Cremation Necromancer Archmage Full Build Guide - Path of Exile 3.13 - Feared Viable SSF Boss Killer
390This super tank witch Build stacks mana for offence and defense to kill all endgame bosses. On a budget or even solo-selffound this character is all content viable including Uber Elder, Awakener A8, The Feared Invitation and T16 maps. Necromancer is a fantastic Ascendancy choice for this build with the corpse related buffs, mana sustain and block capabilities.
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Path of Building Link for this character:
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Early League version of the build:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GXL1vtGgYQ
Video Explanation Memes of the Fortify, General's and Vigil Setup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91oDYm3GaQ
Open the Build link with this programm to view the build:
https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity
PoE profile to look at characters directly: https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/yojimoji/characters
Written Info to look up stuff:
negative aspects of this build:
The build maps rather slowly, the clear is servicable but nothing amazing
The playstyle is quite similar to a totem build as in your damage comes out of a stationary spot and there is a limit of 3 vulcanos at a time. But the vulcanos at least cannot be killed by enemies and you can leech off of their damage as it is your damage ... but you also die to reflect. I succesfully did Maven assisted Uber Atziri but you have to be extremely careful during the split phase and use concentrated effect to not accidentaly hit the reflect clone holding the mirror.
The Racecourse map boss and the cold general in Uber Lab are scary too
The build uses a lot of buttons.
Lastly for a Solo Selffound build you actually need comparatively decent gear to scale the damage into endgame. This is not one of those "zero gear do all content builds". If you want an Archmage Cremation variant that does better on less gear but does not scale as tanky and versatile into the late endgame, look at Hierophant.
We will go over main and secondary skill gems setups,
gear of the character and some advice on rare items and uniques,
ascendancy nodes, passive tree and jewels
a rough leveling outline for the character
bandit quest reward and pantheon
and the MTX I am using
Main Gem Setup:
Desecrate for corpses Faster Casting + Spell Cascade to summon more corpses
Cremation
Archmage (Mana BTW)
Lightning Penetration (vs Ele Pen)
Intensify (vs Conc Effect)
Pinpoint (standstill casting important, snapshots, worth it imo vs GMP)
Ele Focus (many small hits, no relevant shocks or ignites
Side Setups
No Auras, can use low level clarity or low level vitality if you have relevant watchers eye mods.
Not a fan of Essence Wyrm but you can fit it in if you want to. I prefer mana scaling rings.
Trigger Wand:
Bone Offering to use with Mistress of Sacrifice for Block
Snipers Mark: Damage + Mana and Life Flask Charges
Wave of Conviction for the occational Lightning Exposure debuff on enemy lightning resist
Vigil Jewel + General's Cry and Vigilant strike: 38 second fortify duration on warcry use
Sigil of Power: Amazing offense and Defense, use on bosses and difficult enemies
Enduring Cry for extra life regen bursts and endurance charges for physical mitigation and to prevent Agnostic mana drain for sticky situations especially with a lot of degen.
Arcane Cloak: I prefer manually activating this and having control over when it is up.
Smoke Mine, second wind versus Unwavering Stance, use ONE not both
stun did not seem too big of an issue though, Brineking Pantheon helps
Flame dash more reliable for dodging boss moves etc than smoke mine
For Ascendancy Ascendancy order:
Essence Glutton or Plaguebringer First
The other one second (unless in HC where you can take Mistress of Sacrifice first for block)
Then take whatever else third and the fourth one last, does not really matter too much.
I took Corpse Pact third and Mistress last and just endured being squishy until I got my uber lab.
Thread of Hope is the first thing to cut out of the build if you need to save passive points and resists.
Also you can unspect the three point jewel next to agnostic. This is only really high level stuff.
Gearing the Build: See PoB or my profile and video
Helmet Enchants: AC extra mana spent, Cremation extra vulcano, snipers mark curse effect, bone offering attack block ... many options
Timestamps:
0:00 Yoji bragging about build
1:53 Downsides of the Build
4:00 Table of Content
4:21 Main Skill Gems
8:40 Gearing Uniques and Rares
21:21 Supportive Gem Setups
25:57 MTX Showcase
30:24 Ascendancy
32:00 Passive Tree and Leveling
35:35 Jewels
36:17 Pantheon, Bandits, Outro
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