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I have gathered the runes needed for Faith, and I am trying to decide what a should put them into.

I have a 4 socketed demon crossbow and a 4 socketed shadow bow. My amazon has a total increased attack speed of 120%, and she will get at least another 31% from the aura on Faith.

the shadow bow has a base speed of 0, and the demon crossbow is listed at -60. Where can i go to find the ias i would need to hit various break points with these two weapons?

According to the build guide, you need 157 ias on a hydra bow to hit the 8/2 breakpoint, so that makes me think that 151 ias on a shadow bow should hit 8/2, but i do not know for sure. I do not know anything about crossbows really, but that -60 speed just looks so fast...

i have also given thought to trying to get a hold of a 4os grand matron bow, but they are slow, and I really don't want to change my equipment.

I have not played much amazon but my advice would be to wait until you find a hydra bow.

I believe the following to be correct:

A crossbow will never go below 3 frames per attack with strafe.

A shadow bow needs 23% ias with lvl 12 fanaticism and a hydra bow needs 39% to reach 2 fpa.

So imo there is no reason to choose lower damage here, 40% ias is easy to get.

edit:

Just checked and a Grand matron bow also needs 39% ias to reach 2 fpa, and that one does even more damage, with the added benefit of extra skills, so wait for one of those.

The most popular for PvP is GMB, so I assume its the best choice. I rarely bother with bowazon's however so I may be incorrect...

Grand Matron Bow is most common for both PvP and PvP. If you play PvM, you'd do most damage if you give the Faith to your merc and use a Windforce yourself, but maybe you want the Faith yourself

i had thought about giving it to a merc... but i am using a might merc right now, and since fanat gives the highest damage bonus to the user, i figured i was better off keeping the faith for myself. Oh, I play strictly PvM, also.

Dottie, you "just checked" how much ias was needed on a grand matron bow to reach 2fpa, where did you go to check?

i will be very sad if crossbows max out at 3fpa, but that certainly explains why they are not popular.

Edit: well, i just thought to look at the str req on that demon crossbow, and it is 141... way out of my league (I have a base str of 60)...

Unfortunately my favourite calculator have disappeared, so I use this one instead, which is much less transparent.

http://diablo2.ingame.de/tips/calcs/wea ... ng=english

Thanks, I spent some time playing with the calculator, and now that i see how easy it is to max the attack speed on bows, I will wait for a grand matron.

40s, +3 skills Grand Matron is ultimately the best for faith, of course there are other alternatives, but good call waiting for the GM, and gl with making it