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>>2383685
The speed advantage from having teleport is highly variable; the benefit from using enigma is large when the map has a completely unpredictable layout and you are only planning
on killing a small number of monsters, whereas it's small (or nonexistent) when you are going to be killing a lot of shit in a predictable environment. That the amazon has a truly abysmal casting speed only means that the amazon will always be slower relative to other classes, although they make up for this somewhat for arguably having the best /players 1 kill speed out of any class in most environments.

In a full clear CS run, you only really need teleport to get to the entrance, and it only takes about five teleports. Do you need an enigma to do five teleports? Absolutely not; you can use a (far cheaper) item with teleport charges. If you want to save that extra second of casting time, you can even put wizard spike/spirit on a weapon switch and swap to your javs when you get to CS.

If you're old school and you're running hell meph, the javazon is a poor choice because without maphack it could take you hundreds of teleports (which you won't be able to do with charges instead of oskill) and it's not worth your time to stop and kill things anyway. But honestly, I don't ever run hell meph and I don't know any non-bots that do these days either.

Other than DoH? I think the only big thing that Amazons would need an enigma to do at competitive speeds is Baal. The route to pits is predictable from OC and their clear speed is so quick on those low health enemies that they're probably the best choice for level 85 MF, and they do full clear CS at least as fast as anyone else.

>>2383618
Go to any place where urdars (pic related) or any of their variants spawn, such as river of flame, and revive as many of them as you can. They have crushing blow and are actually amazing at killing Uber Diablo. Life tap helps a little bit but you're probably best off using decrepify.