Theorycraft Help, Null's Inclination + Herald of Agony

I feel like there's a decent build to be had with Herald of Agony and Null's Inclination but I could use some ideas.

Basic Idea - Caustic Arrow/Toxic Rain/Scourge Arrow and Herald of Agony seem designed to work together by generating poison stacks, which increases Herald of Agony's damage. Since Herald of Agony is a minion, Null's Inclination will buff it's damage, in addition to summoning other minions and having a large amount of added chaos damage built into the bow.

Cons: Null's Inclination has a low base physical damage, which makes scaling the attack skills harder.

Unknown's: If DOTs/Herald will trigger Null's Inclination. I know the wiki states the old Caustic Arrow's cloud won't trigger it, but possibly the new one's will?

What do you guys think the best build would be for this? Would Ranger or Shadow be better?


Skill Gem Ideas:
Null's Inclination: Summon Skeleton, Animate Weapon, SRS, Added Chaos Damage, Minion Damage, Multistrike
Either
Caustic Arrow, Mirage Arrow, Summon Phantasm on Kill Support, Volley, Void Manipulation, Added Chaos
Or
Toxic Rain, Mirage Arrow, Summon Phantasm on Kill Support, Void Manipulation, Added Chaos Damage, Faster Attacks
Or
Scourge Arrow: Void Manipulation, Added Chaos Damage, Faster Attacks, Slower Projectile, Summon Phantasm on kill

4Ls - Raise Zombie, Fortify, Withering Touch, Multistrike/Minion Life
4Ls - Blink Arrow, Faster Projectiles & CWDT, Immortal Call
4Ls - Herald of Agony, Minion Damage, Volley & Despair

I would like to have Despair and Temporal Chains on a Curse on hit with ball lightning/orb of lightning, but am lacking links

Passive Tree Idea:
https://poeplanner.com/AA4AAQsADjMAAILfiukCJbJihp69bRkI9GpDfRhr2-yKIvRsC8k9v5fyHpMnf8bBxewYj_pcQIfLp5t1ns8VTLMEB4PbVcY6WKyY99eboUjnGGp4L3zlWAfMvKrEhWBNuY9GpwidrhpsNukkqhZv42qIQCqYkDOmrKqpYPglIevuHNy4k48aKPqCx_no0_uofVqRaqxTNVBCjDZVS2HiJpUWv2qM9W_IFKLZsNgPqySLwzqJ4MgjBZNJE5Mf5lgi6tsaEHu-Om1stUjrYxEv6NYFtcLsKlt59lLsjb_UIzBx3ahLeDpCGYqXBsSip9T-yPrSZp6g5mdxSp-JvBBRZros4puKvk_sg9OPSI4N4gAAAAAA

Link to the other two class threads for this: (They have different passive trees)
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2201919
https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2201914

I'm curious why you picked animate weapon instead of SRS? I would think SRS would be more consistent but I'm not really an expert on that.

More importantly I feel like you are REALLY missing out by not taking Spiritual Aid in the new minion wheel since it gives "Increases and reductions to minion damage also affect you" since you are trying to scale your bow damage to get easier kills.

My best guess is that the herald of agony won't count towards kills for Null's because it's a minion getting a kill. Just like how herald of purity minion's kills won't refresh themselves because it's a minion getting a kill and not you. No clue if they changed the caustic arrow interaction with Null's

I just realized you REALLY REALLY miss out by not taking spiritual aid, I forgot the "1% increased minion damage per 10 dex" on Null's. This will apply to YOU with spiritual aid, which gives the ability to scale a lot off of dex for both you and your minions.

I need to read the patch notes better, that's a good call. Just edited the build. As far as SRS, I honestly don't know if it would be better than Animate weapon. It's possible it might be better to just add that over a different support since it casts all minion spells on kill. If anything, I'd probably move withering touch to the zombies.