Atziri slaying Animate Guardian

Apex of Sacrifice up to the trio boss: https://youtu.be/k2ZhffcKwtE

Atziri herself: https://youtu.be/OjnLVp7IfLA

I've received a message about if a guide exists for something like this and I do not believe so, although I could be wrong.

I'll post my tree, items and some reasons why I chose my setup.

Tree (this includes some jewels that I crafted specifically for minion block):

https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAwMABAcGSQj0EJcTbBZvFy8YVhmKGmwajxzcHaoi9CSqJLAo-iqYL28y0TWSNuk6WDrhQYdEBEVHRZ1GcUe3TLNNuU3jVcZV1VcrWpFfsGh0akNqrGvbbAttGW-ecLt9GH5Zf8aApILHgwmD24TFhWCGAohAjxqPRpAzkyea4Juhm7WdrqEvplemrKcIqH2qxKyYsHe0DLc-uJO86r2Cvoq_l8BUwcXDOsk9ykrK08y80B_T-9i92QvZE9pi2t3fiuGI42rpAuvu7Bjsiu_r8h7yRfba99f56PqA-tL7Cf4K_kn-j_6z

You need a lot of Dex for Haste :(.

Jewels:



Gear:



I think this helm is going to be your only option when dedicating yourself to Animate Guardian survivability.

The 10% minion block and 2% minion life regen is too good to pass up.



This shield covers practically everything for your Animate Guardian when using Necromantic Aegis. Block and Spellblock all on one item. Added bonus of 10% maximum life.

I tested holding Saffell's Frame when battling Atziri and it's not needed. The Animate Guardian has a 54% chance to block in total with 79% of that blocking spells due to the Rainbowstride he is wearing and Rathpith Globe (This also includes the jewels in my tree).



The best summoner amulet corrupted to be made better. The corruption is not needed but it does help boost a tiny bit of damage output.



Nothing special for the chest, any 6 link will do. The gem setup in it currently is my main go-to for clearing maps and the Apex of Sacrifice.

I swap out Melee Splash for Melee Damage on Full Life for a lot more single target damage when fighting certain bosses. I could swap out Increased Area of Effect with Physical to Lightning but I don't want a loss of physical damage as it makes bleeding worse. You could put in an Added Lightning Damage gem when you do the swap over increased AOE if you wanted.

The rest of my gear is standard life/resist (some of the gear is pretty bad):



Item choices on the Animate Guardian:

The Bringer of Rain:

6% block chance, over 100 to max hp and 20-30 physical damage added to attacks. Endurance charges are a juicy extra. Also chest armor seems to work with it for the Animate Guardian.

Kaom's Heart:

Tons of max hp. The increased fire damage is a nice extra when you're using the Added Fire Damage gem.

Rainbowstride:

We lose out on hp here but make up for it with spellblock and some decent resists.

Rare corrupted gloves that have attack speed and life (corrupted to curse with Vulnerability on hit):

I really wanted to maximize bleed and corrupting a pair of decent gloves to curse with Vulnerability seemed the best idea.

Atziri's Disfavour:

This seems BIS for physical damage and the ability to bleed. I used to equip Animate Guardian with Jack, the Axe and a Great Old One's Ward as a shield and the damage was decent. It was not able to deal enough damage to Atziri however.

Jack, the Axe also does not speak when it is equipped to Animate Guardian. :(

You could use a Facebreaker and I imagine the damage would be good too.

My old guardian used Oro's, Blood Dance (to regen more life with frenzy charges), and Snake Bite (to poison). I think I used WED, Proliferate (when it was a better gem), Change to Ignite, Increased Burning Damage, and Increased Minion Damage. It was a very good setup too.

I have cleared some higher level maps with the Animate Guardian such as Village Ruin and Waterways that were chaosed until they had hard mods and then corrupted. The Village Ruin boss that fires poison arrows can kill the Animated Guardian pretty easily, I suggest killing him first.

Animate Guardian certainly has its share of problems:

1.The guardian taunts way too often and his aggro range is not very far from you (keep cursing or casting a spell on what you want him to attack).

2. Animate Guardian uses the default attack.

It was still a very fun (and expensive) test and the potential upcoming changes to Melee Splash could help Animate Guardian out quite a bit.

This demonstrates that any build can kill atziri if played well. Amazing achievement!

Thanks! I'll try some harder content and post some results when I can.

thank you for doing it!

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dulahan200 wrote:

This demonstrates that any build can kill atziri if played well. Amazing achievement!

Did you watch the video ? he died a bunch of time... so he didnt play well xD