[3.25 Update] Chaos ranged Animate Weapon build | Uber Boss Killer | great clear 120m+ DPS

[3.25] Update:

All PoBs have been updated. Pretty much unchanged.

Intro:

Hi everyone,

I want to show you my chaos ranged Animate Weapon Necromancer which is a variation of the melee version that was made viable in 3.23 due to the introduction of the transfigured skill gem Animate Weapon of Ranged Arms.

Basics:

The skill animates Lingering Blades (which we create with Bladefall) to summon temporary minions with a long duration (~85s). They deal ranged dmg to a single target and can be scaled significantly via minion modifiers like flat added physical and chaos damage, attack speed, crit as well as +levels.

Class/Ascendancy:

You want to play AW on the Necromancer so you can grab Commander of Darkness, Mindless Aggression, Mistress of Sacrifice and either Unnatural Strength or later on Bone Barrier for increased damage, elemental resistances, minion&player survivability, skill effect duration, Offerings applying to the player as well as Minions leeching life to the player.

Bandits & Pantheon:

Kill all bandits for the passive points.

Use Soul of the Brine King for freeze immunity and reduced chill effect as well as Soul of Abberath for burning ground immunity and reduced ignite duration in the ES based version.

In the Life based version you want to use Soul of Ryslatha for flask charges and increased life flask recovery on low life instead of Soul of Abberath.

Leveling:

The melee version of the skill gem can be accessed after the quest 'Breaking some eggs' in act 1 but is only used after acquiring unleash support at the end of act 4. Until then I recommend leveling with Absolution or SRS for ease of play. The ranged version is a transfigured gem which you can get from the lab or via trade.













Miscellaneous:

Crafting guides for most of the items and additional chaos ranged AW Necromancer content can be found in the description of the video guide. A skill guide for the campaign and atlas passive tree progression can be found in the Low Budget PoB.

Enjoy!

Thank you very much for this build! The campaign guide helped me a lot during my league start. It has been a lot of fun playing it.

What would be the priority list for minion stats (damage, atk/cast speed, etc)?

I know you already pointed it out, but I've been having a hard time going by without unleash. I really want to take it out but summoning the weapons take so long with my current build.

I already had my AG die twice (one to Veritania and another to a very strong abyss monster) so I don't like the idea of using Arena Master very much. I am currently trying Perfect Warlord!

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teresaalice wrote:

Thank you very much for this build! The campaign guide helped me a lot during my league start. It has been a lot of fun playing it.

What would be the priority list for minion stats (damage, atk/cast speed, etc)?

Flat dmg, +levels, minion dmg/attack speed after that

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teresaalice wrote:

I know you already pointed it out, but I've been having a hard time going by without unleash. I really want to take it out but summoning the weapons take so long with my current build.

I use unleash support depending on the following conditions, mapping example:

Enemies die easily, AW has no survivability issues = Unleash
Enemies don't die easily, AW has survivability issues = Unleash
Enemies don't die easily, AW has no survivability issues = dmg support gem

It also depends on the league mechanic in question so whenever I move a lot I tend to go with Unleash (e.g. Breach) but for static encounters I use a dmg support instead (e.g. Blight).

You only want to use Unleash for Bossing if your weapons die a lot or you have to get back into an Invitation after dying.

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teresaalice wrote:

I already had my AG die twice (one to Veritania and another to a very strong abyss monster) so I don't like the idea of using Arena Master very much. I am currently trying Perfect Warlord!

AG dying against Veritania happens when it get's stuck in the clouds, convocation is your friend here. For strong monsters regen is all it needs so a double influenced chest should fix that problem.

The AG really shouldn't die to anything except for corpse explosions on bosses (e.g. blight) everything else is usually improper gearing or a different type of player mistake.

3.24 update please

I did a preliminary 3.24 update for the PoBs.

So we can drop Triad Grip due change with Unholy Might?

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ArcioShiranai wrote:

So we can drop Triad Grip due change with Unholy Might?

No, it's better to keep the 4w-Triad Grip and get Bone Barrier for Phys DMG reduction, minion survivability and player recovery instead of Unnatural Strength.

This change is also reflected in the PoBs.

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Corak_de wrote:

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ArcioShiranai wrote:

So we can drop Triad Grip due change with Unholy Might?

No, it's better to keep the 4w-Triad Grip and get Bone Barrier for Phys DMG reduction, minion survivability and player recovery instead of Unnatural Strength.

This change is also reflected in the PoBs.

without the Vorici craft getting 4W will be super hard

What do u think about Withering Touch Support + new Unholy Might?
50% chance to inflict Withered sounds good, perma 15 stacks
and we can use Breathstealer or Vixen gloves?

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BeRse wrote:

without the Vorici craft getting 4W will be super hard

True. Might be more of a medium budget item now. You now either have to double corrupt it, buy the equivalent version dropped in the Vaal Temple or make them yourself with a combination of Omen of Blanching + Vaal Orb.