GhazzyTV's Soulwrest Necromancer Ascendancy, Bandits & Pantheon Powers
Ascendancy
The most optimal way to play this build leaves very little 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 tied to the way you need to travel to access them).
- Mindless Aggression
- Unnatural Strength
- Mistress of Sacrifice
- Bone Barrier
Mindless Aggression
Mindless Aggression is the first node for this build, not for what the node provides per se, but because it is the node you are forced to take to reach Unnatural Strength. However, this node does provide a lot of power for your build by increasing Minion damage, attack/cast speed, as well as their movement speed.
Unnatural Strength
Unnatural Strength is a really strong modifier for this build as it gives our minions Unholy Might which grants them 30% of their physical damage as extra chaos damage.
Mistress of Sacrifice
Mistress of Sacrifice is a beautiful node: it helps the Phantasms duration by a LOT, and it also makes it so that the 
Bone Offering affects us as well to get a LOT of extra block chance!
Bone Barrier
Bone Barrier helps mitigate a lot of damage not just for us but for our minions as well.
Bandits
As with most summoner builds, you will kill all of the bandits, as they provide no significant gains worthy of losing the skill points for.
Pantheon
As with most builds these comes down to a matter of personal taste. I for one, love adding the upgraded Brine King Major God upgraded to avoid being frozen, as I can then completely ignore that risk in maps when I have an army of minions at my command.
I tend to lean towards the Shakari Minor God pantheon to mitigate Chaos Damage, as it is a resistance very few builds bother to even think about.
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