Cold ANIMATE WEAPON Summoner | League-Start & Leveling Guide

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dhraz wrote:

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Go back to A1 and buy as many copies of Animate Weapon as you can fit in off-hand weapon slots, and begin leveling them.

What is this step in the leveling part of the guide for? I don't understand why I want a bunch of leveled up animate weapon gems.

You want have a quality 20 and level 21 AW, that's why you lvl a bunch of gems off hand. This is also Tru in any build you play, specially in minions quality normally is speed and dmg, extra lvl from corruption is another big bust of dmg.

I'm loving this build, Dmg is really high and with the correct cluster jewel AW is inmortal. My only concern is defenses but when I get auto trigger bone offering and ubet lab with 75% stack block and 40% with vaal moltenshell will be enough I think

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Osgili4th wrote:

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dhraz wrote:

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Go back to A1 and buy as many copies of Animate Weapon as you can fit in off-hand weapon slots, and begin leveling them.

What is this step in the leveling part of the guide for? I don't understand why I want a bunch of leveled up animate weapon gems.

You want have a quality 20 and level 21 AW, that's why you lvl a bunch of gems off hand. This is also Tru in any build you play, specially in minions quality normally is speed and dmg, extra lvl from corruption is another big bust of dmg.

I'm loving this build, Dmg is really high and with the correct cluster jewel AW is inmortal. My only concern is defenses but when I get auto trigger bone offering and ubet lab with 75% stack block and 40% with vaal moltenshell will be enough I think

I don't fully understand. How does leveling a bunch of AW gems get me a quality 20 and lvl 21 gem?

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dhraz wrote:

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I don't fully understand. How does leveling a bunch of AW gems get me a quality 20 and lvl 21 gem?

once you get a gem to level 20 you can corrupt it hoping to make it level 21

since it's not guaranteed, you want extra gems to do so

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Warrewal wrote:

once you get a gem to level 20 you can corrupt it hoping to make it level 21

since it's not guaranteed, you want extra gems to do so

Thank you! This makes much more sense. Do you also get these up to quality 20 before you corrupt them, or do you just corrupt non-quality ones?

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MarciPWN wrote:

I tried my best to get used to this build's playstyle, but it's just too high maintenance for my liking, so i just ended up using Chains of Command which pretty much plays itself, i can give this advice to everyone before quitting their character.

You can have "no buttons to press" or you can have big-kid DPS. Not both sadly.

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dhraz wrote:

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Warrewal wrote:

once you get a gem to level 20 you can corrupt it hoping to make it level 21

since it's not guaranteed, you want extra gems to do so

Thank you! This makes much more sense. Do you also get these up to quality 20 before you corrupt them, or do you just corrupt non-quality ones?

It depends how patient you are. Leveling all the way to 20 takes a long time so re-leveling it is quite a chore. I figured that people can decide that on their own when they get there, but good to have the option either way.

fun build so far. i'm just doing white maps, my gems aren't 20 and my flasks and gear are shit but hey it's a start!

i'm over 4k life but still need some other layer of defense, still getting wrecked sometimes.

also, anyone find any kickass cluster jewels?

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Snibe wrote:

fun build so far. i'm just doing white maps, my gems aren't 20 and my flasks and gear are shit but hey it's a start!

i'm over 4k life but still need some other layer of defense, still getting wrecked sometimes.

also, anyone find any kickass cluster jewels for AW?

I use 1 large and 1 medium. I have Renewal, Blessed Rebirth and 2 Feasting Fiends that helps a ton in Delirium over 5 lvl reward so the AW don't die, have leech and insane dps and life

I have Renewal, Feasting Fiends, Call to the Slaughter, and Vengeful Commander (Hatred aura effect). I think that last one might be the highest for DPS

Large, medium, and the medium has a socket for an abyssal as well.. loving it!

This is a really weird request:

Does anyone knows of a 3rd party program that can start a timer that resets on a button press?

The AW timer is long (~70sec) but its not long enough to last the entire map. Would be nice to have a re-summon 'reminder' so I stop randomly dying when my minions expire.


Ideally it can overlay POE and also change colors/flash under a specified time like <15 secs.

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alt140893 wrote:

This is a really weird request:

Does anyone knows of a 3rd party program that can start a timer that resets on a button press?

The AW timer is long (~70sec) but its not long enough to last the entire map. Would be nice to have a re-summon 'reminder' so I stop randomly dying when my minions expire.


Ideally it can overlay POE and also change colors/flash under a specified time like <15 secs.

That is not how you should play. Get an item filter that shows dropped AW weapons. filterblade has that option, just enable it under "Customize".

Then, when you start a map use Bladefall twice, summon like 6 weapons and start running the map. Then whenever a weapon drops, cast AW at it while you run through the map. You will be at max AWs forever and never waste time standing around.

Or if you really only want to use Lingering Blades just Bladefall whenever you have a second and summon 2-3 AWs.

Summoning all weapons at once and then doing nothing until they all go away is just really ineffective.