
You may wish to assign Strafe to your right mouse button. Fire a Freeze Arrow to stop the monsters in their tracks, then follow up with Strafe to shatter them. You can also set one mouse button to Freeze Arrow and the other to Strafe (or use Hot Keys). Freezing Arrow also works well with Strafe especially in Normal and Nightmare mode before Cold Length is significantly reduced. This will chill monsters and will also sometimes shatter them preventing monsters from raising the corpses. Find an item that adds Cold Damage to make all your hits Cold Damage Arrows. Strafe will sometimes fire a little off screen, but Multishot is much better for firing at monsters off screen. Try switching to another skill if you are fighting single monsters. You may quickly run out of Mana when using shots against a single monster. Strafe isn't as good against a single monster as large groups of monsters.

This will also keep you from switching back and forth in opposite directions which will save time. You will then be able to take advantage of Pierce. Try to lead groups of monsters into a tight pack. If you start firing at a new direction where you previously have not been firing at, you will know a monster is over there in that new direction. Strafe is good at alerting you to new monsters entering the area. As you get more points in Strafe it will hit more monsters at once. Strafe will automatically aim and fire at targets on the screen up to the Strafe limit.

Strafe is the skill of choice for many high level Bowazons, although Multishot is also an option. Magic Arrow, Cold Arrow, Multiple Shot, Guided Arrow Fires a volley of arrows at multiple nearby targets.
