Multiple Shot Amazon Guide

While every Stat in the Desirable Stats column is useful for this build, we highlighted the Priority Stats in Teal so you can easily identify the Most Important Stats on them.

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Gear/Base Notes: Any Items with specialized or niche uses have a superscript that refers here.
1) Death's Hand + Death's Guard grants 30% Increased Attack Speed, 8% Life Stolen per Hit, and Cannot Be Frozen. Upgrade Death's Guard Demonhide Sash for more potion slots.
2) Angelic Wings + Angelic Halo grants +xx to Attack Rating (Based on Character Level) on EACH ring, +10 to Dexterity, and +75 Life. This regularly gives >1000 Attack Rating even at lower levels.
3) demonlimb adds a MASSIVE amount of Attack Rating which is necessary on the Windforce to out-DPS Faith Matriarchal Bow.
4) Use these to replace the need to prebuff with demonlimb when farming the Secret Cow Level.

The areas below are efficient farming locations that make use of the build’s strengths. Other farming spots might not be as effective due to immunities or bad layouts. These areas are strong without a Sunder Charm.

Anything that has a ✔ in the "Starter" column can be farmed with the Starter Variant.

Act 1

Act 3

Act 4

Act 5

Your Mercenary serves an incredibly important role to the overall success of your build. They can be a front line tank, provide a pivotal Aura, and/or deal Physical Damage to kill enemies with Immunity to your Skill set.

Act 2 Desert Mercenary

Reaper’s Toll, Might

Use a Desert Mercenary with Might Aura to significantly boost your Physical Damage. Equip him with The Reaper’s Toll for a 33% Chance to cast Decrepify on striking, slowing down and increasing Physical Damage dealt to enemies. Decrepify can even break some Physical Immunities.

Gear Progression

The Mercenary is hard to keep alive until you have the minimum gear recommended in this guide. To help survive various scenarios, remember you can drag Healing Potions onto the portrait, or shift + 1/2/3/4 to directly feed them a Healing Potion from your belt. The Mercenary also gains bonus Resistances from Thawing Potions and Antidote Potions.

If your Mercenary dies in battle, you can revive them from any of the Mercenary NPCs in each Act. This does come with an increasing cost, capping at 50,000 Gold. So keep that in mind and decide if the Mercenary is currently worth the cost.

General

• The Multishot Bowazon Ideal Standard Variant is what we like to call a "Glass Cannon". That means she's built to do the maximum amount of damage possible, which ultimately sacrifices a lot of her survivability.
• Before you have calltoarms you have to rely on your dodge chance, and making good pathing decisions around monsters, while playing.
• Use decoy and valkyrie help to create space for you, and draw the attention of higher threat monster types. The valkyrie can also help to focus down Boss monsters once you've swapped to guidedarrow for single target burst.
• The Bowazon playstyle is incredibly engaging, as you need to know your enemies, your surroundings, and what can threaten you.
• With multipleshot your primary objective is to kill monsters before they have the chance to kill you.
• One of the issues you run into on a multipleshot Amazon is the quantity on arrows. This is where magicarrow comes into play. magicarrow does not use any Quantity, so you're able to pick off any stragglers, rather than waste additional Quantity using other Skills.
• guidedarrow is such an important Skill for single target / Boss killing because it ALWAYS hits. guidedarrow does not calculate Chance to Hit.

Immunities

• bonebreak allows the build to apply some Physical Damage prior to using magicarrow to finish them off with Magic Damage.

Late Game

• MIN-MAX PREBUFF STRATS: Equip Hustle to proc burstofspeed using strafe on your way to your farming area and every 2 minutes while in it.
• If not min-maxing, cast battlecommand and then battleorders at the beginning of your farming session and whenever the buffs run out.
• If not using lavagout on the Standard windforce variant swap to demonlimb and cast enchant on yourself.
• Because the Amazon cannot comfortably add teleport to her kit, she has to rely on the large amount of Faster Run / Walk Speed on her gear. To maximize clear speed and overall efficiency, you want to make sure you're running forward between every 1-2 shots.
• If you happen to leave a few stragglers from pack to pack, consider moving along until more monsters are on the screen rather than wasting time against single targets.
• multipleshot can hit every monster on screen, so it's easy to have overlap with packs that are left behind.

Breakpoints in Diablo 2 are the minimum values required to reduce the frames of an action. Below are the important breakpoints considered for this build. For more information on the mechanics involved, check out our in-depth Resource: Breakpoints.

Increased Attack Speed (IAS)

Increased Attack Speed speeds up your attack animations. Weapon bases have different IAS breakpoints. Values for recommended weapon options provided below. Consult the d2planner for other bases.

Faster Hit Recovery (FHR)

Faster Hit Recovery is not required for survivability in this build, but early breakpoints can be utilized.

For all Hardcore gameplay, your primary focus is increasing your Resistances, Damage Reduction, Chance to Block and Maximum Life. This can mean sacrificing overall power level for a more secure playstyle.

This build can become Hardcore viable with key changes to the Skills, Stat Point allocation, and items. Review the changes below before building this character, as they may differ significantly from the normal build.

Stat Point Changes

• To use the Crown of Ages we need to put 109 Stat Points into Strength.
• We only put 296 Stat Points into Dexterity.
• This allows up to put 100 Stat Points into Vitality.

Item Changes

• We use Crown of Ages for it's Faster Hit Recovery, All Resistances, Damage Reduction, and + 1 to All Skills to increase our battleorders.
• We swap our boots to a rare option for Tri-Resistances and Faster Hit Recovery (i.e. Rare Boots).
• Furthermore, we swap our Grand Charms to have the Vita Suffix Sharp Grand Charm of Vita.
• Using bonebreak comes with a VERY HEAVY likelihood that you may die. Use chainsofhonor to mitigate some of that extra danger.

• The speed of this Skill is based on Attack Speed.
• Weapon Damage and Cold Length from gear is only 75% effective. Life and Mana stolen per hit are also affected by this reduction.
• Shot Bolts or Arrows split up into multiple projectiles while only using 1 Quantity per use. The projectile count caps at 24. Additional Skill Points after slvl = 23 only increase the Mana costs.
• The spread of the projectiles can be influenced by the cursor placement. Being closer to your Character causes a wider spread, while having the cursor far away leads to a concentrated volley.
• It has a Next Hit Delay of 4 Frames (0.16 seconds), causing it to normally only hit a target once.
• The following Attack Modifiers only apply to the initial 2 projectiles fired:
  • Crushing Blow
  • Open Wounds
  • Chance to Cast on Striking
  • Hit Blinds Target
  • Hit Causes Monster to Flee
  • Freezes Target
  • Knockback
  • Slows Target

• The speed of this Skill is based on Attack Speed.
• Minimum and Maximum Physical Damage equal to the Skill Level (sLVL) is added to the attack before +% Enhanced Damage is applied, and then converting a % of the total Physical Damage into Magic Damage.
  The conversion to Magic Damage after the potential Physical Damage is calculated, but before the Magic Resist of the target. The % Conversion rate is equal to its sLVL.
• While a quiver of Bolts or Arrows is required, the Quantity of them is not reduced when using Magic Arrow.

• The speed of this Skill is based on Attack Speed.
• When fired in a random direction, the projectile seeks a target within a search radius of 10 yards every 5 Frames (0.2 seconds). When a target is acquired (automatically or by selecting a target yourself), the projectile follows it until it is hit, or the projectile hits an obstacle. If a target is not in the line of sight of the Character, it can't be acquired by the projectile. If a target dies while being acquired by the projectile, it flies in a straight line, not hitting anything.
• Past Skill Level (slvl) = 32, it doesn't require any Mana to be used.
• Projectiles expire after a maximum of 128 Frames (5.12 seconds).
• It bypasses the hit-check, but still can be blocked.
• Pierce has no effect on this Skill, but it doesn't collide with targets between on the way to its acquired target.

• Gives a chance to Dodge a specific attack based on the circumstances described in the Skill. This causes the attack to miss.
  • The Chance to Dodge is calculated after Chance to Hit and Chance to Block.
• Dodging interrupts other animations including attacking and using Skills.
• Dodging animation speed is increased by Faith's Fanaticism Aura and decreased by effects which slow down your Character except decrepify.
• The default length of the animation is 8 Frames = .32 seconds.
• You can become trapped in a Dodge animation cycle, meaning you successfully dodge during or directly after the animation ends. In situations like this, it may be better to Save and Exit rather than trying to fight your way out.

• This is a passive Skill that is active at all times.
• Grants a % Chance that your missiles (Arrows, Bolts, Javelins, Throwing Axes, and Throwing Knifes) pierce an enemy.
• To successfully pierce an enemy, the missile must go through a successful hit check first. If the missile gets blocked in the block calculation, the missile doesn't damage the target but still pierce through it.
• A missile can pierce up to 4 times, hitting a total of 5 enemies.
• If the hit check is not successful, but the piercing check is, then the projectile visually continues to travel without dealing further harm.
• The % Chance to Pierce scales with the Skill Level (sLVL) and is capped at 100%: min(10 + (90 x ((110 x sLVL) / (sLVL + 6)) / 100), 100)