Exceptional Armor and Jewelry

For more information on gems, runes, jewels, unique and set items, please refer to the Horadrim Library and the Arreat Summit.

Amulets

As before, rare amulets are generally the bowazon's best excellent option; the most favored are +2 skill amulets with prismatic resists and leech. Other attributes — one or two high (31-40%) resists (16-20% prismatic is nice), +61-90 life or mana, 21-35% MF, 5-6% leech, +skills when available, triggered spells (like Chain Lightning) and remedial attributes like Thawing/Warmth or 25-75% poison damage reduction — are up to the preference of the player.

• Cat's Eye Amulet: 30% faster run/walk, 20% increased attack speed, +100 defense vs. missiles, +100 defense, +25 dexterity, rlvl-50. The first IAS amulet your character will be able to access, Cat's Eye has everything a bowazon may want: IAS, a large dexterity bonus, and 30% faster run/walk. However, the amulet has no resists, so think carefully before committing yourself to Cat's Eye, or consider Highlord's Wrath.
• Crescent Moon Amulet: 10% damage taken goes to mana, +45 mana, 3-6% life stolen per hit, 11-15% mana stolen per hit, magic damage reduced by 10, -2 light radius, rlvl-50. This dual leech amulet is particularly useful to magezons, as it has the single highest source of mana leech available on jewelry.

Though rare amulets and Crescent Moon give dual-leech, another way to get a dual leech amulet is to craft one. The recipe for Horadric Blood amulets is: magic amulet + magic jewel + Amn + perfect ruby; the standard attributes that come with every Blood amulet are 5-10% faster run/walk, 1-3% life stolen per hit, +10-20 life. There is a possibility for +skills, 3-8% mana leech and 16-20% prismatic resists.

Rings

Rings have one primary offensive use for the bowazon: 4-6% leech. The other stuff — +100-120 AR, +damage, +10-15 dexterity — is nice, but for the most part, it's all about leeching. The assumption here is that leeching jewelry will be used. After leeching, rings are primarily reserved for defense against the elements.

Good attributes include one or two high (31-40%) resists (8-11% prismatic is nice), +21-30 life, +61-90 mana, 10-25% MF, and remedial attributes like Thawing/Warmth or 25-75% poison damage reduction. Dual leech jewelry is desirable (and extremely hard to obtain), but in my experience, a character with two excellent pieces of single-leech jewelry is much better off than a character with two mediocre pieces of dual leech rings.

• Dwarf Star Ring: fire absorb 15%, heal stamina +15%, +40 maximum stamina, +40 life, 100% extra gold from monsters, magic damage reduced by 12-15, rlvl-45.
• Raven Frost Ring: +150-250 attack rating, adds 15-45 cold damage @ 4 seconds, can't be frozen, +15-20 dexterity, +40 mana, cold absorb 20%, rlvl-45. Raven Frost has the highest AR and dexterity bonus available on a ring, both of which are very useful to the bowazon. The cold damage and 'can't be frozen' properties are also very useful.

The recipe for Horadric Blood rings with life leech is: magic ring + magic jewel + Sol + perfect ruby. The standard attributes that come with a Blood ring are +1-5 strength, 1-3% life stolen per hit, +10-20 life — when combined with its preset 1-3% life leech, a Blood ring can have up to 10-11% life leech. With its relatively low cubing cost and highly desirable properties, these are arguably the best life leech rings a bowazon can hope to have…if the right mods can be rolled up, of course.

To get much dexterity from a ring as possible without using Raven Frost, the recipe for a Hit Power ring is magic ring + magic jewel + Amn + perfect sapphire; the standard attributes that come with a Hit Power ring are +1-5 dexterity, 5% chance to cast slvl-4 frost nova when struck, attacker takes 3-7 damage. This type of ring can have up to +16-20 dexterity. Both crafted rings can spawn with 12-15% prismatic resists, +1-15 strength/dexterity and 3-8% life leech.