Zero to Hero AFK only - Chains of Command Necromancer POE1 — Transcript

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1. 0:01Hello guys, welcome to a special journey  with my Necromancer Animate Weapon build.
2. 0:05Zero to Hero doing only AFK farming strategies  such as Blight, Ultimatum, and Simulacrum.
3. 0:12This video is actually a practice  run for my 3.30 league starter.
4. 0:16The idea came from the fact that I'll be very,  very busy over the next two months, Ha.
5. 0:22So I had a question: is there  any league starter build that
6. 0:25can get me AFK farming as soon as possible?
7. 0:28On top of that, can it also handle any content, so  I won’t be affected by nerfs to any farming strat?
8. 0:36So I try levelling my build entirely  around AFK strats. More specifically,
9. 0:41I wanted to start AFK farming  right after the campaign.
10. 0:46Also wanted to know how quickly I could  get this build to the point where it can
11. 0:50farm Simulacrum, because that’s one  of my favourite types of content.
12. 0:55I have a plan, but will it  work? Yeah... we’ll see.
13. 0:58Now, let’s start.
14. 0:59I started a Witch
15. 1:01character using Freezing Pulse and SRS.
16. 1:04Then I switched to Absolution  near the end of Act 1.
17. 1:08Whenever I found a Vaal Orb  or a Corrupted Altar in Act 2,
18. 1:12I used it on my Absolution gem  to try to get Vaal Absolution.
19. 1:17Luckily, I got one on my first try.
20. 1:20This Vaal Absolution carried me  smoothly through the campaign.
21. 1:27And in Act 3, remember to  keep levelling an Animate
22. 1:30Guardian gem. We’ll use it after the campaign.
23. 1:34For my first lab, I chose Commander of Darkness.
24. 1:43That wasn’t in the plan.
25. 1:48Yeah, before killing Kitava, I  finished my second and third labs too.
26. 1:55I also respecced Commander of Darkness into  the Unnatural Strength and Bone Barrier nodes.
27. 2:03By the way, if you didn’t get a Divine  Orb during the campaign, running Labs with
28. 2:08Transfigured Gems at league start is actually  a good way to make some early currency.
29. 2:14...I just never have any luck doing this.
30. 2:18After completing the campaign  in record time for me,
31. 2:21I wanted to jump straight into my  first AFK strat: Blighted Maps.
32. 2:25But first, I had to unlock Blighted  Land by completing three maps.
33. 2:37I’m starting to like this character
34. 2:39Blighted Land is unlocked, so...  it’s time to switch the build.
35. 2:41I need three unique items to start AFK farming.
36. 2:44Chains of Command for the body armour,
37. 2:46a Terminus Est Tiger Sword,
38. 2:49and a Writhing Jar flask. That’s all I need.
39. 2:53I made sure Chains of Command had six sockets.
40. 2:55All the Support Gems socketed in Chains  of Command can support our Animate Weapon.
41. 2:59They don’t have to be linked  actually. I just need six sockets.
42. 3:03Then I gave the Tiger Sword to my Guardian.
43. 3:07That’s all set. The passive tree  is the same as my Absolution setup,
44. 3:12so I didn’t have to change anything.
45. 3:14Here’s my gear now. It’s the  minimum gear I need to get started.
46. 3:20Then I bought a Tier 1  Blighted Map for one Chaos Orb.
47. 3:24The Oils you use to anoint a low-tier map don’t  really matter, so just use whatever Oils you have.
48. 3:31Yeah, my first Blighted Map!  The AFK journey finally starts.
49. 3:36For safety, I’ll build some Stun and Freeze  Towers on every lane. Then I can just chill.
50. 3:44But my gear is actually really bad right now,  and I still have negative resistances. Ha.
51. 3:49So I still need to keep an eye on things.
52. 3:53Let’s quickly talk about the build.  It’s a Necromancer Animate Weapon build.
53. 3:57Whenever your Animate Guardian kills an enemy,
54. 4:00it automatically creates an Animated Weapon,  so it’s basically a zero-button playstyle.
55. 4:06The biggest reason Animate Weapon  works so well for AFK farming is
56. 4:10that the weapons are aggressive by default.
57. 4:13They can search for enemies off-screen, which  is an irreplaceable advantage for AFK farming.
58. 4:20Animate Weapon also has a very unique  damage-scaling system compared to other minions.
59. 4:26Its base damage comes from the weapon your  Guardian uses, not from the gem level.
60. 4:31So, with a one-Chaos weapon on my Guardian,
61. 4:34my Animated Weapons can already  deal millions of damage.
62. 4:38It’s just... stupidly strong early in the game.
63. 4:42The Necromancer Ascendancy  also plays an important role.
64. 4:45Unnatural Strength converts all damage  to chaos and applies Wither on hit,
65. 4:50which literally doubles the damage.
66. 4:53Bone Barrier gives me life leech from  my minions. It’s the last piece we need,
67. 4:58and the baseline for face-tanking  all the damage while AFK.
68. 5:02Yeah, my first Blighted Map is done.
69. 5:05The biggest advantage of Blighted Maps is that  they do NOT rely on ANY Atlas progression.
70. 5:12So yeah, you don’t actually have to  clear the Atlas or get any Voidstones.
71. 5:16its also a big advantage in Day1.
72. 5:19The rewards are only affected by the map tier.
73. 5:23Blight drops a lot of Oils and bubblegum currency,  which are also very good to sell at league start.
74. 5:29So farming Blighted Maps on Day  1 is a really good strategy.
75. 5:36After a few maps, I had saved up  some currency and reached level 73,
76. 5:40so it was time for some upgrades.
77. 5:43An Ancient Skull. Try to find one  with a lower Minion Life penalty.
78. 5:48And two Foulborn Severed in Sleep  daggers with 5% Minion Crit Chance.
79. 5:53Severed in Sleep grants the Envy  Aura, which provides a lot of flat
80. 5:57chaos damage. Socketing Generosity Support  with it can increase the effect of Envy.
81. 6:04I also got a Hyrri’s Truth for the  Precision Aura and to help fix my
82. 6:09Dexterity, so I can use a high-level Haste Aura.
83. 6:12A Belt of the Deceiver to Intimidate enemies and
84. 6:16reduce the extra damage I  take from critical strikes.
85. 6:20I also capped my chaos resistance  with my flask and gear,
86. 6:24because I want to face-tank the  poison balls and Caustic Ground.
87. 6:28Yeah, that’s all the upgrades for my character.
88. 6:31Next, let’s gear up our Guardian.
89. 6:34A Leer Cast for the 50% increased Damage Aura,
90. 6:38Gruthkul’s Pelt for 10% Life Regeneration,
91. 6:42and Kahuturoa’s Certainty to make  him unaffected by damaging Ailments.
92. 6:47Again, I gave them to my Guardian.
93. 6:50And that’s all set!
94. 6:53I’m keeping the glove slot empty  for the next upgrade phase.
95. 6:56With these upgrades, I want to  jump straight into red maps.
96. 7:00Golden Oils and Blight-Ravaged Maps  can drop from Tier 13 maps and higher.
97. 7:06From Tier 13 to Tier 16, the  maps have identical rewards.
98. 7:12And Tier 13 maps are much cheaper,
99. 7:15so I have no reason to run Tier 16 maps  actually. Just buying Tier 13 maps is fine.
100. 7:21I anoint the maps with x2 Teal Oils and x1 Crimson  Oil to save time and get some Lucky chests.
101. 7:30I also corrupt every map. My  build can handle any modifier,
102. 7:35including No Regeneration, so I just corrupt them.
103. 7:39The process is the same: build some Stun and  Freeze Towers at the beginning, then I can chill.
104. 8:07Yeah, that’s what I said. Tier 13 maps are  enough. Don’t waste money buying Tier 16 maps.
105. 8:13However, I want to make this build even lazier.
106. 8:16Building Towers on every lane isn’t lazy enough.
107. 8:19My goal is to AFK without building any  Towers. I’ve saved up some currency now,
108. 8:24so I can buy the core items for the next phase.
109. 8:28A Paradoxica with Attack Speed. For the prefix,
110. 8:31it can have either Chaos Penetration  or increased Weapon Damage.
111. 8:36Asenath’s Gentle Touch to provide  explosions and Curse on Hit.
112. 8:41Victario’s Charity to grant Power  Charges and Frenzy Charges to allies.
113. 8:47Again, I gave them to my Guardian.
114. 8:50I also got a Witchfire Brew
115. 8:53and enchanted my flasks to use  automatically when they reach full charges.
116. 8:59Next, Darkness Enthroned with  90% increased effect or higher,
117. 9:05and two Ghastly Eye Jewels with  Tier 1 added Physical Damage.
118. 9:09My minions are moving too slowly, so I also got  a Bone Ring with Tier 1 Minion Movement Speed.
119. 9:18Yeah, everything’s set. Let’s see how it works.
120. 9:34Yeah, that’s what I want. This  build currently has 20 million DPS,
121. 9:38which just about meets the threshold  for AFK farming without Towers.
122. 9:43Farming Blight without Towers  is so satisfying and lazy. Ha
123. 9:48However, since we corrupt every map, some  combinations of modifiers can be nasty.
124. 9:52So it’s better to build one or two Towers at the  beginning for safety before we leave the computer.
125. 9:58Let’s do more maps.
126. 10:18You know what? Never sell your stacked decks. Ha
127. 10:22Yeah... even though Blight is so rewarding, I’ve  been doing too much of it and I’m kind of tired.
128. 10:28It’s time to switch to another AFK farming strat.
129. 10:31I want to do Ultimatum next. It’s literally  a gear check for both DPS and defense.
130. 10:36Now I have enough damage, so  it’s time to fix my defense.
131. 10:41First, I need a shield with high Block  Chance. Physical Damage Reduction is a plus.
132. 10:47A Foulborn Soul Tether belt  with instant leech. It’s the
133. 10:51most important item for Ultimatum farming.
134. 10:54And The Anvil, for maximum Block Chance.
135. 10:58I’ll anoint it with As the Mountain  to get more maximum Block Chance.
136. 11:03I’ll drop Haste Aura and switch to Tempest  Shield, Flesh and Stone, and Arctic Armour.
137. 11:12I’ll also make some small changes to  the passive tree to cap my Block Chance,
138. 11:17get more maximum resistance, and  become immune to Corrupted Blood.
139. 11:23Next, I also need to make my AG tankier.
140. 11:26A Gravebind glove to trigger  my Animated Weapons more often,
141. 11:30and a Replica Victario’s Charity, which  provides Endurance Charges for all allies.
142. 11:36I also bought a Hateful Accuser  with higher Chaos Resistance,
143. 11:40because I need Penance Mark to sustain  my minions when killing the Trialmaster,
144. 11:46or pretty much any Pinnacle Boss.
145. 11:50I just noticed that I hadn’t done  my final lab yet, so I finished it,
146. 11:55and bought a Catarina ticket  because I need her bloodline.
147. 12:00mm .. another big money.
148. 12:11I need the bloodline for Prolonged Servitude.
149. 12:14And the final step is to prepare my flasks.
150. 12:17I use Ruby and Topaz Flasks for  more Fire and Lightning Resistance,
151. 12:21because Ultimatum has Fireballs and  Lightning Storms that I need to face-tank.
152. 12:30I also crafted the “Gain Charges when  you are Hit” prefix on all my flasks,
153. 12:32so I can keep them up in any situation.
154. 12:35That’s almost ready.
155. 12:38I think it should be tanky  enough. Let’s give it a try.
156. 12:41I usually run Ultimatum with one Bribing Scarab,  one Inscribed Scarab, and a white Tier 16 map.
157. 12:50Ultimatum doesn’t require Voidstones, but it does  require about 50 points on the Atlas Passive Tree.
158. 12:58I prefer running City Square. After entering  the map, I just rush to find the Ultimatum.
159. 13:04When you’re doing Ultimatum, you get  hit very often. Life Leech from the
160. 13:08Necromancer Ascendancy is very powerful,  so we just need to avoid getting one-shot.
161. 13:14For my Pantheon, I use Lunaris and Tukohama for  extra physical and elemental damage reduction.
162. 13:21Also, this build is still low-budget,  so the defenses aren’t perfect yet.
163. 13:25There are six modifiers that  are very dangerous for me.
164. 13:31I’ll need Mageblood to deal with  these modifiers in the future,
165. 13:34so for now, I’ll just skip them to stay safe.
166. 13:37The rest of the modifiers are easy.
167. 14:01I failed 2 maps out of 10. I feel like I’m  tanky, but I’m not killing enemies fast enough.
168. 14:08Sometimes my Animated Weapons just expire,  which puts me in an awkward situation.
169. 14:14Well, upgrading the damage should fix it.
170. 14:17Uul-Netol’s Vow and anoint it with As the  Mountain to get more maximum block chance.
171. 14:23It gives my Animate Weapon an extra linked  Support Gem, which is a huge DPS boost.
172. 14:29And I use Increased Critical Strikes  Support. Now, back to Ultimatum.
173. 14:47Yeah, this time it went more smoothly.  My survivability actually improved.
174. 14:52More damage also means more consistent life leech. The best defense is a good offense.
175. 14:59After running so many maps,  I got quite a few Inscribed
176. 15:01Ultimatums. Unfortunately, only a  few of them had Divine Orb rewards.
177. 15:07For the rest, you can sell  five Inscribed Ultimatums
178. 15:10of the same rarity to a vendor to get a new one.
179. 15:14The amount of “more Monster Life” shows  the Inscribed Ultimatum’s rarity tier.
180. 15:19There are four tiers: 30%, 70%, 120%, and 200%.
181. 15:25If an Inscribed Ultimatum doesn’t  have a “more Monster Life” modifier,
182. 15:29that’s a trash. Don’t pick it up.
183. 15:32I prefer running the Inscribed  Ultimatums myself. It’s exciting,
184. 15:36and I can actually make a lot of Divine Orbs.
185. 15:39But if your character isn’t strong  enough, I suggest selling them.
186. 15:47I’m getting a little tired of Ultimatum again.
187. 15:50Now I have enough currency for more upgrades,
188. 15:53so I want to move on to the  next phase: farming Simulacrum.
189. 15:58This requires a huge upgrade.
190. 16:00Let’s start by buying a Voidforge. It’s expensive,  but it’s the most important item for this build.
191. 16:07I used a Tempering Orb to roll its enchantment,  looking for a Physical modifier magnitude.
192. 16:13After upgrading to Voidforge,  I no longer deal chaos damage,
193. 16:17so I have to change some of my Support Gems.
194. 16:20I’ll put them in the PoB.
195. 16:24Let’s keep shopping.
196. 16:27A Minion Damage Cluster with Renewal, Vicious  Bite, and Raze and Pillage or Rotten Claw,
197. 16:34a Minion Life Cluster with Blessed  Rebirth and Life from Death,
198. 16:39and an Armour Cluster with Enduring Composure.
199. 16:43I also need more Ghastly Eye with Tier 1 added  Physical Damage. Voidforge multiplies that
200. 16:48Physical Damage by 8 times. So its important.
201. 16:51I’m also switching my belt back to  Darkness Enthroned for more Ghastly Eye.
202. 16:56I’m also upgrading my shield to Aegis Aurora.
203. 17:02Pair with a The Red Nightmare  jewel. I’ll socket it here,
204. 17:08then tattoo all the Strength  nodes to Fire Resistance.
205. 17:12The Red Nightmare grants the  Block Chance equal to 50% of
206. 17:15the Fire Resistance from passives in its radius.
207. 17:19This tech helps me cap my Block Chance.
208. 17:23That should be ready, let's try
209. 17:55Simulacrum.
210. 18:13Holy... I’m rich again.
211. 18:16But I’m not sure why this  implicit is so expensive.
212. 18:23Instant sell. I might have priced it too low.
213. 18:32Wait, what?
214. 18:33It’s my first death in Simulacrum. It looks  like I got one-shot by a critical strike.
215. 18:40Let’s fix it.
216. 18:43Chains of Command with an implicit that reduces  extra damage taken from critical strikes.
217. 18:48An Ancient Skull with +2 to Minion Gem  levels, to get our AG to level 23 for safety.
218. 18:56I also want to upgrade my  rings. They’re just too bad.
219. 19:01Let’s craft a good minion ring.
220. 19:03The first step is buying a fractured base  with a Tier 1 Minion Damage modifier.
221. 19:09Then roll Essences of Fear until  you hit Tier 1 Minion Attack Speed.
222. 19:17And an open suffix.
223. 19:21Then Craft “Suffixes Cannot Be Changed”  and use Harvest to reforge Chaos.
224. 19:29It’s guaranteed to get Chaos Resistance.  Tier 4... yeah... I’ll take it.
225. 19:37Craft “Suffixes Cannot Be Changed”  again, then use Harvest to reforge Life.
226. 19:44You can repeat this step until you  hit Tier 1 Life. Then it’s done.
227. 19:49I paired it with a Kalandra’s Touch... Beautiful.
228. 19:57I also bought a Bottled Faith for more DPS.
229. 19:59The best defense is a good offense.
230. 20:02So far, we’ve had another big boost to our DPS.  Let’s go back to Simulacrum and see how it works.
231. 20:25Yeah, it’s much smoother. now can kill bosses
232. 20:27much faster ,and Animated Weapons  no longer expire during combat.
233. 20:39Finally got a Voice. Should I identify it?
234. 20:48Ah... never lucky.
235. 21:01Finished five Simulacrums while AFK without dying. I think AFK machine is complete.
236. 21:06And that should also be  the end of my practice run.
237. 21:10So far, I’ve played for almost 25 hours  and finished this AFK all-rounder.
238. 21:16The gear can also handle Uber Bosses actually, and there are still many possible upgrades,
239. 21:21such as Elegant Hubris and Abyss Jewel stacking.
240. 21:25But those upgrades would be overkill  and.. That’s not the point of this video.
241. 21:30I think this project is complete: a zero-to-hero  journey relying only on AFK farming.
242. 21:37If you’re also interested in  this build and the playstyle,
243. 21:41check out my build guide video for more  details. I’ll put the link in the description.
244. 21:46One thing worth mentioning: Ruthless Support  hasn’t affected Animate Weapon since 3.29.
245. 21:53But this wasn’t mentioned in any patch notes.
246. 21:56I guess it’s a bug, and GGG not fixed it yet.
247. 22:00Since there are still many build guides  on the internet using this Support Gem,
248. 22:04just letting you know: use  another Support Gem instead.
249. 22:08Yeh, I think That’s all the content for today.
250. 22:10Hope you enjoyed the journey.
251. 22:12And See you next time.