Bowazon needs some love for sure, even with faith, fortitude, 3 sock diadem of speed with 15 ias 40 ed jewels, Frw and dmg charms it is way to ineffective. A fresh hammerdin, fohdin, javazon etc just outpaces it in every regard.
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this isn’t news to most diablo 2 players.
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I know that and everyone knows that, but writing it out may make a change. One can dream 
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Hyperbole.
Yes bowazon is expensive and slower than geared meta chars, but it’s not like you try to picture it.
Also drop the fortitude and get enigma. There are enough videos on YouTube that show you can even do p8 runs in okish time.
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on this forum HAH. they only take requests from people who are just as clueless as the devs… it baffles me honestly.
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Tried with enigma aswell but the horrible cast frames and lower damage is very noticeable
You can mitigate the damage loss with points in dex instead of str and enigma helps you reach the next mob groups.
I hope you use 14max gcs. But you can search the videos on yt, maybe it will help you to improve your bowazon
bawazon it is for flexing
Hows that possible. i got exactly those and i absolutely melt. I wreck trav in 5 seconds.
My bowazon melts WK in full games with only 560life…
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I feel like you may be investing too many points into vitality.
dump any and all points into dex, all you need is your base item life and bo to survive.
with max dex, 1% life leech is enough to damn near make you full again.
I say it again and again, not more and more inflating the game and make everything higher, faster, further, is important.
So we need a balance in an RPG again? No of course not… RPG means differences. Comparison games, sports games, competition games need balancing. RPGs need maximum differences and class depth. Otherwise everything is a soup earlier and differs only in effects, felt everything plays the same.
So if we have to start somewhere, then with the classes that are far too strong and weaken them to protect the game, the game world and the system.
The whole game needs to be grounded again so that it can breathe, so that people will have fun experiencing a world again and understanding it as the actual place where things happen.
And then you can expand there again and make it better.
If we simply put on top of it, this tower will break off us sometime, it will fall down and we will have to endure until it is so far, a one-way street of long laziness and contentless, soulless unity mush. A spiral, a one-way street in which everything will feel worthless, because we are floating somewhere above the clouds and have no grounding to the actual game and to this world.
You could make a really good game out of D2R with new acts, classes and expanding the existing world. This old D2 is for example D3 by lengths superior, it is only old. Expand it in terms of the game world and make it more challenging again and the gameplay slower and less bloated. AE effects prefer to extend maximum to an area that does not cover the whole screen and beyond, etc. All these exaggerations, only interfere with countless factors of the game world, RPG mechanics, co-op opportunities and more.
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D2R isn’t a RPG. It’s a ARPG aka a hack and slash with RPG elements.
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I use full mav set with frozen arrow. Its awesome.
The fact that bowazon doesn’t outdps any of the meta builds despite having low mf, low hp, horrible cast frames if you decide to use enigma and crushing blow is nerfed on ranged attacks aswell. Bowazon would need the run speed of a frenzy barb or assassin with burst of speed to be on par.
As it is now it’s nothing but a gimmick (that i still enjoy playing) but it is not where it should be performance wise.
It’s not bad, but the performance is pathetic even if you shove 50+ ber runes into it.
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Phys damage hasn’t been balanced since 1.10. You might want to get over it.
They would need a massive numbers nerf to mobs and caster/non phys damage to restart balancing without completely killing PvP. But we saw with D3 that blizzard knows only one direction and that’s bigger numbers
U make it wrong thats why.
U need to use a a2 might aura merc with pride runeword. And give all stats to dex. U dont need much life as bowa.
The problem with boazon is that even if you were to quadruple her damage, she will be nowhere near meta DPS on players 8. Blizzard needs to take a look at the core skills and remove the massive nerfs they implemented into multi shot. GGM has a good indepth video about all the drawbacks of using MS.
Finally, blizzard should never balance skills around pvp, put in the hard work and do a separate balance for pvp.
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That is exactly how she is built.
Bowazons aren’t weak, they just aren’t stupidly overpowered. The way that people frame things is important.
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