I've played Median XL for many years and I've experimented with a wide variety of builds in several (painfully homogenous) metas. While I do have a horse in the race, I'll do my best to be objective in my analysis:
For a premier reworked build, Javazon is mediocre. It has two attacks and it isn't "great" at anything.
-Impale: "decent" single target dps with zero cleave (Where tf is the area damage?). Good in a vacuum (i.e. hell baal), fails in anything above 125+ ubers. Scosglen is a challenge to many builds but Java simply doesn't have the damage or survivability to step foot in the damn place, even with optimal gear/charms.
Eviscerate: Completely underwhelming. Plays like it should be a rare amulet Oskill, not the primary ranged skill of the Javazon tree. Mediocre aoe damage and pretty much requires Ecstatic frenzy and elemental stacking to even touch the abundance of high phys resist enemies in the game before you get chased down and destroyed.
"But what about shieldmaiden and the incredibly minor health buff?!?"
"Look guys, amazons get 300 extra health this patch and javazons get a bunch of shiny new defensive passives baked into their skill tree. Now they can finally run DLABS!! OH WAIT. Looks like the day before patch release, we're gonna remove 25% max block from the entire class (which already had problems surviving in endgame content due to lack of avoidance) so you effectively have 50% less mitigation, neutralizing the added protection."
Why.... Just why? They are practically the only class without any other avoidance mechanic so why the hell wouldn't they at least get max block?
One step forward, two steps back. The Amazon shuffle.
"Okay, so Javazon didn't work out for you. Perhaps you'd like to try your hand at the The mighty Hammer/Spearzon!"
Now you can finally realize your dream of farming Fauzt at a crawl and never killing any [HARD] bosses in the game. You are forever stuck farming Fauzt/Duncraig/Viz'jun.. That is the culmination of your grinding/efforts.
The ONLY endgame-viable options you have are:
Glass cannon build #1: Bowa (phys / ele, doesn't matter). Bowas are SOLID for farming (Wyrm) and good for bossing (trin builds).
Glass cannon build #2: Magic Missile high damage but CLUNKY as f*ck and not enjoyable to play. Also, heavy gear requirement in order to play at an operable level. (looking at you, collector)
Now, what is the solution to this madness?
COMPLETELY REWORK THE ULTIMATE/DIVINE TREES IN THEIR ENTIRETY. I'm talking controlled demolition and salting the ground on which they once stood.
"For years, scientists have worked around the clock to concoct the most boring passive tree imaginable... Countless have failed... Until now. The Amazon Divine Tree is the most cringeworthy and anemic assortment of talent dumps imaginable.
"Run speed and FHR"
"base defense."
"Life when struck / slow enemy attackers" (except neither of which are nearly as effective as they sound)
"Lets make you have zero defense just to add a minor amount of magic damage to your attacks"
"Oh, while you're doing marginally more magic damage, here's some more STAMINA so you can run away from instant death even better now!!"
"NOW... FOR THEIR ULTIMATE SKILLS...let's make them choose between doing meme damage (poison) over time with ZERO avoidance/HP (sub-10k) and having "okay" (sub-20k) HP with zero avoidance, zero supplemental damage, no runewords, no jewels, and no hope for Scosglen/DLAB.."
Honestly, just compare these two trees to, say, Xbow necros or Melee barbs for one second.
How can you justify the disparity? Is everyone on acid?
Only way to redeem Amazons:
1) Bake some form of avoidance into passive tree.
1) Bake Vitality bonus from Paragon into passive tree.
1) add individual elemental conversion *OPTIONS* into different trees in an actual meaningful way, not just "lol lets add 800 WHOLE lightning damage for maxing your hammers but now you can only cast 3 of them before you run out of mana."
MEANWHILE, Nephilim spirit.....
Please, devs... End this chaotic nightmare of mediocrity.
I demand justice for my Amazon and her perky milkerinos.
hopefully some changes are coming via hotfix.
it's pretty obvious, scosglen is endgame map. just level up, upgrade your charms/gear and try again. Last season I was smashed as well when I tried. I was just too weak.