GhazzyTV's Chains Of Command Necromancer Pob, Passive Skill Tree & Gem links (PoE Settles of Kalguur)

Important PoB Notes

All my guides use Path of Building. We have a simple guide for you that shows how to import my build into Path of Building, you can find the guide here

• Here’s the low budget PoB including gear information for the Animate Guardian : https://pobb.in/xkPwUA9zaUWg
• The medium budget PoB can be found here: https://pobb.in/-R7q0_BhtVMq
• The High Budget PoB is Gone. Due to Voidforge spiking to high heaven, it no longer performed adequately to the risk involved in it. As such we suggest you stop playing chains around the medium budget mark.

Leveling Progression

Due to the fact that this build cannot be played without meeting the prerequisites stated in the disclaimer, I recommend levelling with an Absolution style tree.

Depending on if you’re playing Hardcore or Softcore, you will have to adjust your route depending on the quality of gear you’re able to obtain. For example, if you have lots of Life and Resistance from drops you get during the Acts, you can focus on taking damage-providing nodes over the defensive ones and vice versa. The links below are trees that should fit in almost any situation, no matter the drop RNG.

Masteries

A lot of the masteries available come down to a matter of personal preference but some are more or less mandatory.

Life Mastery: It’s important to pick up the “+50 to maximum life.” This mastery should be picked up as soon as possible.
Minion Offence Mastery: We will benefit a lot from the “20% increased effect of Offerings” for our minions.
Minion Defence Mastery: Allows our minions to leech damage dealt, giving them more survivability.
Minion Defence Mastery: Giving our Weapons and Animate Guardian a tiny bit more elemental resistance will help with their survivability.
Minion Defence Mastery: Letting our dying and replaced weapons fuel the AG, keeps both him and the sword army safer.
Mana Mastery: Reducing Mana reservation to make our auras available.
Flask Mastery: To sustain our weapons we need passive charges for our Writhing Jar flasks, this mastery helps achieve that.

Leveling Gems & Links

The initial page in this guide goes through different leveling strategies, but we highly recommend going for the Absolution style levelling.

Amulet Anointment

In my opinion, the only option for anointment is the Replenishing Remedies node, this requires the following oils: 1x Sepia Oil, 1x Amber Oil & 1x Indigo Oil.

End Game Gem Links

6-Socket Animate Weapon support gems in Chains Of Command for solid damage output.

We naturally get splash from the Chains Of Command so we can completely focus on scaling the damage aspect of the skill. As we are a mapping build, we display the mapping setup.

1. Minion Damage Support
2. Multistrike Support
3. Fresh Meat Support (This swaps out for Predator Support against bosses)
4. Ruthless Support
5. Increased Critical Strikes Support
6. Increased Critical Damage Support

3-Link Trigger

This setup is best used with a bench-crafted weapon for the modifier “Trigger socketed spells when you use a skill.” This is to automate the Flesh Offering buff for our minions and ourselves. We also have a Desecrate to enable corpses for our Offering spell. We do link these 2 with a low level Lifetap support as we are going to minimize the pressure we have on our Mana-pool.

1. Desecrate (Level 1)
2. Bone Offering
3. Lifetap Support (Level 1)

1S-Casting Curse. This is the curse we actually cast, which automates the other through the gloves.

1. Assassin's Mark

2L Precision and Arrogance.

1. Precision
2. Arrogance Support

3S Auras. These are all unlinked 1S standalone skills. Place them wherever they fit.

1. Determination
2. Purity of Elements
3. Tempest Shield

3L Shield Charge

1. Shield Charge
2. Faster Attacks Support
3. Lifetap Support

1S Glove Curse. This curse needs to be socketed in the gloves, in order to be automatically cast.

1. Elemental Weakness

1S Mobility – Flame dash. We use this mostly to cover ledges and traverse other obstacles.

1. Flame Dash

4-Link Animate Guardian

Since this build is based entirely around AG, we really do not want him to die. We also cannot run other support minions to provide Feeding Frenzy to the blades. As such our get setup for AG is double defensive gems and FF.
For a full in-depth guide of how the Animate Guardian works you can check this guide out here.

1. Animate Guardian
2. Minion Life Support
3. Meat Shield Support
   # Feeding Frenzy Support