Level 92 Summon Skeletons Necromancer^3.25

Notes

You can find the full and very detailed written guide here https://maxroll.gg/poe/build-guides/chaos-minion-army-necromancer-league-starter

=== CAP RES & DEX & INT WITH GEAR ===
Spectres: Use two Carnage Chieftains from act 2 until you get Arena master & Pale Seraphim (ask in /global 6666 for Arena master & Pale Seraphim)

Early league start 3 spectre limit

1. Carnage Chieftain (act2 in "The old fields")
2. Arena master (Drox map)
3. Pale seraphim (Beyond mechanic)  (Replace this with Perfect forest warrior (damage) or Perfect guardian turtle(defense) as soon as possible)

Note: Currently a normal Forest warrior corpse says that it does not provide "Nearby allies have Onslaught" but it actually does, so you dont need a perfect to gain a permanent onslaught buff for your minions.

Finished Early setup 4 spectre limit

1. Carnage Cheiftan (act2 in "The old fields")
2. Perfect Forest warrior (Damage) 
3. Perfect guardian turtle (Phys Defense) 
4. Arena master (Drox map)

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/skeletons/zombies/phantasm/AG

There is a div card that gives 21/0 vaal skeleton called "The Bones"

You want one ghastly eye jewel with taunt on hit and one with bind 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.

Wake of destruction shock effect is 15% but the uptime is very unreliable so shock effect is set to 5% in config

As soon as you finish hungry loop your AG will become very tanky. 

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

!T17 MAPS! Skip the abomination map boss until you have at least medium budget setup. (They can destroy your permanent minions and AG in seconds if you are unlucky)

Convocate on top of tanky rares / bosses to focus dmg and to move your minions away from uber attacks that do a lot of damage. (So dont use convocate with automation / trigger / cast when damage taken)

LOW BUDGET NOTE

Dendrobrate is a good cheap option until you get enough "minions have a chance to poison on hit" jewels. (Get extra dex and Int from jewels, cluster or ring if you need it)
If you have more than 60% "minions have a chance to poison on hit" from jewels swap to covenant as soon as possible.

Testudo is a very cheap anoint you can get early for high attack block chance, block recovery and 30 life each time you block an attack.
You want to anoint Death attunemnent later when you can afford to get a Silver oil.

Helmet implicit can be "minions have increased maximum life" instead of despair curse effect if you want tankier minions or +1 maximum lightning resistance.

Dont level Clarity and vitality to high, keep mana at minimum 87+
Why?  (Shield charge (10mana) + trigger flesh offering (77mana) = 87mana)

For low budget AG body armour and boots use either Cospri + wake or Garb + windscream (Garb is more expensive but makes you crit immune)

Early 6L Covenant can do Uber Atziri/eater/cortex(depends on mods) if you play well and Uber Sirus&exarch if you play very well (Get medium budget before doing uber uber Elder/Maven/Shaper, or play like a pro)
(If you play Hardcore, get at least the Mid gear for 100% Spell Suppression)
Difficulty Ubers: Atziri<<<<Cortex(Depends on mods)<Eater<<Exarch<Sirus<<Elder=Maven<Shaper
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

Finished Mid setup 4 spectre limit

1. Carnage Cheiftan (act2 in "The old fields")
2. Perfect Forest warrior (Damage) 
3. Perfect guardian turtle (Phys Defense) 
4. Perfect Warlord (Replace the small cluster AFTER you have this spectre)

Helmet implicit can be "minions have increased maximum life" instead of despair curse effect if you want tankier minions or +1 maximum lightning resistance.

Make sure Ashes + Vaal summon skeleton has a combined quality of 40.
For example 15 for gem and 25 from ashes or any kind of mix between that. (There is no reason to have higher than 40 quality for skeletons/zombies)
Note: This gem with quality is very expensive this league and can be skipped.



Made by: Helm Breaker