[3.6] Worms of Command - (Infinite worms + chains of command on a PF)

Part I - Chains of Command


This armour makes it so that your animate guardian animates the weapon it is using when it kills an enemy. The animated weapons also have a 10% chance to summon another one on kill.

all gems socketed in the armour apply to the animated weapons. You can socket Animate Guardian in a different piece of gear, such as an elder helmet, to use different support gems and so it doesnt use up a socket in the armor.



Part II - Building the Hoard

Animate weapons have low HP (5-10k) and will die frequently. It is also problematic when fighting a boss if there are no monsters. To get around this, the build uses 4 x Writhing jar flasks. These flasks summon 2 enemy worms upon use. If your AG kills a worm, it summons a weapon. If an Animated Weapon kills a worm, it has a 10% chance to summon another weapon.


Part III - The Flasks

Pathfinder provides perpetual flask sustain and allows the build to spam worm flasks indefinitely. With the right gear and skill tree, each writhing jar uses 10 charges, and heals for 1k+ HP. The Pathfinder grants 8.4 flask charges per 3 seconds to each flask, so they refill quickly.

Flask info:

180% total increased flask charges gained
+40% increased flask charges gained from skill tree (Druidic Rite, Primal Spirit)
+20% increased flask charges gained from pathfinder ascendancy
+120% increased flask charges gained from overflowing chalice (100% x 20% increased flask effect)

35% reduced flask charges used
+20% from belt
+15% from skill tree (Arcane Chemistry)

120% increased life from flasks
+70% from skill tree (herbalism, Profane Chemistry)
+30% life recovery from flasks (Pathfinder Master Surgeon)
+20% increased flask effect (pathfinder ascendancy)





Part IV - Gear info

All support gems in Chains of Command are applied to the animated weapons. That means you can just use a 6s one and fill it with 6 supports.

Place Animate Guardian in an Elder helm with Minion life and +2 to socketed minion gems mods. You want your Animate guardian to have extremely high life so he doesnt die. You can also craft a focus skill on the gloves which heals all your minions to full HP when you use focus.

Try to get the helmet enchant: "24% chance to create an additional weapon copy" as this applies to the copies made by using Chains of command. This enchant is very powerful and is even worth using just a rare helmet with it if you cant find an elder base.

For the Animate Guardian, You will want to look for the Following Gear to start with: (this will change as you optimize)

Rare jeweled Foil - 2 APS with flat fire and lightning damage

The Oak - provides high life and 3% life regen

Bringer of Rain - high life, extra damage, block

Bloodbond - high life, and 1% life regen

Rare gloves/ rare boots with life, movement speed, and resists.

You must have "Hits can't be evaded" on either a vagan weapon, or on lycosidae shield with necromantic aegis.


Oro's sacrifice is another option. It deals a lot of damage, but comes at the cost of survivability. It is better suited for a scion variant that uses the inquisitor for consecrated ground.




Part V: Utility and extra details

Dancing Dervish/duo:
You can gain rampage by having the dancing dervish/duo in your offhand. all you do is have it equipped, kill 1 monster, then swap back to normal weapon/shield. After that, you will have rampage without the dervishes. Make sure you you swap to your normal weapon setup before the dervish spawns on rampage, otherwise your weapons will be disabled.

There are also many small changes you can make to the build depending on the items you have available, and of course the class you have chosen.

For instance, finding a nice rare gloves with ele weakness on hit means you save a gem and can use something else, like Vaal haste, or just a high level self-cast Convocation. You can equip these gloves on your AG and he will curse for you.

If you choose a pure Pathfinder, you will have ailment immunity and bleed immunity. Flask charge recovery is slightly better than the Scion, you also take 6% less elemental damage, and have slightly stronger flasks.

As a Scion, you have several choices of secondary class to go with the PF.

Juggernaut - Stun/chill immunity, and you can generate endurance charges easily

Necro - 20% skill effect duration and some minion damage

Occultist - extra curse, pretty much stun immunity

Inquisitor - enemies take 10% increased damage. Chance to create conc ground. Status immunity while on conc ground.

Champion - Movement speed aura, potential enemies take 20 Increased damage, taunt can be effective to keep guardian out of harms way.


Personally, I think the Inquisitor works best, as another community member has been quite successful with it. The 6% regen from concentrated ground is very strong and will keep your minions alive much longer.

Offhand:


Flasks:


if needed, you can use something like this: to heal your minions quickly


Jewels:



Ghastly Eye - Flat fire or lightning damage//// Maximum life ///// minion resist///// minion attack speed////// minions have 0.6% life regen


Regular - Maximum life ///// Minion Damage//////minion resist







Sample Animate Guardian Gear Setups:
I use a vagan foil

Setup 1:


Setup 2


Setup 3:



Additional Info

6 Socket Chest
ruthless - added lightning damage - Ele focus - minion speed - minion damage- elemental damage with attacks.



4L elder helm (minion life and either +2/3 socketed minion gems or Minion damage)
Animate Guardian - minion speed - multistrike - Empower (or if you want more damage, ele dmg with attacks)


4L - cwdt lvl 1 - immortal call - *enfeeble/ele weak* - convocation lvl 20

4L - anger - wrath - generosity - enlighten lvl 2

3L - shield charge (or WB) - faster attacks - fortify

3L (trigger weapon) - desecrate - flesh offering - ice nova



** if your AGuardian has Ele weakness on hit gloves, you no longer need ele weakness on cwdt. **

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Class information

Master Surgeon
Master Alchemist

+2 passives bandit reward


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