BOWAZON DESTROYS NOW in P8 Diablo 2 Resurrected

mikeblenheim117: My same zon with wf does 11k strafe damage
redenici: Nice one! I am playing with cats eye, 30frw 3os tiara with 30max 2x 15ias/15max, war trava and fortitude and bunch of max/ar/life or frw charms. On switch i am using harmony bow so you can run almost as fast as teleport. Also, you can use crafting glows with knock back
Great and fun build overall
seanhillyer: Hello Iceman. Been watching your videos for a while but never commented. I just started playing the bowazon 2 years ago. Just couldn't get into playing a Necromancer with lots of makeup on, wearing women's clothing while bleaching his hair blond and putting it up in a top knot with a slight amount of botox. However, I'm fully invested now in drinking the kool-aid and am fully woke so it no longer bothers me and as such here is what my 2 years of testing has provided me.

1. I am a super lazy player. I press one mouse button to strafe and the W key to swap to Harmony. I don't even like using potions at all... EVER. I don't even like spending the 50k to revive my act 2 merc. I have the money but I can't bring myself to waste all that time walking over to the NPC to revive the merc when it dies.

2. I tried all the gear in the various slots as you are now doing yourself and this is what I found: (Side note: you will not find any crushing blow in this build because I don't farm bosses like Mephisto with this character. And the damage per arrow is about the same as crushing blow and even more with amp damage on elite packs and trash mobs)

Gear: Andarials visage with socket 15 max dmg 15 ias jewel. Grand Matron bow (Faith) 15/2 (you will be at capped strafe speed with 55 total IAS and the MultiShot if you choose to use that is really fast as well). Atmas ammy. Fortitude with 1.5hp per level. War travelers. Crafted gloves with 2 to bow/crossbow skills, 20 IAS, knockback. Razortail & 2 rare rings with min max damage with mana leech & all res. Charms: max damage / AR / life grand charms same for small charms and like you I have a poison charm (not as good as yours) along with a cold charm 10-20 damage.

The one thing I do differently is I use a bone break. Because when elites are physical Immune, Amp damage doesn't bring them down a full 100%.. but with Bone Break and Amp damage they go down like buttah.

Last but not least I get the act 2 merc with might. He uses Andys, Fortitude for armor. The Key for the act 2 merc never dying is the DOOM runeword. It has no procs on it.. so it never cancels out amp damage, the holy freeze aura from DOOM slows monsters by 50% and your merc will have 65 total IAS. So even when he is surrounded by cows or mobs it doesn't matter.. they attack so slow they can't put him into stun lock.. and even if he has lost say most of his life it isn't a big deal because once he swings or thrusts with his DOOM.. he is doing 4k to 10K damage per swing (that is damage minus amp damage applied) and more often than not AMP DAM is on that mob.. so he heals to full hp in one shot. On a side note.. he can die.. and does especially when I feel he hasn't been pulling his weight in terror farming zones.. It pisses me off so I will take him to travincal to teach him a lesson... buuuut then /sigh i have to walk to the npc.


In conclusion, it is a very strong build, your dolled up necromancer will be doing around 5500 to 6k physical damage average per hit with strafe. You have plenty of animated mobs to grab aggro along with your act 2 merc (who is a beast damage wise) and Valkyrie. I know it is no great feat.. but I haven't come close to dying in terror zones with this build in maybe a year and a half.

Enjoy.
ApathyBM: For the armor test since the 15 damage jewels are so good how about a Jewellers plate with 15 min/max jewels?
rhox1567: Is the dim vision canceling the amp damage?
thestabbinhob0986: The only bad part about a pride merc while you're using atmas is the blind target. Overrides any curse you apply with every hit.
ZacHawkins42: I ended up trying Giant's Skull on my Bowchantress: Fairly underwhelming because enemies are almost always in hit recovery animation (basically stun-locked) due to the damage im dealing, so I dont really need the knockback. Also it's only got one socket. Might still make a Bowzon dude with it, though.
justinmiller878: There was a posse of clowns that started the insane thing.
anthonyg6083: if you going to keep enigma you can put some more fcr items in swap to tp quicker
grimzkul: Have you got Pride on your merc? Triple aura mayhem.
CamSally27: They should just make the physical sunder be like a 10-20% chance to proc amp damage instead of how it works currently
nightworg: What about using the Brand bow. 35% chance to prock Amplify and many other great attributes - Like 280 - 330 dmg to demons on top of Laying of Hands 350%. You would probably need to use Treachery to reach the IAS 75 breakpoint, but since it comes with knockback you could use another helmet, so maybe Guillaume's Face with IAS jewel. Could be interesting to see how it compare.
heinricheisele7173: i'm constantly dying with this thing
yanniblumstein1: Nice Man-azon Build
therealplax: Hello mysterious man from the far north
webbyboythagod6044: I've done countless testing on physical bows, atma's does not shave seconds off any of my chaos runs. Stick with highlords or cats eye.
Satire-Gaming: bowazon has always been amazing if you built it right lol
eliotthecaveman: FREE SHAKO!!!
taxxcutt7455: Streamer, don't die.
SeanConnery-f9w: MANAZON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!