Hello everyone!

I have made a very detailed league starter build guide for a Poison Ranged Animate Weapon Necromancer which is available here:

https://maxroll.gg/poe/build-guides/poison-ranged-animate-weapons-league-starter

The new league added a new gem called Bladefall of Trarthus, which makes the summoning of Animate weapons much more convenient and gameplay much smoother. Now the gameplay is similar to how SRS is played but with a lot better clear speed, longer uptime of minions (less spam) and more damage.

As can be seen in the videos & PoB, the build is still quite tanky (tankier than most other Animate Weapon builds, Spectre and Skeleton mage builds) even with its very high damage output and great clear.

This imo puts the build in S-tier (in a minion tier ranking, not overall)

Stone Golem of Safeguarding is also used to reduce melee damage taken (15-28%), this reduction is not shown in PoB currently.

The gear value in the video showcase is around 150-200 divines.

Ubers can be done with a lot cheaper items, for example the "Early Covenant" setup which is around 10 divines is able to kill them all if you are skilled enough, better gear makes it easier.

Showcase video with the "Early Covenant" setup from 3.25 against two Ubers and T16 & T17 maps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGZroG8TU3Q

(As you can see in the video Bladefall of Trarthus is not used here)

PoB: https://pobb.in/onO-ZlEKgo1E (This will be outdated if an update happens later)