11-07-2003, 06:49 AM
D/A/E is always useful for amazons, especially bowazons, who often don't have huge pools of life, sacrificng this for damage-dealing ability. Because they can't acheive high DR, DAE is a godsend for them...they just have better things to blow their points on, which means that you're better off using +skill items to pump passives while you spend your actual skill points on bow skills. Giving passives to the valk was a freebie, IMHO, to give the amazon serious consideration towards putting actual points in the passive tree; I remain skeptical.
Playing on my friend's PC, I find that the bowazon's physical attacks are still her bread-and-butter, while cold attacks are, as always, panic buttons, and I reserve the greatest amount of my bow points for the fire tree. That Immo has a timer and such a short duration is discouraging, but I still like the skill.
And yes, this patch is more like v1.04 than anything else.
Playing on my friend's PC, I find that the bowazon's physical attacks are still her bread-and-butter, while cold attacks are, as always, panic buttons, and I reserve the greatest amount of my bow points for the fire tree. That Immo has a timer and such a short duration is discouraging, but I still like the skill.
And yes, this patch is more like v1.04 than anything else.