In this post, you will find a handy Diablo 2 Resurrected Strafe Amazon Build cheat sheet. There are skills, attributes, important breakpoints, equipment, mercenary, and farming locations suitable for the Strafe Amazon Build.
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Skills
Maxing Skill order (reaching skill level 20):
Strafe > Critical Strike > Guided Arrow > Multiple Shot > Valkyrie
Useful skills (put at least 1 point here):
Pierce, Dodge, Avoid, Evade, Penetrate, Magic Arrow, Slow Missiles and Decoy.
Attributes
- Strength: Allows you to wear heavy weapons and armor, and increases the damage you deal with equipped weapon.
- Around 50-70 points for equipping gear, max required STR is 108 (for Grand Matron Bow).
- 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 250-300+ points for extra damage.
- Vitality: Increases the amount of Life and Stamina (yellow bar, energy for running) your character has.
- All other points (100+), 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): 0%
- Increased Attack Speed (IAS): 46% (6.75 attacks per second) or 80% (6.94 ApS)
- Faster Hit Recovery (FHR): 32% (7 Frames) or 52% (6 Frames)
- Faster Block Rate (FBR): 0%
Equipment
Weapon
Grand Matron Bow (with +3 to Bow & Crossbow Skills)
Alternatives:
Windforce
Mist Runeword
Breath of the Dying Runeword
Helm
Alternatives:
Guillaume’s Face
Magic/Rare Circlet with +X to Amazon Skill Levels and Increased Attack Speed (jewels)
Crown of Ages
Vampire Gaze
Body Armor
Dusk Shroud
Alternatives:
Chains of Honor Runeword
Enigma Runeword
Hustle Runeword
Skullder’s Ire (MF)
Belt
Alternatives:
Nosferatu’s Coil
String of Ears
Goldwrap (MF)
Gloves
Alternatives:
Magic/Rare/Crafted Gloves with +X to Passive and Magic Skills and +20% Increased Attack Speed
Boots
Alternatives:
Gore Rider
Goblin Toe
Amulet
Alternatives:
Highlord’s Wrath
The Cat’s Eye
Rings
Alternatives:
Rare Rings with Mana stolen per hit and Attack Rating/Life/Resistances
Nagelring (MF)
Sockets
Alternatives:
Ist Rune (MF)
Perfect Topaz (MF)
Charms
Additional:
Grand Charms with +X to Maximum Damage and +X to Attack Rating (extra stat as + to Life / Faster Run/Walk is a great bonus)
Small Charms with Resistances (extra stat as + to Attack Rating / Maximum Damage / Better Chance of Getting Magic Items is a great bonus)
Gheed’s Fortune (MF)
For swap weapon setup use Call To Arms Runeword Weapon with Lidless Wall or 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: Pride Runeword (Ethereal Giant Thresher or War Pike)
- Alternatives: Hustle Runeword (any Polearm or Spear)
- 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 Pit
- The Secret Cow Level
- Act II
- Stony Tomb
- Ancient Tunnels
- Act III
- Arachnid Lair
- Swampy Pit
- Lower Kurast
- Ruined Temple
- Sewers
- Travincal
- Act IV
- City of the Damned
- River of Flame
- Chaos Sanctuary
- Diablo
- Act V
- Eldritch the Rectifier
- Shenk the Overseer
- Pindleskin
- Worldstone Keep
- Throne of Destruction (Baal)
We hope this post was useful to you and found the best ways to build your Strafe Amazon.