I somehow never knew this for decades, but you CAN craft Amazon javelins. Are they good? Do they have the potential to be as good as Thunderstroke/Titan's Revenge? This post aims to find out.
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In addition to their native guaranteed mods, crafted items can gain up to 4 affixes, for a total of 7. Sadly, the guaranteed mods are negligible:
- Reduced Damage 1-4
- Reduced Magic Damage 1-2
- +5-10% Defense
But the rest could potentially be amazing. The four random affixes have to be the same as rares, not magical (so they're not as good), but we still have some strong contenders here. Unfortunately, what affixes can and cannot overlap is unclear, and some websites are plain wrong, so I'm putting down everything here I can find for now and curate later.
- Single resist of any kind, up to 30%
- up to 300% ED
- up to +120 quantity
- up to +5 mana on kill
- up to 40% IAS
- Replenish Quantity
- up to +15 strength
- +2 to amazon or jav skills
Additionally, amazon javelins can come with up to +3 to spear and javelin skills.
Therefore, the best amazon javelin would look like:
- +3 Javelin & Spear Skills
- +2 Amazon Skills
- +40% IAS
- +15 Strength
- Replenish Quantity
- Reduced Damage 1-4
- Reduced Magic Damage 1-2
- +5-10% Defense
Which would make them easily better than practically any magical javelin, and possibly a good use of the material required.
This actually has more IAS and +skills than Titan's, though I still think Titan's is better as it offers more +stats, FRW, and more damage.