Cold ANIMATE WEAPON Summoner | League-Start & Leveling Guide

Anyone find a good third Spectre yet or just doubling down on a host or carnage chief ? I’ll try death bishop when I get a level 21 gem

Instead of switching to full phys for more AW tankiness I think my goal is going to be running full cold as I have been but getting a +2 AW amulet, +3 socketed Skin of the Loyal, 21/20 AW, and a +2 AW wand. I already have the wand and hopefully this next batch of AW gems will get me my 21/20 AW but this sets a pretty fun goal for me. If I'm to switch to this setup(just the items) I'll be at 12.8 million shaper dps(~13.7 counting my zombies)from my current 8.8 million dps(~9.8 counting zombies) but most importantly I'd be at lvl 30 AW which should make them tanky enough to handle all delirium content. With this setup I'll still have over 6k life with an enormous amount of armor.

Hello, what are the best colors for the body, 3 red, 1 green and 2 blue? Or is there a better option?

How much life should I aim for on Animated Gaurdian, Im around 61 K now, do i still have to worry alot about him dying? ( havent seen his health do gown ever, so maybe its bugged for me?)

Can someone check my build/tree and see if I'm missing something important because my build just feels so bad in terms of clear speed and also single target damage and minion surviving. It all feels just bad. I feel like I missed something extremely important or am doing something wrong.

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denmelsan1989 wrote:

How much life should I aim for on Animated Gaurdian, Im around 61 K now, do i still have to worry alot about him dying? ( havent seen his health do gown ever, so maybe its bugged for me?)

Mine survived uber elder, Sirus, and 20/20 simulacrum but got one shotted by Acid Caverns boss so if you have a kingmaker on him definitely take him out for that fight. My animate guardian has 64k life and has 64% all res with 25% less damage taken through meatshield.

Mecielle wrote:
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I have 19, soon 20, melee AWs and 12 ranged AWs. Only thing that changed is my lootfilter. Just need to summon the ranged weapon drops. And they act like a full blown clear speed Spectre setup improving my clear speed by a ton. At the cost of around 25% Shaper DPS on my melee AWs. But since the single target damage is still more than good, I see no reason to go back.

Only problem is that the cold version described in this build has a hard time incorporating it because you really don't have many sockets to spare.[/quote]
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I run a phy setup and tried that extra ranged AW option-

Socketed the jewel and got the right filter, however I find that there are hardly any ranged weapons dropping on their own so how do you get their AW numbers up?
Also, I see that it adds another key to manage on an already busy setup especially if you're using CIP

Did I miss something here?

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Snibe wrote:

Anyone find a good third Spectre yet or just doubling down on a host or carnage chief ? I’ll try death bishop when I get a level 21 gem

When I get 3 specters I am going to experiment with these two groups:

Host/Carnage/Diabolist: Power/Frenzy/Enfeeble

Host/Carnage/Merveil's Retainer: Power/Frenzy/Vulnerability*

*This one is for phy only builds. It is a god level tier of curse though according to poedb. It goes way beyond what normal Vulnerability can do.

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snowmittens wrote:

I run a phy setup and tried that extra ranged AW option-

Socketed the jewel and got the right filter, however I find that there are hardly any ranged weapons dropping on their own so how do you get their AW numbers up?
Also, I see that it adds another key to manage on an already busy setup especially if you're using CIP

Did I miss something here?

Not sure whats going on there, I find more than enough ranged weapons. And had absolutely no problem incorporating another skill into my rotation. I have played much harder to manage builds. My skill setup is:

Rightclick: melee AW
Middle Mouse: ranged AW
Space: Bladefall
E: Offering
Mouse4: Convocation
Mouse5: Flamedash
ALT+Mouse4: Desecrate
ALT+Middle: Carrion Golem

Bladefall is only used at the start of a map. Offering only when its down. Golem and Desecrate almost never. Leaving me with very few buttons to press often.

Maybe that helps, maybe not. Anyways, I didn't have any of the problems you described so can't really help you, sorry. But you didn't miss anything.

EDIT: Ran a few maps and kept an eye on my ranged AW counter. I was at 5-6 20 seconds into the maps all the time. Which is already a huge boost to my clear speed. And a bit later into the maps I was at constant 12, maintaining that until I left the maps.

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Cheeseking72 wrote:

Can someone check my build/tree and see if I'm missing something important because my build just feels so bad in terms of clear speed and also single target damage and minion surviving. It all feels just bad. I feel like I missed something extremely important or am doing something wrong.

1. Put Melee Splash in your links for clearing instead of Multistrike.
2. Jewels with minions Taunt, minions Blind
3. Extra AW levels helps a ton for survivability, so once you get Eternal Lab, it will help. You could spec into Sacrifice and the extra leech node until you get that
4. Minion movement speed crafted onto as many pieces of jewelry as possible. This makes them more aggressive and makes you safer