Cold ANIMATE WEAPON Summoner | League-Start & Leveling Guide

Short question to the Fortress Covenant jewel. The guide says we should position it southwest of the scion life wheel. That means we need to take 3 strength nodes and 1 for the jewel. Is it really worth to get that jewel, spending 4 passive points?

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CharminBear wrote:

Short question to the Fortress Covenant jewel. The guide says we should position it southwest of the scion life wheel. That means we need to take 3 strength nodes and 1 for the jewel. Is it really worth to get that jewel, spending 4 passive points?

With how passive starved the build is, and with Cluster Jewels added, I don't think it is worth it anymore to spend 4 passives on this. It was even pretty questionable before that to be honest.

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Mecielle wrote:

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CharminBear wrote:

Short question to the Fortress Covenant jewel. The guide says we should position it southwest of the scion life wheel. That means we need to take 3 strength nodes and 1 for the jewel. Is it really worth to get that jewel, spending 4 passive points?

With how passive starved the build is, and with Cluster Jewels added, I don't think it is worth it anymore to spend 4 passives on this. It was even pretty questionable before that to be honest.

Thx buddy. Is there any information wich notables are best on cluster jewels? What happens if i buy a cluster jewel, put it in my passive tree, skill some points and later on i want to change that jewel? Do i have to take all the points out first or how does this work now? When i start on one of the larger jewel sockets and put a cluster jewel in wich has "1 added passive skill is a jewel socket" is that always a medium one or can that also be a large socket?

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Artfulx wrote:

Since Bladefall triggers EE (and eventually a curse), directs minion aggro, and spawns blades to animate, I am considering hiding normal weapons (sometimes the clutter is a bit much) and just animating 1 of my lingering blades every few packs.

Yeah I imagine it would be fine. I like the pace of play with animating weapons that drop (also thematically, I get a kick out of it) but reducing clutter would be a plus.

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CharminBear wrote:

Fortress Covenant jewel

I thought it might be good if gear-starved at the start of the league - in light of cluster jewels being easy to get and fairly cheap, I may edit it out of the guide.

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CharminBear wrote:

Fortress Covenant jewel

I thought it might be good if gear-starved at the start of the league - in light of cluster jewels being easy to get and fairly cheap, I may edit it out of the guide.[/quote]

Answer by the master himself, thx for the guide ;)

Do you also have an answer to my questions in my last posting? I am struggeling a bit what to buy and if it is worth it to skill into some cluster jewels.

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CharminBear wrote:

Do you also have an answer to my questions in my last posting? I am struggeling a bit what to buy and if it is worth it to skill into some cluster jewels.

go to the first post and scroll down to the section entitled Jewels.

He does a great job explaining which notables to look for on the Cluster Jewels.

what should i be focusing on ? i kno my wep is crap but other then that not sure what else to upgrade build is runing so so t6 maps but my blades seem to die alot

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Daesmondy wrote:

what should i be focusing on ? i kno my wep is crap but other then that not sure what else to upgrade build is runing so so t6 maps but my blades seem to die alot

Your characters appear to be set private, can't see them. Generally, life leech is the way to go for minion life sustain. If it's delirium, yeah they do just die a lot and have to be resummoned. My hope is that after eternal lab and +2 skills, weapons are more tanky.

Does the weapon type we use is important because I read that animate weapon take base damage from then weapon and add the bonus ?

I'm not sure weapon survive-ability will get much better in delirium. I'm fully ascended and have a decent amount of defensive notables from clusters I'm still having issues with delirium. Though it's not as bad as it was.

I think I have a pretty good build going, but not sure where to go for more dps without things getting much more expensive. Only thing that really stands out is swapping melee phys with added cold and maybe swapping out chernobog once I get a better way to proc EE. I'll post my PoB for the cold version if people want to take a look at it.

https://pastebin.com/kRxBEmsW