In this post, you will find a handy Diablo 2 Resurrected Lightning Fury Amazon Build cheat sheet. There are skills, attributes, important breakpoints, equipment, mercenary, and farming locations suitable for the Lightning Fury Amazon Build.
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Skills
Maxing Skill order (reaching skill level 20):
Lightning Fury > Charged Strike > Lightning Strike > Power Strike > Lightning Bolt
Useful skills (put at least 1 point here):
Jab, Valkyrie, Decoy, Slow Missiles, Evade and Pierce.
Attributes
- Strength: Allows you to wear heavy weapons and armor, and increases the damage you deal with equipped weapon.
- Around 50-100 points for equipping gear, max required STR is 156 (Monarch Shield).
- Dexterity: Affects Attack Rating (your chance to hit) and Defense Rating (monster’s chance to hit player with physical attack). It also increases chance to block, allows to equip certain weapons (javelins, daggers, claws, and ranged) and their damage.
- Around 50-100 points for equipping gear, max required DEX is 151 (Matriarchal Javelin).
- Vitality: Increases the amount of Life and Stamina (yellow bar, energy for running) your character has.
- All other points (300+), for extra Life points.
- Energy: Determines the amount of Mana your character has.
- None, you’ll get enough mana from equipment.
Important Breakpoints
Breakpoints are the values at which spells, attacks and other animations become a frame faster or slower. Values must meet or exceed numbers to achieve that breakpoint or will cause no change until you meet or exceed the next breakpoint.
- Faster Cast Rate (FCR): 48% (14 Frames) or 63% (13 Frames) for Teleport from Enigma Runeword
- Increased Attack Speed (IAS): 52% (10 Frames) for Lightning Fury (Titan’s Revenge)
- Faster Hit Recovery (FHR): 52% (6 Frames) or 86% (5 Frames)
- Faster Block Rate (FBR): 0%
Equipment
Weapon
Ethereal, upped to Matriarchal Javelin
Alternatives:
Thunderstroke
Magic/Rare Javelin with +X to Amazon/Javelin and Spear Skills
Shield
Monarch
Alternatives:
Phoenix Runeword
Stormshield
Rhyme Runeword (Starter)
Helm
Alternatives:
Harlequin Crest
Valkyrie Wing
Lore Runeword (Starter)
Tarnhelm (MF)
Body Armor
Mage Plate / Archon Plate
Alternatives:
Chains of Honor Runeword
Smoke Runeword (Starter)
Skullder’s Ire (MF)
Belt
Alternatives:
Arachnid Mesh
Thundergod’s Vigor
Goldwrap (MF)
Gloves
Alternatives:
Laying of Hands
Sander’s Taboo
Boots
Alternatives:
Aldur’s Advance
Silkweave
Amulet
Alternatives:
Rare/Crafted Amulet with +X to Amazon Skill Levels and Increased Attack Speed/Faster Cast Rate
The Cat’s Eye
Rings
Alternatives:
Rare Rings with Mana/Life stolen per hit, Resistances, Mana/Life or Faster Cast Rate
The Stone of Jordan
Bul-Kathos’ Wedding Band
Nagelring (MF)
Sockets
Alternatives:
Ist Rune (MF)
Perfect Topaz (MF)
Charms
Additional:
Grand Charms with +1 to Javelin and Spear Skills (extra stat as Life is a great bonus)
Small Charms with Resistances (extra stat as Life is a great bonus)
Gheed’s Fortune (MF)
For swap weapon setup use Call To Arms Runeword Weapon with Spirit Runeword Shield for Battle Command and Battle Orders buffs, but don’t forget to recast them.
Mercenary
A player can hire NPCs as mercenaries to fight alongside them. Only one mercenary can be active at a time and hiring a new one results in the dismissal of the current one. Weapons (related to merc type), body armor, and headgear can be equipped on the mercenaries, and they become much more useful with proper gear.
Important note: Ethereal items (have better base stats, such as damage or defense and lower requirements) do not lose durability when equipped on a Mercenary, greatly boosting their stats.
Mercenary: Desert Mercenary (Act 2), Offense: Might Aura.
- Weapon
- Best: Infinity Runeword (Ethereal Giant Thresher or any other Polearm for starter)
- Alternatives: Insight Runeword (Ethereal Giant Thresher or any other Polearm for starter)
- Body Armor
- Best: Fortitude Runeword (Ethereal Sacred Armor)
- Alternatives: Any armor with high Defense and Resistances/Life
- Helm
- Best: Andariel’s Visage (Ethereal, with Increased Attack Speed jewel)
- Alternatives: Any helm with high Defense, Life Stolen Per Hit and Resistances/Life
Farming Locations
Below are mentioned good farming zones for this build, with less (or none) monsters’ immunity to main skills damage.
- Act I
- The Countess
- The Pit
- The Secret Cow Level
- Act II
- Arcane Sanctuary (Summoner)
- Act III
- Ruined Temple
- Mephisto
- Act IV
- Chaos Sanctuary
- Diablo
- Act V
- Eldritch the Rectifier
- Shenk the Overseer
- Pindleskin
- Drifter Cavern
- Halls of Pain
- Nihlathak
- Worldstone Keep
- Throne of Destruction (Baal)
We hope this post was useful to you and found the best ways to build your Lightning Fury Amazon.