GhazzyTV's Soulwrest Necromancer PoB, Passive Skill Tree & Gem Links

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December 6th, 2023, 13:40

Important PoB Notes

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End Game PoB & Passive Skill Tree

This build is extremely straightforward tree-wise. Budget-friendly versions include 0 Cluster Jewels, due to how volatile they are in terms of crafting difficulty and due to how expensive they can be. If you’re looking for that super juiced-up approach, I’d recommend checking out this High Budget version.

This low budget PoB covers LvLing trees, skill-sets for the campaign and finishes you with the end-game gear you’re expected to have whilst keeping the cost down hard: https://pobb.in/N8aAouSgvFpN

Once the skill-tree is finished, just focus entirely on more jewel sockets or cluster jewels, if you can afford it.

Leveling Progression

Depending on if you’re playing Hardcore or Softcore, you will have to adjust your routing based on how good the gear you find is. An example is that if you have lots of Life & Resistance from drops you get during the Acts, you can focus on taking the 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 comes down to a matter of personal preference but some are more or less mandatory.

Life Mastery: “+50 to maximum life” should be picked up when you get to the first life mastery cluster
Minion Defence Mastery: “Convocation has 40% increased cooldown recovery rate” having a faster cooldown of Convocation helps speed up our clearing significantly.
Minion Offence Mastery: “20% increased effect of offerings” this is a BIG mastery node providing tons of extra block with Bone Offering and if you run Flesh Offering this provides a ton of extra damage output
Reservation Mastery: “Auras from your skills have 10% increased effect on you” Most of our auras are defensive ones so this helps scale that efficiency.
Staff Mastery: “Recover 2% of Energy Shield when you block spell damage / 2% life when you block an attack while wielding a staff” Simple sustain assistance when we are blocking incoming damage sources.
Chaos Mastery: “5% chance when you inflict withered to inflict up to 15 withered debuffs instead” Since we are applying Wither via a Spell Totem set-up this node can help smack those 15 stacks up instantly rather than waiting for it to ramp up.

Amulet Anointment

Gravepact is optimal for clearing which requires 1x Azure Oil & 2x Black Oils.

End Game Gem Links

6-SOCKET Soulwrest

The beautiful thing with with this staff is that the sockets don’t need to be linked to function; all you need is to make sure it’s 6-socketed. We will be utilizing the Summon Phantasm Support in these sockets, which might seem weird since the staff itself already has the modifier “Trigger Level 20 Summon Phantasm Skill when you Consume a Corpse”. However, when you add that support gem you can get 10 or even 11 additional Phantasms on top of the baseline 10 Phantasms (11 if the support gem is level 21), allowing you to get 20-21 Phantasms instead of 10.

Summon Phantasm Support
Minion Damage Support
Chance to Poison Support
Unbound Ailments Support
Predator Support (Switch with Minion Speed Support for better clearing)
Void Manipulation Support (Switch with Greater Multiple Projectiles Support for better clearing)

3-Link / 3-Link Utility Minions

Your body armour piece shouldn’t be 6-linked, IF it can be avoided, and instead go for 2× 3-links, which will allow you to utilize some cool mechanics for your utility minions. I usually want to put the Animate Guardian together with the spectres to give both Minion Life and let the Stone Golem & Raise Zombie utilize the Feeding Frenzy by themselves.

For a full in-depth guide on the AG I’d strongly recommend checking this written guide out: https://www.poe-vault.com/guides/ghazzys-animate-guardian-gearing-guide

If you’re uncertain how to summon your specters, please check out this brief video:

Spectres can be a bit tricky to understand and how to utilize them, I’ve made a global channel in-game which you can access by typing “/global 6666” and in there you can ask me or anyone else in our community for spectres or help with questions! This build will be using 2 spectres and the first one comes from Drox influenced conqueror maps and is named Arena Master it will buff you & your army for 4 seconds with 20% increased damage, cast & attack speed but also make everyone take 20% increased damage. The cooldown is 8 seconds so it is not a permanent buff. Second spectre comes from the Scourge/Beyond league mechanic and is called Pale Seraphim it has the same duration & cooldown as the Arena Master however, this bad boy applies a debuff on the enemies making them take 15% increased damage.

3-Link Spectres & AG

h4.3-Link Golem & Zombie

Both offensive & defensive auras are described here. It is VERY important that you do NOT link the defensive auras with Generosity or it will no longer apply to us. However, we do want it linked to the offensive aura since we are not the ones doing the damage, our minions are.
The two 1-Socket links here can go wherever, as long as they are not linked to Generosity.

2-Link

Malevolence

Generosity Support

1-Socket

Determination

1-Socket

Defiance Banner

4-Link Utility

These links are meant to get our phantasms summoned as well as putting up a curse against bosses:

Faster Casting Support
Sniper's Mark
Desecrate (Can keep this at level 1 to lower mana cost)
Bone Offering

3-Link Wither Totems

Standard wither totem set-up.

1-Link Mobility

It is where important that this gem is NOT linked to the spell totem support from earlier, as it will make the flame dash cast by the totem, and not you. This would mean it no longer functions.