Two powerful elemental attacks that, when properly supported through gear and skill synergies, deliver hefty amounts of damage from afar, while complementing each other nicely when it comes to overcoming monster elemental immunities on Hell difficulty.

The core of the build revolves around two skills in particular: Lightning Fury and Freezing Arrow. This guide was written and tested for an untwinked, self-found playthrough across all difficulties using patch 1.14d. She uses her weapons not as a direct source of damage, but as a delivery mechanism for powerful “spell” effects, eliminating many of the problems a focused build would suffer from, while simultaneously allowing for much safer playstyle, less restrictive attribute allocation and easier gearing process. The Hybrid Amazon combines the best aspects of the Bow & Crossbow and Javelin & Spear trees to create a versatile, undemanding and powerful “caster” build that circumvents these shortcomings and opens up a lot more possibilities than a focused Amazon build would. It wasn’t until after building a Bowazon and a Javazon and taking them through the Hell difficulty that I realised how many shortcomings each of the builds has and how limiting the focus on a single weapon type is.

Then, what extra points she has, she invests into her supporting passive tree and that’s the build. That was always the way I thought about the Amazon a class that, really, only has a single skill tree to use per build: either Bows or Javelins, each exclusive to one another. Why, after all, invest into Bow skills you cannot use when wielding a Javelin? What if you spec into both and only find powerful javelins but no good bows wouldn’t half of the build suddenly become useless? Why pick skills from two trees that have no direct synergies between each other, when you can instead focus heavily on one tree and get the most out of it in return? It simply wouldn’t make sense to make a hybrid, right? R-right? It makes perfect sense when building an Amazon to focus on either her Bow & Crossbow Skills or her Javelin & Spear Skills.

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