Shock Naue Entertainment News: Mastering the Chaos Animate Weapon of Ranged Arms Necromancer Build in Path of Exile

Welcome to Shock Naue Entertainment News, where we dive deep into the most electrifying aspects of gaming. Today, we’re exploring a powerful and popular build in Path of Exile: the Chaos Animate Weapon Necromancer utilizing the Animate Weapon Of Ranged Arms transfigured gem. This guide outlines the core principles, advantages, and resources for piloting this minion build, known for its exceptional single-target damage, especially against bosses.

Build Fundamentals: The Ranged Blade Army

The cornerstone of this Path of Exile build is the Animate Weapon Of Ranged Arms skill. Unlike its melee counterpart, this transfigured gem animates Lingering Blades (typically created by skills like Bladefall) into temporary minions that attack enemies from a distance. These ranged minions boast a long duration (around 85 seconds), making them semi-permanent allies. Their damage scales effectively with standard minion modifiers such as flat added physical and chaos damage, attack speed, critical strike chance, and gem levels.

Chaos Animate Weapon Necromancer minions attacking enemies

Class and Ascendancy Choice

The Necromancer Ascendancy is the definitive choice for an animate weapon of ranged arms build in Path of Exile. Key passive nodes from the Necromancer tree significantly bolster the build’s performance:

• Commander of Darkness: Provides flat added damage, attack speed, and cast speed to minions, along with elemental resistances.
• Mindless Aggression: Grants increased minion damage, movement speed, and attack/cast speed.
• Mistress of Sacrifice: Allows your Offerings to apply to you, offering significant defensive and utility benefits.
• Unnatural Strength or Bone Barrier: Depending on your focus, you can choose Unnatural Strength for additional skill gem levels and damage or Bone Barrier for enhanced minion and player survivability and skill effect duration.

Bandit and Pantheon Strategy

For optimal passive points to strengthen your animate weapon of ranged arms Necromancer, it is recommended to kill all bandits.

Pantheon choices offer crucial defensive layers:

• Soul of the Brine King: Grants immunity to freeze and reduces the effect of chill. This is essential for avoiding crowd control.
• Soul of Abberath: Provides immunity to burning ground and reduced ignite duration, particularly useful for the Energy Shield (ES) based version of the build.
• For Life-based versions, Soul of Ryslatha is preferred over Soul of Abberath, granting increased flask charges gained and enhanced life flask recovery when on low life.

Leveling Your Ranged Animate Weapon Necromancer

The melee version of the Animate Weapon skill gem becomes available relatively early (Act 1). However, it’s typically used more effectively with Unleash Support from Act 4 onwards. For smoother leveling before acquiring the animate weapon of ranged arms transfigured gem (which is obtained from the Labyrinth or trading), many players find it easier to level with other strong minion skills like Absolution or Summon Raging Spirits (SRS). The ranged gem fundamentally changes the playstyle and potential of the build.

Build Advantages and Considerations

Every build has its strengths and weaknesses. For the Chaos animate weapon of ranged arms Necromancer:

Pros:

• Exceptional recovery through leech (up to 8k/s Life or 12.5k/s ES), often instant.
• Outstanding single-target damage, making it a premier bosser even without Vaal Animate Weapon active.
• Vaal Animate Weapon further amplifies damage significantly.
• Highly aggressive minions that prioritize attacking foes.
• Ranged minions that follow the player and can be easily repositioned with Convocation.
• Semi-permanent minions due to their long duration.

Cons:

• Animating a full army takes time, especially in high-budget ES versions without Unleash.
• Temporary minions like animated weapons disappear upon zoning (including death), making re-entering challenging encounters risky.
• Vaal Animate Weapon summons melee weapons, which aren’t fully supported by ranged-specific support gems like Pierce.

Gear, Passive Tree, Spectres, and Agent

Detailed information regarding optimal gear setups, the passive skill tree progression, recommended Spectres, and the Agent Golem (AG) setup is crucial for maximizing the build’s potential.

• Passive Tree: The build relies on specific nodes to amplify minion damage, survivability, and player defenses.
• Spectres: Recommended Spectres like Carnage Chieftain (Act 7), Host Chieftain (Act 6), Pale Seraphim (Beyond demons), and Arena Master (Warlord maps) provide valuable charges, debuffs, and buffs.
• Agent Golem: The gear and setup for your Agent Golem vary significantly based on your budget.

Comprehensive details for these elements, including specific items and passive point allocations, are best explored through external resources like Path of Building (PoB) links and dedicated video guides. [internal_links]

Build Resources

To fully explore and implement the Chaos animate weapon of ranged arms Necromancer build, consult the following resources:

• Build Showcase and Guide Video: A detailed video guide showcasing the build’s capabilities (including Uber bossing) and covering different investment levels (2, 50, 300 Divine Orbs) for the ES based version.
  https://youtu.be/zIK16KjyaNw
• Path of Building (PoB) Links: Explore detailed configurations for various budget levels and versions:
  • Low Budget Chaos rAW Necromancer: https://pobb.in/eIWYZNqC1GYT
  • Medium Budget Chaos rAW Necromancer: https://pobb.in/TcgpMXE2G7Wl (Life Based)
  • Medium Budget Chaos rAW Necromancer: https://pobb.in/Jhf7WrMaWs6I (ES based)
  • High Budget Chaos rAW Necromancer: https://pobb.in/GuAAu9N-dceY (Life Based)
  • High Budget Chaos rAW Necromancer: https://pobb.in/fYtM-dIwaV4Y (ES based)
  • High Budget Chaos rAW Necromancer (3.23 version): https://pobb.in/_ToPrlpYWPf6

Additional content, including crafting guides for key items and leveling progression tips for the campaign and atlas, can often be found linked within the description of the video guide and the Low Budget PoB notes.

Enjoy mastering the power of your ranged blade army!