GhazzyTV's Animate Weapon Chieftain Gear, Jewels & Flasks (PoE Keepers of the Flame)

Summary

Cap your Elemental Resistances and get the attributes your gems require to make sure you can use them all. There are a few unique item options, however the remaining pieces should be Rare with Life and of course any lacking attributes/resistances.

My quick list recommended approach for this build would then be:

Gearing

Item Slot	Item Name	Rarity
Head	Life then Resistance/Attributes as needed. Include +1-2 Level of all Minion Skills +extra Skeleton/Zombie.	Rare
Amulet	The Jinxed Juju	Unique
Chest	Glorious Plate with Life and Resistances.	Rare
Gloves	Triad Grip	Unique
Boots	Titan Greaves with Movement Speed, Life, and Resistances.	Rare
Belt	Darkness Enthroned	Unique
Ring	1X Unset Ring	Rare
Ring	2X Bone Ring – This has to carry Elemental Resistances for the minions.	Rare
Weapon	Rebuke of the Vaal	Unique
Shield	Rise of the Phoenix	Unique

Armour Pieces

A lot of the higher budget examples can either be purchased or crafted, and when crafted we would strongly suggest utilizing Craft of Exile to determine the cheapest approach to crafting the desired items.

Helmet

We’re going to prefer a high armour base, such as Eternal Burgonet or better. In lower budgets our stat prio is simple, prioritize affixes as follows:

1: +2 to Level of all Minion Skill Gems
2: Maximum Life
3: Resistances of any kind

Body Armour

High armour base, preferably Glorious Plate or better. Same thing as the helmet, basic stat priority goes:

1: Armour
2: Maximum life
3: Resistances

Gloves

1. Triad Grip is our one and only option here. 4 red sockets.

Boots

High armour base, preferably Titan Greaves or better. Stat priority here is also simple.

1: Movement Speed
2: Maximum Life
3: Resistances

This slot is excellent at loading up Resistances, so try to prioritize them here to make stat budgets on rings easier.

Shield

For lower budgets our most efficient option here is without question Rise of the Phoenix.

+5% maximum all Resistance.
30% Fire Resistance, 15% Cold Resistance, 15% Lightning Resistance.
Decent Regen.
All around great item for a low price.

Belt

We’ll be using the unique: Darkness Enthroned as it scales the modifiers on socketed abyssal jewels inside of it by 50-100%!

Jewel Modifier Priority List

1. Life.
2. Increased x% Minion Damage, when you’ve used a minion skill recently.
3. Minion Accuracy to make sure your minions have 100% chance to hit (two jewels with 220 will do).
4. Added flat Physical (or Fire) Damage to your minions.
5. Minion Attack Speed.
6. Attributes and/or Resistances if needed.

Accessories

Amulet

1. The Jinxed Juju is the go-to selection for this slot. Alternatively a rare with life/attributes/res can be used, but Juju is preferable.

Rings

Bone Ring

This item must carry a “minions have increased elemental resistances” roll. This is extremely important and non-negotiable.
Other than that, it should carry Attributes, Life and a Resistance.

Unset Ring

Attributes, Life, Resistances. How much of each depends a bit on what you’re solving elsewhere. Rings are flexible, but try to budget more Attributes here and more Resistance on boots. It makes life easier.

Weapon

1. Rebuke of the Vaal Is our go-to recommendation for main hand here. This is a bit untraditional for a minion build, as most would use a Wand. Rallying Cry will grant our minions a massive portion of our main hand’s damage as base damage. The higher the main hand’s damage is, the higher the benefit. Rebuke is one of the highest flat damage weapons in the game. Get as good rolls as you can afford, but don’t spend a fortune on it.

Flasks

Flask set-ups are almost always a matter of personal taste when it comes to what utility flasks to use. However, we will list the set-up we’ve been using for a smooth play experience. To find the available list of modifiers the flasks can have, check out these links: Utility Flasks, Life Flasks, Mana Flasks, and lastly Hybrid Flasks.

The PoB is showcasing another flask set-up that works fine as well, again, this is mostly a matter of personal preference when it comes to the utility flasks.

1	“Seething” Divine Life Flask of	Instant life flask that also removes bleed effects from you
2	“ Rumi's Concoction	This flask gives us base armour and block.
3	“Transgressor”, “Masochist’s” or “Flaggelant’s” Basalt Flask of “Abalone”, “Tortoise”, “Pangolin” or “Armadillo”	The prefix modifier helps sustain the flask charges during map clearing & the flask provides increased physical damage mitigation whilst the suffix increase your armor significantly
4	“Transgressor”, “Masochist’s” or “Flaggelant’s” Amethyst Flask	Shores of Chaos resistance, the suffix can be whichever you feel like
5	“Seething” Divine Life Flask of	Instant life flask that also removes bleed effects from you

For help crafting your non-Unique flasks, we recommend checking out our Flask Crafting Guide.

Cluster Jewel

We want a medium cluster jewel as early as possible, specifically a Warcry cluster. Lead by Example is super important, as it grants us and the minions Onslaught. This helps them do damage, adds mobility for us and our minions, and it helps with our summoning speed for Animate Weapons. Do not sleep on this, it’s amazing. The second notable is more up in the air, but preferance is on Haunting Shout for Intimidate to help the Animated Weapons deal more damage.

Jewels

Every jewel slot we have except for the medium is taken up by Ghastly Eye jewels. We went over their stat prio earlier, but we’ll repeat it again.

1. Life.
2. Increased x% Minion Damage, when you’ve used a minion skill recently.
3. Minion Accuracy to make sure your minions have 100% chance to hit (two jewels with 220 will do).
4. Added flat Physical (or Fire) Damage to your minions.
5. Minion Attack Speed.
6. Attributes and/or Resistances if needed.

Ideally one of them should have the affix “Minions have #% chance to Taunt on Hit with Attacks”.