Bowazon build

[Occhidiangela]

350dex:
at very least!

With maxStrafe there is equivalence of additional 100dex (well, offweaponED) pushing it to 450 in terms of physical damage. Still the arrows (all arrows) have to hit, and dex helps a lot. 

A mighty guy from act2/Nightmare will add up offweapon damage to about 200%, when fully grown.

The sum is equivalent to 650dex and comes in range of 'powerful build' with most of the exceptional unique bows. 

Truly powerful physical bowie builds are designed to go well over 550dex _and_ a mighty guy _and_ lots of Critical _and_ as much maxdam in inventory as possible. But this needs quite a treasure in terms of trading.

With Strafe sLvl16 she needs quite a bit time to bring fire immunes down even when playing alone.  That with a bow giving her a high chance of double damage, nonladder (ie weaker monsters), and no mighty helper from act2. Some points in strength aside she is dex-as-dex-can.

Mind, I wouldn't try that in HC ;-)
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Good points all, I think you are right about IS.

Strafe hits off screen? I thought it stopped doing that in LoD, my error.

My experiences with FA are that maxed FA and maxed Cold Arrow still won't overwhelm monsters in Hell difficulty. It takes a lot of Mana. But he want a pumped up Amazon, so the skill points have to come from somewhere.

Between Strength and a bit of Vit, and HC considerations, the all dex builds never appealed to me.

700 Dex? Do you mean "effective dex" based on aura enhancements? Even if I added 89x5 points of dex, and pumped up no other stat (by clvl 90) I'd only be ablt to add 445 points of Dex. (And bloody eff all for health.) Add 25 from clvl 1 and you get 470 points of Dex.

Thanks again, I re learned a few bits. Teach old dog old tricks . . .

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