Cold ANIMATE WEAPON Summoner | League-Start & Leveling Guide

How do you mitigate bleed if you are using Blood of the Karui?

Respec to Bone Barrier once you have enough res?

Very interesting build for me since I've never palyed summoner before, still trying to fine tune it to my liking. Considering phys/impale... if I go this route, any advice on damage mitigation after losing the shield? Seems like it might be squishy.

My profile is public is anyone wants to ahve a look... still need a few levels, change my cluster jewels a bit, and flasks.

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KalaPathar wrote:

How do you mitigate bleed if you are using Blood of the Karui?

you could put it on your quicksilver flask if you want.

my profile is public - what to upgrade next?

im considering right now safe some money and give the AG a kingsmaker, i wasnt sure he is staible enough - but so far he was just once close 2 die - and it was a vaal side area - so i just avoid them xD

hey man great build, I have been playing it since the league start and had a great time so far. now that Im getting to late game I was looking to what other animate weapon users are doing and saw some guys using AOF but I dont understand why. could you explain the reasoning if you know it? my apologies beforehand, I have been playing 4 leagues now and im still a nab :P

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Artegal87 wrote:

my profile is public - what to upgrade next?

im considering right now safe some money and give the AG a kingsmaker, i wasnt sure he is staible enough - but so far he was just once close 2 die - and it was a vaal side area - so i just avoid them xD

Body Armour is the most obvious upgrade. 4r1g1b corrupted 6-linked body armours with 100 life and some resists are like 30-40c. No reason to still wear a Tabula.

And I would hold off on giving your AG Kingmaker. My level 29 AG died regularly in T16 Deliriums. I stopped using it when I went for the Spirit Guards, so can't say if the changes to Delirium let him survive better now. If you haven't done any T16's deep into Delirium, I would do that a few times first and test if he actually survives.

Also, as a rule of thumb: Equipping your AG should come after equipping yourself. And your gear is pretty far away from where it could be considered good: The mentioned Tabula, no helmet enchant (which is absolutely huge for clear speed and DPS), zero chaos resist (I am capped at 75% and it increased my survivability more than any amount of life could), and no +1 minion wand or +1 active gem body armour.

I would easily rank everything listed above as being many times more important than a Kingmaker while also being cheaper (except the +1 body armour I guess). Just my opinion though.

While I doubt many people are at a point where going for a +2 wand is worth it, there is a fossil combination that pretty much guarantees a +1 and gives good odds for a +2:

Corroded, Jagged, Metallic, Shuddering on a Convoking Wand.

That combo leaves only 3 prefixes that can roll: "minion/spell damage", "+1 all spell skill gems" and "+1 to all minion skill gems". So as long as the result has 2 prefixes, you have a +1 guaranteed.

Anecdotal evidence from the big Herald of Agony thread from last league suggests that it takes around 20 rolls on average to get a +2. So anything but cheap! But it can also be a good way to roll a nice +1 wand. Get +1 and minion damage, craft prefixes cannot be changed, scour, multimod for trigger and minion attack speed.

Of course thats not something many people have the currency for yet, but just wanted to leave this here now, because I am planning to start my second character tomorrow and won't be as active in the thread after that. Have already played this build much longer than I usually do. I usually go for my second character 4-5 days into the league, but this was just so strong and fun to play that I stuck with it longer.

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khze wrote:

hey man great build, I have been playing it since the league start and had a great time so far. now that Im getting to late game I was looking to what other animate weapon users are doing and saw some guys using AOF but I dont understand why. could you explain the reasoning if you know it? my apologies beforehand, I have been playing 4 leagues now and im still a nab :P

Some people use it to make triggering EE easier, necessary if using Frost Bomb.

My tree goes up to AoF currently, but that is for a timeless jewel which converted it to Corrupted Blood

Sorry, but just to be clear, am I not supposed to use things/skills that affect cold damage until I get those unique gloves?

Huge changes coming to Delerium beyond the nerfs from yesteday. These all sound great.

TL:DR Less deaths, more useful loot :)


https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2797474

Hi, new player here, trying to figure out EE.

In order to apply the debuff to enemies, do YOU have to be the one to trigger the fire/lightning damage to debuff their cold resistance? So, with bladefall spam?

I heard online that minions cannot apply EE, is that true?

And how should the added lightning damage gem work into this whole thing? Ty