

Pre-buff yourself with Demon Limb and Call to Arms, and wear %life and %mana stolen per hit gear for quick life and mana recovery such as Dracul’s Grasp and String of Ears. You should consider putting your spare skill points on Passive skills such as Dodge and Avoid. Playing Hardcore: At Hardcore make sure to use walking instead of running to preserve your defense. If you have a Call to Arms switch weapon, you can further boost your popularity by providing Battle Orders for party members. Needless to say, you will be a popular member of your party. Playing in a party: In endgame gear once you wear a Faith bow your whole party can benefit from it’s fanaticism aura, and by having a Pride runeword on your mercenary you can also provide Concentration aura to further boost physical damage. Bowazons are highly versatile, java-bow hybrid options are available, while you can also utilize skill points on your cold damage or fire damage dealing Bow and Crossbow skills. Have an Act2 Might aura mercenary, and if you can afford it, equip him with a Pride ethereal Polearm, preferably Thresher. Use a Demon Limb at the beginning of each game to cast an Enchant on yourself in order to increase your attack rating.

You will be able to deal with Uber Diablo, but clearing Uber Tristram will be very challenging. Your run speed can be super fast, and in case you have an enigma Teleport can also be used for movement. By wearing +% maximum resist items and not running into the middle of monster packs, you will be able to play this build on Hardcore. Gameplay is easy and beginner friendly, you just run around and shoot from a distance. Playing solo: You will be able to solo the entire game as you can deal multiple types of damage and should not have problems with immune monsters (You can use Magic Arrow or Freezing Arrow or to deal with them). Not amongst the most efficient builds for Boss farming.Solo Baal orr Chaos runs are doable in 4 minutes, Cows within 2 minutes!.Budget options are available, can be a good ladder starter.Can kill any monster, but Uber Tristram bosses are challenging.The whole party can benefit from Fanaticism aura if you wear a Faith Bow.Super fast mob clearing and movement speed.There are very few Physical Immune monsters in the game, so you will be able to farm any area. Playing them is very beginner friendly, all you need to do is just spam shooting skills. Bowazons are viable ladder starters, and are quite efficient even in budget gear. It has decent survivability, and can deliver up to 7k damage per arrow. However if your goal is Boss farming, there are better builds available. The Bow Amazon build is adjustable for Magic Finding, and is an ideal Terror Zone, Cow Level, Travincal, or high density area farmer. The build is also hardcore viable in the right setup. You will be able to solo the entire game as you deal damage from multiple sources and should not have problems with immune monsters. The Bowazon uses Multiple Shot, Strafe, and Guided Arrow for attacking, and is able to kill enemies from screens away. If you enjoy missile builds, doing PvP, or farming high density areas, it is definitely a build you will enjoy. The Bowazon is amongst the most popular D2R builds and a highly effective one against mobs and bosses as well.
