Cold ANIMATE WEAPON Summoner | League-Start & Leveling Guide

This was my first build into the Atlas, really appreciate you posting it.

I was thinking about slotting the animate weapons into the Triad Grips to better take advantage of the 4 Greens... I know I'll lose a ton of DPS but it'd open up some options.

My question...has anyone tried Animate Weapons - Added Cold - Hypothermia - Ice Bite? (Or maybe Cold Pen?)

The Ice Bite seems like it would work great with the frenzy charge spectres and I'm running Frost Bomb (with Avatar of Fire) to proc EE. For curse, I've been switching between Frostbite and Enfeeble spectres.

Thank you!

Build is updated for 3.11! Animate Weapon is not mentioned (in other words, not nerfed). Glancing Blows is now much more accessible, not requiring a timeless jewel, and I've re-designed the defensive strategy around it.

This should be a solid option for you in 3.11 - I look forward to hearing how it goes for everybody!

(new) Rallying Cry and/or Ruins Hellion spectre wont add anything to the build?

Delve still sucks with Animate? I guess Ill delve less. Thats why the only enchant for me is the one with extra copy.

I wonder if we lose weapons when we enter to garden from maps.

Envy was buffed or nerfed? Nobody played poison AW anyways last league :/

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wsbisev wrote:

(new) Rallying Cry and/or Ruins Hellion spectre wont add anything to the build?

Delve still sucks with Animate? I guess Ill delve less. Thats why the only enchant for me is the one with extra copy.

I wonder if we lose weapons when we enter to garden from maps.

Envy was buffed or nerfed? Nobody played poison AW anyways last league :/

Could try rallying cry if you want. Same for Ruins Hellion, maybe it's a touch more damage.

Honestly, DPS is the very last problem for this build, it's off the charts - the more common issue was mana sustain at the start of maps, and survival in late reds. I think both of those have gotten a bit better.

Do you have an updated PoB by any chance ?
I saw you had 3.10 ones and some screenshots/tree for the 3.11 but no 3.11 PoB or I missed it.
Looking forward to trying that build though

I can't see the poe leveling planner, will the link be down? Until last night I could see it. Thanks

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cronos2012 wrote:

I can't see the poe leveling planner, will the link be down? Until last night I could see it. Thanks

PoE leveling planner seems to be not working, I've taken that out of the guide for now.

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Woute wrote:

Do you have an updated PoB by any chance ?
I saw you had 3.10 ones and some screenshots/tree for the 3.11 but no 3.11 PoB or I missed it.
Looking forward to trying that build though

The gem links etc from 3.10 should all be the same, so you can use those POBs and just add the 4-5 nodes that are new and different. I don't want to theory-craft a POB and have some big "that's not realistic..." discussion so I only post POBs of characters I played.

hey OP thanks a lot for the great guide! Planning to play AW for the first time and as my Harvest starter no less, even though many people say AW is 'the clunkiest skill in poe' (reddit ofc).

Anyway, I saw that for his guide for the cold conversion....version, Ghazzy still uses cold iron point daggers (which look so incredibly juicy) and then a malachai's artifice golem to proc EE on bosses.

What do you think about that? Do you think it's worth it giving up a ring slot for the possibility to use two CIP daggers? I think especially early on in the league it might be good although I have no clue how much the daggers cost at league start.

Hey man, i wanna try your build as league starter. Will your Loot Filter in this guide be updates one the league starts or do i have to get my own custom one?

I downloaded SFHobbit's filter and used notepad++ to search and enable A.W.
Its easy.
Also its already updated for 3.11 but if u try it in 3.10 it wont work