GhazzyTV's Poison Animate Weapon Necromancer Ascendancy, Bandits & Pantheon Powers (PoE Settlers of Kalguur)
Ascendancy
The optimal way to play this build leaves very few choices when it comes to the Ascendancy nodes, which I will cover in this section of the guide.
My Preferred Set-Up
The ascendancy nodes are listed in order of importance and are presented in the path you’ll need to travel to access them.
- Unnatural Strength
- Mindless Aggression
- Mistress of Sacrifice
- Bone Barrier
Unnatural Strength
“Unnatural Strength – This converts all of our minions damage to chaos and causes the minions to inflict wither.
Mindless Aggression
Mindless Aggression is the second node for this build, not for what the node provides per se, but because it is a required prerequisite to reach Unnatural Strength. However, this node does provide a lot of power for your build by increasing your minions damage, attack speed, and movement speed.
Mistress of Sacrifice
Mistress of Sacrifice is a beautiful node: it increases the Animate Weapon duration substantially, and it also makes it so that 
Bone Offering affects both you and your weapons. This helps our defensive layers but also that of the minions.
Unnatural Strength
Unnatural Strength works perfectly in to this build as the node makes your minions deal 30% of their physical damage as extra chaos which is the type of damage we are scaling the most!
Bandits
As with most summoner builds, you will kill all of the bandits, as they provide no significant gains worthy of sacrificing the skill points.
Pantheon
As in most builds, Pantheon selection comes down to a matter of personal taste. Personally, I love adding the upgraded Brine King Major God to avoid being frozen, this combined with our Tempest Shield aura makes us immune to the 2 most deadly ailments we encounter in the game.
I tend to also lean towards the Shakari Minor God pantheon to mitigate Chaos Damage, which is a resistance very few builds bother to consider in lower budgets. The other option for minor gods is the Abberath one it helps a LOT with the only ailment we aren’t immune to: Ignite.
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