Cold ANIMATE WEAPON Summoner | League-Start & Leveling Guide

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SecretPancake wrote:

I'm interested in playing this build as a league starter, any idea where to use your last passive points pushing beyond level 80?

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acekac93 wrote:

My impale animate weapon starter over 8k hp + 1.5m damage per weapon
enjoy https://pastebin.com/9hkdkLpq
u need forked pob https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding/wiki/Installing-this-Fork

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Rotten Claws

Minions have a 20% chance to Impale on Hit with Attacks

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Temsen wrote:

Could atleast give credit to Ghazzy as it's his PoB you just slightly remade :P

Also you removed the cluster jewel option and the duration nodes, so might feel both clunky to keep the AW up and we got no option in case of a good node jewel.

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Mecielle wrote:

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acekac93 wrote:

My impale animate weapon starter over 8k hp + 1.5m damage per weapon
enjoy https://pastebin.com/9hkdkLpq
u need forked pob https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding/wiki/Installing-this-Fork

First thing I notice is that you have absolutely no passives left for cluster jewels. And there is at least one cluster jewel node you absolutely have to get for the phys impale version:

Rotten Claws

Minions have a 20% chance to Impale on Hit with Attacks

That brings them up to 90%+ chance to Impale. Which will be an insane damage boost and well worth the passives spent to get it.

The other thing is that since you used Ghazzy's PoB as the base, you can't really put AW at anything but level 1. The flask in combination with the old level 1 AW simulates the new level 20 gem, which is the only one we actually know the numbers of.

Putting the old AW on level 8 and having the flask does not really reflect actual levels gained.

Getting rid of Spell Echo in the Spectre setup and at the same time as not getting Death Attunement is a choice you can make, but will result in much lower uptime of charges on your AWs. And not having them at full Charges permanently is a pretty big damage loss.


All that said, your tree is definitely a good way to go if you value life a lot more than damage. You will be very tanky and still have enough damage for everything in the game. I was considering going for more life myself and sacrificing some damage. As a comparison, I have 6500 life with that gear but 1.2m Shaper DPS vs your 900k (I reset yours to just a level 20 AW for comparisons sake). But I have actually 25 passive points left over, versus your 5.

So at the very least I would consider not going towards Barbarism and Juggernaut and using those pasisves for getting Rotten Claws and other often insane passives from cluster jewels. They can have some pretty sweet life nodes on them too ;)

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Temsen wrote:

Could atleast give credit to Ghazzy as it's his PoB you just slightly remade :P

Also you removed the cluster jewel option and the duration nodes, so might feel both clunky to keep the AW up and we got no option in case of a good node jewel.

We have been using Ghazzy's PoB for the last 20 pages of the thread, mostly to keep things compareable. Would get annoying really fast if we kept crediting him everytime we post a change :D

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acekac93 wrote:

do u have pob ? l want to check it ;] ty

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Mecielle wrote:

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acekac93 wrote:

do u have pob ? l want to check it ;] ty

I spent 6 more points to get the Tireless wheel. So now I have 19 passives left and 7000 life, and lower mana cost which will probably be very nice QoL.

Always keeping in mind that the gear Ghazzy used is insane on the life front, so 7000 with that gear will probably be more like 6000 for us until very late game.

I think everything else is setup correctly, if not lemme know:

https://pastebin.com/t79JB55Z

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acekac93 wrote:

yeah but u got minion dmg instead of mele splash looks like our dmg will be same in the end ;]]]

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Mecielle wrote:

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acekac93 wrote:

yeah but u got minion dmg instead of mele splash looks like our dmg will be same in the end ;]]]

Oh true! Didn't catch that.

But the point stands, if slightly less so. With the 20% impale from cluster+whatever else I get from the 14 more passives I have left to spend, and the missing Charge uptime you will have, the damage difference will still be quite big.

And I am not yet sure, but Potency of Will might be pretty important to keep at maximum AWs without stopping to resummon a few of them every few seconds.

But as I said, your tree is a solid defensive version. I just think you go too far if you don't use at least Rotten Claws from the cluster jewels. In a small cluster jewel it is only 6 passives to get it, but will be a ton of DPS.


Oh, and I don't know if you noticed, but you have Aspect of the Spider reserve life instead of mana. Not a big deal, won't happen in the game when you craft it on another item but the helmet. Just don't plan to use that mana in another way :D