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Multiple Shot Amazon Guide

Last Updated: March 6th 2024

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The Multiple Shot / Guided Arrow Amazon, also known as the "Multishot Bowazon", literally rains death down on the minions of Diablo. With one of the fastest Attack Speed animations and MASSIVE damage, multipleshot mows down monsters at surprising speeds! It even mows down the Prime Evils with guidedarrow which excels at single target Damage per Second (DPS).

While the build relies on big Physical Damage, it also has access to Magic Damage through magicarrow. This means that the build is effective against just about every monster type in the game, without relying on Curses or Auras. magicarrow also gives us great arrows sustain, since it doesn't use up our quantity.

The new Seasonal Runeword Hustle has opened the door for MASSIVE min-maxing potential! See the Variant and Playstyle sections to learn how to incorporate it into your gear.

Ideal Standard Variant
Ideal Standard Variant


multipleshot


guidedarrow


magicarrow


valkyrie

This build guide assumes you have a Character at Level 75 before transitioning to it. Check out our Character Leveling Guide and our General Leveling Strategies to reach Level 75.

Full Screen Clear ✔
Fast Paced Playstyle ✔
Massive Single Target Damage ✔
Can Rely On Valkyrie For Tanking ✔

❌ Incredibly Gear Dependent
❌ Cannot Rely On Mercenary DPS
❌ Relies On Run / Walk For Mobility

❌ Required Gear Is Difficult To Obtain

Sunder Charm Setup

Patch 2.5 introduces a new way of breaking Immunities: Sunder Charms. Any enemy that would be Immune to your damage type is insted reduced to 95% Resistance, before any other Resistance reductions apply. (e.g. Conviction, Lower Resist) The Charm also reduces YOUR Resistance against the sundered damage type! Check out our post on Sunder Charms to learn more about these new Charms. The following setup uses Bone Break, allowing you to farm anywhere you want.

Sunder Charm Setup
Sunder Charm Setup

Gear Changes

The Multiple Shot Bowazon's primary gameplan for handling Physical Immunes doesn't change drastically with the addition of Bone Break. BUT it does help to pepper on some damage to Immunes before you target them down with magic arrow. Since this is a glass cannon build, we don't try to offset the additional Physical Damage you take with it equipped...just don't get hit!

Terror Zones

The new Terror Zone mechanic combined with Sunder Charms open up a wide range of farmable areas. The following list highlights the best and worst Terror Zones for this build on the Starter or Budget setup. With the Sunder Charm Setup, more Terror Zones become accessible. Learn more about Terror Zones here and see how they stack up in our Terror Zone Tier List.

Best

The Secret Cow Level - High Density, Easy Mobility, No Immunities
Flayer Jungle ONLY - High Density, Easy Mobility, No Immunities
Rocky Waste + Stony Tomb - High Density, Easy Mobility, Many Elite Groups
Cold Plains + The Cave - High Density, Easy Mobility, Quick Access
Frigid Highlands - Eldritch ONLY

Worst

Tal Rasha's Tombs - Immunities, Slow Access, High Physical Damage, High Elemental Damage, Tanky enemies
Worldstone Keep + Throne of Destruction - Immunities, Slow Access, High Elemental Damage, Tanky enemies
Arcane Sanctuary - Trash Mobility, Immunities
Act 3 Sewers - Trash Mobility, Immunities, Slow Access
Durance of Hate - Trash Mobility, Tanky enemies

Skills

Put 1 Point into each of the following Skills:
1. dodge
2. evade
3. avoid
4. valkyrie
5. Strafe (To proc Hustle)

Max out the following Skills in this order:
1. pierce (Until 69%)
2. multipleshot
3. criticalstrike
4. penetrate
5. guidedarrow
6. magicarrow

Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression
Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression

Damage

Utility

Attributes

Note: This section provides you with the standard Stat Point allocation. Build Variants can require a different allocation!

Strength

Allocate enough Stat Points into Strength to equip all of your gear. Take into account how much Strength your gear provides when equipped.

Dexterity

Allocate the majority of Stat Points into Dexterity for additional Physical Damage on ranged attacks

Vitality

In this build we are not putting any Stat Points into Vitality because all of them are used to increase the Physical Damage of this build. This build gets enough Life from gear, buffs, and Charms.

Energy

Do not allocate any Stat Points into Energy. Mana costs are covered by “x% Mana Stolen per Hit” or “+x Mana after each Kill” on gear.

Essentials

Gear Options

Farming Spots

Mercenary

Playstyle

Breakpoints

Hardcore

Build Variants

Starter
M'avina's Battle Hymn
Standard
Faith
Hardcore

Setup

A Bowazon requires some key necessities to be functional. 100% Chance to Pierce, Increased Attack Speed, High Minimum / Maximum Damage, and Cannot Be Frozen. This set up relies on Buriza-Do Kyanon supplying us with 100% Chance to Pierce and high Damage. The combination of Death's Hand and Death's Guard together with Angelic Halo, Angelic Wings, and Treachery will do a lot of the heavy lifting. The charms shown represent desirable stats you will find during the leveling process.

Mercenary

The Act 2 Offensive Mercenary grants us access to two incredibly important Auras. might and meditation from the Insight Partizan Runeword. This allows us to ignore gear with % Mana Stolen per Hit, until we're able to create a Faith Great Bow Act 1 Mercenary.

Skills

Since Buriza-Do Kyanon Ballista gives us 100% Chance to Pierce, we have more points available for other skills.

Put 1 Point into each of the following Skills:
1. dodge
2. evade
3. avoid
4. innersight

Max out the following Skills in this order:
1. multipleshot (Until 24 Arrows is reached from total Skill Level)
2. guidedarrow
3. penetrate
4. criticalstrike

Attributes

We allocate enough Strength to wear our gear and then place the rest into Dexterity for increased damage on our Crossbow.

Setup

While M'avina's excels as a Freezing Arrow Amazon, it actually performs quite well as a multipleshot / guidedarrow Amazon. One of the benefits is that you easily maximize your survivability and Quality of Life (QoL) stats like Life / Mana Stolen per Hit. This setup also requires a smaller investment into Jewels and chase Rares / Uniques to fully outfit.

Add bonebreak to the build to farm Areas with high amounts of Physical Immunes to slightly increase your kill speed.

Hustle's burstofspeed allows us to hit much faster attack frames and movement speed without the need of special Mercenaries or other items. While walking towards your farming area of choise, use strafe until the buff procs and whenever necessary.

Mercenary

We use the Act 2 Might Mercenary with The Reaper's Toll Thresher to gain access to a strong xx% Enhanced Damage Aura and decrepify. He often lags behind but against Physical Immunes, high Resistance or Boss monsters, the Curse drastically increases your kill speed.

Skills

Put 1 Point into each of the following Skills:
1. dodge
2. evade
3. avoid
4. valkyrie
5. Strafe
(To proc hustle)

Max out the following Skills in this order:
1. pierce
2. multipleshot (Until 24 Arrows is reached from total Skill Level)
3. criticalstrike
4. penetrate
5. guidedarrow
6. magicarrow

Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression
Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression

Attributes

This Variant allocates enough points into Strength to wear its gear and then puts the rest into Dexterity.

Setup

The epitome of a "Glass Cannon" run and gun playstyle. This build uses the fastest Attack Speed Breakpoint for Windforce at 7 Frames per attack. It has 100% Chance to Pierce and MASSIVE Damage to Demons with Laying of Hands. With 82% effective chance to crit, the majority of attacks will deal double damage, drastically increasing clear speed.

Add bonebreak to the build to farm Areas with high amounts of Physical Immunes to slightly increase your kill speed.

Hustle's burstofspeed allows us to hit much faster attack frames and movement speed without the need of special Mercenaries or other items. While walking towards your farming area of choise, use strafe until the buff procs and whenever necessary.

Mercenary

We use the Act 2 Might Mercenary with The Reaper's Toll Thresher to gain access to a strong xx% Enhanced Damage Aura and decrepify. He often lags behind but against Physical Immunes, high Resistance or Boss monsters, the Curse drastically increases your kill speed.

Skills

Put 1 Point into each of the following Skills:
1. dodge
2. evade
3. avoid
4. valkyrie
5. Strafe
(To proc [Hustle)

Max out the following Skills in this order:
1. pierce (Until 69%)
2. multipleshot
3. guidedarrow
4. penetrate
5. criticalstrike
6. magicarrow

Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression
Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression

Attributes

We allocate enough points into Strength to wear our gear and put the rest of our points into Dexterity.

Setup

To maximize our damage output, we use Faith Grand Matron Bow that allows us to swap to a stronger Mercenary option with more Auras. To reach the 7 Frame Attack Speed BP we have to use a 4 Socketed Armor with 2 more Ruby Jewel of Fervor. This setup gains you 1-2k additional DPS but loses out on some of the survivability of the standard build.

Add bonebreak and chains of honor to the build to farm Areas with high amounts of Physical Immunes to slightly increase your kill speed.

Mercenary

We use the Act 2 Might Mercenary with The Reaper's Toll Thresher to gain access to a strong xx% Enhanced Damage Aura and decrepify. He often lags behind but against Physical Immunes, high Resistance or Boss monsters, the Curse drastically increases your kill speed.

Skills

This Hardcore Variant has a greater investment into the Chance to Dodge, decoy and valkyrie. To accommodate this change we have to lose Skill Points in magicarrow. Guided Arrow is not affected by reduced Attack Rating, as it guarantees hits. Relying on tankier decoy and valkyrie gives you more space to maintain distance and safety against high threat monsters.

Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression
Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression

Attributes

We allocate enough points into Strength to wear our gear and put the rest of our points into Dexterity.

Setup

To make the Ideal Standard build viable for Hardcore our key gear changes are: Crown of Ages for Damage Reduction, Faster Hit Recovery and All Resistances. Rare Boots like Rare Boots that have Faster Run/Walk, multiple Resistances, and Faster Hit Recovery. Finally, swapping our Grand Charms for Sharp Grand Charm of Vita to bump up our maximum Life. We still hit the maximum Attack Speed Breakpoint and massive damage.

Add bonebreak and chains of honor to the build to farm Areas with high amounts of Physical Immunes to slightly increase your kill speed.

Mercenary

We use the Act 2 Might Mercenary with The Reaper's Toll Thresher to gain access to a strong xx% Enhanced Damage Aura and decrepify. He often lags behind but against Physical Immunes, high Resistance or Boss monsters, the Curse drastically increases your kill speed.

Skills

This Hardcore Variant has a greater investment into the Chance to Dodge, decoy and valkyrie. To accommodate this change we have to lose Skill Points in magicarrow. Guided Arrow is not affected by reduced Attack Rating, as it guarantees hits. Relying on tankier decoy and valkyrie gives you more space to maintain distance and safety against high threat monsters.

Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression
Use the Scroll Bar to see Skill Point Progression

Attributes

This Variant follows the Stats Point allocation of the recommended build except we take 100 points from our Dexterity allocation and put them into Vitality.

Mechanics

Multipleshot

Magic Arrow

guidedarrow

evade / dodge / avoid

pierce

Summary

  • This build is a "Glass Cannon"! Make sure to know your surroundings, and use your tanks to open space for maneuvering. Your main focus is to keep your distance from threats!
  • Your projectiles piercing multiplies your total DPS significantly, make sure to line up your targets to maximize the hits per shot.
  • Chance to Dodge is a blessing and a curse. If you have fanaticism your animation is much faster, but before that you may get "stuck" infinitely dodging.
  • magicarrow doesn't use any quantity of your Arrows! Use this if you're running low or finishing off a boss.
  • The new Seasonal Runeword Hustle has opened the door for MASSIVE min-maxing potential! See the Variant and Playstyle sections to learn how to incorporate it into your gear.

It's incredibly satisfying to fill your screen with arrows, and watching Diablo's minions fall by the scores! We hope you enjoy running this high intensity Amazon build!

Good luck! In bocca al lupo!

Credits

Written by MacroBioBoi
Reviewed by Teo1904

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