Godly Invincible Lightning Fury Javazon Build Guide for Diablo 2 Resurrected / D2R

good evening gentlemen and ladies i am the old school game snob and i have fallen in love with a new woman as some of you know i'm very much enamored with the blizzard sorceress but this invincible lightning fury javazon wow she is absolutely amazing now i'm coining the term invincible because of her high damage reduction high resist high defense and high block let me show you a little bit around this build and we'll get into all the details here all right and yes those are black souls and yes this is hell difficulty and yes she is just standing there okay all right if i peaked your curiosity let's get into it oh but first things first can she only tank damage or can she dish it out as well well here's a demonstration i'd say that's pretty good how about her magic find does her magic find suck no well no not too very bad 250 some odd percent give or take the randomness luck on your rolls does she require godly or unattainable gear no actually no she's pretty reasonable pretty affordable there's only one item which is a little bit more difficult to acquire and it's actually swappable so yeah no no she's just an absolutely fantastic all-around character uh let's get into this a part of what makes this build so powerful is that the lightning fury javazon even when naked in hell difficulty using a simple spear from charcy is actually not only survivable but able to take down difficult areas with relative ease now i wouldn't recommend this method but the fact that it's even possible gives us a tremendous amount of gear diversity so let's take a look at her skills first and then we'll get into her gear this build is actually completable by like level 70. uh you can of course empower it even further but you don't really need to that's the neat thing about lightning fury if you didn't even invest anything into the synergies lightning fury would be strong enough like i say even without any gear at all lightning fury is just absolutely fantastic that being said this build has 20 points into lightning fury and also has 20 into charged strike this is for taking down bosses but i'll talk more about that a little bit later we have one point into the preque pre what questions i'm going to get to lightning fury and then into the passive and magic tree we have 20 points into pierce now for those of you who are thinking razor tail and that 33 bonus 33 bonus that comes from razer tail you and the fact that you don't need to max out your pierce in that case that is true but that is not quite this build i know that's the standard lightning fury javazon setup but that's not quite what we're doing here today this is the invincible lightning fury javazon very similar to your standard lightning javazon setup but with a few interesting differences now pierce is of course a fantastic skill to use with your lightning fury and that is because every target that your lightning fury hits sets off an additional cascade of lightning that targets nearby enemies so if you pierce through multiple targets each target that you pierce for that one initial throw can potentially explode into multiple lightning bolts i have an essay on this also on the channel that explains how lightning fury works and how it works with pierce so check that out if you want to know more so here's where we deviate a little bit i think from the standard lightning fury build we're not getting valkyrie i know i love valkyrie too unfortunately in order to unlock valkyrie we also have to unlock evade avoid and dodge and we don't want these now dodge evade and avoid can be good skills if you are not stacked for maximum damage reduction like this character happens to be but if you are stacked for maximum damage reduction well then they actually just really slow you down and make it much more difficult to respond so here we can see our absolutely tanky invincible amazon just taking it like a champ and not going down but this is me actually clicking as furiously as i can just to attack back and as you can see the dodge evade avoid they're constantly being triggered and so i'm not even able to run away or fight back so for this character dodge evade and avoid are ones you're just going to want to avoid or dodge or evade either way don't take them as for this character's stats you will want enough to wear your gear for strength you'll want enough to wear your gear for dexterity if you want to put some additional points into dexterity to max out your block chance as well that's perfectly fine if you want to keep it around 60 65 that's also perfectly fine this this build is super viable either way um you can put the rest of your points of course into vitality and if you wanted to maybe just put a few here into energy you could if you want a little bit more mana otherwise you can just stack charms for mana and it's not really needed pretty much your standard vitality strength to wear gear dexterity to wear gear and like i say if you want to max out your block you can do that okay let's talk a little bit about the gear for the helmet you'll want to look at the crown of ages and that is because this gives an up to 15 damage reduction they don't always roll perfectly at 15 percent but hey our goal is to stack on 50 damage reduction which is our maximum physical damage reduced and so the crown of ages is perfect to help with that also that 30 all resist is really really nice because another part of our goal here is to get our resistance up as high as we possibly can next up we have the gladiators bane socketed with a perfect topaz and of course the crown of ages also socketed with two perfect topazes to help us with with some magic find there's some alternative configurations to this which i'll talk about a little bit later but for the armor piece gladiator spain fairly affordable easy easy to acquire with a very nice high defense which is like i say a part of the invincible amazon setup high defense damage reduction resist all that good stuff if you didn't want this if you didn't want this you could swap this out for something more expensive like enigma with that teleport fortitude chains of honor you could swap that piece out and this build would still be every bit as viable though certainly more expensive as well but the gladiator's bane is really nice because it's quite attainable and also what it gives us is a nice amount of damage reduced and also magic damage reduced also that cannot be frozen is really quite nice like i say feel free to swap this out for a preferred piece of armor this is not the make or break piece of this build but the damage reduction that's built into the gladiator's bane is really quite nice when we get into some of the variations of this build oh and i should mention that that damage reduced applies to physical damage only not elemental magical damage just physical damage and for that reason we are stacking our resistances up as much as we can as well but more of that a little bit later now for the shield we have the storm shield this is wonderful because it has a 35 damage reduction so you combine 35 with the crown of ages and that gives you your 50 cap right there it also has some resistances of nice high block chance a faster block rate and also i've socketed mine with an um rune just to get my resistances up another 22 to resist all because like i say we're trying to stack resistance as well as defense and all this other good stuff not to mention the defense on storm shield also nice and high at 500 give or take from there we have mara's kaleidoscope for that 30 to all resist or up to 30 rather you can also find magical blue amulets that give up to 30 all resist the point here is like i say stacking resistance just to get us maxed out at the maximum possible 75 resistances more is better you know you can also stack too much resistance and that is actually good and that is because when you get cursed with a lower resist or something like that if you are stacked higher than the maximum resistance that amount that you have stacked higher will help to keep your resistance still stacked up to its potential max or closer to its max so it actually pays to overstack your resistance next up we have thunder gods vigor this is great it gives us a nice big amount of defense it also gives us plus three to lightning fury and lightning strike and also 10 to maximum lightning resist which is very nice especially for dealing with dark souls and uh well just about anything that shoots lightning because lightning and fire are really the two most common damaging element types that you'll encounter so stacking high resist to those is always good and that 20 to lightning absorb is also very nice because that will actually heal us for some of the lightning damage that we take more on that maybe a little later also very nice belt is the razor tail of course that will max out your pierce ability and then your javelin throws your lightning fury strikes are guaranteed to go through everything if you prefer that go right ahead otherwise you get 90 pierce which still is really viable works really well and of course you get that nice bonus to lightning resist lightning strike lightning fury so these are both really good and you can kind of choose which one yet which one you prefer keep in mind that if you do go the razer tail option it's only necessary to get 67 in pierce razor tail will give you an additional 33 in pierce for a 100 pierce chance so you can save your your skill points for somewhere else next up we have the titans revenge now this is the upped ethereal version of this you don't need it to be up you don't need it to be ethereal and it'll still be very effective but this is your best in slot case scenario this has been upped to have more physical damage through the horadric cube recipe which i'll talk about in just a minute having the nice physical damage increase will help you to deal with lightning immunities should you encounter them also the very fast attack speed is really nice on that because that affects how quickly you can throw your lightning furies the plus 2 to amazon skills the thirty percent faster run walk the nine percent lifesteal the strength the dexterity and the replenishment of quantity means that the titan's revenge will actually replenish one javelin every three seconds so you'll get an automatic quantity refresh if you want to keep one swapped on each of your weapon swaps to you know just throw titan's revenge with all abandon no restraint no restriction i do that sometimes it just gives you no downtime so most of the gear here has been upgraded in the heragic cube recipe taking it from a normal item to an exceptional item or from an exceptional item to an elite item or both so that basically increases the defense on an armor piece or the damage the physical damage on a weapon so the horadric cube recipes for upgrading weapons and armor looks something like this rowl soul and a perfect emerald to upgrade to an exceptional weapon or in the case of something like titan's revenge which is already exceptional you would want to do lum pull and a perfect emerald and then your exceptional weapon becomes an elite weapon for something like chance guards to upgrade them first from normal to exceptional is tal roon a shale rune a perfect diamond and then your chance guards will become exceptional then you can take those and you can upgrade them again to an elite version which is ko lem and a perfect diamond this is just good for stacking armor and damage and this is also really nice because whatever defense we have we are going to multiply a lot later on in this build so a little bit is actually going to be a lot more so that is sort of our essential gear here is the optional gear this is the magic find configuration you've got your chance guards you've got your nagel nagel or nagle rings i don't know how to say that if anybody knows man i'd like to know the actual official way to say that you've got your war travelers and you've got some charms to help get your resistances up now i've stacked in some just like some grand charms this is far from the most efficient way to stack your charms i'm sure you can find better charms than this but i just wanted to use some simple charms some unefficient charms to kind of create more viability i didn't want to just like stack up perfect five percent charms because those take forever to acquire and that's not really realistic so i wanted to create a build that's more attainable more realistic anyway in a nutshell we have 50 damage reduction we have fire lightning and we have all our resistances maxed out we even have an additional 10 to our lightning resistance this isn't even our tough tanky configuration either although it is really tough and tanky this is our magic find configuration which most probably most people are going to be doing most the time so i thought i'd start start here and then i would show you some of the interesting configurations that you can do with this oh hang on a sec i almost forgot emilio now this is actually a fun and important part of this whole build uh emilio we've got andario's visage with a nice nice row room socketed in it to compensate for that lower fired resist we have the reaper's toll socketed with a shale rune for some faster attack speed and we also have treachery now all of these are reasonably obtainable um you could swap these out for some alternatives like fortitude for like uh tower rashes some different things but this is a very good configuration that works really well that increased attack speed really helps emilio to make more hits and to stay alive and again on daryl's visage increased attack speed again more hits stays alive shale rune in the reaper's toll more hits more lifesteal stays alive so emilio does a really good job of staying alive and we want him to stay alive because he's got a defiance aura for us now this is not a commonly used merc aura but this is really really fun and i'll show you why in just a sec okay so when we kick things off here our defense starts at 3 000 which you know is okay 45 percent chance to be hit by enslaved at current ratings but as you can see that bumps up quite a quite a bit when emilio's defiance or kicks in now we have 10 000 armor and that's only 20 chance to be hit by enslaved now as you remember this character has a very nice block chance this character also has 50 damage reduction not to mention all her resistances and so when you add up all of these varying layers of defense well she just stands up well she just has a really good time at avoiding damage on a variety of different levels these things make this character really fun really relaxing and just really stress free to play and also she really dishes it out as well so these guys here are usually quite problematic because they work themselves up into that frenzy and start hitting so quickly and so hard but i don't know i'm just standing here you know i'm not totally invincible but pretty pretty pretty darn tanky pretty survivable this character and that decrepify which emilio keeps procking and slows everything down so now you've got your armor stacked up so you're not getting hit very often when you do get hit the damage is reduced and the decrepify slows everything down and these things all just really synergize well on the topic of lightning immunities since if there was one weakness that this character may have that is without infinity which we'll talk about in just a minute it is lightning immunes but how do you deal with those well if emilio doesn't take him out super duper fast which he's pretty darn good at your titans actually can do some physical damage as well as its lightning damage now those guys are not lightning immune emilio keeps taking there we go there's a lightning and muni anyway we can take him down with the with the titans physical damage so as you have penetrate as well you line up a few lightning immunes in a row you can throw your titans right through the through them and almost get like a mini aoe effect not really aoe more like line of effect area damage yeah something like that and the cool thing is that when you use your lightning fury strike it uses your weapon's physical damage but it does not use your attack rating so you're guaranteed a hit with your lightning fury strike even though it is the physical damage that is getting applied and that's good because this character is not stacked for attack rating at all so yeah guaranteed hits that's the way to go so without infinity this character's only weakness is perhaps the limited areas in the game that she can actually farm she excels at the cow level she was made to kill cows she was just absolutely fantastic at it uh she is also really good at the eldritch and pindleskin run now these are some great farming runs in and of themselves you can sit here and happily farm farm the moo moo farm all day long um that being said if you get an infinity suddenly this character's limitations go out the window so the infinity is an expensive weapon it is bur bur mal and is not in that order and what this does is it adds a level 12 conviction aura which breaks immunities especially immunities of lightning immune creatures who have an immunity level which is actually easier to break than cold or fire immunes so basically you get your mercenary with an infinity aura the lightning the level 12 conviction aura and he breaks the immunities of any lightning creatures and then you absolutely clean house with this uh lightning fury javazone i'll show you that at the end of this video before we get to that though let's talk about some of the alternative configurations for this character so one very interesting configuration to this character kind of makes her extremely resistant to physical damage and what we do is we swap out our perfect topazes for some soul runes we put in a soul rune to our gladiators bane which already has an up to 20 damage reduction we put on a couple of nature's piece rings which give us up to 11 damage reduction all in all we get pretty close to 60 62 again depending on your rolls damage reduction now what happens is when you take physical damage first your flat physical damage is reduced by the amount of damage that comes in say it's a 80 point of damage hit like these guys tend to hit for about 80 points of damage so that would be reduced by 62 leaving 18 points of damage that amount of damage is then reduced by your damage reduction percentage 50 leaving like eight 10 damage so pretty small little hits this becomes especially practical if you're dealing with the bugged tomb vipers and their crushing blow poison cloud with that damage reduction stacked on top as you can see i'm able to run around this poison cloud i'm surrounded by two vipers these guys are absolute killers that you know surprise you that can kill characters in seconds because of that bugged crushing blow uh poison cloud but in the case of this character not so much not so much another rather interesting configuration is to use two dwarf star rings these both give us fifteen percent absorb a piece for a total of thirty percent fire absorb and then the hull mouth gauntlets give an additional 15 flat fire absorb combined with the inferno stride boots which give us a plus ten to maximum fire resist so here we are dealing with the demon imps and as you can see their fireballs are actually healing us there's no uh there's no passive regeneration on this character from her gear this is all just healing from that fire absorb which is pretty nice like i was saying one of the nicest things about this character is her gear flexibility so depending on what area you want to go and farm you can stack your gear in appropriate as you can see here the hydras from the council are actually doing zero damage they're not healing her because they're doing a little higher damage than the demon imps but it actually equals out to uh pretty much flat zero damage which is pretty neat and in another interesting configuration we would take two wisp projector rings giving a twenty 20 lightning absorb of course our thunder gods vigor giving us that big bonus to lightning resist and an additional 20 lightning was absorbed and at this point the most feared enemy in the game the black souls or at least these are my most feared enemy i know a lot of you voted on the undead stigian dolls also for good reason but these black souls man they flatten you from across the screen with no remorse here we're just standing here we're not even taking any damage so that's a pretty fun configuration also a good defense if you're planning on farming the world stone keep but let's switch to the ultimate version of this character that is the infinity lightning fury javazon that simply puts the infinity rune word into your mercenary's hand and like i say this breaks lightning immunities now she can go anywhere now she can do anything i actually like to keep nash's puzzler as a sort of repositioning teleport just to get through the chaos sanctuary more quickly once she's in she's good to go and yeah that green underneath the monsters means that their immunities are now broken and she can basically take out everything with her lightning fury all actually kind of becomes a bit of a walk in the park that teleport staff or you could use a teleport amulet for repositioning your mercenary to make sure his conviction aura is in the right place can be very very helpful the more expensive version of this build might include an enigma to teleport around a little bit more easily i mean if you've got infinity you've probably got the wealth to also get enigma and so the previous budgeting kind of goes out the window oh and there are just a few monsters that can't have their immunities broken but most can so like i said this build kind of completes itself around level 70 but you can continue to empower it by putting points into lightning strike or power strike those are to help charge strike in particular they also help lightning fury to a lesser degree one percent but that's still quite a lot since lightning fury is so powerful but you can stack up lightning strike max that out that would be right around level 90 to get there uh let's see 22 stat points remaining no that would be like actually level 85 oh i don't know this character on hero editor is level 99 so subtract nine points to get like a level 90 character and so yeah you can probably put 20 into here and then i don't know maybe 10 into here and then you've kind of got your level 90 192 character and then your charge strike is going to be how you take down bosses i have made a special arrangement with the lord of terror himself to demonstrate the effectiveness of charged a strike on taking down bosses and he is happy to demonstrate it's done it's over oh and as i mentioned at the beginning of this video some optional swaps for the crown of ages if that's too difficult to find is rock stopper or actually harlequin crest these both have 10 damage reduction the rock stopper also comes with a lot of resistances as well you can socket that also with a um rune to get the resist resistances up even more if need be if you don't have enough charms to cover it so those are both very viable options you'll lose five percent damage reduction but you'll still have 45 and you can also get string of ears or something else i think that's basically the build let's take this lady down to bail and see how she does against the minions and bale himself and then we're gonna call this video a wrap obviously the first wave presents no problem at all only tracking down the little stragglers second wave also no problem at all taking them down super duper fast with a little bit of lightning fury a little bit of charged strike the council is a tiny bit slower but not really slow by all measure of speed um yeah super duper quick poor mercenary didn't quite make it through the hydras the venom lords pose no problem at all that lightning fury just doing its work so so very well and one thing you'll notice if you play this character is that she really never feels like she's in much danger she's just so so tanky the minions of destruction also go down really really easily to a lightning fury little lightning fury a little bit of charge a strike combination and yeah really no problems again hardly even bothering with the heel potions here as for bail himself sadly i didn't bring quite enough mana potions to keep that charged strike as active as it could have been so i had to run back to town and grab some more mana potions but it goes down pretty pretty quick bail even teases a lacquered plate drop at the end wrong color though but hey you guys have enjoyed this video also for those of you who keep noticing shaft stop appear in my armor slot throughout the filming of this video i had been experimenting with some different configurations so uh just keep that in mind the armor piece is actually pretty flexible you can kind of swap that out whatever whatever makes you happy thanks for watching and i hope to see everybody in the next video alright

Channel: Old School Game Snob

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Keywords: diablo, diablo 2, diablo resurrected, diablo 2 ressurected, diablo 2 guide, diablo 2 tips

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Length: 23min 58sec (1438 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 27 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/schmutzaccount]

Very amateurish. Some old known facts paired with very far from optimal items. A good Java is undying without having to use semi optimal (read:crap) items for mf.

[u/Ok_Monk1060]

It gave me a good foundation for my zon. And it's fun. I swapped tals for gladiator( because purple) and shako for coa with tgods and a Manald and have tons of fun. I think the old school game snob is just a normal d2 dork like 95% of us 🙂

[u/Zendra87]

For PvM farming, damage is of more importance than tankiness. I'd say Phoenix Shield on switch does much more than any amount of dmg reduction for your survival.

Souls might be the only snag i encounter while farming WSK in players8. Until they are hit by Conviction aura from Infinity. So, Tgod and Wisp could be useful there. But then you lose the mighty Pierce from Razortail. So i just have my Single Player Map with a fast WSK2 and i don't bother.

[u/hactrain]

Man, y'all are tearing this guy apart. He's breaking from the norm and experimenting and he should be rewarded for that... Not everyone that plays now played 20 years ago and may be interested in a more tanky build than an expensive out of reach build without grinding 1000s of hours.

Cheers, it's not for everyone, but thanks for taking the time to expose us to what's possible.

[u/desi7861]

Im in process of making it myself, but need to get to lvl 85 to actually be able to try it out with all the listed gear. Im solely going to use this java to farm nilithak and cows so for me its appealing. If i find better gear along the way then ill switch the build

[u/krtos90]

it rocks

[u/Naagauk]

Game snob is full of objectively bad information. And insanely tedious to listen to