Cold ANIMATE WEAPON Summoner | League-Start & Leveling Guide

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Falzey wrote:

Thanks so much for making a guide like this! I'm still new so having things drawn out so clearly is really appreciated. Love animated weapons so I'm excited to try it out as my next league start.

I was just wondering if you use a wand trigger craft for the fire elemental version of the build? The minion builds that I've seen (though not many) seem to use desecrate, offering, and another skill for the trigger craft, but I noticed your PoB has those in a four-link setup with arcanist brand and assassin's mark.

Also will I need an unset ring to slot in a movement ability? I'm not sure if I'm miscounting, but there doesn't seem to be a slot for flame dash once all the skills are socketed in.

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Falzey wrote:

Thanks for the follow-up to my post! I've been practising for league start and sure enough am having a blast with the build =)

Just wondering, how far do you think the build can go in terms of content? I see you could do Shaper no problem, but would it be able to handle uber elder etc, or is t16/A8 Sirus about as far as it goes?

Also, I haven't played minion builds before, but would this be able to do atziri with reflect and all? I assume it works similar to traps in that the reflect goes to the minions instead of you?

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ThanatoZGaming wrote:

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To make it short, I worked my way up from scratch to Sirus A9 solo. Could never do Maven or keep up even with 7k HP and a ton of armor etc.

Now I have less HP and much lower DPS. I could possibly do Sirus A9 but I would probably have to get a little lucky with his patterns.

Can someone look at my character and gear and tell me what I could change? My flasks are that way for the armor boost and it really is my only line of defense. I used to run more auras, but well, you know. So that's why I use that shield.

The only thing I see you missing is an Animate Guardian. You could drop the Lifetap support off the support minions, and add that in to gain a survival and DPS boost.

Your damage links can be improved. Use:
- Awakened Added Cold
- Awakened Minion Damage
- Awakened Cold Penetration
- Increased Critical Damage
- Awakened Melee Splash / Multistrike

By using those links instead, I've doubled your boss DPS. I think that will fix your problem!

Animate Weapon is really good with flat added damage, you're not getting much of that from gems, so Added Cold gem is very efficient (this might be different if you had a bunch of really good abyssals)

Not convinced that pathing all the way down to Elemental Equilibrium is a good idea. I'd rather take extra life nodes and get a weaker sort of exposure off Elemental Army instead. That would be better defensively...

You can use an additional defensive flask - Quartz is my preference

Big thing is the gem links though. Here's a tweaked POB: https://pastebin.com/W4kanZDw

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BaKariLegacy wrote:

Hi I have loved your build guide as a new player in PoE and had a question about late game. I haven't had trouble with scourge mechanics at all until I got to level 80 and in my maps I get completely blown up. My armour isn't too high either (3300) and my chaos resist is suffering to say the least. Are there any items or tips you could give on how to handle this alongside general items to help beef me up? I saw in your 2020 video that your armour was in the 5000s so I'm wondering if you could take a look and help with my build. I'm overdue some boots but would not sure where to go in terms of defense overall. Thanks for any help and please let me know if I'm doing this wrong or weird, haven't posted on a forum in years.

Here is a link to what I've done so far, most of it is similar to the guide.
https://pastebin.com/Te45Fu0v

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BaKariLegacy wrote:

Quick update: I'm shifting some stuff around and noticed flame dash is actually a blue gem so swapping out lifetap isn't really feasible. Were you recommending changing the socket colors around at this point?