Armor - Treachery, Fort, Gladiator's Bane, pretty much anything goes.

Helm - Andyface with ral or fire res / ias jewel.

This means that with 61% crit chance from points into Critical Strike and 35% deadly strike from Highlord (at lvl 95), your effective crit chance is 1 - (1 - 0.61) * (1 - 0.35) = 0.7465 -> 74.65% chance for double damage.

Both are checked separately and only one can occur. *Note: deadly strike cannot occur with critical hit, i.e. Offhand - CtA + Spirit if you want to be a little less squishy, or Naj's staff for tele charges.Charms - Anni + Torch with the highest res you can get, bow skillers, and lots of res SCs (can omit if you enjoy playing risky).Ring2 - rare ring with life leech and resists.Boots - War Travs for the extra damage, or rare boots if you're hurting for res.Can switch to 2/20s or 3/20s when fighting non-demons and where fire res isn't important, like in cows. Skills, lightning res, deadly strike* and ias. Helm - Nightwing's Veil socketed with 15% ias jewel, ideally 15% ias / 15% all res.Do not put any more points into Ice Arrow as it only improves freeze duration, not damage. I opted to take Critical Strike to 6 (13 soft points for 61% crit) and the rest into Magic Arrow. ~2 points Pierce (enough to reach 9 soft points with gear)Įxtra points can go towards more Critical Strike, Valk, Multishot or Magic Arrow to help with physical+cold immunes.5 Multishot (~15 soft points is enough).134 STR (156 if you intend to use CtA + spirit offhand) with gear.Less expensive than other comparable builds.Can kill almost anything and farm almost anywhere.

Here is a video of the build in action, doing an offline /players 3 CS run:

Note that this is an endgame build a leveling section is not included. It can reach over 9k max damage on Strafe with about 75% crit rate and 2k+ damage on FA. I've tried making similar builds in classic D2, but the new buffs to Strafe and to bow skill synergies finally make it actually work. It is still very competitive compared to other, more expensive builds.

Instead, this build uses an Infinity merc and sacrifices a little physical damage to help its Freezing Arrow. I made it primarily because WF is one of my favorite items and I wanted to use it over the other options, but I didn't want to go the cookie-cutter WF + Faith merc route. This is an end-game, hybrid strafe + freezing arrow amazon build using Windforce.

Diablo 2 bowazon build 2018