Bitterdream Animate Weapon/Skeletons Guardian 3.19 League Starter

###Hello there!

I wanted to show off my league starter for a couple reasons. It's just some jank I put together in PoB before the start of the league and I've never played minions before. I see a lot of people saying that you can't play your own build anymore or that minions are dead and so I wanted to showcase my haggard build that got me through the Atlas this league. I'm not saying this build is amazing (all though it was a lot better than I expected) or that everyone should go out and play it. More just showing that an "average" player can still make their own build and have success with it.

Here's the PoB: https://pobb.in/LsoQ3ugdu4NN

Around 2.5mil DPS with about a 1 Div worth of gear. Maybe a bit more if you buy it all instead of crafting. If you paid for your gear, you would be much stronger than what I have here. Even at 10-20c per basic pieces.

I used Sidhebreath for leveling, pretty much as soon as I got the alc to pay for it and then threw on Hatred. That carried me until I could color my Triad Grips.

And here's a showcase video: https://youtu.be/371L5Q8x0t4

Not the best showcase, but that was a hard map. It usually runs a bit smoother and not quite as frantic. I did Elder Guardians and Conquerors as well as the quest Bosses with this build. I was also able to farm Essences and make a few divines from just that in the first week.

###Pros and Cons ####Pros:

• Great against juiced essences/AN. I made a ton of money on Essences and I only had like 3 I couldn't do in all my Atlas Progression. Vampiric is a hard mod and anything on the consecrated ground map mod is just impossible.

• Pretty few deaths because you just don't die or get hit very often. You just watch your minions die in the Lake and then leave. This was my least deaths to get to this point by far. (under 100)

• Very cheap - Aside from the Brass Dome which is debatable in how good it is, everything was found or 10c or less. NO 6LINK REQUIRED

• You can get the 60 minions achievement with the build and you have an actual horde with you. It's amazing.

• You're curse immune, shock immune, crit immune. Could be CB immune with a jewel. It's wild how consistent the damage in PoE is when you're immune to those 3 things specifically

####Cons:

• I use all the buttons on both bars for this build. I usually play builds like this, but I can see this being unappealing to some people.

• Kinda of a pain to resummon everything if they all die. Usually if your minions die, you just cannot do that content.

• Low max hit for later/endgame bosses. Could be improved with better gear and probably a better tree.

Anyway, I just had oodles of fun with this build I think it synergizes really well with the new uniques and made a much much better league starter than I anticipated. It could definitely be improved. About 500k DPS just from frenzy charge spectre. I was too lazy to go find it though. Hopefully this inspires someone else to try it or just make their own build.

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