D2R My Fav Builds - Freezing Arrow Bow Amazon (Frostbite) 

so satisfying

​@@GGMentorThat's what I was going to say!

Bow Amazons in D2 were literally the meta for a long time until they got nerfed around 1.10 That's why no one played them after 1.10 because the nerf was catastrophic lol. It wasn't until D2R started fixing a lot of the bow issues that it started to bounce back

Javazon is one to the most powerful chars.

Yeah but blizzard sorc is the strongest. I find it boring though.

I would love to see video of the difference facets make in cold dmg and clear speed

Full mavina's is pretty bad by comparison. The cold sunder along with the negative resistance massively improve the freezing arrow damage and take it to a whole new level. Ice Bow, or Wizendraw with -40% res is the way to go. Mavina's isn't it

Yeah I may have built mine wrong but I tried it with maavinas and it was pretty bad. Will grab that jah and try this one out though

@GGMentor Oh yea, it's not ideal, but it works alright. I moved on the lightning after trying it.

I stacked points in pierce because I had plenty extra, so I didn't need razortail. You could always go razor tail and take the points out of pierce it's up to you. I believe I was using arachnids for the plus skills when not using gold wrap for mf

@@GGMentor Thank you! Love your content.

Thoughts: If you do that you will have teleport, but resistances will be so bad you will die to any elemental attack that hits you. CoA was basically required to get resistances even into a passable state. Night wings has more +Cold Skill Damage but overall is a worse choice because it lacks -ECR (enemy Cold resistance) The problem with this build is that you have to hit a bare minimum -ECR or cold immune monsters are unkillable. So by sacrificing Arkaines and CoA You have lost -10% ECR and the DR and Resistances you need. In exchange you got actually lose killing power, and gain the ability to teleport. I don't think the ability to teleport will do you much good with 0% FCR and a character with no resistances or DR/Defense. You're likely gonna just die when teleporting. Explanation for why you lose killing power by changing to Nightwings. Negative Resistance is always more powerful than + Skill Damage while the monster is above 0% resistance to that element. At which point they become identical. Let me do the math for you. 4000 Damage shot vs Cold Immune Monster Broken To 95% Resistance. Scenario #1 Wizendraw +CoA+Arkaines Four Facets 4000+15%-40%=2760 Scenario #2 Wizendraw +Nightwings + enigma, 2 facets 4000+25%-50=2500 Scenario #3 Ice Bow + Arkaines + CoA 3 facets 4000+45%-60=2320 Scenario #4 Ice Bow + Nightwings + Enigma 1 Facet 4000+55%-70%=1860 Notice how no matter what you do less ECR always means less damage. And to get more skill damage you always have to sacrifice ECR. But Skill Damage is never worth the sacrifice. Even in the comparison between Ice and Wizendraw, Wizendraw always wins vs Cold immunes. Ice is only generally better vs non cold immunes that go below 0% resistance. Plauge on Merc gets you more -ECR which is important for kill speed. You can still setup a barb merc as a great boss killer with plague. Eth Headatriker upgraded with an Ohm or ber, Gface, and a Eth Boneflesh upgraded The ideal goal is to get away from insight if you can Because it holds the build back to rely on it. It's a crutch 🩼 Once I was able to free myself of the insight the build really started to shine.

@@GGMentor Appreciate you for taking the time to explain that. Makes a ton of sense. Love your content. Keep it up!

No, why would it? Exploding arrow uses Fire Damage Freezing arrow Uses Cold Damage They don't mix. Any Cold damage from any source adds to Freezing arrow, Charm, Skill(Holy Freeze), Item, ect Any Fire Damage from any source adds to Exploding arrow, Charm, Skill(Holy Fire, Enchant), Item Ect But they don't cross over because Fire is not cold and cold is not fire.

@@GGMentor ohh thanks for answer! enchant is a lil weird though that's why i asked. it doesnt display on a sin kicks but actually works. works on sin blades (3/4 of chant dmg). doesnt work on smite. displays on barb bezerk but doesnt work.

My Amazon is freezing/exploding with most points in cold abilities. I just took exploding arrow to deal with cold immunes, because sunders aren't available off ladder. I thought they said ladder stuff would make it's way off ladder once the next season releases, but they haven't done that in the prior 5 seasons.

Sunders are available in non ladder... Not sure what your talking about

yes, get a wizendraw early on, super easy and cheap to get. Drops all the time the biggest challenge is getting one with -35% colde resistance. Then just avoid the cold immunes/ use guided arrow to whittle them down. A good valkyrie goes a long way here as you can rely on your valk to tank for you while you slowly kill the cold immunes with guided arrow. Then when you get your cold sunder + Wizendraw you are already at -35% cold res and your set. add a perfect cold facet for -40% cold res, and eventually get two more in a helmet for -50% then a final one in an arkaines for -55% cold res and cold immunes aren't an issue anymore.

Cold Chilling and Cold Freezing effects are Directly effected by negative resistance which increases the duration. Likewise High Cold Resistance decreases the duration. A non Cold build Zon might have trouble getting the best effectiveness out of the CC without some sort of negative resistance.

@@GGMentor got it -- thank you!

On the physical damage part only. Hence why he needs so much.

Freezing arrow still has the base physical damage with no modifiers underneath all the added cold damage.

Thanks man. Now to re spec my ice bow zon haha.@@GGMentor

As if I hadn't already tested this, it's a painfully slow kill and most of the bosses have like 50% block chance so even guided arrow misses all the time.

24 actually, and the game is still amazingly fun to play. A game's age has little to do with whether it's fun or not. People still play Mario, and Zelda games all the time and those are even older

@@GGMentor lol I just realized my comment applies to chess. I did try diablo two many many years ago and gave up when I got to the witch.