👻3.20👻 Kay's Summoner💥SRS Bomber💀Poison SRS💀Melee SRS🕷️Spiders💀Skeleton Mages






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Hi everyone it's Kay!

Welcome to the forum guide for Kay's Summoner! I have build guides for most of the minions you can get in Path of Exile. I have builds for different budgets and also Solo Self-Found and Hardcore.

All my guides use a similar passive tree and most of the gear is the same too! So it's easy to change between builds.

The forum guide also has a full levelling walkthrough, animate guardian guide and crafting guide!











Discussion for 3.20 starts on page 237

25 DEC 2022 | PoE 3.20 - Poison SRS
High and low budget
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18 DEC 2022 | PoE 3.20 - One Button SRS Bomber
Easy mapper
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8 DEC 2022 | PoE 3.20 - SRS Bomber/Popcorn SRS
Update for 3.20: new gem links, gear, clusters, passive tree, no AG
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5 DEC 2022 | PoE 3.20 - Minion Army Summoner ~ League Starter ~ Guardian or Necromancer
I recommend using this build as a starting point for other minion builds.
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Last edited by kayella#0845 on Jan 24, 2023, 9:02:37 PM
Last bumped on Oct 7, 2023, 1:03:04 AM


>>> Watch 3.20 Minion Army League Starter video on YouTube <<<



About the Build

Minion Army Summoner League Starter

ABOUT

Minion league starter for PoE 3.20 Forbidden Sanctum league. Designed for a fresh league start. No mandatory gear. All gear can easily craft yourself. Solo self-found viable. Good survivability. I recommend using this build as a starting point for other minion builds.

The build can be played as either Guardian or Necromancer.
The Guardian version has a little more DPS and clear speed, whereas the Necromancer has more reliable block chance. There are also different builds that you can specialise in later.

The Minion Army Summoner uses Skeletons and Summoned Raging Spirits as the main damage dealers. They are temporary minions with aggressive AI, so you don’t have to take care of them.
There are also spectre and golem support minions to provide frenzy charges and life regen.



Gear

Example Gear, Gems Links & Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of the gear, including gems, links and examples.
Overall, the priority is to get the highest life mod on all items. You can self-craft this using Essence of Greed.
Also make sure you have 75% elemental resistance, and positive chaos resistance.
Lastly, I recommend getting gear that has armour and energy shield. This will make colouring the sockets much easier because almost every gem is red or blue.


Gearing

HELMET

The helmet is for the secondary attack minions. +1 or +2 to all minion gems is good (if you find it!)


The gems are: Summon Skeletons, linked to Minion Damage, Multistrike and Added Fire Damage.


If you can get Vaal Summon Skeletons, change Multistrike to Melee Physical Damage. Multistrike does more damage but Vaal skeletns don't use it.




BODY

The body armour is for the main attack minion.
Use the crafting bench to add ‘increased maximum life and mana’.
Recommend influence mod: chance to block spells and increased offering effect.


The gems are: Summon Raging Spirit linked to Unleash, Minion Damage, Elemental Focus, Elemental Damage and Melee Splash.


You can swap Melee Splash to Multistrike if you need more single target DPS.




GLOVES

Gloves are for auras.
Recommend influence mod: increased minion damage.


For your minions, link Anger to Generosity.


And for yourself, Determination and Tempest Shield, which must not be linked to Generosity.




BOOTS

I highly recommend getting good movement speed on your boots, but you can also add it with your crafting bench.


The gems are Stone Golem and Raise Spectre linked to Meat Shield and Culling Strike.


Recommended spectre:
2x Carnage Chieftain from Act 2 Old fields. The frenzy charges will give a boost to the SRS’s damage as well as your cast speed.



WEAPON

You can use an Essence of Fear to craft your starting wand.
Then upgrade to a wand with: +1 to all spells or +1 to minion spells.


If you are using a Guardian, the gem links are: Desecrate, Flesh Offering and Life tap.


If you are using a Necromancer, the gem links are: Desecrate, Bone Offering and Life tap.


The special craft “trigger a socketed spell” will auto-cast the socketed gems. You can get it from unveiling weapons from Syndicate encounters.



SHIELD

For the shield, use a Fossilised, Ivory or Bone Spirit shield so you can get Minion mods.


The gems are Molten Shell, Flame Dash and Flammability.

I recommend setting Molten Shell to your Left Mouse Button so it’s auto-cast while you are moving.



AMULET

For the amulet, I like to use something with lots of stats. If you are really lucky, a +1 gem amulet would be the best.

If you have some oils, add Decay Ward, which will help keep your minions alive.



RINGS

You can use the rings to get more stats and resistances.

If possible, add minion movement speed with the crafting bench. This will help with clear speed.



BELT

For the belt, use a good leather belt or a stygian vise with a ghastly eye jewel.




RECOMMENDED FLASKS

TYPES
Divine life
Ruby
Quicksilver
Granite
Amethyst

USEFUL MODS
Immunity to bleeding
Remove burning
Reduce effect of curse
Increase armour
Immunity to poison




Passive Tree

Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN

Necromancer


Guardian


POB
POBb.in: https://pobb.in/u/kayella/9u8OKAQe3wuM

MASTERY
LIFE
1. +50 to maximum Life
2. 10% increased maximum Life

MINION DEFENCE
3. Minions Recover 5% of Life on Minion Death

MINION OFFENCE
4. 20% increased effect of Offerings

CASTER
5. Unleash +1 to maximum number of Seals

ARMOUR
6. Determination has 25% increased Reservation Efficiency

SHIELD (Necro only)
+1% Chance to Block Attack Damage per 5% Chance



CLUSTER JEWELS

none



JEWELS

There are four jewel sockets that you can use for ghastly eye jewels.
The important mods are: life, minion damage and added fire damage.

Taunt is also useful if you can get it!



ASCENDANCY

Necromancer
1. Commander of Darkness (Act 3)
2. Mindless Aggression (Act 7)
3. Plaguebringer (Act 10)
4. Mistress of Sacrifice (Maps)

Guardian
1. Radiant Crusade (Act 3)
2. Unwavering Crusade (Act 7)
3. Bastion of Hope (Act 10)
4. Time of Need (Maps)



PANTHEON

Major: Brine King
Minor: Abberath
Freeze immunity, reduce chill effect, burning ground immunity



Levelling Planner (Act 1 - 4)

Necromancer


Levelling Planner
https://poelevellingplanner.com/build/?id=69998591395577709868


Act 1

Gems rewards:
Freezing Pulse
Summon Phantasm
Summon Raging Spirit
Frostblink
Minion Damage
Summon Skeletons
Flesh Offering

Gems from vendor:
Holy Flame Totem
Flame Dash
Melee Splash
Minion Damage
Bone Offering


Links:
1a. Arcane Surge + Freezing Pulse
1b. Arcane Surge + SRS (stop using Freezing Pulse)
1c. SRS + Minion Damage + Melee Splash (stop using Arcane Surge)
2. Holy Flame Totem + Summon Phantasm
3. Summon Skeletons + Minion Damage

Unlinked:
Bone Offering, Flame Dash (stop using Frostblink)
(Flesh Offering in stash)

Act 2

Gems rewards:
Desecrate
Elemental Focus

Gems from vendor:
Melee Physical Damage

Links:
1. SRS + Minion Damage + Melee Splash
2. Holy Flame Totem + Summon Phantasm
3. Summon Skeletons + Minion Damage + Melee Physical Damage

Unlinked:
Bone Offering, Flame Dash, Desecrate, Elemental Focus


Act 3

Gems rewards:
Flammability
Raise Spectre
Meat Shield

Gems from vendor:
Anger
Added Fire Damage
Determination
Generosity
Culling Strike

Links:
1. SRS + Minion Damage + Melee Splash + Elemental Focus
2. Holy Flame Totem + Summon Phantasm
3. Summon Skeletons + Minion Damage + Melee Physical Damage + Added Fire Damage
4. Raise Spectre + Meat Shield + Culling Strike
5. Anger + Generosity

Unlinked:
Bone Offering, Flame Dash, Desecrate, Flammability
Determination (don't activate)


Act 4

Gem rewards:
Unleash

Gem from vendor:
Multistrike

Links:
1. SRS + Minion Damage + Melee Splash + Unleash (remove Elemental Focus)
2. Holy Flame Totem + Summon Phantasm
3. Summon Skeletons + Minion Damage + Melee Physical Damage + Added Fire Damage
4. Raise Spectre + Meat Shield + Culling Strike + Summon Stone Golem
5. Anger + Generosity

**Get Unleash before enter Belly of the beast!!!
Swap melee splash > Multistrike for Piety boss fight

Unlinked:
Bone Offering, Flame Dash, Desecrate, Flammability, Elemental Focus, Multistrike
Determination (don't activate)

Guardian

Levelling Planner
https://poelevellingplanner.com/build/?id=17615037092695189054


Act 1

Gems rewards:
(none)
Ruthless
Holy Flame Totem
Frostblink
Melee Splash
Flame Dash
(none)

Gems from vendor:
Freezing Pulse
Summon Phantasm
Summon Raging Spirit
Added Fire Damage
Summon Skeletons
Minion Damage
Minion Damage
Summon Skeletons
Flesh Offering


Links:
1a. SRS + Ruthless
1b. SRS + Minion Damage + Melee Splash (stop using Ruthless)
2. Holy Flame Totem + Summon Phantasm
3. Summon Skeletons + Minion Damage + Added Fire Damage

Unlinked:
Flesh Offering, Flame Dash (stop using Frostblink)


Act 2

Gems rewards:
(none)
Elemental Focus

Gems from vendor:
Melee Physical Damage

Links:
1. SRS + Minion Damage + Melee Splash
2. Holy Flame Totem + Summon Phantasm
3. Summon Skeletons + Minion Damage + Added Fire Damage

Unlinked:
Flesh Offering, Flame Dash, Elemental Focus, Melee Physical Damage


Act 3

Gems rewards:
Flammability
(none)
Meat Shield

Gems from vendor:
Raise Spectre
Anger
Desecrate
Determination
Generosity
Culling Strike

Links:
1. SRS + Minion Damage + Melee Splash + Elemental Focus
2. Holy Flame Totem + Summon Phantasm
3. Summon Skeletons + Minion Damage + Added Fire Damage + Melee Physical Damage
4. Raise Spectre + Meat Shield + Culling Strike
5. Anger + Generosity

Unlinked:
Flesh Offering, Flame Dash, Desecrate, Flammability
Determination (don't activate yet)


Act 4

Gem rewards:
Stone Golem
Unleash

Gem from vendor:
Multistrike

Links:
1. SRS + Minion Damage + Melee Splash + Unleash (remove Elemental Focus)
2. Holy Flame Totem + Summon Phantasm
3. Summon Skeletons + Minion Damage + Melee Physical Damage + Added Fire Damage
4. Raise Spectre + Meat Shield + Culling Strike + Summon Stone Golem
5. Anger + Generosity

**Get Unleash before enter Belly of the beast!!!
Swap melee splash > Multistrike for Piety boss fight

Unlinked:
Flesh Offering, Flame Dash, Desecrate, Flammability, Elemental Focus, Multistrike
Determination (don't activate)
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Last edited by kayella#0845 on Dec 4, 2022, 10:47:54 AM


>>> Watch 3.20 SRS Bomber/Popcorn SRS video on YouTube <<<



About the Build

SRS Bomber / Popcorn SRS

ABOUT

The build uses Minion Instability to make the SRS explode. This gives big burst damage compared to Melee SRS, but there is a delay between casting and doing damage.
This guide covers both the league starter and endgame version. The league starter will get you through the story and into red tier maps with low cost gear. And the endgame version can easily handle Pinnacle content.
The build needs Tavukai amulet for maximum efficiency, but the build will still work without it.



Gear

Example Gear, Gems Links & Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of the gear, including gems, links and examples.
Overall, the priority is to get the highest life mod on all items. You can self-craft this using Essence of Greed.
Also make sure you have 75% elemental resistance, and positive chaos resistance.
Lastly, I recommend getting gear that has armour and energy shield. This will make colouring the sockets much easier because almost every gem is red or blue.


Gearing

HELMET

For the helmet you want to get the enchant for extra minion.
It combines with Unleash to double the total number of SRS summoned in one cast.
For example, if you can summon 6 SRS, it will summon 12 when it procs.
For your endgame helmet, you also want +2 to minion gems.
And the influence mods are reservation efficiency and cast speed.

The gems are: Raise Zombies, Meat Shield, Cast When Damage Taken and Convocation.

The zombies get taunt from Meat Shield, and CWDT will teleport them to you if you get hit.



BODY

The body armour is for the SRS.
Start with a +2 duration Tabula and upgrade to a Skin of the Lords with a keystone that doesn’t brick the build.
(See list in the next session)

The gems are: Summon Raging Spirit, Unleash, Minion Life, Predator, Fire Penetration and Empower.

Awakened Unleash will give you +1 Seal at level 5.
And if you don’t have Tavukai amulet, you need to use Infernal Legion instead of Predator.




GLOVES

For the gloves, the most useful influence mod is increased minion damage. And you can craft Minion Damage with an Essence of Fear.

The gems are: Stone Golem, Raise Spectre, Combustion and Feeding Frenzy.

You will need minions deal added fire damage on one Ghastly Eye for Combustion to work.

For the spectres, I recommend 2 Tukohama’s Vanguard from Act 6 Coast, and 1 Pale Seraphim from Beyond.
The Vanguard apply fire exposure and the seraphim increases damage taken.



BOOTS

For the boots, I recommend stacking movement speed. And getting life regen rate and scorched ground for the influence mods.

The gems are: Skitterbots, Tempest Shield, Determination and Molten Shell.

You should use Bone Barrier in early levelling and then switch to Molten Shell when you have a good amount of armour.



WEAPON

The wand should have +2 level for the SRS. You can get this from +1 to: fire spells, all spells, or minion spells.
And the trigger craft will reduce the number of buttons to press.

The gems are: Desecrate, Life tap and Bone Offering.

The special craft “trigger a socketed spell” will auto-cast the socketed gems. You can get it from unveiling weapons from Syndicate encounters.



SHIELD

For the shield, use a Fossilised Spirit shield so you can get +1 to minions. Or a normal intelligence shield for +1 to fire gems.
For survivability, get Life recovery on block.

The gems are Flame Dash, Flammability and Faster Casting.




AMULET

For maximum efficiency, Tavukai amulet should have minus chaos res. And you can use Noxious Catalyst to increase the chaos damage, so the SRS explode sooner.

Before you get Tavukai, don’t use Bone Rings, and replace Predator with Infernal Legion in your SRS links.
If you have some oils, add Testudo to get extra block chance.



RINGS

For your rings, you can easily craft Bone Rings with minion life using Pristine fossils. Use Fertile catalyst to increase the life mod.




BELT

For the belt, start with a leather belt or a Stygian Vise.
Craft minion life with an Essence of Fear.

For endgame mapping, use Replica Siegebreaker.
The burning ground helps a lot for clear speed.
Use Turbulent Catalyst to increase the damage from 20 to 24%.

For more single target damage, use Darkness Enthroned with two of your best jewels.




RECOMMENDED FLASKS

TYPES
Divine life
Basalt
Quicksilver
Quartz
Rumi's Concoction/Granite


USEFUL MODS
Immunity to bleeding
Remove burning
Increase armour




Passive Tree

Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN

STARTER/LOW COST


ENDGAME


POB
POBb.in: https://pobb.in/u/kayella/FibuMiIgzBnU

MASTERY
LIFE
1. +50 to maximum Life
2. 10% increased maximum Life

MINION DEFENCE
3. Minions have 30% increased life

MINION OFFENCE
4. Minions have 30% increased area of effect
5. 20% increased effect of Offerings

CASTER
6. Unleash +1 to maximum number of Seals

SHIELD
7. +1% Chance to Block Attack Damage per 5% Chance



CLUSTER JEWELS

STARTER/LOW COST
Use a cheap medium or large minion cluster jewel. It doesn’t need any notables.


ENDGAME
The large jewel should be Spell damage with 8 points. The important notable is Seal Mender. This increases DPS because you can recast your SRS sooner. For maximum efficiency, you want Seal Mender in front of the socket.

The medium jewels have Feasting Fiends and Hulking Corpses.

And the small jewels have Surging Vitality and Enduring Composure.




JEWELS

There are four jewel sockets that you can use for ghastly eye jewels.
The important mods are: life, minion damage.

Taunt is also useful if you can get it!



ASCENDANCY

1. Mindless Aggression (Act 3)
2. Bone Barrier (Act 7)
3. Plaguebringer (Act 10)
4. Mistress of Sacrifice (Maps)



PANTHEON

Major: Brine King
Minor: Abberath
Freeze immunity, reduce chill effect, burning ground immunity



Safe Keystones for Skin of the Lords

Keystone that don't brick the build

THESE KEYSTONES ARE SAFE TO USE

Acrobatics
Arrow Dancing
Avatar of Fire
Call to Arms
Conduit (doesn't give changes to minions)
Crimson Dance
Doomsday
Elemental Overload
Iron Grip
Iron Reflexes
Iron Will
Lethe Shade
Magebane
Minion Instability (can refund the passive!)
Pain Attunement
Perfect Agony
Point Blank
Precise Technique
Resolute Technique
Runebinder
The Impaler
Wind Dancer



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>>> Watch 3.20 One Button SRS Bomber video on YouTube <<<



About the Build

One Button SRS Bomber

ABOUT

The one button bomber uses Cyclone and cast while channelling to auto cast the popcorn SRS.
So, all you need to do is hold Cyclone for the entire map. Great for anyone who wants an easy mapper or doesn’t like pressing a lot of buttons.
The big downside of this build is that it has a lot less damage than the full bomber build.
It’s not a problem for mapping and even Guardians, but it’s a bit too low for Pinnacle bosses.
Also, the trigger mod won’t activate while Channelling, so you need to lift your finger sometimes.



Gear

Example Gear, Gems Links & Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of the gear, including gems, links and examples.
Overall, the priority is to get the highest life mod on all items. You can self-craft this using Essence of Greed.
Also make sure you have 75% elemental resistance, and positive chaos resistance.
Lastly, I recommend getting gear that has armour and energy shield. This will make colouring the sockets much easier because almost every gem is red or blue.


Gearing

HELMET

The helmet should be Mark of the Red Covenant with 250% increased damage. This actually scales damage better than a +2 helmet. And the “always ignite” will help kill anything that doesn’t die when the SRS explode.

The gems are: Raise Zombies, Meat Shield, Cast When Damage Taken and Convocation.

The zombies get taunt from Meat Shield, and CWDT will teleport them to you if you get hit.



BODY

The body armour is for the SRS.
The body should be Skin of the Lords with 1 red, 1 green and 4 blue sockets.
make sure keystone doesn't brick build!
(See list in the next session)

The gems are: Cyclone, Cast While Channelling, Summon Raging Spirit, Minion Life, Infernal Legion and Empower.




GLOVES

For the gloves, the most useful influence mod is increased minion damage. And you can craft Minion Damage with an Essence of Fear.

The gems are: Stone Golem, Raise Spectre, Elemental Army and Feeding Frenzy.


For the spectres, I recommend 2 Tukohama’s Vanguard from Act 6 Coast, and 1 Pale Seraphim from Beyond.
The Vanguard apply fire exposure and the seraphim increases damage taken.



BOOTS

The boots should be The Stampede. These boots lock your movement speed to 150%, which makes Cyclone feel a lot better.
And they need to be anointed with Dreamer to help with Mana regen.

The new gems are: Skitterbots, Clarity, Determination and Enlighten 3.

Enlighten is really expensive at league start, so you can leave out Skitterbots.



WEAPON

Cyclone needs a melee weapon, so use a rune dagger or a sceptre with +1 all spells or +1 fire spells.
You can get a +1 weapon for 1 alch, but a +2 weapon will cost about 3 divines.
(my dagger has phys gem. it's not needed for this build)

The gems are: Desecrate, Life tap and Bone Offering.

The special craft “trigger a socketed spell” will auto-cast the socketed gems. You can get it from unveiling weapons from Syndicate encounters.
The trigger mod won’t activate while Channelling, so you need to lift your finger sometimes.



SHIELD

For the shield, use a Fossilised Spirit shield so you can get +1 to minions. Or a normal intelligence shield for +1 to fire gems.
For survivability, get Life recovery on block.

The gems are Flame Dash, Tempest Shield and Faster Casting.




AMULET

Tavukai amulet should have -17% chaos res. And you can use Noxious Catalyst to make "20% chaos damage taken" > "24% chaos damage taken". We need this to make the SRS explode as soon as possible.




RINGS

Because this is a one button build, one ring should have Flammability curse on hit.
And both rings will need reduce mana cost.




BELT

We don’t need Siegebreaker for the one button build because the SRS always ignite and they have Infernal Legion. So, just use a Stygian Vise or Darkness Enthroned.




RECOMMENDED FLASKS

TYPES
Divine life
Basalt
Amethyst
Quartz
Rumi's Concoction/Granite


USEFUL MODS
Immunity to bleeding
Remove burning
Remove poison
Increase armour




Passive Tree

Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN

STARTER/LOW COST


ENDGAME


POB
POBb.in: https://pobb.in/u/kayella/FibuMiIgzBnU

MASTERY
LIFE
1. +50 to maximum Life
2. 10% increased maximum Life

MINION DEFENCE
3. Minions have 30% increased life

MINION OFFENCE
4. Minions have 30% increased area of effect
5. 20% increased effect of Offerings

CASTER
6. Unleash +1 to maximum number of Seals

SHIELD
7. +1% Chance to Block Attack Damage per 5% Chance



CLUSTER JEWELS

STARTER/LOW COST
Use a cheap medium or large minion cluster jewel. It doesn’t need any notables.


ENDGAME
The large jewel should be Spell damage with 8 points. The important notable is Seal Mender. This increases DPS because you can recast your SRS sooner. For maximum efficiency, you want Seal Mender in front of the socket.

The medium jewels have Feasting Fiends and Hulking Corpses.

And the small jewels have Surging Vitality and Enduring Composure.




JEWELS

There are four jewel sockets that you can use for ghastly eye jewels.
The important mods are: life, minion damage.

Taunt is also useful if you can get it!



ASCENDANCY

1. Mindless Aggression (Act 3)
2. Bone Barrier (Act 7)
3. Plaguebringer (Act 10)
4. Mistress of Sacrifice (Maps)



PANTHEON

Major: Brine King
Minor: Abberath
Freeze immunity, reduce chill effect, burning ground immunity

🔰🌀✨ Video guides on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/KayGaming ✨🌀🔰
🔶🔷🔶 Kay's Summoner build guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3179145 🔶🔷🔶
Last edited by kayella#0845 on Dec 25, 2022, 10:39:03 PM



>>> Watch 3.20 Poison SRS video on YouTube <<<



About the Build

Poison SRS

ABOUT

Poison minions are probably the strongest minions in POE right now. And SRS are the best because they’re easy to summon (compared to spiders or AW) and can stack poison very quickly. The build works with Occultist (dig dps, glass cannon), Necro (tanky) or Guardian (balanced dps/tanky).

Damage scaling
A Poison SRS build works by stacking added chaos damage and completely ignoring the SRS’s fire damage.
The 3 main sources are:
• “The Covenant” body armour, which gives 377 to 565 chaos damage from level 29 Added Chaos Damage,
• “United in Dream” sword, which gives 340 to 476 chaos damage from level 25 Envy supported by Generosity,
• And Ghastly Eye jewels with added chaos damage.

If you have a lot of currency, you can also use Unnatural Strength Forbidden Jewels for 30% physical gained as extra chaos damage.

Poison
For poison stacking, the SRS need 100% chance to poison. They will get 60% from United in Dream, and you can get another 40% from Darkness Enthroned with two jewels that have minion poison chance.
If you have a lot of currency, you can also use Amanamu’s Gaze to get an extra 30% damage for the poison dot.

Curse
For the curses, you want to self-cast Despair to reduce chaos resistance.
And use an Ancient Suffering spectre to cast Temporal Chains. It has the special “additional curse” mod, so it’s an easy way to double curse.
It comes from Haunted Remains in Delve. It will always be the rare monsters that spawns at the end.

Extra damage
To get more damage, the Ancient Skull helmet will give the SRS 50% increased attack speed and damage when they “Hear the Whispers”.
And if you use this helmet, you need to anoint your amulet with Grave Intentions to reduce the chaos damage your minions will take.
And for a big budget, you can use Aul’s Uprising with Malevolence, Haste or Envy.
The Envy amulet will make Envy from the sword free, but make sure you activate the correct one.

Cost
Most of the cost of high budget is for Awakened gems and unique jewels. I also included some info about the low budget build.



Gear

Example Gear, Gems Links & Flasks

GENERAL

Key item is United in Dream and Darkness Enthroned with 2x ghastly with minion poison chance.
Convenant body is best in slot but you can use any 6-link to start.


Gearing

HELMET

The helmet should be Ancient Skull.
Hear the Whispers gives minions 50% increased attack speed and damage.

The gems are: Vaal Summon Skeletons, Multistrike, Withering Touch and Feeding Frenzy.

*for applying withered in boss fights



BODY

The body armour is the Covenant which gives 377 to 565 chaos damage from level 29 Added Chaos Damage

The gems are: SRS, Unleash, Minion Damage, Unbound Ailments, Void Manipulation and Melee Splash.

You can swap Melee Splash to Multistrike when you’re doing Pinnacle bosses.




GLOVES

Rare gloves with SRS duration gloves for Pinnacle bosses. You can get them in Delve.

The gems are: Cyclone, Cast While Channelling, Desecrate and Flesh Offering.

can drop Cyclone if you prefer to self-cast Desecrate and Offering.



BOOTS

Rare boots with good stats. +2 socketed minion recommended. You can get it in delve.

The new gems are: Raise Spectre, Stone Golem, Anomalous Controlled Destruction and Despair.

Anomalous Controlled Destruction in Set 2, stop the support minions from taking the damage from Ancient Skull.



WEAPON

“United in Dream” sword, which gives 340 to 476 chaos damage from level 25 Envy supported by Generosity

The gems are: Malevolence, Haste and Generosity.

If you don’t have the Aul’s amulet, I recommend dropping Haste.



SHIELD

For the shield, use a Fossilised Spirit shield so you can get +1 to minions. Or a normal intelligence shield for +1 to fire gems.
For survivability, get Life recovery on block.

The gems are Flame Dash, Faster Casting, Vitality.




AMULET

Aul’s Uprising with Malevolence, Haste or Envy.

*Envy amulet will make Envy from the sword free, but make sure you activate the correct one.
**you need to anoint your amulet with Grave Intentions to reduce the chaos damage your minions will take from Hear the whispers.



RINGS

Good rare rings




BELT

Darkness Enthroned with two ghastly eyes jewels with minion poison chance.




RECOMMENDED FLASKS

TYPES
Divine life
Basalt
Quartz
Rumi's Concoction
Mana


USEFUL MODS
Immunity to bleeding
Increase armour
Enduring mana*




Passive Tree

Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN

OCCULTIST


POB
POBb.in: https://pobb.in/u/kayella/syB3mxIxyn8Z

MASTERY
LIFE
1. +50 to maximum Life
2. Vitality 100% efficiency

MINION OFFENCE
3. Minions have +250 accuracy
4. 20% increased effect of Offerings

MANA
5. 10% reduced mana cost



CLUSTER JEWELS


ENDGAME
Large jewel: 35% effect and 3% attack speed.

Medium jewels: Blessed Rebirth, Life From Death and Renewal.




JEWELS

Ghastly Eye jewels with added chaos damage.

If you have a lot of currency, you can also use Amanamu’s Gaze to get an extra 30% damage for the poison dot.




ASCENDANCY

1. Void Beacon (Act 3)
2. Profane Bloom (Act 7)
3. Withering Presence (Act 10)
4. Vile Bastion (Maps)



PANTHEON

Major: Brine King
Minor: Abberath
Freeze immunity, reduce chill effect, burning ground immunity




Low cost gear and gems

Example Gear, Gems Links & Flasks

GENERAL

Key item is United in Dream and Darkness Enthroned with 2x ghastly with minion poison chance.


Gearing

HELMET

The helmet should be Ancient Skull.
Hear the Whispers gives minions 50% increased attack speed and damage.

The gems are: Vaal Summon Skeletons, Multistrike, Withering Touch and Feeding Frenzy.
*for applying withered in boss fights



BODY

Any 6-link. Skin of the Lords recommended.

The gems are: SRS, Unleash, Minion Damage, Unbound Ailments, Added Chaos Damage and Melee Splash/Multistrike.



GLOVES

Any rare gloves

The gems are: Cyclone, Cast While Channelling, Desecrate and Flesh Offering.



BOOTS

Any rare boots

The gems are: Raise Spectre, Stone Golem, Meat shield, Minion life.



WEAPON

“United in Dream” sword

The gems are: Determination and Generosity.
**Must not be linked**



SHIELD

intelligence shield for +1 to fire gems.
For survivability, get Life recovery on block.

The gems are Flame Dash, Tempest Shield, Despair.



AMULET

Any rare amulet

**you need to anoint your amulet with Grave Intentions to reduce the chaos damage your minions will take from Hear the whispers.



RINGS

Good rare rings




BELT

Darkness Enthroned with two ghastly eyes jewels with minion poison chance.




RECOMMENDED FLASKS

TYPES
Divine life
Basalt
Quartz
Rumi's Concoction
Mana


USEFUL MODS
Immunity to bleeding
Increase armour
Enduring mana*


🔰🌀✨ Video guides on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/KayGaming ✨🌀🔰
🔶🔷🔶 Kay's Summoner build guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3179145 🔶🔷🔶
Last edited by kayella#0845 on Dec 25, 2022, 11:13:25 PM




>>> Watch 3.19 Skeleton Mages Necromancer & Guardian build guide video on YouTube <<<



About the Build

Skeleton Mages

ABOUT

This is an easy to play minion build with good DPS, clear speed and survivability.
The build cost is medium, depending on the market.
Note that skeleton mages require the Dead Reckoning unique jewel.
The build also uses the Fleshcrafter unique armour.


SKELETON MAGES

The build uses Dead Reckoning to summon skeleton mages, which shoot enemies with fire, cold or lightning projectiles.
And the Fleshcrafter unique body armour allow them to completely ignore all enemy’s elemental resistances.


Difference between Necromancer and Guardian

NECROMANCER MORE SURVIVABILITY

Both has 75/75 block, but Necro has 100% uptime for both block.
Guardian have 75% attack block for 2s every 5s (Bastion of Hope) so sometimes his block is about 35%.


GUARDIAN MORE DPS

Guardian's ascendancy gives 40% cast speed and unnerve (enemy take 10% increase damage).




Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

Guardian

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
POB: https://pobb.in/u/kayella/rZ6XV84S_HWl


MASTERY
20% increased effect of offerings
10% increased life
+50 maximum life
Determination 25% increased efficiency



CLUSTER JEWELS

Large: Call to the Slaughter, Renewal (3rd notable not allocated)
Medium: Blessed Rebirth and Life from Death
Medium: Feasting Fiends and Renewal
Small: Enduring Composure
Small: Fortress Covenant

Blessed Rebirth is very important for skeleton mages, so make sure you have this notable.



JEWELS

Dead Reckoning
Ghastly Eyes: Minion damage, Cast speed




ASCENDANCY

Radiant Crusade
Unwavering Crusade
Bastion of Hope
Time of Need



PANTHEON

Major: Brine King (freeze immunity)
Minor: Abberath (burning ground immunity)


Necromancer

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
POB: https://pobb.in/u/kayella/rZ6XV84S_HWl


MASTERY
20% increased effect of offerings
10% increased life
+50 maximum life
Determination 25% increased efficiency
1% attack block per 5% shield block



CLUSTER JEWELS

Large: Call to the Slaughter, Renewal (3rd notable not allocated)
Medium: Blessed Rebirth and Life from Death
Medium: Feasting Fiends and Renewal
Small: Enduring Composure
Small: Fortress Covenant

Blessed Rebirth is very important for skeleton mages, so make sure you have this notable.



JEWELS

Dead Reckoning
Ghastly Eyes: Minion damage, Cast speed




ASCENDANCY

Mindless Aggression
Bone Barrier
Plaguebringer
Mistress of Sacrifice



PANTHEON

Major: Brine King (freeze immunity)
Minor: Abberath (burning ground immunity)



Gearing

Gear, Gems & Links, Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of the gear, including gems, links and examples.
You will need to self-craft some items with fossils and essences.
Also make sure you have 75% elemental resistance, and positive chaos resistance.
The gear is the same for both the Guardian and the Necromancer.
The two differences are the offerings and the amulet anointment.



HELMET

For the helmet, you want +2 to all minion gems and reservation efficiency.
The enchant should be Skeleton damage.
And add +1 skeleton with your crafting bench, if you can.

The gems are: Raise Spectre, Stone Golem, Anomalous Feeding Frenzy and Minion Life.

For the spectres, I’m using 2 carnage chieftains and 2 pale seraphims.
Buffs are more reliable if you have two of each spectre.



BODY

For the body armour, use Fleshcrafter so your skeleton mages can ignore elemental resistances.

The gems are: Vaal Summon Skeletons, Awakened Minion Damage, Spell Echo, Predator, Phantasms and Pierce.

The phantasms help with damage and map clear. And your other minions recover 5% life when they die because of Life from Death.
You can swap Pierce to Hypothermia for more DPS in boss fights.




GLOVES

For the gloves, I recommend Breathstealer for the Blighted Spores, and to get Charisma anointment.

The gems are: Tempest Shield, Sniper’s Mark, Determination and Defiance Banner.




BOOTS

For the boots, I like regen per Endurance Charge and Brittle Ground.

The gems are: Zealotry, Generosity, Raise Zombie and Minion Life.

You could replace the Zombies with Animate Guardian if you’re not scared of him dying.



WEAPON

The wand should have +1 to all spells, +1 to minions, and trigger.

Guardian gems are: Desecrate, Flesh Offering and Life Tap.

Necromancer gems are: Desecrate, Bone Offering and Life Tap.




SHIELD

For your shield, I recommend +1 to minions, and life recovery on block.
This might be too expensive to buy or craft. So, just choose either life recovery shield for survivability, or +1 shield for more DPS.

The gems are: Molten Shell, Flame Dash and Convocation.




AMULET

The amulet should have at least +1 to all skill gems.

For Guardian, the anointment is Arcane Guardian for extra spell block.
For Necromancer, the anointment is Testudo for extra attack block.



RINGS

Use your rings to get lots of life and resistances.
I also used my rings to get enough Strength and Dex.




BELT

For the belt, use a good Stygian Vise with a nice Ghastly Eye jewel.

You can also use a Darkness Enthroned if you want more DPS.



RECOMMENDED FLASKS


• Life with bleed immunity
• Basalt with extra armour
• Quicksilver
• Quartz with remove burning
• Rumi's Concoction


Trade links / Upgrading from starter


Most important is Blessed rebirth on your cluster jewel. Can buy or craft it yourself. 15c
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/mv6G2grH6

Then get Fleshcrafter. Ignore ele resistance is a big dps boost. You can start with 5L
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/XmaJwE4TP

Next look for shield with +1 gem and life recovery. Usually need to craft yourself.
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/b7pX0laiL

+1 wand. Should be pretty cheap. +2 wand can be later.

Maybe helmet next. I think it's best to get the crafting base and make your own +2 helmet with Bound fossils.
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/q4Q9P5pSg



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>>> Watch 3.19 Critical Strike Skeleton Mages build guide video on YouTube <<<



About the Build

Critical Stirke Skeleton Mages (high budget)

ABOUT

This is a high budget build that scales the DPS into 10s of millions by focusing on critical strike damage.
However, the build leans more towards glass cannon than super tanky.
The support minions are also a bit squishy, so you need to keep an eye on the Animate Guardian.
I made this build on my Guardian, but it can be adapted for the Necromancer with some changes.


SKELETON MAGES

The build uses Dead Reckoning to summon skeleton mages, which shoot enemies with fire, cold or lightning projectiles.
And the Fleshcrafter unique body armour allow them to completely ignore all enemy’s elemental resistances.




Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

Guardian

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
POB: https://pobb.in/u/kayella/1riEui0AMSH4


MASTERY
20% increased effect of offerings
10% increased life
Determination 25% increased efficiency



CLUSTER JEWELS

Large: Feasting Fiends, Renewal, Vicious Bite
Medium: Blessed Rebirth and Renewal
Medium: Feasting Fiends and Renewal
Small: Quickening Covenant
Small: Fortress Covenant

Blessed Rebirth is very important for skeleton mages, so make sure you have this notable.



JEWELS

Dead Reckoning
Ghastly Eyes: Minion damage, Cast speed




ASCENDANCY

Radiant Crusade
Unwavering Crusade
Bastion of Hope
Time of Need



PANTHEON

Major: Brine King (freeze immunity)
Minor: Abberath (burning ground immunity)


Necromancer

For the Necromancer, you need two changes:
1. Passives:
Refund Safeguard cluster
Allocate shield mastery: +1% attack block per shield block

2. Ascendancy:
Mindless Aggression
Bone Barrier
Plaguebringer
Mistress of Sacrifice



Gearing

Gear, Gems & Links, Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of the gear, including gems, links and examples.
You will need to self-craft some items with fossils and essences.
Also make sure you have 75% elemental resistance, and positive chaos resistance.



HELMET

The helmet has +2 to all minion gems and reservation efficiency.
The enchant should be Skeleton damage.
And it should also have +1 skeleton number, if possible.

The gems are: Anomalous Raise Spectre, Anomalous Stone Golem, Divergent Animate Guardian and Anomalous Feeding Frenzy.

For the spectres, I’m using 2 host chieftains, 1 carnage chieftain and 1 pale seraphim.
Feeding Frenzy makes the AG suicidal, so it might be better to use Meat Shield or Elemental Army instead.




BODY

The body armour is a +2 Fleshcrafter. It can be +2 duration or +2 minion.

The gems are: Vaal Summon Skeletons, Awakened Minion Damage, Awakened Spell Echo, Divergent Predator, Increased Critical Damage and Increased Critical Strikes.

I swap critical strikes to Summon Phantasms for mapping.




GLOVES

The gloves are Vixen’s Entrapment to get a second curse, as well as auto-casting the socketed curse.

The gems are: Sniper’s Mark, Precision, Convocation and Tempest Shield.

*Self-cast curse is socketed in the shield.



BOOTS

The boots have Brittle Ground for +2% crit chance.

The gems are: Zealotry, Haste, Awakened Generosity and Enlighten 4.




WEAPON

The wand has +1 to all spells, +1 to minions, and trigger.

Guardian gems are: Desecrate, Spirit Offering and Life Tap.


Necromancer gems are: Desecrate, Divergent Bone Offering and Life Tap.




SHIELD

The shield has +1 to minions, increased critical chance for minions and life recovery on block.

The gems are: Flame Dash, Steelskin and Punishment.

*Punishment is the self-cast curse, which triggers Sniper’s mark in the gloves.

*Alternative*
You can make the build tankier with Aegis Aurora and swap Haste aura to Determination (no generosity)




AMULET

The amulet is Ashes of the Stars.
Reservation efficiency is the most important mod.

And the anointment is Arcane Guardian for extra spell block.



RINGS

Use your rings to get lots of life and resistances.
I also used my rings to get enough Strength and Dex.




BELT

The belt is Darkness Enthroned with two best Ghastly Eye jewels.




RECOMMENDED FLASKS


• Life with bleed immunity
• Basalt with extra armour
• Quicksilver
• Bottled Faith (regen + 10% damage taken)
• Rumi's Concoction



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>>> Watch 3.19 Cold Conversion Skeleton Warriors build guide video on YouTube <<<



About the Build

Cold Conversion Skeleton Warriors (high budget)

ABOUT

This is a high budget build that scales a lot of damage, as well as freeze and shatter for safer mapping. It’s also a lot easier to see what’s happening without skeleton mages spam.
However, it’s not super tanky and doesn’t have fast clear speed because you need to resummon the skeletons.
The support minions are also a bit squishy, so you need to keep an eye on the Animate Guardian.




Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

Guardian

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
POB: https://pobb.in/u/kayella/1riEui0AMSH4


MASTERY
20% increased effect of offerings
10% increased life
Determination 25% increased efficiency



CLUSTER JEWELS

Large: Feasting Fiends, Renewal, Vicious Bite
Medium: Blessed Rebirth and Renewal
Medium: Feasting Fiends and Renewal
Small: Quickening Covenant
Small: Fortress Covenant

Blessed Rebirth is very important for skeletons, so make sure you have this notable.



JEWELS

Ghastly Eyes: Minion damage, Attack speed, Taunt


Highly recommend taunt on one jewels!



ASCENDANCY

Radiant Crusade
Unwavering Crusade
Bastion of Hope
Time of Need



PANTHEON

Major: Brine King (freeze immunity)
Minor: Abberath (burning ground immunity)


Necromancer

For the Necromancer, you need two changes:
1. Passives:
Refund Safeguard cluster
Allocate shield mastery: +1% attack block per shield block

2. Ascendancy:
Mindless Aggression
Bone Barrier
Plaguebringer
Mistress of Sacrifice



Gearing

Gear, Gems & Links, Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of the gear, including gems, links and examples.
You will need to self-craft some items with fossils and essences.
Also make sure you have 75% elemental resistance, and positive chaos resistance.



HELMET

The helmet has +2 to all minion gems and reservation efficiency.
The enchant should be Skeleton damage.
And it should also have +1 skeleton number, if possible.

The gems are: Anomalous Raise Spectre, Anomalous Stone Golem, Divergent Animate Guardian and Anomalous Feeding Frenzy.

For the spectres, I’m using 2 carnage chieftains, 1 crabbie and 1 pale seraphim.
If Feeding Frenzy is too rippy for the support minions, swap to Meat Shield instead.




BODY

The body armour is a +2 Fleshcrafter. It can be +2 duration or +2 minion.

The gems are: Vaal Summon Skeletons, Awakened Minion Damage, Divergent Predator, Anomalous Elemental Proliferation, Divergent Melee Splash and Awakened Elemental Damage.

When fighting Pinnacle bosses, swap Proliferation and Splash to Elemental Focus and Multistrike.




GLOVES

The gloves are Triad Grip with 1 red and 3 green sockets.

The gems are: Hatred, Haste, Precision and Awakened Generosity.

The 75% cold conversion is better than 100% conversion because of Generosity.



BOOTS

The boots have Brittle Ground for +2% crit chance.

The gems are: Divergent Tempest Shield, Convocation, Assassin’s Mark and Enlighten.

*Note: divergent tempest shield can be very expensive. Normal tempest shield is OK! (lower spell block)



WEAPON

The wand has “Minions are Aggressive”, +1 to all spells, +1 to minions, and trigger.
The special mod “Minions are Aggressive” gives your Skeleton warriors the Dash skill, which helps a lot for mapping.


Guardian gems are: Desecrate, Spirit Offering and Life Tap.


Necromancer gems are: Desecrate, Divergent Bone Offering and Life Tap.




SHIELD

The shield has +1 to minions, increased critical chance for minions and life recovery on block.

The gems are: Flame Dash, Steelskin and Portal.

You can change Portal to something else, like Faster Casting.

*Alternative*
You can make the build tankier with Aegis Aurora and swap Haste aura to Determination




AMULET

The amulet is Ashes of the Stars.
Reservation efficiency is the most important mod.
And the anointment is Charisma for Reservation Efficiency.




RINGS

Use your rings to get lots of life and resistances.
I also used my rings to get enough Strength and Dex.




BELT

The belt is Darkness Enthroned with two best Ghastly Eye jewels.




RECOMMENDED FLASKS


• Life with bleed immunity
• Basalt with extra armour
• Quicksilver
• Bottled Faith (regen + 10% damage taken)
• Rumi's Concoction

🔰🌀✨ Video guides on youtube! https://www.youtube.com/KayGaming ✨🌀🔰
🔶🔷🔶 Kay's Summoner build guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3179145 🔶🔷🔶
Last edited by kayella#0845 on Sep 19, 2022, 8:10:02 AM




>>> Watch 3.19 Poison Spiders Occultist build guide video on YouTube <<<



About the Build

Poison Spiders Occultist

ABOUT

Poison Spiders Occultist build focuses on survivability while still having good damage.
It has lots of armour, life and energy shield recovery and block cap without glancing blows.
However, the minions do poison damage, so there is a ramp up time for full DPS.
The build requires many specific items, and will be expensive. And I’ve also included alternative gems, if you want to use the Squire.




Gearing

Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
POB: https://pobb.in/u/kayella/qJAHMEuVJbuY


SPIRITUAL AID
Monster kill from minion dot counts as the player's kill, so you need Spiritual Aid to scale Profane Bloom.


MASTERY
Minions have +250 accuracy rating
20% increased effect of offerings
10% increased life
+50 maximum life
2% life regen when moving
+20 life/mana when you block
+1% attack block per block on shield
Determination 25% increased efficiency



CLUSTER JEWELS

Large: 12 points, minion attack speed, 35% increase effect
Small: Forbidden Flame: Unnatural Strength
Small: Forbidden Flesh: Unnatural Strength




JEWELS

4x Reckless Defence +4/+4 block




ASCENDANCY

Malediction
Profane Bloom
Void Beacon
Withering Presence



PANTHEON

Major: Brine King (freeze immunity)
Minor: Ryslatha (refill Writhing jar flask)


Gear, Gems & Links, Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of the gear, including gems, links and examples.
Note that the build uses many uniques.



HELMET

For the helmet, use Ancient Skill with Flesh Offering attack speed enchant.

The gems are: Diving Ire, Cast while Channelling and Desecrate.

There’s also unlinked Flame Dash.

Use this gem combination with the Writhing Jar to raise spiders.



BODY

For the body armour, use the Brass Dome to ignore extra damage from critical hits.
*You don't need the corruption!

The gems are: Molten Shell, Determination, Vitality, Tempest Shield, Skitterbots and Enlighten.

The build will still work fine with Enlighten 3.



GLOVES

For the gloves, use Asenath’s Gentle Touch for Temporal Chains. When monsters die from the spider's poison, it counts as a player kill. Profane Bloom will come from the player and will count as a player hit for Asenath's gloves.

The gems are: Cyclone, Cast while Channelling, Desecrate, Divergent Flesh Offering.

You don’t need to use Cyclone all the time. Just use it to trigger Flesh Offering and to curse monsters on hit.



BOOTS

For the boots, try to get lots of resistances and movement speed.

The gems are: Malevolence, Increased Area of Effect, Awakened Generosity and Empower.

You can skip Empower if you want to save some currency.



WEAPON

The weapon is Arakaali’s Fang.
And you can ignore the stats because they don’t affect your minions.

The gems are: Multistrike, Awakened Unbound Ailments and Withering Touch.

If you want to save currency, Divergent Multistrike is about 10% less DPS compared to Awakened Multistrike.




SHIELD

For maximum survivability, use Aegis Aurora.
But the Surrender or a rare shield with life recovery are cheaper options.

The gems are: Vaal Skeletons, Feeding Frenzy and Culling Strike.

Use the skeletons against Pinnacle bosses for extra DPS.

You can trade survivability for a big DPS boost with the Squire. Use Awakened Melee Physical Damage, Awakened Void Manipulation and Divergent Minion Damage.

(should be awakened void, but I can't find mine)



AMULET

The amulet should be Aul’s Uprising with Malevolence.

Anoint the amulet with Testudo for extra attack block.



RINGS

You will probably need the rings to get Strength and Dex.
One of the rings must have Despair curse on hit.




BELT

For the belt, use Darkness Enthroned with a Ghastly Eye jewel and Amananu’s Gaze.

Your minions get 20% dot mod thanks to the 75% increased effect from Darkness Enthroned.



RECOMMENDED FLASKS


• Life with bleed immunity
• Basalt with extra armour
• Quicksilver
• Rumi's Concoction
• Writhing Jar


Trade links


4/4 Reckless Defence
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/YOGr0kiY

Aul's Uprising Malevolence
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/MP0pMGsJ

Ancient Skull + Flesh offering
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/gVmDELOIQ

12pt large with 25% effect (120% damage total) 5c
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/jGjDkErtX

12pt large with 35% effect (130% damage total) 2div
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/3vnr62Jc5

12pt large with 35% effect and minion 3% ias (130% damage total 40% ias) 5div
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/kb2B3oWF5






>>> Watch 3.18 Pure Spectres Necromancer build guide video on YouTube <<<



About the Build

Pure Spectres Necromancer

ABOUT

This build focuses on fast map clearing using ranged spectres. No annoying resummoning like some other other minions. Unfortunately, you trade bossing killing power for the fast clearing. Warning: the build is not tanky!


SPECTRES

Spectres are permanent minions, so you don’t have to resummon them all the time, like skeletons or SRS.
And unlike other permanent minions, such as golems, you can use ranged spectres for faster mapping.
The raise spectre gem gives you 3 spectres at level 25, which you can get with raise spectre 21 and some other items.
And you can get +1 spectre from Death Attunement and another +1 from a special body armour.


MISERLY POACHERS

Fire projectiles + Explosing Arrow (physical to fire conversion)
DAMAGE: OK
ATTACK SPEED: HIGH

They’re easy to get because they come from Heist Underbelly or smuggler’s den.
All you need to do is open the contract, go inside and desecrate.
You won’t see any corpses, but you can hold the corpse targeting key to find them.


HYRRI'S WATCH

Cold projectiles (physical to cold conversion)
DAMAGE: HIGH
ATTACK SPEED: LOW

You can get them from Karui Legion encounters.
After you find a legion encounter, look around until you find a Hyrri’s Watch.
Kill it and quickly raise the spectre before it disappears!


SYNDICATE OPERATIVE

Physical projectile (need cold conversion)
DAMAGE: LOW
ATTACK SPEED: HIGH
SPECIAL: Pierce all

You can get them from Assassination missions, as well as Research and Intervention hideouts.
They will appear in a cloud of smoke, and you will need to raise the spectre before it disappears!



Gearing

Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
https://pobb.in/6F4cou61rp22

MASTERY
Minion Masteries
1. Minions have 100% increased Critical Strike Chance
2. Minions penetrate 8% elemental res
2. 20% increased effect of Offerings

Life Masteries
4. +50 to Maximum Life
5. 10% increased Maximum Life / 10% reduced Life Recovery

Mana Mastery
6. 15% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency



CLUSTER JEWELS

• 1x Large: 8 points. Feasting Fiends, Renewal, Vicious Bite
• 1x Medium: 4/5 points. Blessed Rebirth, Feasting Fiends, Renewal
• 1x Small: Enduring Composure
• Fotress Covenant


NOTES:
You don't need all 3 notables on your large jewel!
Vicious Bite + Renewal or Vicious Bite + Feasting Fiends is good, too (easy to self craft with harvest)



JEWELS

• Unending Hunger
• Ghastly Eyes




ASCENDANCY

1. Mindless Aggression
2. Unnatural Strength
3. Commander of Darkness
4. Mistress of Sacrifice



PANTHEON

Major: Lunaris
Minor: Abberath
For the pantheon, I like to use Lunaris for reducing damage, and Abberath for burning ground immunity.
It’s especially important if you use Searing Exarch influence.


Gear, Gems Links & Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of suggested gear, including gems & links and examples.
Overall, look for the highest life and resistance mods on your rare items.
Then look for these specific mods.



HELMET

If you have “Minions are Aggressive” on your wand, use a helmet with Elder influence to get the Minion Life mod.


Otherwise, use Maw of Mischief to get the aggressive mod.


Enchant: Flesh Offering increased attack speed.

The gems are: Animate Guardian, Carrion Golem, Anomalous Feeding Frenzy and Elemental Army.


You can check my Animate Guardian guide for details on his equipment.



BODY

The body armour should have +1 to spectre number.
This mod cannot be crafted. It comes from the special delve encounter that says ‘contains minion or aura items’.


Use Embers to add Offering effect, and Ichor to add Hatred effect.


The gems are: Raise Spectre, Predator, Awakened Minion Damage, Critical Damage, Anomalous Pierce and Lesser Multiple Projectiles.


For Syndicate Operatives, us Vicious Projectiles instead of Pierce.




GLOVES

For Hyrri’s Watch and Miserly Poachers, use Grip of the Council.


And for Syndicate Operatives, use Triad Grip.


The gems are: Hatred, Vaal Haste, Phase Run and Generosity.

The build only uses Vaal Haste. So, don’t activate haste aura.



BOOTS

Use your boots to get elemental res and lots of movement speed.


The gems are: Purity of Elements, Skitterbots, Convocation and Enlighten.


If Enlighten is too expensive, you can use a Conqueror’s Efficiency jewel in your passive tree.




WEAPON

The best in slot wand has +1 to spells & minions and “Minions are Aggressive”. But you can get aggressive on your helmet instead.


The gems are: Divergent Desecrate, Divergent Flesh Offering and Bone Offering.


Divergent Desecrate spawns 6 corpses which helps to feed both Offerings.



SHIELD

For the shield, Victario’s Charity combined with Necromantic Aegis will give your spectres frenzy and power charges.


The gems are: level 10 Cast When Damage Taken linked to level 12 Immortal Call.


And unlinked Flame Dash.


I have Cast When Damage Taken set to about 30% of my life pool.



AMULET

The best in slot amulet is Ashes of the Stars.


But you can also use a Shaper or Redeemer amulet with mana reserve efficiency instead.


Anoint the amulet with Death Attunement to get +1 spectre.




RINGS

The ring on the left should be Profane Proxy socketed with Divergent Frostbite.


And the rare ring can be used for extra stats (dex)




BELT

For the belt, you must have Leash of Oblation to use double Offerings. Don't skip this!




RECOMMENDED FLASKS



Life: Instant Recovery when on Low Life + Bleed removal
Prefix: Startled, Frightened, Alarmed, Terrified, Panicked
Suffix: of Sealing, of Alleviation, of Allaying, of Assuaging

Utility flasks: Reduced charges or Increased duration
Prefix: Apprentice's, Scholar's, Practitioner's, Brewer's, Chemist's
Prefix: Investigator's, Analyst's, Examiner's, Clinician's, Experimenter's

Blood of the Karui (instant heal)
Quicksilver: extra speed
Amethyst: remove freeze/chill
Rumi's Concoction (extra block)



Trade Links

Links

Convoking Wand with +1 Minion/+1 spell and Trigger craft or open prefix for crafting Trigger

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/vj2R5nXSE

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>>> Watch 3.19 Endgame SRS Guardian build guide video on YouTube <<<



About the Build

Endgame SRS Guardian

ABOUT

Endgame version of my Summon Raging Spirit Guardian.
This build scales up the damage and clear speed with special gear, awakened gems and cluster jewels.
It will feel a lot better to play, but it won’t be cheap. And you will probably need to self-craft some items.



Gearing

Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
POB: https://pobb.in/u/kayella/RAWfDzh0R9uY


MASTERY
20% increased effect of offerings
10% increased life
+1 maximum Unleash seals
Determination 25% increased efficiency



CLUSTER JEWELS

Large: Call to the Slaughter, Raze and Pillage and Renewal
Medium: Blessed Rebirth and Life from Death
Medium: Feasting Fiends and Renewal
Small: Enduring Composure
Small: Fortress Covenant




JEWELS

Ghastly Eyes: Minion damage, Attack speed, Added Fire damage




ASCENDANCY

Radiant Crusade
Unwavering Crusade
Bastion of Hope
Time of Need



PANTHEON

Major: Brine King (freeze immunity)
Minor: Abberath (burning ground immunity)


Gear, Gems & Links, Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of the gear, including gems, links and examples.
You will need to self-craft some items with fossils and essences.
Also make sure you have 75% elemental resistance, and positive chaos resistance.



HELMET

For the helmet, you want +2 to all minion gems, reservation efficiency and minion movement speed.

I crafted this with Bound, Sanctified and Shuddering fossils.

You can also use Faceted, but it's very expensive.

The gems are: Raise Spectre, Carrion Golem, Meat Shield and Increased Duration.

Increased Duration is for increasing the duration of the spectre buffs.
And for the spectres, I like using: Xoph’s Favoured, Xoph’s Loyal and a Pale Seraphim.



BODY

For the body armour, use Fleshcrafter so your SRS can ignore elemental resistances.

The gems are: Summon Raging Spirit, Awakened Unleash, Awakened Minion Damage, Awakened Predator, Awakened Elemental Focus and Divergent Melee Splash.

Swap Melee Splash to Multistrike when you fight Pinnacle bosses.

Divergent Multistrike is 90% the damage of Awakened.



GLOVES

For the gloves, I recommend Grip of the Council while mapping, and SRS duration gloves for Pinnacle bosses. You can get them in Delve.

The gems are: Hatred, Generosity, Anomalous Convocation and Flame Dash.

Hatred scales a bit better than Anger, but if you have Dex problems just use Anger.
Anomalous Convocation gives your minions a big speed boost.



BOOTS

For the boots, I like to have regen per Endurance Charge and Brittle Ground.

The gems are: Determination, Tempest Shield, Poacher’s Mark and Enlighten.

You will only need Enlighten 3, if you have mana efficiency on your helmet.



WEAPON

The wand should have +1 to all spells, +1 to minions, and trigger.

The gems are: Desecrate, Divergent Flesh Offering and Life Tap.




SHIELD

For your shield, I recommend +1 to all Fire Spells and life recovery on block.

I crafted this with Scorched and Pristine fossils on a Shaper Int base.

It's easier/cheaper to roll +1 fire than +1 minion.

The gems are: Molten Shell, Vaal Summon Skeletons and Feeding Frenzy.

I just use Vaal Skeletons for boss fights or other dangerous encounters. They will body block the boss and proc Feeding Frenzy buff.
You could use an Animate Guardian instead, but he can die easily.



AMULET

For the amulet, look for +1 to all skill gems. You can also try to get +1 to all fire gems as well but it's very expensive.

Anoint the amulet with Arcane Guardian for extra spell block.



RINGS

Use your rings to get lots of life and resistances.

You can also craft Minion Speed with an Essence of Fear.

If you have mana problems, you should craft “Non-Channelling Skills have reduced cost”.



BELT

For the belt, use a good Stygian Vise with a nice Ghastly Eye jewel.

You can also use a Darkness Enthroned if you want more DPS.



RECOMMENDED FLASKS


• Life with bleed immunity
• Basalt with extra armour
• Quicksilver
• Quartz with poison immunity
• Rumi's Concoction


Trade links / Upgrading from starter


Most important is Blessed rebirth on your cluster jewel. Can buy or craft it yourself. 15c
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/mv6G2grH6

Then get Fleshcrafter. Ignore ele resistance is a big dps boost. You can start with 5L for 60c
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/XmaJwE4TP

Then qucik 20% extra damage from gloves 1c
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/pK0ef0

Next look for shield with +1 gem and life recovery. Usually need to craft yourself.
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/b7pX0laiL

+1 wand. Should be pretty cheap. +2 wand can be later.

Maybe helmet next. I think it's best to get the crafting base and make your own +2 helmet with Bound fossils.
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Kalandra/q4Q9P5pSg



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>>> Watch 3.19 Endgame SRS Guardian build guide video on YouTube <<<



About the Build

Endgame SRS Bomber

ABOUT

Endgame version of my SRS Bomber.
This build takes the bomber into the endgame with better clear speed and much bigger pops.
But it’s still a bomber build, so it still has the delay damage, as well as constant resummoning.
The build requires specific items, but they shouldn’t be too expensive. And you will probably need to self-craft some rares, too.



Gearing

Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
POB: https://pobb.in/u/kayella/78b8ENz92QJm


MASTERY
10% reduced mana cost of skills
20% increased effect of offerings
10% increased life
+50 maximum life
Determination 25% increased efficiency
+1% attack block per block on shield



CLUSTER JEWELS

Large: Feeding Frenzy and Raze and Pillage. The third notable isn’t allocated. It’s just to push the other two notables in front of the sockets.
2x Medium: Feasting Fiends and Hulking Corpses
Small: Enduring Composure
Small: Surging Vitality

*Highly recommend using Medium with 6 points. Each small passive is 12% minion life (big boost for explosion damage)



JEWELS

The four jewel sockets are for ghastly eye jewels with minion life and damage.




ASCENDANCY

Mindless Aggression
Bone Barrier
Plaguebringer
Mistress of Sacrifice



PANTHEON

Major: Brine King (freeze immunity)
Minor: Abberath (burning ground immunity)


Gear, Gems & Links, Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of the gear, including gems, links and examples.
You will need to self-craft some items with fossils and essences.
Also make sure you have 75% elemental resistance, and positive chaos resistance.



HELMET

For the helmet, I recommend Mark of the Red Covenant. The increased damage is much stronger than +2 to gem level.

However, a helmet with +2 gem level and the extra SRS enchant is a viable option. The enchant combines with Unleash to double the total number of SRS. e.g. 5 SRS > 10 SRS in one cast!

The gems are: Stone Golem, Anomalous Feeding Frenzy, Elemental Army and Combustion.




BODY

For the body armour, use a Skin of the Lords. I like to save currency and just look for a keystone that doesn’t hurt the build, like the Impaler.

The gems are: Summon Raging Spirit, Awakened Unleash, Predator, Minion Life, Awakened Fire Penetration and Empower.

For better map clear, swap Minion Life to Infernal Legion.

This lets the SRS burn monsters before they explode.



GLOVES

For the gloves, the most useful implicit is increased minion damage.
You can craft Minion Damage with an Essence of Fear.

The gems are: Raise Spectre, Meat Shield, Increased Area of Effect and Increased Duration.

And for the spectres, I like using: Undying Evangelist and a Pale Seraphim.
Increased Duration will keep the spectre buffs up longer.



BOOTS

For the boots, I like Life Regeneration rate and Scorched Ground.

The gems are: Tempest Shield, Skitterbots, Determination and Molten Shell.




WEAPON

The wand should have +1 to all spells, +1 to minions, and trigger.

The gems are: Desecrate, Bone Offering and Life Tap.




SHIELD

For your shield, I recommend +1 Fire and life recovery on block.

You can use a minion shield for more damage, but it’s very hard to craft +1 minion and life recovery.

The gems are: Storm Brand, Flame Dash and Faster Casting.




AMULET

This will make your SRS pop sooner, get a Tavukai with -17% chaos res. And use Noxious Catalyst to increase the chaos damage.

Anoint the amulet with Testudo for extra attack block.



RINGS

For your rings, you can use this special combination to cover enemies in ash so they take 20% increased fire damage.
You need Polaric Devastation on the left side.

And a rare ring with Flammability on the right side.
The ring also needs ‘adds fire and cold damage’.

So now, your Storm Brand will hit with fire damage, curse with Flammability, ignite and then covered enemies in ash.



BELT

For the belt, use a Replica Siegebreaker.

The burning ground helps a lot for map clearing, and even boss fights.

And you can use Turbulent Catalyst to increase the damage from 20 to 24%.




RECOMMENDED FLASKS


• Life with bleed immunity
• Basalt with extra armour
• Quicksilver
• Quartz with poison immunity
• Rumi's Concoction



Safe Keystones for Skin of the Lords

Keystone that don't brick the build

THESE KEYSTONES ARE SAFE TO USE

Acrobatics
Arrow Dancing
Avatar of Fire
Call to Arms
Conduit (doesn't give changes to minions)
Crimson Dance
Doomsday
Elemental Overload
Iron Grip
Iron Reflexes
Iron Will
Lethe Shade
Magebane
Minion Instability (can refund the passive!)
Pain Attunement
Perfect Agony
Point Blank
Precise Technique
Resolute Technique
Runebinder
The Impaler
Wind Dancer

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>>> Watch 3.18 Carrion Golems Necromancer build guide video on YouTube <<<


About the Build

Carrion Golems Necromancer

ABOUT

This build is easy to play and balanced towards survivability. But, it still has good DPS and clear speed.
You can start the build with a low budget, and scale into the endgame with more investment.
It scales physical damage, so you can’t do physical reflect maps.


GOLEMS

Carrion Golems are good for both mapping and bossing because of their high attack speed and good AI.
They are permanent minions, so you don’t need to keep re-summoning them, like skeles or SRS.
Golem Commander, the Anima Stone and Primordial jewels are used to get 4 golems.



TRIPLE CURSE

The build use 3 curses to scale damage.
Two curses are socketed in Vixen’s Entrapment, which will auto-cast them when you self-cast another curse.
The self-cast curse is Punishment, which is socketed in the shield.


SUPPORT MINIONS

For support minions, the build uses:
• a carnage chieftain for frenzy changes,
• a host chieftain for power charges,
• a pale seraphim to debuff enemies,
• an animate guardian with Kingmaker,
• 8 zombies to scale the carrion golem’s damage.


SURVIVABILITY

For survivability, the build stacks armour to reduce physical damage, and block chance to avoid attacks and spells.
For sustain, there is ES recovery when you block.



High Budget Single Target Focus

Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
https://pobb.in/xrd_3VjTdwg8

MASTERY
Minion Masteries
1. Minions have 100% increased Critical Strike Chance
2. Minions overwhelm 20% physical damage reduction
3. 20% increased effect of Offerings

Life Masteries
4. +50 to Maximum Life
5. 10% increased Maximum Life / 10% reduced Life Recovery

Mana Mastery
6. 15% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency



CLUSTER JEWELS

• 2x Large: 8 points. Vicious Bite, Renewal, Feasting Fiends
• 2x Medium: 4-5 points. Renewal, Feasting Fiends
• 1x Small: Fortress Covenant
• 1x Small: Surging Vitality
• 1x Small: Enduring Composure
• 1x Ghastly Eye: Minion Taunt




JEWELS

• Anima Stone
• Primordial Might
• 2x Primordial Eminence




ASCENDANCY

1. Mindless Aggression
2. Unnatural Strength
3. Commander of Darkness
4. Mistress of Sacrifice



PANTHEON

Major: Lunaris
Minor: Shakari


Gear, Gems Links & Flasks

HELMET

For the helmet, use an Elder Bone Helmet with +2 or +3 to minion gems, and Minion Life. This will help keep the support minions alive.
For more DPS, look for increased physical damage taken.
Note that you should avoid minion damage because it reduces the support minions’ life by 25%.

Enchance: Assassin's Mark effect, Carrion Golem damage



Please check my Animate Guardian guide for details on his equipment.



BODY

The body armour should have +2 to socketed gems. For example, a rare armour with +1 int and +1 active.
You can also save currency with a Skin of the Lords. Just make sure the mod doesn’t have a negative effect on the build.



If you prefer Stone Golems, you can swap them in instead.

*Behead support also works with Carrion Golems. So, you can swap Multistrike to Behead when you’re mapping.



GLOVES

Vixen’s Entrapment gives you an extra curse, and auto-casts any socketed curses.

Enchant: Reflection



The self-cast curse is Punishment, which is socketed in the shield.



BOOTS

Windshriek gives you an extra curse

Enchance: Life regen, movement speed



For a DPS boost, you could swap Defiance Banner to Dread.



WEAPON

The best weapon has the trigger craft, and +2 to golems, which you can get from: +1 to minions, spells or physical spells.
A cheap alternative is Cold Iron Point for +3 to physical spells.



For a DPS boost, you could swap Bone Offering to Flesh.


SHIELD

For your shield, I recommend Aegis Aurora.





AMULET

For the amulet, use Ashes of the Stars.
The most important stat is gem quality.

The anointment is Golem Commander for +1 golem.





RINGS

Because the build uses a lot of uniques, use the rings to get as much life and resistances as possible.





BELT

Use a stygian vise or darkness enthroned to socket more ghastly eye jewels.





RECOMMENDED FLASKS



Life: Instant Recovery when on Low Life + Bleed removal

Prefix: Startled, Frightened, Alarmed, Terrified, Panicked
Suffix: of Sealing, of Alleviation, of Allaying, of Assuaging

Utility flasks: Reduced charges or Increased duration
Prefix: Apprentice's, Scholar's, Practitioner's, Brewer's, Chemist's
Prefix: Investigator's, Analyst's, Examiner's, Clinician's, Experimenter's

Basalt: extra armour
Quicksilver: remove burning
Quartz: remove freeze/chill
Rumi's Concoction (extra block)


Low Budget Version


POB: https://pobb.in/LE8ozV-BUUV9


HELMET

Cost: SSF




BODY

Cost: 30c


Cost: 60c




GLOVES

Cost: 1c




BOOTS

Cost: 1c




WEAPON

Cost: 3c
Self-craft with Essesnce of Fear + 3c for Trigger craft.



SHIELD

Cost: 1c




AMULET

Cost: SSF




RINGS

Cost: SSF




BELT

Cost: SSF




RECOMMENDED FLASKS



Life: Instant Recovery when on Low Life + Bleed removal

Prefix: Startled, Frightened, Alarmed, Terrified, Panicked
Suffix: of Sealing, of Alleviation, of Allaying, of Assuaging

Utility flasks: Reduced charges or Increased duration
Prefix: Apprentice's, Scholar's, Practitioner's, Brewer's, Chemist's
Prefix: Investigator's, Analyst's, Examiner's, Clinician's, Experimenter's

Basalt: extra armour
Quicksilver: remove burning
Quartz: remove freeze/chill
Rumi's Concoction (extra block)






>>> Watch 3.18 Carrion Golems & Zombies build guide video on YouTube <<<


About the Build

Carrion Golems & Zombies + Explodey Animate Guardian

ABOUT

This build focuses on fast map clearing instead of bossing DPS. It also uses a special Animate Guardian to explode entire packs of monsters.
The build is comfortable to play because the minions are permanent, and you don’t need to resummon them while mapping. It’s also controller friendly because there are only 4 skills needed.
It scales physical damage, so you can’t do physical reflect maps.


GOLEMS & ZOMBIES

This build is different to other Carrion Golem builds because both the Golems and Zombies are in the body armour. So, actually the build uses two 5-link minions.
The overall damage is similar to 6-link golems with unlinked zombies, but spreading the damage over 12 minions makes it more consistent for mapping.


SUPPORT MINIONS

For support minions, the build uses:
• a carnage chieftain for frenzy changes
• a host chieftain for power charges
• a demon harpy to debuff enemies
• an explodey animate guardian


SURVIVABILITY

For survivability, the build can:
• Completely avoid taking any damage with high block chance and shields,
• Reduce the enemy’s damage with minion taunt,
• Reduce physical damage taken with armour,
• Sustain itself with Energy Shield recovery.


EXPLODEY ANIMATE GUARDIAN

The explodey Animate Guardian is an important part of the build. It uses several mechanics to explode entire packs of monsters.
Gravebind counts nearby kills as the AG's kills.
This will proc explosions from the body armour and weapon, which are scaled by your “increased minion damage” and his Elder helmet.
Any enemies that don’t die from the explosions will take dot damage from Legacy of Fury and the essence mod on the weapon.
Lastly, Replica Victario's Charity will generate endurance charges from the explosions.



High Budget Mapping Focus

Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
https://pobb.in/lzUiNqt_zyR4

MASTERY
Minion Masteries
1. Minions have 100% increased Critical Strike Chance
2. Minions overwhelm 20% physical damage reduction
2. 20% increased effect of Offerings

Life Masteries
3. +50 to Maximum Life
4. 10% increased Maximum Life / 10% reduced Life Recovery

Mana Mastery
5. 15% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency



CLUSTER JEWELS

• 1x Large: 8 points. Feasting Fiends, Renewal, Vicious Bite
• 1x Medium: 4-5 points. Feasting Fiends, Renewal, Hulking Corpses
• 1x Small: Enduring Composure
• Fortress Covenant


NOTES:
You don't need all 3 notables on your large jewel!
Vicious Bite + Renewal or Vicious Bite + Feasting Fiends is good, too (easy to self craft with harvest)



JEWELS

• The Anima Stone
• 3x Primordial Eminence




ASCENDANCY

1. Mindless Aggression
2. Unnatural Strength
3. Commander of Darkness
4. Mistress of Sacrifice



PANTHEON

Major: Lunaris
Minor: Abberath
For the pantheon, I like to use Lunaris for reducing damage, and Abberath for burning ground immunity.
It’s especially important if you use Searing Exarch influence and it stops burning ground from stopping Energy Shield recharge.


Gear, Gems Links & Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of suggested gear, including gems & links and examples.
Overall, look for the highest life and resistance mods on your rare items.
Then look for these specific mods.



HELMET

If you have “Minions are Aggressive” on your wand, use an Elder helmet to get the Minion Life mod.
If you don’t have Aggressive on your wand, use Maw of Mischief instead.

Enchant: Carrion Golem buff effect.

The gems are: Animate Guardian, Raise Spectre, Anomalous Feeding Frenzy and Minion Speed.

Normally the AG is pretty slow. So, we need Minion Speed to make sure he can keep up with the golems and zombies.



The explodey Animate Guardian is an important part of the build. It uses several mechanics to explode entire packs of monsters.
You can check my Animate Guardian guide for details on his equipment.



BODY

For the body armour, I recommend Skin of the Lords to get +2 to socketed gems.

The gems are: Carrion Golem, Raise Zombie, Awakened Minion Damage, Increased Critical Damage, Awakened Melee Physical Damage and Awakened Brutality.


This build is different to other Carrion Golem builds because both the Golems and Zombies are in the body armour. So, actually the build uses two 5-link minions.
The overall damage is similar to 6-link golems with unlinked zombies, but spreading the damage over 12 minions makes it more consistent for mapping.



GLOVES

The gloves are Vixen’s Entrapment to get an extra curse, but we won’t be socketing any curse gems here.

Enchant: Reflection/Grave

The gems are: Convocation, Flame Dash and Life Tap.

The 4th socket can be used for anything you like. I just used a portal gem.





BOOTS

Use your boots to get elemental resistance and movement speed. You can also get Brittle from exarch influence.

Enchant: Movement speed

The gems are: Tempest Shield, Skitterbots, Determination and War Banner.

War Banner scales all minion damage, including the explosions from the AG.





WEAPON

The best in slot wand has +1 to spells & minions and “Minions are Aggressive”. But it’s much cheaper to get aggressive on your helmet instead. Also needs Trigger mod.

The gems are: Life Tap, Desecrate, and Divergent Bone Offering.

Keep Desecrate at level 1 to reduce the cost.





SHIELD

For the shield, I recommend Aegis Aurora for Energy Shield recovery.

The gems are: Molten Shell, Assassin’s Mark and Increased Duration.

You only need to use Assassin’s Mark on bosses and other dangerous monsters.





AMULET

The best in slot amulet is Ashes of the Stars, but the character in the showcase uses a Rare Amulet with +1 to all skill gems.

Anoint the amulet with Golem Commander to get an extra golem.





RINGS

The ring on the left should be Profane Proxy socketed with Vulnerability. This turns the curse into an aura, so you don’t have to self-cast it.



The Rare Ring can be used for extra life or stats. And I like to add Minion Speed.




BELT

Use a Stygian Vise or Darkness Enthroned to socket more ghastly eye jewels.





RECOMMENDED FLASKS

For the flasks, I’m using
Life with Bleed Removal
Basalt with Extra Armour
Quicksilver with Curse Effect
Quart with Freeze Removal
Rumi’s Concoction



Life: Instant Recovery when on Low Life + Bleed removal
Prefix: Startled, Frightened, Alarmed, Terrified, Panicked
Suffix: of Sealing, of Alleviation, of Allaying, of Assuaging

Utility flasks: Reduced charges or Increased duration
Prefix: Apprentice's, Scholar's, Practitioner's, Brewer's, Chemist's
Prefix: Investigator's, Analyst's, Examiner's, Clinician's, Experimenter's



Ultra Low Budget Mapping Focus

Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
https://pobb.in/NO7U0nt3witW

MASTERY
Minion Masteries
1. Minions have 100% increased Critical Strike Chance
2. Minions overwhelm 20% physical damage reduction
2. 20% increased effect of Offerings

Life Masteries
3. +50 to Maximum Life
4. 10% increased Maximum Life / 10% reduced Life Recovery

Mana Mastery
5. 15% increased Mana Reservation Efficiency



JEWELS

• The Anima Stone
• 3x Primordial Eminence




ASCENDANCY

1. Mindless Aggression
2. Unnatural Strength
3. Commander of Darkness
4. Mistress of Sacrifice



PANTHEON

Major: Lunaris
Minor: Abberath
For the pantheon, I like to use Lunaris for reducing damage, and Abberath for burning ground immunity.
It’s especially important if you use Searing Exarch influence and it stops burning ground from stopping Energy Shield recharge.


Gear, Gems Links & Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of suggested gear, including gems & links and examples.
Overall, look for the highest life and resistance mods on your rare items.
Then look for these specific mods.



HELMET

Maw of Mischief to get Minions are Aggressive.

Enchant: Carrion Golem buff effect.

The gems are: Animate Guardian, Raise Spectre, Feeding Frenzy and Minion Life.



The explodey Animate Guardian is an important part of the build. It uses several mechanics to explode entire packs of monsters.
You can check my Animate Guardian guide for details on his equipment.



BODY

Tabula

The gems are: Carrion Golem, Raise Zombie, Minion Damage, Increased Critical Damage, Melee Physical Damage and Brutality.



This build is different to other Carrion Golem builds because both the Golems and Zombies are in the body armour. So, actually the build uses two 5-link minions.
The overall damage is similar to 6-link golems with unlinked zombies, but spreading the damage over 12 minions makes it more consistent for mapping.



GLOVES

The gloves are Vixen’s Entrapment to get an extra curse, but we won’t be socketing any curse gems here.

Enchant: Reflection/Grave

The gems are: Convocation, Flame Dash and Life Tap.

The 4th socket can be used for anything you like.





BOOTS

Use your boots to get elemental resistance and movement speed.

Enchant: Movement speed

The gems are: Tempest Shield, Skitterbots, Determination and War Banner.





WEAPON

Craft a wand with Essence of Fear for Minion Damage mod. Add Trigger mod.

The gems are: Life Tap, Desecrate, and Bone Offering.

Keep Desecrate at level 1 to reduce the cost.




SHIELD

Can craft a rare shield with Essence of Greed for lots of life. Or craft with Harvest Chaos craft to get chaos res mod.

The gems are: Molten Shell, Assassin’s Mark and Increased Duration.

You only need to use Assassin’s Mark on bosses and other dangerous monsters.





AMULET

Look for stats/life/resistance





RINGS

The ring on the left should be Profane Proxy socketed with Vulnerability. This turns the curse into an aura, so you don’t have to self-cast it.



The Rare Ring can be used for extra life or stats.




BELT

Stygian Vice or Leather belt




RECOMMENDED FLASKS

For the flasks, I’m using
Life with Bleed Removal
Basalt with Extra Armour
Quicksilver with Curse Effect
Quart with Freeze Removal
Rumi’s Concoction



Life: Instant Recovery when on Low Life + Bleed removal
Prefix: Startled, Frightened, Alarmed, Terrified, Panicked
Suffix: of Sealing, of Alleviation, of Allaying, of Assuaging

Utility flasks: Reduced charges or Increased duration
Prefix: Apprentice's, Scholar's, Practitioner's, Brewer's, Chemist's
Prefix: Investigator's, Analyst's, Examiner's, Clinician's, Experimenter's

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>>> Watch Animate Weapon Necromancer build guide video on YouTube <<<


Key features: Animate Weapon Necromancer

ABOUT

Animate Weapon Necromancer is designed for survivability while still having good DPS and clear speed.
It scales physical damage, so you shouldn’t do physical reflect maps.



ANIMATE WEAPON

Animate Weapon is a spell that animates a weapon on the ground as a flying minion.
It can animate Lingering Blades that are left behind by Bladefall, or identified melee weapon dropped as loot.
They are temporary minions with about one and a half minutes duration. So, you will need to resummon them during mapping and long boss fights.
But don’t worry because the build has enough survivability to let you resummon even while a boss is hitting you.



SURVIVABILITY

This build is designed for survivability. It uses the following defensive layers:
• Armour stacking
• More than 80% ele res
• Capped attack and spell block
• Elemental ailment immunity
• Critical Strike immunity
• ES recovery when blocking
• A temporary damage shield
• Reducing enemy’s damage.



SUPPORT MINIONS

For support minions, the build uses:
• carrion golem
• carnage chieftain for frenzy changes
• host chieftain for power charges
• pale seraphim and demon harpy to debuff enemies
• animate guardian with Kingmaker


Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN





POB PASTEBIN
https://pastebin.com/KvEgQzqN



NOTES

• 2 extra passive points from killing all bandits
• Death Attunement anointment
• 6 masteries
• 2 sets of cluster jewels



MASTERIES

• Life: +50 maximum Life
• Life: 10% increased maximum Life
• Minion: Minions overwhelm 20% physical damage reduction
• Minion: Minions have 100% increased critical strike chance
• Minion: 20% increased effect of Offerings
• Mana: 15% increased mana reservation efficiency



CLUSTER JEWELS

• 2x Large: 8 points. Vicious Bite, Feasting Fiends, Renewal
• 4x Medium: 4/5 points. Feasting Fiends, Renewal
• 1x Small: Fortress Covenant
• 1x Small: Quickening Covenant
• 1x Small: Surging Vitality
• 1x Small: Enduring Composure




JEWELS

• Ghastly Eyes (life, damage, attack speed, physical damage)




ASCENDANCY

1. Mindless Aggression
2. Unnatural Strength
3. Commander of Darkness
4. Mistress of Sacrifice



PANTHEON

Major: Lunaris
Minor: Shakari


Gear, Gems Links & Flasks

HELMET

For the helmet, use an Elder Bone Helmet with +2 or +3 to minion gems, and Minion Life. For more DPS, look for increased physical damage taken.

Enchant: Animate Weapon damage/duration

Note that you should avoid minion damage because it reduces the support minions’ life by 25%.



Please check my Animate Guardian guide for details on his equipment.



BODY

For the body armour, I recommend the Brass Dome.

For more DPS, you can corrupt it for +2 Duration.

Use your crafting bench and Harvest to get the correct colours.



For endgame bosses, swap melee splash to multistrike.


NOTE: You can craft the +2 Brass dome yourself. You can also use 2b1g3r.
1. Buy cheap Brass dome 50c
2. Bench craft 6 sockets
3. Colour 2b1g (50 chrome)
4. Corrupt in temple (can buy chronicle 1ex)
5. If you get duration, bench craft 6 link.



GLOVES

For the gloves, Vixen’s Entrapment gives an extra curse, and auto-casts any socketed curses.



The self-cast curse is Enfeeble, which is socketed in the shield.



BOOTS

I recommend crafting your boots with Essence of Envy to get Chaos res.



Anomalous Dread Banner makes nearby enemies deal less damage.



WEAPON

For the wand, the important mods are: +1 to minions and spells. You can also get minion damage and attack speed. It also needs an open suffix to craft trigger.



Desecrate must be socketed before Bone Offering.



SHIELD





AMULET

The amulet is Ashes of the Stars with Death Attunement.
Quality is the most important stat.





RINGS

The rings are used to get as much life and res as possible.
Highly recommend crafting Minion Speed.





BELT

Darkness enthroned to socket 2 ghastly eye jewel with 75% increased effect.


Put your best ghastly eyes jewels here!



RECOMMENDED FLASKS



Life: Instant Recovery when on Low Life + Bleed removal
Prefix: Startled, Frightened, Alarmed, Terrified, Panicked
Suffix: of Sealing, of Alleviation, of Allaying, of Assuaging

Utility flasks: Reduced charges or Increased duration
Prefix: Apprentice's, Scholar's, Practitioner's, Brewer's, Chemist's
Prefix: Investigator's, Analyst's, Examiner's, Clinician's, Experimenter's

Granite: extra armour
Quicksilver: extra speed
Mana: remove curse*

You need the mana flask for summoning Animate Weapons!


Trade Links

Helmet:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/WqEmpJbIm

Body:
It's better to buy a basic one. Bench craft 6 sockets, then colour the sockets, then corrupt in temple, then link. If you buy +2 duration already corrupted it's very hard to get correct colours.
Basic: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/lgn9pIV
Already +2 with correct colours: https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/G9w5g0Whb

Wand:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/YoaJqMbcY

Cluster Jewel:
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Archnemesis/44KZvOQt9


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>>> Watch 3.18 Autobomber Animate Guardian showcase and build guide on YouTube <<<



About the Build

Autobomber Animate Guardian

ABOUT

This is a specialist build for map clearing, which also does well in Heist and Delve.
It’s very easy to play because you just run around while the entire screen explodes.
Actually, the build is a revised version of the infernal legion AG from 3.16. I made the gear much cheaper and the explosions much bigger.
But, it has two downsides:
• There’s not enough damage to kill guardian and endgame bosses.
• And the only defence is the Proximity Shield from the support spectres.


INFERNAL LEGION

The Animate Guardian burns nearby enemies with Infernal Legion.
The damage is scaled by Infernal Legion’s gem level and other support gems, as well the AG’s Cane of Kulemak and helmet.
He also has 88% fire resistance and 11% life regeneration, so he doesn’t burn himself to death.


AUTOBOMBING

Enemies that die from burning will explode thanks to the AG’s Storm’s Gift + Inpulsa’s Broken Heart. The explosions can chain off themselves to kill even more monsters.
And any enemies that don’t die from the explosions will take burning damage from the AG’s Legacy of Fury.


SUPPORT MINIONS

For the support minions, there are:
• Three Undying Evangelist spectres that give proximity shields.
• Skitterbots that become moving curse auras thanks to Profane Proxy.
• Stone Golem for extra life regeneration.



Gearing

Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
https://pobb.in/4p-ZByMTWUyc


MASTERY
Minion Masteries
1. Minions have +8% elemental resistance

Life Masteries
5. +50 to Maximum Life
6. 10% increased Maximum Life / 10% reduced Life Recovery

Mana Mastery
7. 15% increased Mana Reservation Eff



CLUSTER JEWELS

The most important passives are Minion Life Regeneration to keep the AG alive.
There’s also a lot of Minion Leech, so the AG can recover life from the explosions.

2x large: Feasting Fiends, Renewal
4x medium: Feating Fiends, Renewal
2x small: Surging Vitality
1x Kitava's Teaching
1x Fortress Covenant





JEWELS

In the other jewel sockets, I’m using Cobalt Jewels instead of Ghastly Eyes, so I don’t need to use a minion skill to activate the damage.

• Cobalt: Player life, Minion Life/damage




ASCENDANCY

1. Mindless Aggression
2. Unnatural Strength
3. Commander of Darkness
4. Plaguebringer



PANTHEON

Major: Lunaris
Minor: Abberath
For the pantheon, I like to use Lunaris for reducing damage, and Abberath for burning ground immunity. It’s especially important if you use Searing Exarch influence.


Gear, Gems Links & Flasks

GENERAL

Here is an overview of suggested gear, including gems & links and examples.
Overall, look for the highest life and resistance mods on your rare items.
Then look for the specific mods.



HELMET

I have my support Spectres in a helmet with Minion Life and +3 to Minion Gems. The other mods aren’t important.
The gems are: Raise Spectre, Meat Shield, Increased Area of Effect and Increased Duration.
This combination makes the Proximity Shields really big and always nearby.





BODY

For the body armour, I have Fenumus’ Shroud to make Aspect of the Spider stronger.
The gems are: Vaal Summon Skeletons, Minion Damage, Predator, Stone Golem, Multistrike and Added Fire.
Vaal Skeletons are only used for bosses or when surrounded by rippy monsters like in Delve.





GLOVES

The gloves are Breathstealer anointed with Ravenous Horde.
And the gems are: Cast When Damage Taken, Immortal Call and Convocation. All level 1.
This gem combination will teleport the Shield spectres to me when I get hit.
The 4th gem is unlinked Flame Dash.



UNLINKED




BOOTS

The boots are Corpsewalker to create corpses while moving. This activates Plaguebringer and also feeds Disciple of Kitava.
The gems are: Purity of Elements, Skitterbots, Phase Run and Increased Duration.
Phase Run gives the build phasing without needing a quartz flask.





WEAPON

The AG’s gem level doesn’t scale his damage in this build, so I’m using a +3 support gem staff to make the support gems stronger. It also has Aspect of the Spider.
The gems are: Anomalous Animate Guardian, Infernal Legion, Awakened Minion Dagame, Awakened Increased Area of Effect, Elemental Army and Cruelty.
The explosions will activate the Cruelty buff, which then increase the damage from Infernal Legion.





AMULET

For the amulet, I recommend something with minion damage, and anoint it with Whispers of Doom for +1 curse.





RINGS

Both rings are Profane Proxy, socketed with Elemental Weakness and Flammability. This makes both Skitterbots into curse auras, so I don’t need to self-cast anything.





BELT

For the belt, I have a Stygian Vise with a Ghastly Eye Jewel that has Corrupted Blood immunity.





RECOMMENDED FLASKS

My flasks are Blood of the Karui, Granite with Extra Armour, Sulphur with Bleed Immunity, Amethyst with Poison Immunity and a Quick Silver.



Life: Instant Recovery when on Low Life + Bleed removal
Prefix: Startled, Frightened, Alarmed, Terrified, Panicked
Suffix: of Sealing, of Alleviation, of Allaying, of Assuaging

Utility flasks: Reduced charges or Increased duration
Prefix: Apprentice's, Scholar's, Practitioner's, Brewer's, Chemist's
Prefix: Investigator's, Analyst's, Examiner's, Clinician's, Experimenter's



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>>> Watch Infernal Skitterbots Occultist build guide video on YouTube <<<

Key features: Infernal Skitterbots Occultist

KEY FEATURES

Skitterbots
Skitterbots have high movement speed, can't take damage and are 'aggressive' with a large agro radius. They will run to monsters that are completely offscreen.

Infernal Legion
Burning Damage support. High base damage, but it also burns minions for 40% of their life per second.

Infernal + Skitterbots
Skitterbots become mobile burning aura and they can't die!


Passive Tree & Jewels, Ascendancy, Pantheon and PoB Pastebin

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
https://pastebin.com/9Ke2F99B



NOTES

• Safeguard anointment
• Sovereignty cluster
• several masteries
• 2 extra passive points from killing all bandits



MASTERIES

• Life: +50 maximum Life
• Life: 10% increased maximum Life
• Mana: 15% increased mana reservation efficiency
• Staff: Recover 2% of life/ES when block



CLUSTER JEWELS

• 2x Large: 8-12 points. Small passives have increased effect. Call to the Slaughter.
• 1x Medium: 4/5 points. Blessed Rebirth
• 1x Small: Fortress Covenant
• 1x Small: Surging Vitality
• 1x Small: Enduring Composure
• 1x Small: Ghastly Eye




JEWELS

• Ghastly Eyes




ASCENDANCY

1. Malediction
2. Profane Bloom
3. Void Beacon
4. Withering Prescence

Note: Withering Prescence is for 60% chaos res. If you can get chaos res somewhere else, use Frigid Wake instead!



PANTHEON

Major: Lunaris
Minor: Shakari


Gear, Gems Links & Flasks

HELMET

The helmet is for Vaal Summon Skeles (needed for boss fights)

Important mods: +2/3 to minion gems and minion damage.

Enchant: 40% skitterbots reservation efficiency



NOTE: Get skitterbot efficiency enchant to use Aspect of the Spider (more damage and defences).
I recommend buying a helmet with the enchant and crafting with fossils.



BODY

Stack life with Kaom's Heart.





GLOVES

The gloves are for buff/debuff spectres.

Important mods: Faster Attacks, Faster Projectiles.

Enchant: Reflection



Spectre: 2x Artless Assassin (Heist)



BOOTS

Use the boots to stack life, resists.

Enchant: Life regen or Movement speed



UNLINKED:


Make sure Flame Dash is not linked to CWDT!

NOTE: You only need Malevolence if you have Aul's Uprising amulet with free malevolence.



WEAPON

The staff needs to increase level of SUPPORT GEMS or MINION GEMS. This will scale Infernal Legion's base damage.



NOTE: Get Aspect of the Spider if you have skitterbot efficiency enchant on helmet.



AMULET

Rare amulet with life, resistances.


Ultra high budget option: Aul's Uprising


Anointment: Safeguard



RINGS

2x Profane Proxy




BELT

Belt or Sytgian Vise with life, resistances.





RECOMMENDED FLASKS



Life: Instant Recovery when on Low Life + Bleed removal
Prefix: Startled, Frightened, Alarmed, Terrified, Panicked
Suffix: of Sealing, of Alleviation, of Allaying, of Assuaging

Utility flasks: Reduced charges or Increased duration
Prefix: Apprentice's, Scholar's, Practitioner's, Brewer's, Chemist's
Prefix: Investigator's, Analyst's, Examiner's, Clinician's, Experimenter's

Granite: extra armour
Quicksilver: extra speed
Quartz: remove freeze/chill
Rumi's Concoction



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Last edited by kayella#0845 on Jul 25, 2022, 7:03:29 AM




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The Build Planner shows: Quest Rewards, Gems & Links and Passive Tree.

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Video Walkthrough for Act 1 - 10


This video is a complete Act 1 to 10 levelling guide and walkthrough in less than 30 minutes! I show you how to level up from a fresh league start and point out important things you need to know. You can also see the gem & link progression as well as the passive tree notables for each Act.

PoE 3.17 - Complete Act 1 to 10 Levelling Guide / Walkthrough - League Starter - Necromancer


Written Walkthrough for Act 1 - 10

Act 1

Starting:
pick up fireball
Open chest, pick up arcane surge.
LINK: fireball + arcane surge.
Pick up items (to sell).
Enter lioneye’s watch (town)

Lioneye’s Watch:
Tarkleigh: take freezing pulse, buy items: check for Runner’s boots.
Nessa: sell all items, buy items: check for linked wand. Need 2 blue + 1 red linked or 3 blue linked, buy gem: raise zombie.

LINKS:
1. freezing pulse + arcane surge
NO LINK:
raise zombie

Set freezing pulse to ‘always attack without moving’
Enter coast

Coast:
Find & activate waypoint
Enter mudflats

Mudflats:
Find 3 quest items
Find strange glyph wall
Enter submerged passage

Submerge passage:
Take waypoint to coast

Coast:
Enter tidal island
Tidal Island
Find and kill Hailrake
Pick up quest item (+portal scroll!)
Return to town (exit to character screen)

Lioneye’s Watch:
Tarkleigh: take Summon Raging Spirit, Frostblink
Nessa: take quicksilver flask, summon phantasm, buy holy flame totem

LINKS:
1. SRS + arcane surge
2. summon phantasm + holy flame totem
NO LINK:
raise zombie
Frostblink

Take waypoint to submerged passage.

Submerge passage:
Look for bridge. Use portal scroll before bridge. Don’t go in.
Continue and find exit to Ledge.

Ledge:
Find climb

Climb:
Find lower prison

Lower prison:
Take waypoint to lioneye’s watch.

Lioneye’s Watch:
Take portal to submerged passage.

Submerge passage:
Find flooded depths

Flooded depths:
Find and kill deep dweller
Return to Lioneye’s watch (exit to character screen)

Lioneye’s Watch:
Tarkleigh: take skill book
Nessa: take minion damage, buy combustion

LINKS:
1. SRS + minion damage
2. summon phantasm + holy flame totem + combustion
NO LINK:
raise zombie
Frostblink

Take waypoint to lower prison.

Prison:
Find and do labyrinth trial
Go to level2, find upper prison
Find warden’s quarter’s
Kill brutus (boss fight)
Return to Lioneye’s watch

Lioneye’s watch:
Tarkleigh: take summon skeletons
Nessa: buy infernal legion

LINKS:
1. SRS + minion damage + summon skeletons
2. summon phantasm + holy flame totem + combustion
NO LINK:
raise zombie
Frostblink
infernal legion (just levelling up until Act 2)

Waypoint to prisoner’s gate

Prisoner’s Gate:
Find ship graveyard

Ship Graveyard:
Find Ship graveyard cave
Find slave girl
Pick up all flame
Exit to shipyard
Find Caverns of Wrath

Caverns of Wrath:
Take waypoint to ship graveyard

Ship Graveyard:
Find and kill Fairgraves
Return to Lioneye’s watch (exit to character screen)

Lioneye’s Watch:
Bestel: TAKE skillbook
Nessa: TAKE flesh offering
Fix cold res: Craft sapphire rings: sell iron ring + intelligence gem = 1 sapphire.

LINKS:
1. SRS + minion damage + summon skeletons
2. summon phantasm + holy flame totem + combustion
NO LINK:
raise zombie
Frostblink
infernal legion
flesh offering

Waypoint to Merveil’s Caverns

Merveil’s Caverns:
Find Caverns of Anger.
Find and kill Merveil (boss)
Exit to southern forest

Act 2

Southern Forest:
Go north to find Forest Encampment.

Forest Encampment:
Exit north to Old Fields.

Old fields:
Find and enter ‘the Den’

Den:
Find and kill Great White Beast
Exit to Old Fields
Find Crossroads

Crossroads:
Find & activate waypoint
Go west to find Chamber of Sins
Chamber of Sins, level 1 and 2
Find level 2
Find and complete labyrinth trial
Find and kill Fidelitas
Click strange device
Pick up baleful gem
Return to town

Forest encampment:
Greust: take Desecrate
Helena: talk and get hideout
Yeesa: take heavy belt, buy summon skitterbots, buy jade amulet (If need)

LINKS:
1. SRS + minion damage + summon skeletons
2. summon phantasm + holy flame totem + combustion
3. summon skitterbots + infernal legion
NO LINK:
raise zombie
Frostblink
flesh offering
Desecrate

Waypoint to Crossroads

Crossroads:
Find & activate waypoint
Go east to find Fellshrine Ruins and the Crypt

Crypt:
Find and complete labyrinth trial
Return to town

Forest encampment:
Waypoint to Crossroads

Crossroads:
Go north to find Broken Bridge

Broken Bridge:
Find and kill Kraitlyn, then take his amulet.
Return to town

Forest encampment:
Exit south to Riverways

Riverways:
Follow path to waypoint
Go west to find Wetlands

Wetlands:
Find and kill Oak, then take his amulet.
Find waypoint
Waypoint to Riverways

Riverways:
Follow path to find Western Forest

Western Forest:
Follow path to waypoint.
Look at fire – it will show which side to find Alira.
Continue on path until you find second fire.
Follow stone road to Alira
Kill Alira, then take her amulet.
Continue West to find and kill Blackguards
Pick up Thaumatic emblem, click on thaumatic seal (yellow mark)
Find weaver’s chamber on opposite side to Alira.

Weaver’s chamber:
Find weaver’s nest
Kill weaver
Pick up Maligaro’s Spike
Return to town

Forest encampment:
Silk: take predetor
Eramir: take Apex

LINKS:
1. SRS + minion damage + predator
2. summon phantasm + holy flame totem + combustion
3. summon skitterbots + infernal legion
4. raise zombie + summon skeletons
NO LINK:
Frostblink
flesh offering
Desecrate

Waypoint to Act 1 town. *****

Lioneye’s watch:
Bestel: take skill book
Waypoint to Act 2: Wetlands

Wetlands:
Click on Tree Roots
Enter Vaal Ruins

Vaal Ruins:
Find and click on Ancient Seal (yellow mark)
Exit to Northern Forest

Northern Forest:
Find caverns

Canverns:
Find and activate waypoint
Enter Ancient Pyramid

Ancient Pyramid:
Find and enter Pyramid Apex

Pyramid Apex:
Click Dark Alter to start boss fight.
Exit to City of Sarn.


Act 3

Note
Check NPC for 4-link items

City of Sarn:
Kill Guards and talk to Clarissa
Enter Sarn (town)
Empty your inventory if you need to
Check Hargan for 4-link items. (4b and 3b1r)

Sarn:
Exit to Slums

Slums:
Find Crematorium

Crematorium:
Find and complete Labyrinth trial
Find and defeat Piety.
Click on Tolman and take bracelet
Portal to Sarn

Sarn:
Clarissa: take sewer key
Maramoa: take Elemental Weakness

LINKS:
1. SRS + minion damage + predator
2. summon phantasm + holy flame totem + combustion
3. summon skitterbots + infernal legion
4. raise zombie + summon skeletons
NO LINK:
Frostblink
flesh offering
Desecrate
Elemental Weakness

Exit to Slums

Slums:
Find sewer grating and enter the sewers

The sewers:
Find 3 quest items (yellow mark)
Find exit to Marketplace

Marketplace:
Find waypoint
Find Catacombs

Catacombs:
Find and complete labyrinth trial
Portal to town

Sarn:
Hargan: take skillbook
Waypoint to marketplace

Marketplace:
Find Battlefront

Battlefront:
Find & activate waypoint
Find Blackguard chest. Take ribbon spool
Go west to find Docks.

Docks:
Find Supply Container (yellow mark), take thaumatic sulphite
Find waypoint, go to Battlefront

Battlefront:
Go north-west to find Solaris temple

Solaris Temple, Level 1 and 2:
Find Dialla, Take Jade Amulet, take infernal Talc
Enter eternal lab to get crafting recipe
Waypoint to Sewers

Sewers:
Click on Undying blockage
Exit to Ebony Barracks

Ebony barracks:
Find and activate waypoint
Go up the steps to find & kill gravicius.
Continue west to find Lunaris temple.

lunaris temple, level 1 & 2:
find & active waypoint
enter level 2
Find and kill Piety
Take key
Portal to town

Sarn:
Maramoa: take raise spectre
(spectres are very weak at gem level 1, so we will just socket it for levelling up)
Grigor: take skill book

LINKS:
1. SRS + minion damage + predator
2. summon phantasm + holy flame totem + combustion
3. summon skitterbots + infernal legion
4. raise zombie + summon skeletons
NO LINK:
Frostblink
flesh offering
Desecrate
Elemental Weakness
raise spectre

Waypoint to ebony barracks

Ebony barracks:
Find and enter imperial gardens

imperial gardens:
Find & activate waypoint
Go left to find library.

the library & archives:
find siosa.
Activate waypoint
find 'loose candle'
Enter archives:

Archives:
find 4 golden pages
Portal to town -> waypoint to library

Library:
Siosa: take meat shield, buy Added Fire Damage (Cost: 1x Orb of Transmutation), buy Determination (Cost: 1x Orb of Alteration)
go to Sarn

Sarn:
Clarissa: buy feeding frenzy

LINKS:
1. SRS + minion damage + predator
2. summon phantasm + holy flame totem + combustion
3. summon skitterbots + infernal legion
4. raise zombie + raise spectre + meat shield
5. summon skeletons + feeding frenzy + Added Fire Damage
NO LINK:
Frostblink
flesh offering
Desecrate
Elemental Weakness
LEVEL UP ONLY:
Determination (only use after taking Sovereignty cluster)

Go to Act 2: Old Fields
Act 2: old field:
Raise Carnage Chieftain spectre
Waypoint to Act 3: imperial gardens

imperial gardens :
Go north-west to find and complete labyrinth trial.
Go to far east to find 'locked door' enter sceptre of god

sceptre of god & upper sceptre
Go up 2 levels to find waypoint.
Continue to rooftop to find & kill dominus.


Act 4

Note
Check NPC for 4-link items

Aqueduct:
Find and enter Highgate

Highgate:
Exit to Dried Lake

Dried Lake:
Find and kill Voll, Emperor of Purity
Take Deshret’s Banner
Return to Highgate

Highgate:
Click on Deshret’ s Seal. Do not enter Mines.
Talk to Oyun, take Carrion Golem.

LINKS:
1. SRS + minion damage + predator
2. summon phantasm + holy flame totem + combustion
3. summon skitterbots + infernal legion
4. raise zombie + raise spectre + meat shield + Carrion Golem
5. summon skeletons + feeding frenzy + Added Fire Damage
NO LINK:
Frostblink
flesh offering
Desecrate
Elemental Weakness
LEVEL UP ONLY:
Determination (only use after taking Sovereignty cluster)

Enter the Mines.
put stone golem anywhere

Mines, level 1 and 2:
Level 2 – find Deshret’s Spirit
Find and enter Crystal Veins

Crystal Veins:
Find Dialla
Enter Daresso’s Dream

Daresson’s Dream:
Find and enter Grand Arena
Find and kill Daresso
Take Eye of Desire
Portal to Highgate

Highgate:
Tasuni: take skillbook
Waypoint to Crystal Vein

Crystal Vein
Talk to Dialla
Enter Kaom’s dream (make sure you have good fire resist!)

Kaom’s Dream:
Find and enter Kaom’s Stronghold
Find and kill Kaom
Take Eye of Fury
Portal to Highgate

Highgate:
Waypoint to Crystal Veins

Crystal Vein
Talk to Dialla
Go to Highgate

Highgate:
Dialla: take Unleash
Petarus and Vanja: buy multistrike

LINKS:
1. SRS + minion damage + predator + Unleash + multistrike
2. summon phantasm + holy flame totem + combustion
3. summon skitterbots + infernal legion
4. raise zombie + raise spectre + meat shield + Carrion Golem
5. summon skeletons + feeding frenzy + Added Fire Damage + minion damage
NO LINK:
Frostblink
flesh offering
Desecrate
Elemental Weakness
Determination (only use after taking Sovereignty cluster)

Go to Sarn: Aspirant's Plaza.
activate waypoint.
enter the labyrinth.

Labyrinth:
complete lab.
Ascend -> Necromancer -> Passive: Mindless Aggression

Go to Act 4: Belly of the Beast

Belly of the Beast:
Find and enter Bowels of the Beast

Bowels of the Beast:
Find and defeat Piety
Enter the Harvest

Harvest:
find & kill doedre, maligaro & shavronne.
talk to piety.
Enter: black core

Black core
Kill Malachai
Return to Highgate

Highgate:
Enter the Ascent

Ascent:
Find the level (yellow marker)
Enter Portal to Oriath

Act 5

Slave pens:
activate waypoint.
find and kill overseer krow (boss).
enter overseer's tower.

Overseer's tower:
enter control blocks.

Control blocks:
find miasmeter at the west side of the zone.
then go to the norh of the zone.
kill boss (justicar casticus).
enter oriath square.

Oriath square:
go north to find templare courts.

Templare courts:
activate waypoint.
find chamber of innocence.

Chamber of innocence
find sanctum of innocence (boss room).
kill boss.
enter torched courts.

Torched courts:
enter ruined square.

Ruined square:
find waypoint (west of zone). enter ossuary.

Ossuary:
find tomb of the first templar (yellow mark).
take sign of purity.
exit to ruined square.

Ruined square:
go to south east of zone find reliquary.

Reliquary
find 3 quest items (each corner of zone).
portal to town.

Overseer's tower:
take flask if you need. don't worry about jewel. take book of skill
vilenta and lani: take book of skill.
check fire res.
waypoint ruined square.

Ruined square:
find cathedral rooftop (south west)

Cathedral rooftop
find cathedral apex (boss room).
fight kitava.
talk to sin.
talk to lilly to go to act 6.


Act 6

Lioneye's watch:
After finishing act 5, you will get a -30% debuff to all res. So you need to fix your res.
Craft res on all items with bench. Try to get close to 75%. Especially fire (for next zone).
Go to twilight strand.

Twilight strand:
Kill all monsters.
Lilly: take book of regrets.
Go to coast.

Coast:
Find waypoint,
go to mud flats

Bud flats:
find and kill dishonoured queen (no yellow mark).
Pick up eye of conquest.
Find fotress gate (yellow mark) enter karui fortress.

Karui fortress:
Enter tukohama’s keep.
Defeat boss.
Enter the ridge

Ridge:
activate waypoint.
Find lower prison.

Lower prison:
Activate waypoint.
Find lab trial.
Find shavronne’s tower.

Shavronne’s tower:
Keep going up the tower until find prison rooftop (boss room).
Exit to warden’s chamber -> prisoner’s gate.

Prisoner’s gate
Find valley of the fire drinker.
Defeat boss.
Exit to prisoner’s gate.

Prisoner’s gate:
Find western forest (along the path).

Western forest:
Follow path to riverways. Find waypoint.
Go to west of zone.
Find wetlands.

Wetlands:
Go west to find spawning grounds.
Kill boss.
Portal to town.

Lioneyes watch:
bestel: take skillbook.
Tarkleigh take 2 skill books.
take second skill book.
Lilly: buy Defiance Banner

LINKS:
1. SRS + predator + Unleash + multistrike
2. summon phantasm + holy flame totem + combustion
3. summon skitterbots + infernal legion
4. raise zombie + raise spectre + meat shield + Carrion Golem
5. summon skeletons + feeding frenzy + Added Fire Damage + minion damage
NO LINK:
Frostblink
flesh offering
Desecrate
Elemental Weakness
Determination
Defiance Banner

Waypoint to riverways.

Riverways:
Head north east

North east:
find southern forest.

Southern forest:
Head east/north east to find waypoint and caverns of anger

Caverns of anger
Click flag chest
pick up black flag.
find the beacon.

Beacon:
Activate waypoint.
Head to north of zone.
Complete escort puzzle (stand in yellow circle and tank will move).
Click on (something).
Click on the beacon.
Talk to weylam roth.
Sail to brine king’s reef.

Brine king’s reef:
Activate waypoint.
Find brine kings throne (boss room).
Kill boss.
Talk to weylam.
Sail to bridge encampment.


Act 7

Exit to broken bridge.

Broken bridge:
Go to crossroards.

Crossroards:
Activate waypoint.
Go east to fellshrine ruins.

Fellshrine ruins:
Find the crypt.

Crypt:
Activate waypoint.
Find and Complete lab trial.
Find sarcophagus (orange door icon).

Sarcophagus:
Enter stairs.
Find container of sins (yellow icon).
Take maligaro’s map.
Portal to town.

Bridge encampment:
Waypoint to crossroads.

Crossroads:
Go west to chamber of sins.

Chamber of sins:
Find and activate waypoint.
Click on map device.
Insert maligaro’s map and activate.
Enter maligaro’s sanctum.

Maligaro’s sanctum:
Find maligaro’s workshop.
Kill boss.
Take black venom.
Open portal and return to chamber.

Chamber of sins:
Talk to silk.
Take obsidian key.
Go to chamber of sins level 2.
Find and complete lab trial.
Find secret passage (yellow mark).
Enter the den.

Den:
Activate waypoint.
Find ashen fields.
Activate waypoint.
Go south
Find forest encampment (boss room!).

Forest encampment:
kill guest.
Enter northern forest.

Northern forest:
Find dread thicket (west south or south/west).
Find 7 fireflies (yellow mark).
Find den of despair (boss room).
Kill boss.
Portal to town.

Bridge encampment:
eramir take 2x skill book.
Helena: take boots.
Waypoint to northern forest.

Northern forest:
Go north-west to the causeway.
Find and activate waypoint.
find kishara’s lockbox.
Take kishara’s star.
Enter vaal city.

Vaal city:
Find waypoint and yeena (yellow mark) next to each other.
Talk to yeena.
Enter temple of decay.

Temple of decay:
Find boss room.
Kill boss.


Act 8

Exit to sarn ramparts.

Sarn ramparts:
Find sarn encampment.

Sarn encampment:
Go to Aspirant's Plaza.

Labyrinth:
complete lab.
Passive: Unnatural Strength

Sarn:
Enter toxic conduits.
Find doedre’s cesspool.
Find loose grate.
Enter cauldron (boss room).
Click valve to start boss fight.
Exit to sewer outlet.
Go north.

Quay:
go east.
Stick to water side to find bridge to small island (arch).
Click on sealed casket (yellow mark).
Take ankh of eternity.
Find resurrection site.
Talk to clarissa to start fight.
find grain gate.

Grain gate:
activate grain gate.
Look for rooms with dead body (it shows the correct path).
Kill gemling legionnaires.
Exit to imperial fields.

Imperial fields:
follow path west/north-west.
Activate waypoint.
Continue west.
Find solaris temple.

Solaris temple:
activate waypoint.
Go west from waypoint:
find level 2 entrance.
Find portal (orange door).
Kill dawn (boss).
Take sun orb.
Portal to town.

Sarn:
maramoa: take skillbook.
Clarissa: take skillbook.
Waypoint to solaris temple.

Solaris temple:
ST head south.
Exit to solaris concourse.

Solaris concourse:
activate waypoint.
Continue south.
Enter harbour bridge.

Harbour bridge:
go all south to lunaris concourse.

Lunaris concourse:
go west.
Activate waypoint.
Go south.
Enter bathhouse.

Bathhouse:
complete trial.
Activate waypoint if you like.
Go to high gardens (west of zone).

High gardens :
find pools of terror (boss room).
Kill boss.
Portal to town.

Sarn:
hargan: take ring,
take skillbook.
Waypoint to lunaris concourse.

Lunaris concourse:
go west and enter lunaris temple.
Find and activate waypoint.
Enter level 2.
Find portal (oranged door -> boss room).
Kill dusk (boss).
Take moon orb).
Portal to town.

Sarn:
waypoint to lunaris concourse.
Go east to bridge.
Go to midde of bridege.
Enter sky shrine.

Sky shrine:
Click on statue of the sisters.
Kill bosses.


Act 9

Enter blood aqueduct.

Blood aqueduct:
go west to highgate.

Highgate:
Enter the descent.

Descent:
Find entrance vastiri desert.

Vastiri desert:
Find entrance to oasis (covered in sand storm).
Take storm blade.
Find waypoint.
Go north-west to find foothills.

Foothills:
find waypoint.
Enter boiling lake.

Boiling lake:
Go north and kill basilisk (boss).
Take basilisk acid.
Portal to town.

Highgate:
talk to sin,
talk to P&J,
talk to sin,
talk to P&J,
take bottled storm.
Waypoint to vastiri desert.

Vastiri desert:
Go north to oasis.

Oasis:
Find sandpit (boss room).
Kill boss.
Portal to town.

Highgate:
Talk to irasha.
Take skill book.
Waypoint to foothills.
Enter tunnel.

Tunnel:
Find lab trial.
Find and activate waypoint.
Exit to quarry.

Quarry:
waypoint in middle.
Find shrine of the winds.

Shrine of the winds:
Kill boss.
Take sekhema feather.
Go back to quarry

Quarry:
Find refinery.

Refinery:
Find and kill boss.
Enter next room click theurgic precipitate machine.
Take trarthan powder.
Portal to town.

High gate:
Talk to irasha.
Take skillbook.
Waypoint to quarry.

Quarry:
Talk to sin.
enter belly of the beast.

Belly of the beast:
Enter rotting core.
Enter black core.
Talk to sin.
Kill 3 mini bosses.
Talk to sin.
Enter black heart.

Black heart:
kill depraved trinity (boss).
Talk to lilly.
Sail to oriath.


Act 10

Go to cathedral rooftop.

Cathedral rooftop:
Enter cathedral apex (near entrance).

Cathedral apex:
Kill monsters. Exit.
Head east.
Exit to ravaged square.

Ravaged square:
head west to find small passage to control blocks.

Control blocks:
Activate waypoint.
Go all the way south to find arena (boss room).
Kill boss.
Portal to town.

Oriath docks:
talk to lani: take quartz flask.
Take skill book.
waypoint to control blocks.

Control blocks:
exit to ravaged square.

Ravaged square:
head far north.
Find waypoint.
Enter ossuary

Ossuary:
- > bone pits.
Complete lab trial.
Portal to town.

Oriath docks:
Waypoint to ravaged square.

Ravaged square:
From portal head east to find torched courts.

Torched courts:
find desecrated chambers.

Desecrated chambers:
Find sanctum of innocence.

Sanctum of innocence:
Kill avarius (boss).
Pick up staff of purity.
Exit to desecrated chamber.

Desecrated chamber:
Waypoint to oriath docks.

Oriath docks:
talk to bannon.
Talk to innocence.

Go to Sarn.

Sarn encampment:
Go to Aspirant's Plaza.

Labyrinth:
complete lab.
Passive: Commander of Darkness

Go to Act 10: Ravaged Square

Ravaged square:
Go east.
Talk to innocence (yellow mark).
Enter the canals.

Canals:
Enter feeding trough.
Head far west.
Talk to sin.
Enter alter of hunger.

Alter of hunger:
Kill kitava.
Talk to sin.
Enter portal.

Oriath:
talk to Lilly to go to Karui Shores.

Karui Shores:
Take crafting recipe (movement speed).
Find Kirac and friends
Take skill book.


Passive Tree Progression


Notes:
*The order of passives jumps around because it balances getting life and minion damage early in the game.
**The Mastery for 1. Enduring Bond is taken at 19. (can't use it in early game)
**The Mastery for 12. Grave Pact is taken at 20. (this benefit is mostly for you, not minions)
***Get jewel sockets when you find good jewels



1. Enduring Bond (Mastery is at 19.)
2. Quick Recovery & Mastery: +50 life
3. Lord of the Dead
4. Heart and Soul
5. Cruel Preparation & Mastery: 10% increase life
6. Sanctity
7. Sacrifice & Mastery: Minions Recovery 5%
8. Spiritual Command
9. Mental Rapidity & Mastery: Unleash +1 Seal
10. Purity of Flesh
11. Sovereignty & Mastery: 15% efficiency
12. Gravepact
13. Combat Stamina & Mastery: Determination efficiency
14. Tireless
15. Warrior's Blood
16. Constitution
17. Redemption
18. Righteous Army
19. Mastery: Minions Penetrate 8% res*
20. Mastery: 20% Offering
21. Devotion
22. Sactuary & Mastery: +1% Attack block
23. Mystic Bulwark


Twink Gear

If this is not your league starter and you want to get to maps really quickly. I recommend the following gear. You should buy everything before you start so you can save time. Some of the gems are quest rewards so you can skip buying them. Have everything in your bag so you can start using it as soon as you reach the correct level.


*Raise Spectre and Stone Golem are quest rewards



*Predator and Minion Damage are quest rewards
**Buy a level 1 Vaal Summon Skeletons






*Flame Dash is a quest reward



Sidehebreath helps a lot with early mana regen



Dead Reckoning for Skele mages. They're a bit better than skele warriors because they hit with projectiles.

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Kingmaker AG (3.19)

Leer cast gives your other minions 50% increased damage.


10% life regen from Gruthkul


Gloves

Make the AG immune to Corrupted blood (drops in delve physical encounter). Exarch mod: Extinguish enemies (prevent enemy from applying elemental ailments).


If you use Necromancer, you can add Intimidate or Unnerve mod with Exarch.


Boots
Death's Door for bleed immunity. It's difficult to stop AG from moving, so he will take a lot of damage from blood.


Alternative: rare boots with Sapped ground (enemies deal 10% less damage). crafted mode is avoid bleeding.


Kingmaker for crit multiplier, culling strike, fortify, item rarity.


Dying Breath AG (low cost)

Dying Breath AG is a good low cost AG. Staff + helmet give a nice damage boost and the boots will give a movespeed boost. The body armour and gloves give the AG some extra survivability.

You can use this AG for any minion build.

Each item will cost about 1c. They are common uniques so you can also get them yourself easily.



If you are not using Fleshcrafter, you can get extra damage from Legacy of Fury. Scorch is a -10% ele res debuff for any nearby enemies. You can get -15% ele res with 50% effect.




Kingmaker AG (high cost)

Many minion builds scale crit damage, so Kingmaker is the strongest damage boost. It also give culling strike (kill enemy at 10% life) and fortification (10% less damage take).

Keep your AG alive with Mask of the Stitched Demon + body armour with 10% life gained as ES. Mask of the Stitched Demon gives your AG 1% life regen for 500 ES.
Example: AG with 100k life and 10% life as ES.
AG has 10k ES and will get 20% life regen = 20k per second regen!

Even with lots of regen, bleed damage can kill your AG. Especially in Sirus fight. I like to use gloves with Corrupted Blood mod and Infinite Pursuit boots so the AG never takes any bleeding damage.



You can also use lesser exarch currency to add unnerve (10% increased spell damage taken) or intimidate (10% increased attack damage taken).


Note for Fleshcrafter users (Skele mages): AG has 20% base chaos damage, so he will get 40% life converted to ES.
Example: AG with 100k life -> 60k life and 40k ES. If you use Mask of the Stitched Demon, your AG will have 80% life regen (48k per second!).
If you have 10% life gained as ES on body, your AG will have 50k ES and 100% life regen.

Another option for body armour is Garb of Emphemeral. When the AG is close to the enemy, the enemy can't do any critical hits.


You can find Corrupted Blood gloves in delve: Nesting Ground with physical items mod.


Explodey AG (physical)



Gravebind: nearby kills count as the AG's kill


Crusader + Synth weapon: enemies have 40-45% chance to explode


Explode damage is scaled by "increased minion damage" from gear and passives. Also use Elder helmet


Legacy of Fury: burn nearby enemies when monsters die


Replica Victario's Charity: hits from explosion give endurance changes. kills from explosions give frenzy charges


Craft synth weapon with Essence of Delirium for extra damage when explosion hits. Add double damage mod with crafting bench.


You can craft the helmet with


Save currency by crafting Mask of the Stitched Demon



You can save some currency by craft it yourself.

You need:
Temple with Apex of Ascension
Mask of Spirit Drinker
Vial of Summoning


Open the temple and put the Mask and Vial in the the sacrifice table.




Support AG - Sin Eater



Alternative*





General Notes and Warning
Crafting in PoE is random, so you may need to repeat the craft many times to get the required mods. Some mods have a very low chance of rolling and the crafting mats can be extremely expensive.

Keep these points in mind before you start crafting!

Cheap 5-link/6-link chest



Look for a 5-link/6-link chest with INT base & Screaming Essence of Greed.


SSF: Farm 6 Dapper Prodigy cards.


Trigger Wand



Trigger will auto-cast any gems in your wand when you use another skill.

You will need: wand with 1 free suffix.

Bench craft 'trigger' (3c).


Note: This craft comes from syndicate encounters and is rare.


+1 Minion Wand



You will need:
Convoking Wand
Bound fossil
1-socket resonator


Note: +1 minion gem has a very low chance. You may need to use many bound fossils to get the mod. The craft for +2 minion wand has a higher chance to get the mod, but will cost more. You can also use Alt orbs, but the chance is very very low!


+2 Minion Wand



You will need:
Convoking Wand
4-socket resonator
Jagged, Shuddering, Corroded, Metallic fossils


Notes: These 4 fossils will block all many unwanted mods.



+1 Spectre Gem Level Boots



You will need:
Boots with Elder influence
3-socket resonator
Bound, Shuddering, Pristine fossils






You can save some currency by only using 2-socket resonator and bound + shuddering.

Note: you need i86 boots to get 35% ms.


+1 active/+1 intelligence body armour

You can fossil craft your body armour.
You need:
Warlord base with item level 80+
Faceted
Dense
Pristine
Corroded
4-socket resonator


You have a 1 in 5 chance to hit +1/+1.

CraftofExile

+2/+3 Minion Helmet


This will give your support minions more survivability.

You will need:
item level 86 Bone helmet
1-socket resonator
Bound fossil




+1 phys/+1 str for HoP

Need:
Hunter amulet with +1 str
Crusader amulet with +1 phys
Awakener Orb

NOTE: hold alt key to check mods on amulets. There must be only one influence mod!


Click on orb, click on one amulet to hold the mod, then click on second amulet to add mod. The orb will add influence mod and reroll other mods:


+2/+3 Minion Helmet


This will give your support minions more survivability.

You will need:
item level 86 Bone helmet
1-socket resonator
Bound fossil




7-link helmet

+2/3 to gems (Empower)
Minion Damage
Hypothermia


Step 1: Create Base

i86+ Elder or Shaper Bone Helmet.


Awakener Orb


Elder or Shaper 'other' helmet.


Click on Awakener Orb -> click on other helmet -> click on Bone Helmet.

This will make a Shaper/Elder Bone Helmet.



Step 2: Fossil Craft

3-socket resonator
bound fossil (minion mod: minion damage, +3 minion level)
frigid fossil (cold mod: hypothermia)
aetheric fossil (spell mod: +3% to Critical Strike Chance)





Step 3: Keep rolling until you get good mods.

(missing crit)






Why use Spell Echo?

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Spell Echo is a support gem that makes linked spell gems repeat themselves after the initial cast.

Spell Echo only works for spells cast by an actual player or minion

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Spell_Echo_Support

This means that both the player and minions will benefit from the repeated cast, as well as the increased cast speed. Spell Echo will more than double your spectres' DPS.

Note: Spell Echo will cause Raise Spectre to repeat, so you need to remove it before raising spectres. Remember to put the gem back in when you are finished.


How do I get 4 or 5 spectres?


1. RAISE SPECTRE GEM LEVEL
1 spectre at level 1-12
2 spectres at levels 13-24
3 spectres at level 25+

Raise Spectre can be level 20 or 21.


Unnatural Strength ascendancy passive gives +2 level to minion gems.


Hunter influence amulet can give +1 to all intelligence skill gems.


Convoking Wand can give +1 or +2 to minion gems.


Boots can give +1 spectre skill gem.



2. DEATH ATTUNEMENT PASSIVE SKILL

Death Attunement gives +1 spectre. It can be found at the top left of the passive tree.

3. +1 MAXIMUM NUMBER OF SPECTRES DELVE BODY ARMOUR

Note: +1 chest is a rare delve drop; it cannot be crafted.


Can you check my gear? What should I upgrade?

There are 3 things you need to do:

1. Check the example equipment for upgrade ideas.

2. Make sure your spectres are in a 6-link.

3. Make sure you have Raise Spectre 25+

4. Stack life on all your gear.

That's basically it.

Other Spectres


Detailed Information: Snow Rhex

Bossing: 4 / Mapping: 3 (solo), 5 (with spiders)
Spectre & Spiders build Showcase

Damage type:
Cold melee


Strength:
High damage
High HP


Weakness:
Melee range


Demo videos:
https://youtu.be/mNoonjxXNAE


Where:
Redeemer influence map.


Support gems:



Boss swap:



Aura:



Curse:



Gloves: Grip of the Council






3.19 updates

Discussion for 3.20 starts on page 203

1 DEC 2022 | PoE 3.19 - Cheaper Infernal Skitterbots Occultist (Shako)
Cheaper options (easy to gear)
>> Watch it on YouTube <<


23 NOV 2022 | PoE 3.19 - Infernal Skitterbots Occultist (Shako)
Infernal Legion + Shako + Skitterbots
>> Watch it on YouTube <<


11 NOV 2022 | PoE 3.19 - Pure Spectres Guardian showcase
Re-testing spectres in 3.19
>> Watch it on YouTube <<


28 SEP 2022 | PoE 3.19 - Crit SRS & Flame Golems
Updated Melee SRS build & experimental Flame golems build
>> Watch it on YouTube <<


18 SEP 2022 | PoE 3.19 - Cold Conversion Skeleton Warriors
high budget cold conversion and crit build
>> Watch it on YouTube <<


15 SEP 2022 | PoE 3.19 - Critical Strike Skeleton Mages
high budget crit scaling build
>> Watch it on YouTube <<


9 SEP 2022 | PoE 3.19 - Skeleton Mages Necromancer & Guardian
Still viable in 3.19!
>> Watch it on YouTube <<


2 SEP 2022 | PoE 3.19 - Poison Spiders Occultist
New tankier version without support minions
>> Watch it on YouTube <<


28 AUG 2022 | PoE 3.19 - Endgame SRS Bomber
More damage, better clear speed
>> Watch it on YouTube <<


25 AUG 2022 | PoE 3.19 - Endgame SRS Guardian
Medium/High investment build
>> Watch it on YouTube <<


20 AUG 2022 | PoE 3.19 - SRS Bomber / Popcorn SRS League Starter
League starter build (low cost)
>> Watch it on YouTube <<


18 AUG 2022 | PoE 3.19 - Melee SRS Guardian League Starter
League starter and SSF build (no uniques)
>> Watch it on YouTube <<


14 AUG 2022 | PoE 3.19 - Some minion builds for Lake of Kalandra
A few ideas before league starts
>> Watch it on YouTube <<

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