Please help with some advice on my Bowama.

[kwittstruck]

Hello all, Im loking to build an amazon using mostly the fire/cold part of her skills. ive written down what i might do and was hoping someone may beable to give some advice. This is for a PVM only. I wouldnt expect her to last in PMV.
My skills im looking into are as followed
Immolation Arrow 20
Exploding Arrow 20
Freezing Arrow 20
Critical Strike 10 (after 10 it seems to be less of a boost in %)
Valkyrie 17ish (as i understand she gets good rare abilities/items at that point)
Penetrate 1
Pierce 1

11 pts in pre req.
Fire Arrow, Cold Arrow, Ice Arrow, Magic Arrow, Multi Shot, Inner Sight, Slow Missle, Decoy, Dodge, Avoid, and Evade
In all 110 skill points assigned.

Ive also thought about changing to primarily cold attacks which would make it
ice arrow 20 and exploding arrow 1. Reason for that thinking is I've made it to normal and NM act 4 with other charactors, and seems theres a lot more fire immunities then there are cold. But in the case of magic immunities or both fire/cold immunities, the Velk would most certainly help for the Physical attack.

Stats im aiming for is
str 75 ish
Dex 200 or so
Vit everything else
Energy base
(i have read after 200 dex thers a good bonus to attack rating for the bow amazon but please correct me if im wrong.)

As far as equipment, Im only playing single player without the expantion LOD 1.11.
Also, as im somewhat new to the game Im not sure exactly what other then (ias) to really look for. Knockback seems to be a choice mod but that would only knock the target out of the freeze/exploding/immolition range.
As far as crafting and runes. Ive not once come across the runes at all and same for charms. Please let me know if thats just an LOD type thing or if im just really not finding them.
Again im just looking for a little insight on some things here, This isnt a guide (yet) so please dont flame me on it ;)
Thanks

[Taurean]

What you`re trying to do, is to make an all-round Bowzon, so that you don`t have to struggle with Immune monsters.

There are certain ways to build a Zon in order to achieve this.

Firstly, a Frostmaiden specialises in the Cold skills to kill everything that is not Cold immune.. You would also need to choose between adding points into Multishot and Guided arrow, or Strafe only, to take out Cold immunes. Personally i use GA\Multi, but it takes time to find out what really works best.
Skills pt setup would be something like:
20 Freezing and Cold for dmg synergy
20 GA
Around 5 Multi
You will need a high lvl Valkyrie, might as well max it
Mavina`s set is a pretty good choice to this build, although the Ice runeword is better, but is harder to get. Therefore, if you use Mavina`s Battle Hymn, you cannot use Razortail belt, and you must spend all remaining pts into Pierce. It greatly helps Freezing arrow.
If you can afford Ice, you will do with 9 pts after + skills to Pierce.
1 pt into all pre-reqs. You won`t need any in D\A\E, since you will freeze most enemies, and your valkyrie and merc are tanking for you.

Try to search for "Magezon" on google, it includes Fire skills as well. I`m not familiar with it.

[kwittstruck]

Thanks ill try that then:) just out of curiosity though how does one get runewords or runes, cause ive yet to find one. Thats why im wondering if it isnt an addition to the LOD expantion.

[saracen85]

runes are only available in lod expansion =)
jewels as well for that matter

[kwittstruck]

Thanks, i really needed to know that cause i still havnt found any, ill be gettin the expantion soon, but for now im just stuck with what i have...Gives me something new to work with when i do get it.

[Henrik]

I really think that a bow ama with no Strafe or Multi sucks!!!!!!!!

I mean why does anybody wana be a act 1 merc?? When you can be a Multi or a wicked fast Strafer thats kills anything..(With magic arrow in her backpack).. Think about that When you start to build your Bowama.....

[Tha Gangsta]

is there anything like a guided arrow bowazon??

i need a build for that plz