GhazzyTV's Animate Weapon Chieftain Build Guide (PoE Settlers of Kalguur 3.25)
Introduction
Once again, this is a cooperation build 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.
Build Overview
In this section I will outline the pros, cons, & the general play-style. 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 AW’s, pressing our warcries manually and… yeah. It’s a lot of buttons.
– Active playstyle For a minion build, this has a very active playstyle. There are a lot of buttons to press here.
– AW 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 it’s bread and butter damage. It also utilises 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 (we also get to benefit from this life regen!).
It’s playstyle is pretty typical for a AW build. We bladefall 2-3 times at the start of the map, summon the AW’s and go. As you play through maps, you wave in a bladefall here and there and summon new AW’s. 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 hardcarried by warcries, specifically 
Rallying Cry. Due to how that works, the numerical values of our mainhand weapon also scales the damage our boys are doing. Level modifiers to minions are huge for AW,
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.
End Game PoB & Passive Skill Tree
AW Chief 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/7Rcrv0-tGZvE
AW Chief Medium/High/Mirror Budget PoB
There’s loadouts for the various progression steps throughout this poB. You can find the PoB here: https://pobb.in/E1oHy81anftY
Gearing
| Item Slot | Item Name | Rarity |
|---|---|---|
| Head | Life then Res/Attributes as needed, also include +1-2 lvl of all minion skills +extra Skeleton/Zombie | Rare |
| Amulet |  The Jinxed Juju |
Unique |
| Chest |  Glorious Plate with Life and resists |
Rare |
| Gloves |  Triad Grip |
Unique |
| Boots |  Titan Greaves with Movement speed, life, res |
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, I suggest you level with 
Sunder.
See the low budget Pob for trees and details.
Questions?
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Final Notes
As much as I love making build guides, 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 I would love if you’d posted it in my 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!
