Welcome to our Quick Start Guide To Frostmaiden for Diablo 2 Resurrected (D2R). In this guide we will be giving a simple breakdown on the Skills, Stats, Breakpoints, and Gear used in this build.
Table of Contents
Build Synapsis
The Frostmaiden is an Amazon build based on using Freezing Arrow. This build focuses on safety and crowd control. A bonus is that gearing is relatively cheap making it an easy choice for progressing through nightmare and hell difficulties.
Skills
The following section lists the core abilities for this build. Freezing Arrow is your main ability. Valkyrie offers a solid addition to help deal with tanking creatures and dealing with cold immunes. Any other points are up to you.
- 1 into Prerequisites
- 20 into Freezing Arrow
- 20 into Cold Arrow
- 20 into Ice Arrow
- 20 into Valkyrie
Stat Points and Attributes
In this section we will be listing the stat points distribution recommended for this build.
| Strength | Dexterity | Vitality | Energy |
| Enough for gear | Enough for gear | Everything else | None |
Gear
In this section we will list the gear for this build. This build is fairly inexpensive to be effective. The M’avina’s set is also good to use.
Main Damage Set
- Weapon: Ice Matriarchal Bow or Grand Matron Bow with +3 to Freezing Arrow for Mana Steal
- Weapon Swap: Call to Arms and Lidless Wall,(Spirit is an option if you have enough strength)
- Body Armor: Chains of Honor
- Helm: Nightwing’s Veil socketed with a 5/5 Cold Rainbow Facet
- Gloves: Magic gloves with +3 to Bow and Crossbow Skills and 20% Increased Attack Speed (IAS) or Rare gloves with +2 to Bow and Crossbow Skills, and Increased Attack Speed (IAS)
- Boots: Ethereal Sandstorm Trek
- Belt: Razortail
- Ring 1: Raven Frost
- Ring 2: The Stone of Jordan or Rare ring with % Life and Mana Stolen per Hit
- Amulet: Mara’s Kaleidoscope
- Charm 1: Amazon Hellfire Torch
- Charm 2: Annihilus
- Charm 3: Bow Skiller Grand Charms with Life (If Possible)
- Charm 4: Any Charms (Preferably Small) with Life, Resistances, Strength, Dexterity, or Faster Hit Recovery (FHR), depending on needs for reaching Breakpoints, Gear Requirements, and Survivability
M’avina’s Set
- Weapon: M’avina’s Caster
- Weapon Swap: Call to Arms or Lidless Wall, (Spirit is an option if you have the strength)
- Body Armor: M’avina’s Embrace
- Helm: M’avina’s True Sight
- Gloves: M’avina’s Icy Clutch
- Boots: Ethereal Sandstorm Trek
- Belt: M’avina’s Tenet
- Ring 1: Raven Frost
- Ring 2: The Stone of Jordan or Rare ring with % Life and Mana Stolen per Hit
- Amulet: Mara’s Kaleidoscope
- Charm 1: Amazon Hellfire Torch
- Charm 2: Annihilus
- Charm 3: Bow Skiller Grand Charms with Life if possible
- Charm 4: Small Charms with Life, Resistances, Mana, or Faster Hit Recovery, depending on needs for reaching Breakpoints and survivability
Optional Starter Items
- Weapon: Wizendraw, Kuko Shakaku, Lycander’s Aim, Harmony, Melody, or Zephyr
- Weapon Swap: Wand with Lower Resist Charges
- Body Armor: Peace, Duriel’s Shell, Skin of the Vipermagi, The Spirit Shroud, Twitchthroe, or Stealth
- Helm: Valkyrie Wing, Harlequin Crest, Lore, Rockstopper, or Tarnhelm
- Gloves: Gloves with +3 to Bow and Crossbow Skills bought from merchant, Laying of Hands, Bloodfist, Sander’s Taboo, or Frostburn
- Boots: Waterwalk, Infernostride, Natalya’s Soul, Aldur’s Advance, or Hsarus’ Iron Heel
- Belt: Razortail, String of Ears, Goldwrap, or Nightsmoke
- Ring 1: Raven Frost, or Rare ring with % Life and Mana Stolen per Hit
- Ring 2: Rare ring with % Life and Mana Stolen per Hit
- Amulet: The Eye of Etlich, or Magic or Rare amulet with +3 to Bow and Crossbow Skills
- Charm 1: Any Hellfire Torch for Stats
- Charm 2: Annihilus
- Charm 3: Bow Skiller Grand Charms
- Charm 4: Any Charms with Life, Resistances, Mana, Strength, Dexterity, or Faster Hit Recovery, depending on needs for reaching Breakpoints and survivability
Mercenary
In this section we will talk about mercenary choices and gearing.
Act 2 Might/Blessed Aim/Holy Freeze Mercenary
The mercenary of choice is the Act 2 Might/Blessed Aim/Holy Freeze. The might mercenary will increase the damage of your physical shots, the Blessed aim will help you hit with your physical shots better, and the Holy freeze will help keep creatures away from you for survivability.
Best Gear
- Weapon: Ethereal Infinity
- Body Armor: Ethereal Fortitude
- Helm: Ethereal Andariel’s Visage socketed with a Ral Rune
Optional Gear
- Weapon: Insight or Obedience
- Body Armor: Treachery
- Helm: Vampire Gaze
Breakpoints
In this section we will list the breakpoints for the build.
Faster Hit Recovery Breakpoints
| Frames per action | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Faster Hit Recovery required to reach Breakpoint | 0% | 5% | 10% | 16% | 24% | 37% | 54% | 86% | 152% | 360% |