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This video is a complete Act 1 to 10 levelling guide and walkthrough in less than 30 minutes! I show you how to level up from a fresh league start and point out important things you need to know. You can also see the gem & link progression as well as the passive tree notables for each Act.

PoE 3.17 - Complete Act 1 to 10 Levelling Guide / Walkthrough - League Starter - Necromancer

Notes:
*The order of passives jumps around because it balances getting life and minion damage early in the game.
**The Mastery for 1. Enduring Bond is taken at 19. (can't use it in early game)
**The Mastery for 12. Grave Pact is taken at 20. (this benefit is mostly for you, not minions)
***Get jewel sockets when you find good jewels



1. Enduring Bond (Mastery is at 19.)
2. Quick Recovery & Mastery: +50 life
3. Lord of the Dead
4. Heart and Soul
5. Cruel Preparation & Mastery: 10% increase life
6. Sanctity
7. Sacrifice & Mastery: Minions Recovery 5%
8. Spiritual Command
9. Mental Rapidity & Mastery: Unleash +1 Seal
10. Purity of Flesh
11. Sovereignty & Mastery: 15% efficiency
12. Gravepact
13. Combat Stamina & Mastery: Determination efficiency
14. Tireless
15. Warrior's Blood
16. Constitution
17. Redemption
18. Righteous Army
19. Mastery: Minions Penetrate 8% res*
20. Mastery: 20% Offering
21. Devotion
22. Sactuary & Mastery: +1% Attack block
23. Mystic Bulwark

If this is not your league starter and you want to get to maps really quickly. I recommend the following gear. You should buy everything before you start so you can save time. Some of the gems are quest rewards so you can skip buying them. Have everything in your bag so you can start using it as soon as you reach the correct level.


*Raise Spectre and Stone Golem are quest rewards



*Predator and Minion Damage are quest rewards
**Buy a level 1 Vaal Summon Skeletons






*Flame Dash is a quest reward



Sidehebreath helps a lot with early mana regen



Dead Reckoning for Skele mages. They're a bit better than skele warriors because they hit with projectiles.

HELMET

Diadem for reduced mana reserve and life recovery.

Enchant: Skeleton damage from Uber lab.



BODY

Kaom's Heart for 500 flat life.

Harvest craft life-quality mod for extra life.



GLOVES

Rare gloves with max life (or try to get max chaos res)

Using Arma Brand to hit with fire damage. This will proc Elemental Equilibrium and make the enemy -50% cold res, -50% lightning res, +25% fire res.



BOOTS

Rare boots with max life (or try to get max chaos res)

Support minions are here.
AG is Sin Eater with consecrated ground body armour for extra regen.



WEAPON

The weapon should be two-handed, and have +1 to socketed gems. Craft +2 to support gems. You can also multi-craft and put minion damage/speed.
For this build, I chose a staff for extra block chance, but you can use any 2h.

This combination will give level 30 skeletons (+2 from Unnatural Strength)

Bow will also work! You can get extra stats from quiver. But be careful about dex requirement and also colour 5b1r is difficult with bow because of dex.

BELT

Stygian Vise for extra Ghastly Eye

AMULET

Marble Amulet + regen mod + Golem's Blood + life quality
Elder influence to get +1 skeleton

Anointment: Golem's Blood
Regenerate 1.6% of Life per second
10% increased maximum Life

RINGS

Stack life and resistances
One ring should have Elemental Weakness curse on hit

RECOMMENDED FLASKS

• Amethyst for chaos res
• Forbidden taste for instant life heal
• Quicksilver for a speed boost
• Quartz for phasing and dodge
• Jade for evasion

KEY MECHANICS

League Start & SSF is designed for league start and solo-self-found. It is completely made from rare items, that you can pick up or self-craft. There are no uniques needed for this build.

The build uses a small army of minions: your Spectres are the main damage dealers, the skeletons give you extra DPS against tough monsters and bosses and the zombies and golem are your bodyguards.

I recommend using the Frost Auto-Scout spectre. It’s the best all-round spectre with good damage and survivability.



DEFENCES

The build has several defensive features.
• Meat shield minions to take incoming attacks instead of you.
• A large life pool so you can take a hit and not instantly die.
• Good amount of block, and life recovery on block.
• Several defensive flasks that increase damage mitigation.
• Blind and taunt from your minions.

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN

https://pastebin.com/Z2UweZ2n




JEWELS

You can craft or buy ghastly eyes. Mod priorities:
#1: life
#2: Taunt and blind
#3: increased minion attack/cast speed or increased minion damage



Highly recommend for Sirus fight
'Corrupted Blood cannot be inflicted on you'


Recommended Unique Jewels:
Anatomical Knowledge: +flat life & 8% increased maximum life
Unending Hunger: 50% chance for minion to gain Soul Eater


*Skip Unending Hunger if it too expensive.



CLUSTER JEWELS

See Pure Spectres build for cluster jewels.



BANDITS

Kill all

*Help Alira if you need extra resistance (good for HC or SSF)



ASCENDANCY

1. Mindless Aggression
2. Unnatural Strength
3. Bone Barrier
4. Mistress of Sacrifice



PANTHEON

Major: Lunaris
Minor: Shakari

HELMET

Crafted +1 helmet -> life helmet -> Crafted +3 helmet


Extra DPS Minions - Skeletons 2 red & 2 blue.




BODY

5L rare -> Tabula Rasa or 6 link rare -> 6 link +1 spectre


Frost Auto-Scout 6 link: 5 blue& 1 green.


Swap for mapping:



GLOVES

Crafted gloves


Meat Shield Minions: 3 blue & 1 red.




BOOTS

Crafted boots


Skitters and Aura: 2 blue, 1 red, 1 green.

1. Skitterbots chill and shock enemies.
2. Hatred Aura for more damage.



WEAPON & SHIELD

WEAPON:
Wand or Sceptre with minion damage


Weapon: 1 green, 2 blue.

1. Desecrate spawns corpses.
2. Bone Offering consumes corpses to increase block chance for minions and you, as well as some life recovery.
3. Tempest Shield gives extra block chance for you.


SHIELD:
High life/resistance -> Crafted Shaper/Warlord shield with 'recover 5% life when block'


Shield: Elemental Equilibrium & Curse 3 blue

Storm Brand reduces enemy ele res (Elemental Equilibrium -50% and Frostbite curse -44%)



BELT

Stygian Vise with high life/resists.


Socket Ghastly Eye with Taunt and Blind.



AMULET

Any amulet -> amulet with +1 to all intelligence gems.



Early in league: Anoint with Alacrity
+30 Dex to help with gearing


Later in league: Anoint with Ravenous Horder
Minions deal 20% increased Damage
Minions have 5% increased Attack Speed
Minions have 5% increased Cast Speed
Minions have 10% increased Movement Speed
Minions have 10% chance to gain Onslaught for 4 seconds on Kill

Use:




RINGS

Rings with high life/res.

1x Unset Ring


1x Coral or Vermillion rings





RECOMMENDED FLASKS

Bubbling Divine Flask of Staunching - instant life flask & remove bleed
Basalt of Warding - phys damage reduction & remove curse
Quicksilver of Adrenaline - increased movement speed
Quartz Flask of Heat - 10% Dodge, phasing & remove freeze
Granite Flask of Iron Skin - extra armour (physical damage reduction)


Recommended Unique Flasks:

This build can carry you to level 100 and Sirus A8. But if you have currency and you play in the trade league, think about upgrading to Pure Spectres or Spectres & Spiders.

The easiest upgrade is the Pure Spectres build. I recommend upgrading in this order:
1. 4 spectres (Raise Spectre gem level 25)
2. Cluster Jewels
3. Devouring Diadem + reserve Haste aura
4. 5 spectres (6L delve body)
5. Awakened Dems
6. Unending Hunger*

Please check the guides below as well as the video guides on youtube for more information.

KEY MECHANICS

The Pure Spectres build uses Devouring Diadem to boost DPS and quality of life.

devouring diadem + sovereignty
1. Reduce mana reserve combined with the sovereignty notable to reserve 100% mana with 2 auras and skitterbots.
2. Eldritch battery: uses energy shield instead of mana for skills. This will allow you to do maps with ‘no mana regen’.
3. Feast of flesh gives a large amount of life and energy shield recovery.

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
https://pastebin.com/Gxakamr4




JEWELS

Unending Hunger*
Ghastly Eye


*Skip Unending Hunger if it too expensive.



CLUSTER JEWELS

SINGLE CLUSTER:
• One 8-passive Large jewel, with feasting fiends, renewal, third notable (don’t allocate).
• Two 4 or 5-passive Medium jewels, with vengeful commander, replenishing presence.
• One 2-passive Small jewel, with surging vitality.
• One 2-passive Small jewel, with enduring composure.


DOUBLE CLUSTER:
Same large and medium as SINGLE CLUSTER.
• Two 2-passive Small jewels with Surging Vitality.




BANDITS

Kill all

*Help Alira if you need extra resistance (good for HC or SSF)



ASCENDANCY

1. Mindless Aggression
2. Unnatural Strength
3. Commander of Darkness
4. Mistress of Sacrifice



PANTHEON

Major: Lunaris
Minor: Shakari

HELMET

Devouring Diadem. 1 blue, 1 red, 2 green

Vaal Haste and Hatred linked to Generosity will give a big boost to DPS. Skitters don’t benefit from generosity, but need the reduced mana reserve from diadem.

Enchant: Spectre damage, minion ias, or flesh offering ias

If Devouring Diadem is too expensive. Just use a normal helmet and swap Vaal Haste to Bonechill.



BODY

Crafted delve body armour with +1 spectre number. 3 blue, 3 red


Syndicate Operatives:

Crabbies:



GLOVES

Triad Grip 4G. 4 green


For Crabbies, can use:



BOOTS

Fossil-crafted boots with +1 spectre gem level (Elder influence) 3 blue, 1 red




WEAPON & SHIELD

WEAPON:
Minion damage wand with Trigger craft 1 blue, 2 green


SHIELD:
Shaper or Warlord influence shield 2 red, 1 blue


LINKED:

UNLINKED:



BELT

Stygian Vise with high life/resists.





AMULET

Amulet with +1 to all intelligence gems.


Anoint with Death Attunement
When you anoint Death Attunment on your amulet, you can refund the passive points and use them in another place.


+1 to Maximum number of Spectres
Minions have 8% increased Attack Speed
Minions have 8% increased Cast Speed
+1 to Maximum number of Raised Zombies
+1 to Maximum number of Skeletons



RINGS

One Unset, One with curse on hit: frostbite.




RECOMMENDED FLASKS

•Life with staunching for bleed removal
•Rumi’s Concoction
•Quicksilver for a speed boost
•Basalt for reducing physical damage
•Jade for extra evasion

KEY MECHANICS

1. The raging spirits are aggressive and can fly over, and around all land features. They will even fly off-screen to kill monsters and bosses.

2. Minion Instability
Minion Instability makes minions explode for 33% of their life pool when they reach low life (scaled by minion damage and minion life)

3. Tavukai
The tavukai unique amulet makes SRS explode from minion instability. It also gives a big boost to the explosion damage.

4. Earendel’s Embrace
Earendel’s embrace deals damage over time to the skeletons. So, they will also explode from minion instability. In addition, the skeletons will increase fire damage taken by enemies.


5. Replica Siege Breaker
Replica siegebreaker spreads burning ground when the raging spirits and skeletons die.

6. skitterbots + profane proxy
Profane proxy replaces chill aura with flammability curse.

7. Spectres
Syndicate Operatives with added fire damage help clear speed and debuff monsters.

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
https://pastebin.com/UNMew13J




JEWELS

• From Dust
• Ghastly Eyes




CLUSTER JEWELS

Two sets of cluster jewels.
• 1x 8-passive Large jewel, with seal mender and ancestral inspiration or seal mender and arcane adept.
• 2x Medium jewels, with feeding frenzy, hulking corpses.
• 2x Small jewel, with surging vitality.




OPTIONAL TIMELESS JEWEL

Elegant Hubris with 80% minion damage, 80% minion life.

NOTE: Every Elegant Hubris jewels is different and give different notable passives. Check carefully for the right passives!



BANDITS

Kill all



ASCENDANCY

1. Mindless Aggression
2. Unnatural Strength
3. Bone Barrier
4. Mistress of Sacrifice



PANTHEON

Major: Lunaris
Minor: Shakari

HELMET

Elder influenced helmet




BODY


Endgame boss swap:



GLOVES





BOOTS





DUAL WEAPONS

WEAPON 1:
Melee weapon with Trigger unveiled.


WEAPON 2:
Earendel's Embrace




BELT

Replica Siegebreaker




AMULET

Tavukai


Anointment: Sacrifice
Minions have +10% to all Elemental Resistances
Minions have 20% increased maximum Life
Minions Regenerate 1% of Life per second
Regenerate 1% of Life per second




RINGS

Left side: Profane Proxy


Right side: Crafted rare with minion movement speed




RECOMMENDED FLASKS

Bubbling Eternal life of staunching for instant life recovery and bleed removal.
Rumi's Concoction for extra block.
Quicksilver of adrenaline for big speed boost.
Quartz flask of heat for phasing, dodge, freeze remove.
Mana flask

KEY MECHANICS

1. Herald of Purity
Summons Sentinel of Purity minion which has big damage scaling but a short duration.

2. Arakaali's Fang
Summons spiders for fast mapping.

3. Aul's Uprising
Free Hatred aura.

4. Skitterbots + Bonechill
Applies chill effect on monsters and increases cold damage taken.

5. Support minions
Carnage Chieftains for frenzy charges, Crabbies for increased cold damage taken by enemies, Carrion Golem for extra base damage.



HOW TO PLAY

For mapping, cast desecrate, hold divine ire, and use the writhing jar flasks.
Divine ire’s charging aura will kill the worms, which spawns spiders and sentinels.
But note that they have a limited duration and will need to be resummoned.

For bossing, focus only on Sentinels. Hold divine ire and use writhing jar.
Remember to keep Storm Brand on bosses because it will resummon/refresh their life.

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
Use POB Community Fork*

https://pastebin.com/Nzawa3uw




JEWELS

• Ghastly Eye: Taunt, Blind, Life, Damage




CLUSTER JEWELS

Mid-level build:
• 2x Large: Renewel, Feasting Fiends, 3rd notable NOT ALLOCATED.
• 4x Medium: Cult-Leader, Disciples
• 3x Small: Surging Vitality
• 1x Small: Enduring Composure




BANDITS

Kill all



ASCENDANCY

1. Commander of Darkness
2. Mindless Aggression
3. Unnatural Strength
4. Mistress of Sacrifice



PANTHEON

Major: Lunaris
Minor: Ryslatha

HELMET

Enchant: +1 Sentinel




BODY

*Must use Coming Calamity*




GLOVES

4 green sockets for 100% cold conversion




BOOTS

+2 minion boots from delve




WEAPONS FOR BOSSING

WEAPON 1:
Trigger



WEAPON 2:
No trigger




WEAPONS FOR MAPPING

WEAPON 1:

Note: Storm Brand is UNLINKED


WEAPON 2:




BELT





AMULET

Must have Hatred reserves no mana


Anointment: Ravenous Horde
Minions deal 20% increased Damage
Minions have 5% increased Attack Speed
Minions have 5% increased Cast Speed
Minions have 10% increased Movement Speed
Minions have 10% chance to gain Onslaught for 4 seconds on Kill

Use:




RINGS

One Unset, One Circle of Guilt


NOTE: One ring should have Frostbite curse on hit.



FLASKS

Life flask of staunching for bleed removal.
Quartz flask of heat for phasing, dodge.
Quicksilver of adrenaline for speed boost.
2x Writhing Jar for Sentinel and Spider summoning.

KEY MECHANICS

1. Spiders
Arakaali’s Fang summons spiders that have high movement speed, are extremely aggressive, and will attack everything on-screen and off-screen. They hit with physical and chaos damage, and will proc poison. They are also immune to damage.

2. Speaker’s wreath & spider’s poison
Speaker’s wreath blocks your spectres and spiders from killing monsters with hits, because they cannot ignite the monsters.
This means all monsters will die from spider’s poison.
And any kill from a minion’s poison will count as a player kill.

3. on kill effects
Spider’s poison kill will proc any ‘on kill’ effect, such as:
• Re-spawning spiders
• Life and ES recovery



HOW TO PLAY

To start mapping, let spectres hit the nearest monsters. They will reduce the monster’s life to 0, but they won’t be able to kill them because of Speaker’s Wreath.
Walk close and kill the monsters. This will spawn spiders.
See build guide video for demonstration.

PASSIVE TREE & POB PASTEBIN



POB PASTEBIN
You must use POB Community build to open my POB Pastebin.
https://github.com/PathOfBuildingCommunity/PathOfBuilding/releases

https://pastebin.com/wQiDYvUG




JEWELS

• Ghastly eye-jewels with minion leech and minion blind
• Watcher's Eye with Phasing/Haste.


NOTE: For Syndicate Operative, you also need added chaos damage to proc poison with Anomalous Vicious Projectiles.




CLUSTER JEWELS

• One 8-passive Large jewel, with vengeful commander, cold-blooded killer, third notable (don’t allocate).
• Two Medium jewels, with Replenishing Presence, Vengeful Vommander.
• Two Small jewel, with Surging Vitality.


Recommended:
• One Small jewels with Enduring Composure.




BANDITS

Kill all

*Help Alira if you need extra resistance (good for HC or SSF)



ASCENDANCY

1. Mindless Aggression
2. Unnatural Strength
3. Commander of Darkness
4. Mistress of Sacrifice



PANTHEON

Major: Lunaris
Minor: Shakari

HELMET

Speaker's Wreath with 3 linked gems, 1 unlinked gem

UNLINKED:



BODY

Crafted delve body armour with +1 spectre number


Gems for Melee spectres:


Gems for Syndicate Operative:




GLOVES

For Melee spectres:
Grip of the Council

For Syndicate Operative:
Triad Grip (4G)



BOOTS

Fossil-crafted boots with +1 spectre gem level (Elder influence)




DUAL WEAPONS

WEAPON 1:
Arakaali's Fang (summons spiders)



WEAPON 2:
Rare weapon with UNVEILED Trigger to get 4s cooldown. (crafted trigger is 8s)




BELT

Stygian Vise with high life/resists.




AMULET

Amulet with +1 to all intelligence gems.


Anoint with Death Attunement
When you anoint Death Attunment on your amulet, you can refund the passive points and use them in another place.


+1 to Maximum number of Spectres
Minions have 8% increased Attack Speed
Minions have 8% increased Cast Speed
+1 to Maximum number of Raised Zombies
+1 to Maximum number of Skeletons



RINGS



NOTE: One ring must have Frostbite curse.

If using Syndicate Operatives, need one Unset Ring with Convocation:




RECOMMENDED FLASKS

Fife of staunching for instant life recovery and bleed removal.
Rumi's Concoction for extra block.
Quicksilver of Adrenaline for speed boost.
Cinderswallow Urn for life and ES recovery.
Jade flask of reflexes for evasion.