Level 100 Triggered Summon Phantasm Necromancer^3.24

Notes

3.24 POISON SOULWREST NECROMANCER

This is a Poison Soulwrest Necromancer build for 3.24 Necropolis. We use a typical Zoomancer build for leveling, following Asmo's popular
guide linked below. We then pivot into Soulwrest as soon as we hit maps. Our passive tree aims to stack Life and Armour and we invest fully
into Block Chance as well. Thus, we mostly look for Armour or Armour/ES gear. The build starts with Physical minion damage in early maps and
moves to Poison as we complete our Uber Lab, granting our Phantasms Unholy Might and adding minion poison chance throughout the build. We
use Kitava's Teaching and Corpsewalker to generate Phantasms from the Soulwrest staff. We use an Arcanist Brand setup to generate corpses and
apply Despair. We use a Summon Carrion Golem and Guardian's Blessing setup to fit Malevolence into our aura list. We use Animate Guardian and
Raise Spectres for additional minion damage and defenses, enabling the use of Temporal Chains from AG gear. We eventually spec into an Amanamu's
Gaze setup with Darkness Enthroned to utilize five Ghastly Eye Jewels and massively increase our poison damage.

For auras, we run Haste, Determination, and Malevolence (free via Golem). We cast Vaal Haste on Bosses or Rares throughout mapping. If you choose
to spec into Grasping Mail with 60% Chance to Poison and Grants Level 15 Envy, you will likely drop normal Haste for Envy while still using 
Vaal Haste. It is possible to squeeze in three 50% auras with enough mana reservation, but I think other investments are more worthwhile.

With Awakened gems and some BiS gear, the build maxes out at about 20M DPS with capped resistances, 4.4k life, 25k armour, and 75/75 block chance.


<<<  LEVELING  >>>


1. Mule a Templar for Elemental Proliferation and Rolling Magma. Check vendor for good items before starting a Witch.

2. Follow leveling trees and skills for each Act

     - We are mostly following Asmo's Necro leveling guide: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3497559
          - There are a few differences to make it easier to get to our mapping passive tree
     - Look for Goat's Horn wand, B-B-R, B-B-B in Act 1
     - For Acts 4-10, we want B-B-B-R, B-B-B-B, and one G-G-R for Shield Charge.

     - Regex for leveling: -\w-.-|g-g-r|g-r-g|r-g-g|b-b|nne|rint|minion


<<<  EARLY MAPS  >>>


NOTE: If you happen to get a lot of early currency it may be worth it to just grab an
Amanamu's Gaze immediately as that item will get exceedingly expensive.

3. Buy Soulwrest ASAP once you hit maps. 4-socket is fine to start and will carry us through yellow maps. We can upgrade later.
     - Use a Cyclone setup if you want in early maps to trigger phantasms. It can be better until we get the automated setup.
     - Arcanist Brand setup will work, but could lead to slower mapping without the automation
     - Use Carnage Chieftains for your Raise Spectre. Multiple options for your third (Host Chieftain, Pale Seraphim, etc.)
     - Start leveling alternative gems in weapon swap (Chance to Poison, Void Manipulation, Unbound Ailments, Despair, Bone Offering, etc.)

4. In the early 70s, try to buy a couple cheap items for minions and defenses:
     - Large cluster jewel with Call to the Slaughter
     - Medium cluster jewel with Blessed Rebirth
     - Rumi's Concoction for block chance (if cheap)
     - I suggest using a Leather Belt with Life and Resistances until red maps
     - Consider swapping in Bone Offering in place of Flesh Offering if your minions are squishy

5. When you have enough currency, pick up Corpsewalker and Kitava's Teaching to automate corpse generation (may have to wait til after Uber lab).

6. After Uber Lab, we add Unholy Might for all our minions and switch to poison. At this point we do the following:
     - Buy a Magic Grapsing Mail with Minions Have 60% chance to Poison Enemies on Hit as a fragmented implicit
     - Spend a couple Essences to get a decent roll and add Life (unless you already have the 15% Life Mastery)
     - Swap to the poison Soulwrest gems (Chance to Poison, Void Manipulation, Unbound Ailments)
     - Try to grab a 6-socket Soulwrest or at least get to 5 sockets (they are cheap)
     - Put a cheap anoint on your Jinxed Juju (Diamond Skin or similar, not necessarily minion-related)

NOTE: You can go with Darkness Enthroned and Chance to Poison Ghastly Eye Jewels earlier to achieve 100% chance to poison. I think
Grapsing Mail is the better way to do it and lets you fill out your passive skill tree better until you can afford to go fully into the five Ghastly
Eye Jewels with Amanamu's Gaze.


<<<  RED MAPS  >>>


7. Between 75 and 90 work on capping block, grabbing Glancing Blows, Safeguard, Whirling Barrier, and Steelwood Stance on the passive tree.
     - You can swap out the Rumi's Concoction for a Quartz Flask now.

NOTE: The gear listed in the Items section includes affixes to cap resistances as well as +Life and +%Armour. You will need to look for particular
affixes on your own gear to cap resistances, hit attribute requirements, etc.

8. Big picture gear progression for red mapping
     - Get an Elder-Influenced Helmet with Socketed Gems Supported by Level 20 Minion Life to support your Summon Carrion Golem setup.
     - Buy a Grasping Mail with Minions have 60% chance to Poison Enemies on Hit AND Grants Level 15 Envy Skill
     - Make sure you have Vaal Haste and turn off the normal Haste aura to make room for Envy.
          - It's possible to get enough mana reservation efficiency to run all of them (probably anoint Charisma), but not worth it IMO
     - Put an end-game anoint on your Jinxed Juju. I recommend Ravenous Horde, but there are multiple good ones for minions.
     - Work on your Animate Guardian. AG BiS items are listed in this PoB. Try for a 21/20 gem.
          - Only Windscream and Asenath's Gentle Touch are required to get Temporal Chains as an additional curse
          - No need to break the bank on the top AG gear yet


<<<  SWAP TO AMANAMU'S GAZE  >>>


9. Once you have a lot of currency do the following:
     - Purchase Amanamu's Gaze, and add two Ghastly Eye Jewels to your passive tree
     - Swap out your Leather Belt for a Darkness Enthroned with two more Ghastly Eye Jewels (5 total for Amanamu's Gaze buff)
     - Purchase BiS Cluster Jewels as listed in the Items section
     - Max out your AG gear. Find a guide to explore options, but Windscream and Asenath's Gentle Touch are required
     - Try to get a god-tier Bone Helmet with +2 to All Minion Skill Gems along with Socketed Gems Supported by Level 20 Minion Life

NOTE: At this point, you can consider dropping Grasping Mail in favor of another Body Armour that offers better defenses or better aura
support. In that case, you'll need to look for Minions have % chance to Poison Enemies on Hit on each of your Ghastly Eye Jewels.

10. Spec into the following Awakened Gems for your Soulwrest configuration:
     - Awakened Minion Damage
     - Awakened Void Manipulation
     - Awakened Unbound Ailments
     - (possibly swap for) Awakened Added Chaos Damage