrected Ladder Season 7

Weapon - The runeword Infinity is the best great Mercenary weapon when paired with an Ice Bowazon because it lowers elemental resistances through the Conviction aura. It is, however, very expensive. The runeword Insight (level 27) offers the Meditation aura, which is a huge boon to your ability to keep up mana. This powerful aura will more than keep the mana tank topped off and is best in midgame, before you can get Infinity .

Helm - Vampire's Gaze makes your mercenary a more powerful tank, which you'll need since you're primarily a DPS class. Between a tanky mercenary and your valkyrie, you'll have plenty of protection. Another possible choice is the Crown of Thieves, which not only gives your mercenary extra survivability through Life Leech, its extra gold find makes sure your mercenary pays for his own upkeep.

Body Armor - The runeword Fortitude builds a great defensive Mercenary, helping him survive to tank for you.

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Small Charms - Ice Bowazons should look for Charms that give All Resistances, Mana, Faster Run/Walk and +Cold damage. Picking up extra Resistances from Charms will make the higher difficulty levels easier to deal with. The unique charm Annihilus is the best Small Charm available, granting +Skills, +All Attributes, +All Resistances, and 5-10% extra experience. This charm only drops off Uber Diablo.

Large Charms - The same traits you will look for in Small Charms will also be available in Large Charms. Small Charms tend to scale better, so look for Small Charms to replace Large down the road. The unique Large Charm Hellfire Torch grants +Skills, + Attributes, and +All Resistances. This charm drops from the Pandemonium event.

Grand Charms - For Grand Charms, you'll want anything with +Bow and Crossbow or +Passive and Magic, Since the vast majority of your skills are in Bow and Crossbow, this is more important than +Passive and Magic to boost. The unique Grand Charm is Gheed's Fortune, giving big boots to Magic Find and Gold Find, and reduces vendor prices by 15%. Additionally, you have the option of using the Unique Grand Charm, The Cold Rupture, to break enemy Cold immunity - this can be stacked with Infinity to great effect.

Ice Bowazon Breakpoints in Diablo II: Resurrected Ladder Season 7

FHR: 86% (5 frames)

IAS: 75% (about 8 frames)

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Frames

Faster % Stat Needed

Faster
Cast Rate

Faster
Hit Recovery

Faster
Block Rate
1H Swung Weapons*

Faster
Block Rate
Other 1H Weapons*

19f

14%

22%

32%

48%

11%

68%

15%

99%

23%

152%

29%

40%

13%

56%

20%

80%

32%

120%

52%

200%

86%

480%

174%

13%

600%

32%

86%

600%

Ice Bowazon Amazon Build Guide Diablo II: Resurrected Season 7

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