Cow Level Magic Find Javazon Guide

The Cow Level Lightning Fury Javazon Guide

Introduction

The Lightning Fury Javazon (Lightning Fury Amazon) is the recommended build for The Secret Cow Level because of how strong Lightning Fury Amazons are at AoE damage and they can attack from a distance which helps keep them safe. The Secret Cow Level is also one of the best magic find spots especially when it's a terror zone and it drops a lot of profitable bases if you know which ones are of value (explained later in the guide). The Secret Cow Level also drops a lot of charms, gems, jewels, and runes some of which can be useful for crafting and it's one of the best magic find spots in the game for farming high runes.

Lightning Fury Javazon Skills

The top spot for magic finding The Secret Cow Level, which can be done when it's a Terror Zone for better drops, goes to the Lightning Fury Javazon Amazon which deals very high AoE damage while still being very strong at survival.

Recommendation: Lightning Fury 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 at high levels)

1 Critical Strike

1 Penetrate

1 Dodge

1 Avoid

1 Evade

1 Valkyrie (optional, once you're well geared you can skip Valkyrie for more Lightning Fury damage)

1 Jab (this skill is needed 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, it leeches more mana, and it has higher physical damage for lightning immunes. You can keep a Horadric Cube in your inventory with two sets of ethereal Titan's Revenge to quickly switch to another set without visiting town which saves time. You should Up your ethereal Titan's Revenge javelins with a Perfect Diamond, Lem rune, and Ko rune in the Horadric Cube to increase their physical damage but keep in mind that doing this also raises the stat requirements on Titan's Revenge.

Shield

Phoenix Monarch Shield (Vex Vex Lo Jah) - This shield is best in slot for the cow level because it has level 10-15 Redemption which replenishes your life and mana. It also has up to 400% enhanced damage for lightning immunes, 50 life, a chance to cast Firestorm which is also helpful for physical/lightning immune enemies, 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 gives +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 option 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 for higher life and mana. It should be combined with a Spirit Monarch (Tal Thul Ort Amn) for another +2 to all skills which is used to increase the level of 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 equipment options. This helmet 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 Monarch (before you can afford a Phoenix Monarch) and budget Aldur's Boots you can use an Um'd Tal Rasha's helmet as a budget option for up to 30% to all resistances, 60 life, 10% life steal, and 10% mana steal. The budget Tal Rasha's helmet also eliminates the need for a dual leech ring which can be expensive.

Body

Enigma (Jah Ith Ber) - Gives 45% faster run walk (which is excellent for farming speed), +2 to all skills, 8% reduced physical damage taken, magic find per level, 5% increased maximum life, Teleport, and very high strength.

Gloves

Javazon Gloves - Look for gloves with 20% increased attack speed and +3 to Javelin and Spear Skills which only rolls on magic gloves.

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 - Gives 25% faster run walk, up to 50% magic find, 10 strength, 10 vitality, and 15-25 base weapon damage. This item is used for its added physical damage which is helpful for lightning immune enemies inside The Secret Cow Level like The Cow King.

Budget Feet

Aldur's Boots - These budget boots can be used with the budget Spirit Monarch Shield for 40% faster run walk, 50 life, and up to 50% fire resistance which is very helpful on a budget because Spirit has 35% to all resistances except for fire resistance.

Amulet

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

Rings

Dual Leech Ring/Bul-Kathos' Wedding Band - Look for a rare ring with high life and mana leech with other great modifiers and use a Bul-Kathos's Wedding Band for +1 to all skills, up to 5% life stolen per hit, and life per level. When using the budget Tal Rasha's helmet you won't need a dual leech ring but you'll need a source of cannot be frozen without the Kira's Guardian helmet which means you should use a Raven Frost ring for cannot be frozen, up to 20 dexterity, 250 attack rating, and 20% cold absorb.

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, a cold damage small charm to chill, and +1 Javelin and Spear Skills Grand Charms with faster run walk, faster hit recovery, and/or life. For the rest of your small charms you can look for faster run walk charms with resistances so that you can socket your helmet with a Lightning Facet for more damage instead of an Um rune for resistances.

Mercenary Type

Act 2 Holy Freeze Mercenary - Holy Freeze is an important defensive for The Secret Cow Level because it slows enemies' movement speed and attack speed which helps keep you and your mercenary alive.

Mercenary Weapon

Ethereal Infinity (Ber Mal Ber Ist) - Infinity is used on your mercenary to lower the lightning resistance and defense of enemies.

Mercenary Armor

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

Mercenary Helmet

Ethereal Vampire Gaze - Gives up to 20% reduced physical damage taken, 8% life leech, cold damage, and high defense.

Budget Mercenary Weapon

Ethereal Insight (Ral Tir Tal Sol) - Gives up to level 17 Meditation for very 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, charms, and runes. The sample below is provided to show what you can find in 175 one player runs of The Secret Cow Level which means multiplayer games will have even better drops. Each cow level run takes about 5-8 minutes so the number of runs in the sample is lower than some of the other samples on this site so that you can tell what you can find in The Secret Cow Level 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: Pul 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 isn't very important in The Secret Cow Level because you'll just trade your runeword bases for unique items which is interestingly enough sometimes a fair trade. From this sample it looks like the most profitable items from the sample came from high end charms. After enough cow level runs you will also have a high chance at dropping high runes that are higher than Vex which was found in the sample because The Secret Cow Level drops runes all the way up to Zod rune. I've personally found a large variety of high runes from The Secret Cow Level all the way up to Cham rune.

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 3 Open Socket Dusk Shrouds and Archon Plates 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 runeword claw.

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 are valuable bases.

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

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

11. Ethereal 5 Open Socket Decapitators can be used to roll ethereal Death runewords 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 multiple runewords.

14. +3 to Battle Orders 3os Helmets can roll +5 to Battle Orders with the Delirium runeword which makes it a high value base.

15. +3 Tornado 3os Druid Pelts can roll +5 to Tornado with the Delirium runeword or they can be used to roll the Coven runeword.

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

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

18. High Defense 3os 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 four open sockets with the socket quest.

20. Ethereal Vortex Shields with All Resistances are very valuable for the Exile runeword which is often used on Smite Paladins.

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

And that's all for the Cow Level Javazon Guide. You can check out more guides in the menu at the top of this page. Good luck!