GhazzyTV's Animate Weapon Chieftain, PoB Passive Skill Tree & Gem Links (PoE Mirage)

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Important PoB Notes

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End Game PoB & Passive Skill Tree

Animate Weapon Chieftain Low Budget PoB

This is the League Starter version of AW Chief that you use for the campaign and early mapping. You can find the PoB here: https://pobb.in/AJzPmOha4ZEf

You can level your chieftain as whichever Marauder league starter you prefer and respec later. If you don’t have a preference, we have a slam setup in the PoB for you to use.

Animate Weapon Chieftain Medium/High/Mirror Budget PoB

There are loadouts for the various progression steps throughout this PoB. You can find the PoB here: https://pobb.in/wosHydAU-onR

Levelling Progression

For progression, see the trees in the attached PoB.

End Game Gem Links

As both ranged and melee Animate Weapons are options, we’ll be adding both setups to this written guide. Only use one of them, as you only have a single six link.

6 – Link Animate Weapon – Melee

  1. Animate Weapon Animate Weapon
  2. Minion Damage Support Minion Damage Support
  3. Fire Penetration Support Fire Penetration Support
  4. Elemental Damage with Attacks Support Elemental Damage with Attacks Support
  5. Melee Physical Damage Support Melee Physical Damage Support
  6. Multistrike Support Multistrike Support (swap this for Melee Splash Support Melee Splash Support while clearing)

6 – Link Animate Weapon Ranged

  1. Animate Weapon of Ranged Arms Animate Weapon of Ranged Arms
  2. Minion Damage Support Minion Damage Support
  3. Elemental Damage with Attacks Support Elemental Damage with Attacks Support
  4. Faster Attacks Support Faster Attacks Support
  5. Elemental Focus Support Elemental Focus Support
  6. Vicious Projectiles Support Vicious Projectiles Support (swap this for Fork Support Fork Support while clearing)

3 – Link Convocation/Golem/Feeding Frenzy

  1. Summon Chaos Golem Summon Chaos Golem
  2. Feeding Frenzy Support Feeding Frenzy Support
  3. Convocation Convocation

3 – Link Arcanist Brand/Desecrate/Spirit Offering

  1. Arcanist Brand Arcanist Brand
  2. Desecrate Desecrate
  3. Spirit Offering Spirit Offering

1 – Socket Mobility

  1. Frostblink Frostblink

4 – Link Warcries

  1. Enduring Cry Enduring Cry
  2. Rallying Cry Rallying Cry
  3. Infernal Cry Infernal Cry
  4. Urgent Orders Support Urgent Orders Support

2 – Link Purity of Elements

  1. Purity of Elements Purity of Elements
  2. Eternal Blessing Support Eternal Blessing Support

2 – Link Bladefall

  1. Bladefall Bladefall
  2. Spell Cascade Support Spell Cascade Support

1 – Socket Curse

  1. Elemental Weakness Elemental Weakness

3 – Link Spectre/Animate Guardian

  1. Raise Spectre Raise Spectre
  2. Animate Guardian Animate Guardian
  3. Minion Life Support Minion Life Support

The Animate Guardian is a bit tricky, and we would strongly recommend watching the initial video for this build guide as well as this in-depth guide for the Animate Guardian: https://www.poe-vault.com/guides/ghazzys-animate-guardian-gearing-guide. For details regarding this build’s Animate Guardian, see the PoB and the dedicated page in this guide.

League content, Coins

With the arrival of the endgame rework in 3.28, we got a new currency, coins.
Three of them allow us to imbue gems with level 1 versions of support gems, intelligence, dexterity and strength related respectively to their types of coins.
Some of these will open up options for builds to offload their worst supports, and for some builds, the level modifiers are still too strong. You’re probably wondering which coins are relevant to this specific build, so let’s talk about that.
The first, and perhaps most important thing to note, is that this system has a lot of RnG involved. It’s random which possible support gem from the respective colours list you get. It is going to take a lot of attempts to hit the correct gem, and it will get expensive. As a result, coins are, in our opinion, a relatively late addition to most builds, as the cost is prohibitive.
With that out of the way, let’s talk about coins specific to this build.

For our main gem, it’s a bit of a balancing act. Animate Weapon’s main issue is their low life total, and dropping a level makes this problem worse. That said, there are a few supports that are quite incredible in terms of raw damage output here, and you’ll have to make a decision based on preference.
  1. Increased Critical Strikes Support Increased Critical Strikes Support is almost 17% increased damage. If your sword’s survivability feels okay with it, it’s a massive damage bump. If your primary content is bosses, I would suggest this. If you mostly map, I would suggest you avoid it and go for 21.
    Another thing to remember here is that coins and vaal are mutually exclusive, so you never get to use vaal swords with the gem. What you prefer here is entirely up to you.
    Alternatively, you can imbue Melee Splash Support Melee Splash Support to no longer have to do a gemswap. This would probably be my personal solution, as I’m not a huge fan of having to do them when I can avoid it. Once again, entirely up to you.

As for Raise Spectre Raise Spectre, you can imbue them with Feeding Frenzy Support Feeding Frenzy Support to open up an extra link in the support spectre link. Fill this open gem with Empower Support Empower Support to make the support minions tankier.

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