Lunarbreeze - Amazon †Character Intro and Overview †Lunarbreeze is a kind of remake of my strafer amazon from a b.net ladder few seasons ago. Originally I thought of doing a Dance of Death -amazon but when things started to turn harder (late nm ~ early hell) I respecced into bow tree and haven't turned back. Strafers are very powerful characters in the Eastern Sun so after some playing I learnt that she could make a really good gold finder. The idea of turning her into one grew in my mind for quite a while and after I had reached level 100, I gathered up some easy to get GF gear. She gets really vulnerable with that but that is allright. She can be described being a glass cannon -type of character as she shoots a lot of arrows very quickly dealing lots of damage but if something reaches her and actually lands a hit, she is in trouble. However her speed, life leech, amount of cc and sturdy Valkyries make it sure that reaching her won't be easy. She can do any area in the game in /p8 mode easily and most of the areas can be teleported around without too much risk. This gave me the idea of doing gold find in one of the hardest places in Eastern Sun: in the hellish depths of Naraku. Running gold works this way. She teleports her way using the main combat gear to the entrance to The Dead End. There she creates a town portal, goes to town, swaps her GF equipment on and returns to the Naraku. The Dead End contains only three type of monsters: Gold Scarabs, those annoying swarm things and Master Thieves. None of them are particularly dangerous so her low stats are not a problem. After the dead end is clear, she returns to the town with 5M (rough average) gold. Note: Not forgetting things being one reason for writing this page, another one is to find out what others think about my selection of items and way to build up my ultimate Strafer. So if you think I do something more or less horribly wrong don't be shy to tell about it. Stats and Attributes †All hardpoints are put into Dexterity for more damage. Strength, vitality and energy are left to the base values. Here are some screenshots of her stats with buffs and auras on. The left side stats are with main combat gear and right stats are with gold find equipment.
Skills †Here is her skill distribution. As can be seen some vital skills are left without a single base point. Those skills can be obtained with oskills which makes it so that it is better to spend those saved skillpoints in synergys.
As can be seen Valkyrie gets to fairly high level even without hard points. The skill level actually better than on the second image as I use my weapon swap when I cast them. With Defiance, Battle Orders and all the other beneficial auras the two Valkyries of mine can tank anything Eastern Sun has to offer. Only rarely some bosses before Baal can kill them but even then the Valkyries are sturdy enough to give me enough time to recast and rebuff them. It might be possible to go with 0 or 1 point in Decoy and live with one Valkyrie but with just 4.4k life I want to have two around for some extra safety. Equipment †Weapon †Same weapon is used always as it is the most important piece of equipment for any Bowazon. In the end (maybe around year 2111) it will have 900% ED + IAS + other goodies like Life Leech and Mana leech. Until that it is just a low roll Dualmax GMB. Sockets are filled with 0.25 Max damage / level + x% IAS Jewels. In perfect world the weapon would have enough IAS D-Stoned and those jewels would be something like 40%+ ED with +0.625 Dexterity/level. (Or something similar.) Quiver choise is based on the fact that I want to have Rest In Peace modifier somewhere. Helm †Titania Crown with 3 open sockets and lvl 10 Defiance. Sockets are filled with 2x Sescheronya's Sparks and 1x Icestorm Shard. Neither of them is really that important so I could go for more damage but I like flashy stuff like these. Jewels aside there is one very obvious update to this one: Jewelers (4 os) version of something similar which would grant me one more socket for something nice. For GF I have a regular Thief runeword. Unfortunately it overwrites EE so that is a bit of a letdown but still does fine and I don't really care. Body Armor †5 open sockets and of Shielding -suffix. Basically I want to get 6 os of Aurora to replace this but those are so rare that I've lived with this for quite a while. I do acknowledge that I most likely would benefit a bit if I had something else but I like this armor and there hasn't been need to upgrade -> upgrading has to wait until I find that 6 socketed beauty. No d-stoning, tinkering or mapling has been done as I want to be able to discard this item easily if I ever find something better. Sockets are filled with Nexus Stars that have been forged for Faster Cast Rate (something I would d. stone into a better armor to free up 5 jewel forgings). Nexus Stars are fixing my otherwise very lacking resists quite nicely. GF armor here. Nothing interesting to comment. Gloves †Socketed with Jindujun which is pretty old choise. Jewel would be easy to change to something more interesting. Belt †On belt I again went for sockets and a usefull oskill/aura. Oak Sages are a bit squishy but during my adventures it has survived well enough to claim the spot of one oskill item. I should do more shopping for a +8 one though. Sockets have few Nexus Stars with +1 Amazon Skills forging on each. Boots †Another Suffocation of Indifference to give me more Slows Enemies -stat. More generic offensive properties are not that bad either. Jindujun is there to give some Dexterity and running speed. Jewel could easily be changed to something else. Amulet †Concentration forged. Jewel is something coolsounding like Knowledgeable Jewel of Knowledge. Main point is +1 All skills with that jewel so it is again easy to change to something else if I want to. Biggest seller with this amulet is the totally required Teleport oskill. I just don't want to play any character without that skill. All the Faster Cast Rate I have obtained is purely for the Teleport. (Shame Amazon doesn't have 200% FCR breakpoint for 1 frame faster casting like Sorceress and Barbarian do have.) Rings †Both rings have Nexus Stars which are forged with All Resistances forgings. Main point for both rings is the CtC Amplify Damage. I guess one would be enough with the ridiculous rate I hit targets but I hate waiting for some random proccing. GF rings are again something very common among gold finder characters. Charms †
Weapon swap †Weapon Swap is for oskills. Main hand gives Battle Orders. Unfortunately the best javelin I have found has just +8 BO. Perfect one would be Jeweler's xxx of Skill Master with 4 open sockets (for 4x Knowledgeables) and +12 Battle Orders. (Any +12 BO stick would come pretty close with just 3 sockets.) Shield could give some interesting skills but among them I picked up Enchant. I don't really need it but maybe my mercenary or Valkyries benefit a bit of the Attack Rating bonus. Again perfect one would have Jeweler's prefix for one more Knowledgeable Jewel. Merc and Merc Equipment †I might update this section sometime for more details. However the main points are here: Act 1 Fire Rogue Mercenary
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