Cow Level Magic Find Javazon Guide

The Secret Cow Level Lightning Fury Javazon Guide

Introduction

Lightning Fury Javazons (Amazons) are the best class in the game for The Secret Cow Level runs because of how strong Lightning Fury is in the cow level. The cow level drops a lot of profitable bases if you know which ones are of value (which is explained in a later section) and drops a high number of charms, gems, jewels, and runes. The gems, jewels, and runes found in the cow level can sometimes be useful for crafting items. The Secret Cow Level is also one of the best places in the game to farm high runes.

Lightning Fury Javazon Skills

The top spot for a Cow Level Magic Finder goes to the Lightning Fury Amazon which deals very high damage and is great at survival.

Recommendation: Lightning Fury Javazon Amazon

Stats: 156 Strength (enough for gear), 141 Dexterity (enough for eth Up'd Titan's), all remaining points in Vitality, and 0 Energy.

Skill Points:

20 Lightning Fury

20 Charged Strike

20 Lightning Bolt

20 Lightning Strike

5 Penetrate (with high plus skills because it has diminishing returns)

1 Critical Strike

1 Penetrate

1 Dodge

1 Avoid

1 Evade

1 Valkyrie (optional, once you are well geared you can skip Valkyrie for more damage)

1 Jab (this physical skill is used for lightning immune enemies)

All remaining points in Power Strike which is a synergy for Lightning Fury and Charged Strike.

Lightning Fury Javazon Gear

Weapon

Ethereal Titan's Revenge (Up'd) - This weapon is the best option for Lightning Fury Javazons because it has a lower requirement than the non ethereal version, leeches more mana, and has higher physical damage for lightning immune enemies. It has replenishes quantity but requires three sets of ethereal Titan's Revenge so that you don't run out of them. You can keep a Horadric Cube in your inventory with two sets of ethereal Titan's Revenge to quickly switch to another set. Using three sets of ethereal Titan's Revenge can actually save you some time because you won't need to go to town to repair your Titan's Revenge. You should also Up all three ethereal Titan's Revenges by using a Perfect Diamond, Lem rune, and Ko rune (for each weapon) in the Horadric Cube to greatly increases their physical damage but keep in mind that doing this also raises their stat requirements.

Shield

Phoenix Monarch Shield (Vex Vex Lo Jah) - This shield is best in slot for cows because it has level 10-15 Redemption which quickly replenishes your life and mana. It also has up to 400% enhanced damage for physical immunes, 50 life, a 40% chance to cast level 22 Firestorm which helps with lightning/physical immunes, 10 to maximum fire resistance, and 5 to maximum lightning resistance.

Budget Weapon

Titan's Revenge - The budget weapon is the non ethereal version of Titan's Revenge. Titan's Revenge has +2 to Amazon skills, +2 to Javazon and Spear skills, up to 9% life leech, 30% faster run walk, replenishes quantity, and increased stack size.

Budget Shield

Spirit Monarch Shield (Tal Thul Ort Amn) - The budget shield has +2 to all skills, 35% cold resistance, 35% lightning resistance, 35% poison resistance, 55% faster hit recovery, vitality, mana, and magic absorb.

Weapon Switch

Call To Arms (Amn Ral Mal Ist Ohm) - Gives up to +7 to Battle Orders and should be combined with a Spirit Monarch Shield (Tal Thul Ort Amn) for another +2 to all skills for your Battle Orders.

Helmet

Kira's Guardian (Um'd or -5 5 Lightning Facet'd) - This helmet gives up to 70 to all resistances, 20% faster hit recovery, and cannot be frozen. It's primarily used because the rest of your equipment besides your amulet lacks resistances when using the high end Phoenix Monarch shield. This item when Um'd can take you from negative resistances to capped resistances with just one item.

Budget Helmet

Tal Rasha's Helmet (Um'd) - When using the budget Spirit Shield (before you can afford a Phoenix Monarch) and budget Aldur's Boots which have high resistances you can use Tal Rasha's Helmet instead of Kira's Guardian for 30% to all resistances, 60 life, 10% life steal, and 10% mana steal. Tal Rasha's Helmet eliminates the need for a dual leech ring which can also be expensive.

Body

Enigma (Jah Ith Ber) - Gives 45% faster run walk (which is very important), +2 to all skills, 8% physical damage reduction, 5% increased maximum life, Teleport, and high strength per level for the 156 strength requirement on both of your shields.

Gloves

Javazon Gloves - Look for magic 20% increased attack speed gloves with +3 to Javelin and Spear skills which can't roll on rare items.

Belt

Thundergod's Vigor - Gives +3 to Lightning Fury, +3 to Lightning Strike, 10% to maximum lightning resistance, 20 lightning absorb, 20 strength, 20 vitality, a 5% chance to cast level 7 Fist of Heavens when struck, and 1-50 lightning damage.

Feet

War Travelers - 25% faster run walk, 50% magic find, 10 strength, 10 vitality, and 15-25 base weapon damage. This item is used for its added physical damage for the lightning immune enemies you will encounter inside the cow level which includes the Cow King.

Budget Feet

Aldur's Boots - These budget boots can be used with the budget Spirit Shield to give 40% faster run walk, 50 life, and up to 50% fire resistance which is important because Spirit has all resistances except fire resistance.

Amulet

Mara's Kaleidoscope - Gives +2 to all skills, 5 to all attributes, and all resistances +30%.

Rings

Dual Leech Ring/Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band - Look for a rare ring with high life and mana steal with other great modifiers and use a Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band for +1 to all skills, up to 5% life stolen per hit, and life per level. When using the budget option Tal Rasha's helmet instead of Kira's Guardian (which has cannot be frozen) you won't need a dual leech ring so you should use a Raven Frost instead for up to 20 dexterity, 250 attack rating, 20% cold absorb and cannot be frozen.

Charms

Hellfire Torch for +3 Amazon skills, Annihilus for +1 to all skills, Gheed's Fortune for up to 40% magic find, one poison damage small charm to cancel enemies life regeneration, one cold damage small charm to chill, and +1 Javelin and Spear Skills Grand Charms with faster run walk, faster hit recovery, or life. The most useful modifier on the +1 Javelin and Spear Skills Grand Charms if you're only doing cow runs is faster run walk because you will rarely take damage from cows. For the rest of your small charms you can look for faster run walk charms with resistances so that you socket your helmet with a -5 5 Lightning Facet instead of an Um rune.

Mercenary Type

Act 2 Holy Freeze Mercenary - Holy Freeze is an excellent defensive in cow level runs because it slows enemies movement speed and attack speed which helps significantly with keeping you and your mercenary alive.

Mercenary Weapon

Ethereal Infinity (Ber Mal Ber Ist) - This weapon is used because it greatly lowers the lightning resistance and defense of enemies.

Mercenary Armor

Ethereal Fortitude (El Sol Dol Lo) - Gives 300% enhanced damage, all resistances +30%, high life per level, 5% to maximum lightning resistance, and a 20% chance to cast level 15 Chilling Armor when struck.

Mercenary Helmet

Ethereal Vampire Gaze - Gives up to 20% physical damage reduction, 8% life leech, and has a high defense.

Budget Mercenary Weapon

Ethereal Insight (Ral Tir Tal Sol) - Gives up to level 17 Meditation for high mana regeneration.

Budget Mercenary Armor

Duriel's Shell - Gives all resistances +20%, 50% cold resistances, life per level, 15 strength, and cannot be frozen.

Budget Mercenary Helmet

Tal Rasha's Helmet - Gives 10% life steal, all resistances +15%, and 60 life.

Magic Find Runs

The Secret Cow Level

The Secret Cow Level is one of the best places in the game to find high runes and drops plenty of gems, jewels, mid runes, and charms. The gems, jewels, and mid runes found in the cow level can also be used to craft items but for this sample no high value items were crafted from items found from these runs. The sample below is provided to show you what you can find in solo one player runs of The Secret Cow Level. Each cow level can take more than 5 minutes so the number of runs in the sample are lower than some of the other samples to give you an idea of what you can find in a similar amount of time.

Sample Drops From 175 Runs Of The Secret Cow Level - Time to Complete: 5-8 Minutes Per Run

Vex Rune

Gul Rune

Ist Rune

Pul Rune

+1 Lightning Skill Grand Charm with 26 life (current value: Jah)

+1 Traps Grand Charm with 31 life (current value: Jah)

3% Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band (current value: Vex)

30 Attack Rating and 1-23 Lightning Damage Small Charm (high end Tesla Paladin charm worth about Vex)

10% Cold Resistance 11 Life Small Charm (current value: Gul in ladder)

7% Magic Find Small Charm (current value: Mal-Ist)

2x Ethereal Colossus Voulges both rolled to 4 open sockets (current value: Mal each)

Raven Frost (current value: Um)

30% Gheeds Grand Charm (current value: Pul)

Chaos Runeword Claw Base for Ghost Assassin (current value: Um)

Ethereal War Spike (sometimes used for the ethereal Breath of the Dying runeword by good manners Fury Druids in PvP)

41 All Resistance 4 Open Socket Paladin Shield (current value: Um)

Trang-Oul's Gloves (current value: Um rune rarely in ladder)

End Note

All runs for the sample were done with low magic find from Enigma, War Travelers, and Gheed's Fortune Grand Charm which amounts to less than 200% magic find. Stacking Magic Find is not important in the cow level because you'll just trade your runeword bases for unique items which is sometimes a fair trade. High value items from the sample include: Vex Rune, Gul rune, Ist rune, a Lightning Skill Charm with 26 life worth Jah, a Trap Skill Charm with 31 life worth Jah, a Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band worth Vex, a Tesla Paladin small charm worth about Vex, a 10% cold resistance 11 life small charm worth around Gul, a 7% small magic find charm woth Ist-Mal, and a lot of other items with Mal rune-Pul rune in value. It looks like the most profitable items from these runs came from high end charms. After enough cow level runs you will also have a high chance at dropping a high rune above Vex because the cow level can drop up to Zod rune. I've personally found a high variety of high runes up to Cham from The Secret Cow Level.

The Secret Cow Level Runeword Bases

20 Valuable Bases From The Secret Cow Level

1. Ethereal Polearms with 4 Open Sockets are of high value because they are used on mercenaries for multiple runewords.

2. Superior 15% Enhanced Defense Dusk Shrouds and Archon Plates are very valuable for four socket runewords like Fortitude.

3. High defense Dusk Shrouds and Archon Plates with 3 Open Sockets are valuable especially if they are superior.

4. Ethereal 4 Open Socket Body Armors with high defense are very valuable depending on their defense for merc Fortitudes.

5. High damage claw bases with high plus skills like Lightning Sentry and Dragon Flight are worth a lot to Ghost Assassins.

6. High damage claw bases with +3 to Phoenix Strike are now of value because of the addition of the Mosaic claw to the game.

7. Ethereal Berserker Axes, Colossus Blades, and Great Poleaxes have a middle value for ethereal Breath of the Dying.

8. Ethereal superior Berserker Axes, Colossus Blades, and Great Poleaxes with enhanced damage have a higher value.

9. Berserker Axes and Phase Blades with 5 Open Sockets have a low value for the Grief runeword weapon in ladder.

10. Superior 5 Open Socket Berserker Axes and Phase Blades with enhanced damage are of high value in ladder.

11. Ethereal 5 Open Socket Decapitators can be used to roll ethereal Death runewords in ladder and are of moderate value.

12. Grand Matron Bows with +3 to Bow and Crossbow Skills and 4 Open Sockets are of high value especially if they are superior.

13. Paladin Shields with 4 Open Sockets and up to 45% all resistances can be valuable for the Spirit runeword.

14. +3 to Battle Orders Helmets with 3os can roll +5 to Battle Orders with the Delirium runeword which is of high value.

15. +3 Tornado Druid Pelts with 3os can roll +5 to Tornado with the Delirium runeword which is of high value.

16. +3 to Fire Claws Druid Pelts with 3os can be used to roll the new Flickering Flame runeword which is of high value.

17. High Defense 3 Open Socket Bone Visages and Demonheads are useful for multiple runewords and are of moderate value.

18. High Defense 3 Open Socket Ethereal Bone Visages and Demonheads are useful for mercenaries and are of moderate value.

19. Ethereal Colossus Voulges have a small value because they are guaranteed to roll 4 open sockets with the socket quest.

20. Ethereal Vortex Shields with all resistances are very valuable for the Exile runeword which is best in slot for Smite Paladins.

Tips For Bases: With white and ethereal non-superior weapons you can roll a random number of sockets on the weapon by using a Perfect Amethyst, Amn rune, and Ral rune in the Horadric Cube. With white and ethereal non-superior body armors you can also roll a random number of sockets on a body armor by using a Perfect Topaz, Thul rune, and Tal rune in the Horadric Cube.

That's all for the Cow Level Magic Find Javazon Guide. You can also check out the most popular crafted items here Crafting Guide.