I posted this in an answer in general, but will just post it here separately too:
Here is a good guide for a fun and inexpensive Bowazon. Set your skills to qwerasdf. But, change standing still attack from shift, to Q. You can put Guided Arrow on W, Multi on E, and Immolation Arrow on R. Basic attack on left mouse button, Koku makes it an Explosive Shot and also adds Pierce to all of your attacks. It takes a little while to learn, get Muscle Memory, to use Q to stand still, and choose the right arrow of the 4 you use. But when you have learned, you run around expertly, looking like a pro.
Get Kuko Shakaku cedar bow. Max Immolation arrow and all it’s synergies. Basic attack now gives exploding arrows from Koku, and leeches back mana.
Max out guided arrows. Only have 10-11 in Multi arrow, you don’t need any more multi arrows. Koku gives 50% pierce, you don’t need more than 50% pierce from your skills. Don’t take Valkyrie because the sounds she makes ruins the game. After taking the 1 point wonders in Passive, mid and right tree, all your last points go into critical strike. Not a skill point is wasted in this build. Get might merc from nm, and give him Reapers Toll.
Added fire from items, and charms, adds to the explosion on the basic attack! This doesn’t show on Character screen. The basic attack damage looks low on Char screen, but it doesn’t show the explosion damage. The Char screen doesn’t show, the burn over time damage from Immo Arrow either. So, you do alot more damage than you thought you would.
Get unique Linked Mail (Spirit Forge), it is a good armor with 2 ias jewels in! Get Lava Gouts, the enchant adds fire damage too! You’ll want either +63 IAS, or +105 IAS. If you can’t reach 105 or decide not to, you can add MF or other things. So you can get Mavinas Diadem with 1 IAS jewel, add the belt, it gives you your mana leech, it gives 20 strength with 2 Mavina items, and the Diadem gets +1 skill! Thats a nice Diadem and a pretty good belt.
But also a good MF Stealskull helmet, with 1 IAS jewel if you need, can work for MF together with Goldwraps IAS. With +63 ias you can also wear Skullders. If you put IAS jewels in Stealskull, and in Skullders, you can even reach 105 IAS with Goldwraps and 20 IAS on gloves and Amu, and Shael or IAS jewel in Bow. Our Immo arrow is on a cd, and you shoot autoattacks in between, the last IAS breakpoint is not so crucial, as someone with Windforce shooting Multiarrows all the time. Or put it another way, a high MF build can do the job too (Topaz in Stealskull and Skullders). But play around and make sure you reach either +63 or +105 IAS, in between doesn’t matter and can be taken of.
On my character, I have 48% MF on Wartravs, I have 17% MF on gloves, I have a 31% MF Gheeds, and I found an 11fireres 4% MF small Charm, so my Max Damage build has 100% MF too.
Amu should be Cats Eye, and Boots War Travellers. Highlord and Gore riders give Deadly Strike, but that is only when you dont crit. So Deadly Strike is a % of the time your 70% chance to crit doesn’t happen. So a % of the 30% when you don’t crit. That turns into a low % of Deadly strikes. If you want to make a build with low crit skill (if you want Valkyrie for example), you can add Deadly Strike to the build.
I myself dont use Lavagouts, I wear Demon Limb on switch, with a 3 Fal shield to equip. It lets me cast level 23 Enchant. I can use other gloves then, +2bow skills with 20 ias is perfect. Or The green ones that give +350% damage to Demons (Edit: Laying of Hands). if you wear Mavinas Diadem with ias Jewel (45% ias), And Spirit Forge with 2 IAS Jewels (30%), and Cats Eye or HighLords (20%), you only need 20% from either Gloves or Shael in Bow. If you put in Bow you can use whatever gloves you like, of if you put in gloves and in Bow, you can use whatever Amu you like.
Or you can have fun, and have ias on Diadem, Amu, Gloves and Shael in Bow, and put in 2 Fire Facets in your Armor.
Basic play, run around shooting Immo arrow, and autoattack in between. When you merc decripify, you can shoot the mobs with multi arrow. Single target on for example Baal, is Immo Arrow, and Guided Arrows in between.
Upgrade the Kuko from Cedar Bow to Shadow Bow when you can use it. Put in Shael if you need IAS, or enchanced damage jewel +35% if you don’t need IAS . Bow skillers are good, Immo damage comes from raising the skill level.
Basically you have 4 skills you use. Immo and Main attacks are your go to. Multi sometimes against small critters and skeletons, when they are decripified, and Guided arrows against bosses, keeping immo arrow burning on them, and Guided versus healers and resser monsters on the backline. You are fire and physical damage, the autoattack also gives physical damage and can be used with decripify.
Stats should be strength to equip, add 100 base Vitality, and the rest in Dex for damage and attack rating. With the very nice life on Spirit Forge, and some life on charms, you can even go lower on Vit if you dare, to get more damage.
It is not a Javazon, but you can take down cow herds even in player 8 games, without any super expensive item. Mavinas Diadem is the most expensive item. You can farm Flayer Jungle, and Flayer Dungeon is a good place. Shoot ghosts in Arcane Sanctuary for high runes, and the Tombs are a fun place to farm with this build. You suffer in places with tough monsters with fire res, like Chaos Sanctuary. You’ll have to work your Decripify in these places, shoot what the Merc is tanking. The Goats in Arcane Sacntuary are not a problem, the way they line up and your 100% Pierce.
Edit: I have tested the build with a Windforce Bow, and you do get stronger physical damage, but the fire and pierce goes down. Regardless, if you switch between skills, and always have you immo arrow on something thats not fire resistent, your multi arrow does move things down quickly. You can keep the items I advice, but will need to Shael the Windforce, to get 149 IAS and the 8 frame attack speed. But then your multi attacks are basically, as good as any Windforce user, with a fire attack that is on par with your multi damage wise, choosing the correct targets of course.
And it’s fun.
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A short update as this fun and efficient build lives on, from Kuko with exploding arrows, to Windforce using mostly multi, and to Faith Bow, Immo Arrows and Multi.
Faith Bow works very well for this build, as Immolation Arrow gets it’s damage from skill+, and Faith have potentially +5, untop of fanaticism and it’s very fast speed, it adds 120 fire damage. And even some very welcome res all.
As you can read on another guide found here, if you roll a Faithbow and get 12 Fanaticism, you are out of luck. 7 FPS, GMB Faith Bow 12, Fortitude. You can choose 2 out of 3.
I managed to roll a 13, so I’m good, but it is a very disappointing roll for a very expensive item if it fails (25% chance). If you do roll and fail, then try this Immo build instead, foregoing Fortitude Armor, and using Spirit Forge, or another armor with 15 ias build in or added in a socket. With the items the guide descripes, you only need 1 15ias jewel in the armor, I put in an enhanced damage + fire damage jewel I had, together with an IAS jewel, to reach 100 IAS.
The Immo build with Faith bow litterally melt cows. I am pretty sure it is faster than the multiarrow build. Slotting in Immo shots between multi arrow shots, Exploding arrow is also good against tightly clustered mobs. Chaos Sanctuary is not adviced, for the fire res, you can do it by shooting decripified mobs with multi, and Immo on ghosts and casters. But it is a devastating build elsewhere. My Fortitude Armor stays with my Barb for the time being, it’s time to shoot some fire.
