[3.25] CheapBunny's Warcries Animate Guardian's Weapon Chieftain | Marohi Erqi | Rallying Cry
 Introduction Imagine wielding 14 Marohi, a better Marohi, without attack peed/accuracy penalty and deal double damage. This is unconventional minion build that utilizing warcrys to buff animated weapons, it has pretty good damage with decent defenses and a lot of buttons xD. While I find this build pretty fun to play, it might not for everyone, as it require using multiple warcries periodically (a many-buttons build), I even need to use second skill bar for mark skill. Another issue is that animated weapon is not tanky enough for ubers, so it struggles against ubers that cannot pre-load weapon. Uber maven is a no go because her fire ball shotgun will straight up kill your guardian, however T17s are fine. Now you have been warned, enjoy the build guide if you still want to play :D. Build Thought
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The build idea started with Rallying Cry. I thought it work pretty well with Marohi, which has huge weapon damage that can use to buff minions. And because we only need the weapon damage, the accuracy/attack speed downside does not affect the build. In 3.25, GGG has reworked many warcrys, now most of their buff can affect ally , so we can use those in this build as well. Why Chieftain?
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 I chose Chieftain mainly because of this ascendancy node, it gives warcry buff effect and makes sure every warcries we use has maximum buff effect Fire res ascendancy nodes from Chieftain also can provide a lot of defenses to the build, so we can focus on offensive power elsewhere. Why Animate Guardian's Weapon?
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High numbers minions would get the most benefit from Rallying Cry + Marohi combo, and animate weapon comes to my mind. Because we already have so may buttons to press, using Chain of Commands to automate summonning animate weapon will be a lot smoother. The added main hand damage bonus can even be doubled when combo with Paradoxica. Why scales critical?
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Battlemage's Cry gives pretty decent base critical rate, which makes scaling critical worthwhile. Build Mechanic
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Summoning Animate Guardian's Weapon
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To able to summon Animate Guardian's Weapon (AGW), we will need to use the skill gem Animate Guardian (AG). Whenever AG kills an enemy, there is 100% to summon the weapon AG is using as AGW. And when AGW kills an enemy there is 10% to summon AGW. So to maximize the summoning chance, we need to have a way to credit all the kills to AG, this can achieved by equipping AG with Gravebind. During some boss fight, there is nothing to kill for summoning AGW. To solve that, we use The Writhing Jar, which spawns worms for AG to kill. Taking Essence Extraction cluster and annointing Replenish Remedies ensure the flask charges always up during boss fight.   Defenses used in the build
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1. Decent Armour (16k+ after warcry) 2. 3 Endurance Charges 3. 88% elemental resistance 4. 75% chaos resistance 5. Automation + Molten Shell Build Problems
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AG/AGW Survivability
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AG tends to die occasionally in the early game, which could be frustrating, as you will need to buy his gear again. Try to play carefully or only swap into AG/AGW when you have good enough gear/minion defensive stats. AG almost never die in the end game, except for uber mavens, her fire ball shot gun will kill all your AG/AGW. AGW is also not tanky enough for ubers, so this build struggles against ubers that cannot pre-load weapon. When AGW die in uber fight, it is very hard to get back to maximum number of AGW, because they will keep dying while you are resummoning. AGW also die occasionally in some juiced/T17 maps, but it is not a issue as you can resummon AGW very quickly during mapping. Videos
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Settlers of Kalguur League T16 Minotaur https://youtu.be/yHx2AwwqXAA T16 Al-Hezmin https://youtu.be/4G-zyDSPC78 T17 Ziggurat https://youtu.be/2aoW3OdLjsw Uber Cortex https://youtu.be/GpjLz34y_ME Uber Shaper https://youtu.be/x2fsdolnsqk Uber Sirus https://youtu.be/62WKVG1pH4o Skill Tree (POB)
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Leveling
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Leveling with Sunder starting in act 1, path to Spiritual Aid passive nodes as soon as possible. Grab Herald of Purity in act 2, and you could level with Sunder + HoP up to yellow or even red maps. My level70 tree: https://pobb.in/-nOamiWgwBi_ Only swap in to AG/AGW when you had all the followings 1) 20lvl + AG 2) 75%+ minion ele resis 3) All AG gears (Early/Mid Game) 4) Chain of Commands 5) Marohi Erqi 6) Writhing Jar Ascendancy
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 Sione, Sun's Roar -> Tukohama, War's Herald ->Tasalio, Cleansing Water -> Valako Storm's Embrace (Note : Tukohama, War's Herald cannot support AGW from Chain of Commands, because it is not a gem, but I take it for leveling with Sunder, and there is no other useful ascendancy node for this build) Gears
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Weapon
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Early/Mid Game 2H High Physical Rare Mace/Axe End Game Body Armour
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Early/Mid Game Life/Resis Rare Body Armour End Game Corrupted Implicit +1% to all maximum Resistances (There is no need to 6L, only 6S is needed) Helmet
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Early/Mid Game Life/Resis Rare Helmet End Game Life/Resis Rare/Warcry Buff Effect Rare Helmet (Eldritch Implicit : Mana Reservation Efficiency/Minion Maximum Life) Gloves
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Early/Mid Game Life/Resis Rare Gloves End Game (Anointment : Hollow Effigy) (Corrupted Implicit : +2 socketed minion level) Boots
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Early/Mid Game Move Speed/Life/Resis Rare Boots End Game (Eldritch Implicit : +2 Maximum Fire Resistance/Warcry Speed) Belt
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Early/Mid Game Life/Resis Rare Belt End Game Amulet
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Early/Mid/End Game Life/Resis/Attributes Rare Amulet (Anointment : Replenishing Remedies) Rings
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Early Game Life/Resis Rare Rings Mid/End Game +3 Sockted Aura (+2 if you got 21lvl purity of fire)/Life/Resis/-Mana cost Unset Ring 40+ Minion Ele Resis/Minion Damage/Minion Attack Speed/Life Rare Ring Jewels
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Abyss Jewel (Belt/Jewel Socket) Minion Accuracy/Minion Blind on Hit/Minion Damage/Life Cluster Jewels Unique Jewels (Slot in specific jewel socket, refer to POB) Look for the following mods: 1) Minion Damage 2) Minion Life Animate Guardian's Gears
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Early Game
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Mid/End Game
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Gem Link
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7L Animate Guardian Weapon (Body Armour)
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4L Animate Guardian (Gloves)
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Warcries (Weapon)
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2L Molten Shell/Hatred
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1L Gems
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1L Gem (Ring)
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My other build guide
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Last edited by cheapbunny#0890 on Aug 24, 2024, 5:34:24 AM Last bumped on Aug 31, 2024, 7:33:39 AM
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Just post Pob and video of the build first man.
Build sound good and interesting :D Maraumancer! VietExile
Hardcore Abyss #4Berserker SSFHC Legacy #5Berserker SSFHC Synthesis event #2Juggernaut Hardcore Legion #3Chieftain |
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" POB and video are up :) |
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What is the item/skills your animate-guardian using? It looks like you have animate weapons too, but I can't see how you got the lingering blades or AW spell on your POB
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i dont get why you have so many warcries. do they affect your animate weapon throught you chest? Do you think it would work for an iron mass build as well
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" Added Animate Guardian gears in the POB. This build is using Chains of Command unique body armour, which will auto summon animate weapon when animate guardian kills an enemy, gravebind on animate guardian will attribute all kills to animate guardian. |
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" Most warcries now give buff to ally by default as well in 3.25, not because of the chest. It would work for iron mass build as well, just may not be as optimal, because rallying cry requires high damage main hand weapon like Marohi to be good. Last edited by cheapbunny#0890 on Aug 8, 2024, 10:08:04 AM
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Does Tukohama, War's Herald actually interact with the minions in any way? I would think their attacks are just melee and not a strike or slam?
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" Yes, it does not work with Animate Weapon, I used it when leveling with Sunder and didn't bother to respec because there is no other useful ascendancy. |
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