Spear Amazon Build Guide - D2R 2.6

Build Introduction

The Spear Amazon is making a comeback in D2R as Blizzard announced that they are going to buff the Fend and the Impale skill. The Spear Amazon is mainly a player vs monster build, as it wields two-handed weapons and deals melee damage. Using Fend against monsters is very much like the paladin's Zeal skill, it will hit several targets with each melee attack. Impale on the other hand is a much slower attack that deals immense damage against one target.

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Gameplay

Use Fend against monster groups, and Impale against single targets. There are very few physical immune monsters in the game, so you will be able to clear almost any area. As the attacking skills don't have any synergies, you will be able to put a lot of points on passive and magic skills and have great survivability.

You can make your build more offensive by putting points on Critical Strike and Penetrate, or more defensive by putting points on Dodge, Avoid and Evade. The character relies on running for movement, so having 7% faster run and walk on your +javelin and magic skill grand charms, or % faster run and walk on your gear can make you clear areas and get to Bosses much faster.

For Mercenary you should either use a nightmare act2 offensive one for it's might aura, or an act1 one if you can afford a Faith bow for her to provide you with Fanaticism Aura, or if you want to equip her with a Harmony runeword and enjoy much faster running speed provided by the Vigor aura. An act2 merc can further boost your damage by wearing a Pride runeword, providing you with Concentration aura as well.

For Hardcore, 75% all resistance on Hell is a must-have, and having a Call to Arms as a switch weapon to cast Battle Orders can almost double your life and mana. In Addition, you should aim for up to 50% physical damage reduction. Having a Valkyrie casted at all times also helps with survivability as enemy monsters will attack her instead of you.

The build is not the best fit for MFing as the gearing options are limited for Magic Find, but it can still have a decent MF by having your inventory full of 7% magic find small charms. By having a merc with harmony, you can quickly get to bosses even at the start of a ladder season, the build is ideal for Mephisto, Andariel or Nihlatlak runs.

Stats

Strength: Put just enough points on it to be able to wear your items.

Dexterity: Put just enough points on it to be able to wear your items

Vitality: Put all your available points on it.

Energy: Don't put any points on it

Skills

• 20 points on Impale + 1 point on prerequisite skills
• 20 points on Fend
• 1 point on each Passive and Magic skill except for Pierce
• 20 points on Critical Strike
• 20 points on Penetrate
• Remaining points on Evade

• Optionally you can put points on Dodge and Avoid instead of Critical Strike and Penetrate

Breakpoints - Check out our Amazon Breakpoints guide.
For detailed breakpoints, check out this guide.

Items, Gearing

The listed items are organized by slots.

• The usefulness rating of an item is based on how good it is for farming.
• The price rating reflects the cost of the item (cheaper ones are available after ladder starts as budget options), higher price ratings reflect exponentially higher cost for an item.

Adding sockets and improving your items

• If you complete the act5 quest Siege on Harrogath, Larzuk will grant extra socket/sockets to your items. Use the quest to add sockets to your gear and put useful jewels, runes or gems in your item sockets.
• You can also upgrade your unique items from normal to exceptional quality and from exceptional to elite by using Horadric Cube recipes. After upgrading, your armor pieces will have more defense, and your weapon pieces will have more damage. The downside of upgrading is the increased strength/dexterity requirements.

Helm

• Lore runeword runeword -usefulness 4/10, price 1/10
• Guillame's face - Usefulness 7/10, price 5/10
• Harlequin Crest Shako unique helm - Usefulness 8/10, price 6/10
• Crown of Ages unique helm - Usefulness 8/10, price 6/10
• Magic Circlet with +30% Faster run and walk and 3 sockets, socketed with 3*15ias/Enhanced damage jewels - usefulness 10/10, price 10/10

Amulet

• Any amulet with +1-2 to amazon skills, or +1-3 to javelin and spear skills - usefulness 4/10, price 1/10
• The Cat's Eye unique amulet - usefulness 7/10, price 3/10
• Highlord's Wrath unique amulet - usefulness 9/10, price 5/10
• Mara's Kaleidoscope unique amulet - usefulness 9/10, price 7/10

Weapon

• Arioc's Needle unique weapon - usefulness 4/10, price 3/10
• Lycander's Flank unique weapon - usefulness 4/10, price 3/10
• Ethereal Hone Sundan unique weapon - usefulness 5/10, price 5/10
• Breath of the Dying ethereal war pike - usefulness 10/10, price 7/10

Shield

• None

Switch Weapon

• Call to Arms runeword - usefulness 10/10, price 7/10

Switch Shield

• Spirit Monarch -usefulness 10/10, price 2/10

Body Armor

• Peace runeword - usefulness 5/10, price 2/10
• Chains of Honor runeword - usefulness 8/10, price 7/10
• Enigma runeword - usefulness 8/10, price 8/10
• Magic Body Armor with 80+ life and 4 sockets, socketed with 15% IAS/Enhanced damage jewels - usefulness 8/10, price 8/10

Belt

• Rare belt with +resistances and +life - usefulness 3/10, price 2/10
• String of Ears unique belt - usefulness 5/10, price 3/10

Rings

• Rare ring with +resistances and/or +life - usefulness 3/10, price 1/10
• Manald Heal unique ring - usefulness 4/10, price 2/10
• Raven Frost unique ring - usefulness 7/10, price 4/10
• Bul Katho's Wedding Band unique ring - usefulness 7/10, price 6/10

Gloves

• Rare or Magic gloves with +2 or 3 to javelin and spear skills - usefulness 7/10, price 1/10
• Magic gloves with +3 to javelin and spear skills and 20% increased attack speed - usefulness 9/10, price 4/10
• Rare or Crafted gloves with +2 to javelin and spear skills, 20% increased attack speed, 10+ dexterity, 10+ strength, or additional life leech % - usefulness 10/10, price 6-10/10

Boots

• Rare boots with 30% faster run and walk, % to faster hit recovery - usefulness 5/10, price 2/10
• Waterwalk unique boots - usefulness 8/10, price 4/10
• Gore Rider unique boots - usefulness 8/10, price 4/10

Charms

• Any charm with +skill, life, faster hit recovery or faster run and walk - usefulness 4/10, price 1/10
• Annihilus unique charm - usefulness 10/10, price 8/10
• Hellfire Torch unique charm - usefulness 10/10, price 6/10
• Magic grand charms with +1 to javelin and spear skills - usefulness 7/10, price 4/10
• Magic grand charms with +1 to javelin and spear skills and +life, +faster hit recovery or +faster run and walk - usefulness 8-10/10, price 5-10/10
• Magic small charms with resistances and life - usefulness 8-10/10, price 6-9/10
• Gheed's fortune unique charm - magic find 10/10, price 4/10

Mercenary

Have a Nightmare Act2 Offensive Mercenary to provide you with Might aura to boost your damage.

Ethereal items don't lose durability if your mercenary wears them, so having ethereal item bases for each gear slot is preferred due to their increased defense on armor items and increased damage on weapons. In many instances ethereal items that are great for mercenaries will be much more expensive than non-ethereal ones.

Mercenary gear:

Helm -

• Any 3 socketed helm with 3 perfect diamond to increase mercenary resistances and survivability - usefulness 5/10, price 1/10
• Tal Rasha's set helm - usefulness 6/10, price 3/10
• Vampire Gaze unique helm - usefulness 7/10, price 4/10
• Guillame's face set helm - usefulness 8/10, price 4/10
• Andariel's Visage unique helm - usefulness 10/10, price 5/10

Weapon -

• Insight runeword to provide you with meditation aura so you never run out of mana - preferably in elite base - usefulness 6/10, price 4/10
• Reaper's Toll unique weapon - usefulness 8/10, price 6/10
• Pride runeword - usefulness 10/10, price 7/10

Body Armor -

• Treachery runeword - usefulness 9/10, price 4/10
• Fortitude runeword - usefulness 10/10, price 7/10

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