GhazzyTV's Animate Weapon Chieftain Build Guide (PoE Keepers of the Flame 3.27)
Introduction
This is a build created in collaboration with Lollash. He has the crazy ideas, I know minions, and occasionally we end up with a good end product. This is one of those times. If you want to play minions, and you’re tired of Necromancer and want to press more buttons, this might be the build for you.
With the introduction of the Bloodline Ascendancy options in 3.27 Keepers of the Flame, we finally get an uber lab! No more running two small nodes or taking the strength stacking node just to take something.
The one we will be looking at is the Bloodline for Farruls, First of the Plains.
Build Overview
In this section I will outline the pros, cons, and the general playstyle. This will allow you to determine if the build is for you or not!
Pros
+ Different – Warcries is not something most minion players have ever dabbled in.
+ Active playstyle – For a minion build, this has a very active playstyle. There are a lot of buttons to press here.
+ Comfy – While it has some buttons, it has a pretty comfy playstyle.
Cons
– Button intensive – We’re pressing Bladefall for blades, summoning Animate Weapons, pressing our Warcries manually and… yeah. It’s a lot of buttons.
– Active playstyle – For a minion build, this has a very active playstyle.
– Animate Weapon – Due to how Animate Weapon works, and the need to Bladefall to be able to summon them at all, it is not everyone’s cup of tea.
Playstyle
The build makes use of Animate Weapons for its bread and butter damage. It also utilizes Spectres, a Golem, and Animate Guardian to round out its offensive and defensive package. We then throw Warcries into the mix to massively boost our armies damage output and life regen. As a bonus, we also get to benefit from this life regen!
It’s playstyle is pretty typical for an Animate Weapon build. We Bladefall 2-3 times at the start of the map, summon the Animate Weapons, and go. As you play through maps, you weave in a Bladefall here and there and summon new Weapons. Try to make sure you summon at most half at a time to ensure you don’t ever have them all time out at the same time. You then Warcry as you go to keep them buffed, and that’s pretty much all there is to it.
Damage Scaling And Defensive Layers
Damage scaling is, as previously mentioned, hard-carried by Warcries, specifically 
Rallying Cry. Due to how that works, the numerical values of our main hand weapon also scales the damage our summons are doing. Level modifiers to minions are huge for Animate Weapon.
Defensively, we scale some amount of maximum resistances, some armour, and endurance charges along with the minions taunting. We also have a pretty juicy regen courtesy of 
Enduring Cry.
PoB
For the PoB see the corresponding page
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 Resistance. |
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 |
Ascendancy, Bandits & Pantheon Recommendations
You can read about the recommended Ascendancy, Bandit choice, and Pantheon Power recommendations for this build on our dedicated page.
Levelling
As we’re a Chieftain dabbling in minions, it won’t be super comfortable to play minions from a super early point. As such, we suggest you level with 
Sunder.
See the low budget PoB for trees and details.
Questions?
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Final Notes
It is very crucial in a game like Path of Exile that you play the game the way you enjoy playing it. With that said, if you’ve made any tweaks to the build compared to what I’m showing in this guide, it would be great if you’d post it in our discord! It’s an effective way to show other approaches and it helps me grow as a build guide creator!
I hope you found the build guide useful and I wish you all many 
Divine Orb drops!
