[0.3] Lightning Arrow Amazon

General Considerations

• Make sure you always obtain 75% Cold/Lightning/Fire Resistance, as this will significantly increase your survivability. Sacrificing some damage for survivability is smart in the long run, as every second spent dead is a second you don't spend dealing damage.
• Chaos Resistance is the least important one but it's nice to have at least 30%+
• Make sure you get enough + Intelligence and + Dexterity on your gear to fulfill Skill/Item requirements
• If possible, try to get to 100% chance to Deflect as that will make you have 40% Damage Reduction permanently.
• Use Greater Storm Rune, Greater Desert Rune and Greater Glacial Rune on Gloves and Boots to help cap your Resistances; if needed, they can also go on your Helm, but your Chest really wants Greater Iron Rune.
• Use Greater Vision Rune on your Bow.
• You want around 100% Rarity to farm well.

Weapon

The main priority with your Bow is getting as much Damage as possible, which mainly comes from the Prefixes. There are many ways to build a high DPS Bow on an Amazon, so don't feel locked into finding a pure Physical bow. You can always export your build into Path of Building and compare how different Bows impact your DPS.

Early on, the stat priority for Prefixes is:

1. Accuracy
2. % Physical Damage
3. + Physical Damage
4. + Added Lightning Damage
5. % Increased Elemental Damage with Attacks
6. % Physical Damage + Accuracy
7. + Added Cold Damage
8. + Added Fire Damage

Suffixes are harder to rank, as they depend on your overall level of character progression. For example, % to Critical Chance is almost always a very important affix, but it's theoretically possible to have so much Critical Hit Chance that it becomes redundant and it doesn't become useful until you have enough Critical Chance and Critical Damage on your Tree to make use of it.

Early on, the Suffix priority is:

1. Additional Arrows
2. Projectile Skill Level
3. Attack Speed
4. Dexterity
5. Reduced Attribute Requirements

What I do is use this search and input the bows into my Path of Building to check which one is better. Make sure to set the price point you want that one by default is 1 Divine.

Quiver

% Increased Damage and also % Projectile Speed, if you have the Feathered Fletching, is stronger than Added Damage on Prefixes. I would only pick up Feathered Fletching for a great Volant Quiver and a high % Projectile Speed roll. As for Suffixes, the usual suspects are good: Projectile Skill Level and Attack Speed.

Rings

The main thing you want early is Added Damage, preferably Lightning and Physical, and % Lightning Damage. In terms of Suffixes, Resistances and Attributes are very useful.

Chest

Your Chest should have as much Evasion as possible. Getting a high Spirit roll is useful, but it usually means sacrificing too much defense early on. Getting a % Evasion to Deflect suffix will be very important in the next league; otherwise, you want Resistances or Attributes.

Helm

Early on, a Hybrid Evasion/ES or pure Evasion Helm is what you want, as it will have access to the % Evasion to Deflect suffix, while the pure ES one will not. You also won't have enough Energy Shield % on your tree to scale it.

Belt

Your Belt early on is purely a source of Maximum Life and Resistances. Later on, we will use Unique Belts.

Gloves

On our Gloves we want as much Added Damage as possible for our Prefixes. In terms of Suffixes, we want Attack Speed, Resistances and % Evasion to Deflect and Attributes in roughly that order.

Boots

Movement Speed is by far the most important stat on your Boots, but it's not worth sacrificing capping your Resistances for +5%. Other than that, you want a combination of Maximum Life and Evasion. Remember to try to get the % Evasion to Deflect suffix if possible.

Amulet

Your Amulet is a great source of Evasion, Maximum Life and Spirit. Early on, the best Suffixes are Projectile Skill Level, Attributes and Resistances.

Annointment

The best budget annoint early on is Bestial Rage.