Level 89 Hybrid Animate Weapon of Ranged Arms Necromancer^3.27

Notes

You can find the full and very detailed written guide here: https://maxroll.gg/poe/build-guides/poison-ranged-animate-weapons-league-starter

=== CAP RES & DEX WITH GEAR ===
Spectres: Use 2 Carnage Chieftains from act 2 until you get Arena master OR Perfect Forest warrior & Perfect guardian turtle (ask in /global 6666 for Arena master & Pale)

Early league start 2 spectre limit (Non ritual)

1. Carnage Chieftain (act2) (Damage)  
2. Arena master (Drox map) (Damage)  

Finished Early setup 4 spectre limit

1. Perfect Forest warrior or Forest warrior (Damage)  
2. Perfect guardian turtle (Phys Defense)
3. Carnage Chieftain (Damage)  
4. Hulking Miscreation (Not perfect)  (Damage)  

Over cap your resistances with +15 to negate elemental exposure.

Minion skill GEM LEVEL is much more important than QUALITY:  21/0 >>>> 20/20    Spectres/dps golems/phantasm/AG/SRS
(The exception for this is Animate weapon since you get two extra weapons from 20 quality)

You want one ghastly eye jewel with taunt on hit.

You want "minions have a chance to poison on hit" on all your ghastly eye jewels to reach 100% chance to poison with minions. This is a massive damage increase.

Dont use AG until total combined gem level for AG is at least lvl 15, "total combined gem level" =  +1 skills from wand/helmet/shield

If you start mapping with bought or traded low level(1) minion gems you will have a very bad time.

Swap to Solaris pantheon if you are going to fight end-game bosses that are mostly alone (Shaper/Eater/Exarch/Sirus/Maven)

Make sure you have enough mana to cast animate weapon with unleash

LOW BUDGET NOTE

Decay Ward is a very cheap anoint you can get early for improved minion survivability (Works very well for Animate weapon)
You want to anoint Death Attument later when you can afford it and the respec.

->>>>>>>>>>GET BLOOD MAGIC COVENANT!!!!!!!<-------------------

Early 6L Covenant can do all Ubers but if you die mid fight on Maven, Exarch and Eater it will be annoying to resummon your Animate weapons mid fight.

Difficulty Ubers: Atziri<<<<Cortex(Depends on mods)<Eater<<Sirus<Shaper<Elder<Exarch<Maven
Uber shaper+elder+Exarch+Sirus can wipe your minions at the Early game setup. (Make sure AG gem is lvl 21 before doing ubers)
Vs Uber Sirus respec into protection mastery to get corrupted blood immunity.

MEDIUM BUDGET NOTE

Covenant corruption can be

+1 socketed gems
+2 duration gems
+2 minion gems

LATE BUDGET NOTE

Covenant corruption:
Best one is +2 socketed minion or Duration gems which you do not want to skip.

Second corruption can be any of the following

1. +2 socketed duration or minion gems (Offensive) (Very expensive)
2. +1 socketed gems (Offensive) (Very expensive)
3. 50% reduced crit damage taken (Defensive) (If you have this mod you could skip the crit reduction mod on your watchers eye and get one of the other mods below)  (Very expensive)
4. +1 maximum resistances (Defensive) (Very expensive)
5. Any dmg taken reduction mod Cold/light/chaos/fire (Defensive)
6. 4-6% increased maximum life (Defensive)

Watchers eye third mod or replace crit reduction (If it is expensive) with one of these:

(1)	(5-8)% additional Physical Damage Reduction while affected by Determination
(2/3)	You take x% reduced extra damage from critical strikes
(2/3)	Purity of elements - +1 to Maximum elemental resistances

(3)	(600-1000) to Armour while affected by Determination
(3)	(5-8)% Chance to Block Attack Damage while affected by Determination
(3)	Purity of elements - Chaos resistance

Late upgraded skill tree could use quickening and fortress covenant instead of flesh & flame if you want tankier minions.

Made by: Helm Breaker