Can a bowazon play through hell?

[aminoscrappa]

Hi there. I have made a bowazon who is currently level 55 with a bow doing 23-125 damage. She has about 230 dexterity with items and can only achieve 550 damage. I calculated that I recieve about 1 damage for every dexterity point I invest so by level 85 I should have about 700 max damage. Is this enough? If not then how are bowazons expected by blizzard to be able to go through hell difficulty? When i play a hell game with my 550 damage I barely do any damage at all to monsters and I doubt an exta 150 will help me. My bow is quite decent so I dont think it has anything to do with my equip.

[stanzaman]

My old level 87 bowazon that used to rock 1.09 Hell isn't even effective in the Act 1 open areas now. Too many damage penalties combined with monster resistances and immunities basically killed the bowazon in classic. Though a carefully made strafe/elemental/valk zon with godly gear might be able to very slowly get through hell if you keep at it.

[aminoscrappa]

Well, can they at least duel?

[Classics]

A common mistake made by many. A Bowazon CAN go through hell UNTWINKED. I've done it twice (untwinked) before (Once in HC), and quite frankly effectively. The people I played with were amazed that I could actually kill. For a Physical Bowazon, being untwinked means investing nearly everything in Dexterity. Without a sturdy base of equipment, the obvious choice for a physical route would definently be Strafe. Don't give up, and go all the way!

[Fearlessone]

Try some poison damage with ur attack, it will keep them from rehealing.

[stanzaman]

Don't give up, and go all the way!

I'm really curious as to how you did this. Sounds like your build was:

Str: Enough for gear (60 or so?)
Dex: Most of the rest
Vit: A few/Base
Erg: Base

Skills:
Max strafe
Strafe synergies?
high level passives?

Bow: Rune, gothic, or ?
Twitch?
Death set?

My current (very old) Zon uses a 130ish gothic with 10% IAS and a skull socketed into it. Twitch, Sigon's gloves and boots, cold damage belt, and nice skills ammy. Some cheap helm/rings mostly with resists. She has max strafe, guided, high level multishot, 1 point in freezing arrow, and a bunch thrown into the passives. A lot of fun to play in 1.09 and earlier, now she sits around.

[psycho.hatred]

strafe has synergies???

[Classics]

I'm really curious as to how you did this. Sounds like your build was:

Str: Enough for gear (60 or so?)
Dex: Most of the rest
Vit: A few/Base
Erg: Base

Skills:
Max strafe
Strafe synergies?
high level passives?

Bow: Rune, gothic, or ?
Twitch?
Death set?

My current (very old) Zon uses a 130ish gothic with 10% IAS and a skull socketed into it. Twitch, Sigon's gloves and boots, cold damage belt, and nice skills ammy. Some cheap helm/rings mostly with resists. She has max strafe, guided, high level multishot, 1 point in freezing arrow, and a bunch thrown into the passives. A lot of fun to play in 1.09 and earlier, now she sits around.

I had a setup awhile back posted. Look up Bowazons in the search the function- maybe you can find my help subject.

Edit: http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=364005&page=2&pp=10&highlight=Bowazon

[mhl12]

strafe has synergies???

no it does not.

http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/skills/amazon-bow.shtml