PoE 3.9 Witch Raise Zombie Necromancer Tanky Build (PC,PS4,Xbox,Mobile)

This PoE 3.9 Witch Raise Zombie build is INSANELY SIMPLE & EFFECTIVE. There is no crazy crafting required or massive 10+ exalt gear like other builds. It's built around uniques that everyone can easily access and replicate. You can do all content without clicking any buttons. 

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Pros & Cons

• - People will get jealous of how you can farm three times as much currency as them and take down all content so easily on such a cheap build without pressing buttons

Skill Tree

Ascendancy

Mindless Aggression - Unnatural Strength - Bone Barrier - Commander of Darkness. (If you want to get an extra 22% movement speed swap Commander of Darkness ascendancy to Mistress of Sacrifice and use Flesh Offering skill).

Pantheon: Major: Soul of Lunaris. Minor: Soul of Garukhan

Bandit: Kill All (recommended) OR spare Oak

Passive Tree & PoB

Path of Building Link: https://pastebin.com/UUz1EdjT

Gems Setup

Helmet: Raise Spectre, Meat Shield, Animate Guardian, Blood Magic

Weapon: Raise Zombie, Feeding Frenzy, Brutality, Melee Physical Damage, Multistrike, Empower

Chest: Vaal Summon Skeletons, Minion Damage, Feeding Frenzy, Melee Physical Damage, Melee Splash... and Dread Banner in off socket

Gloves: Enlighten, Vaal Haste, Blasphemy and your choice of curse. Use either Enfeeble(defensive) or Vulnerability (offensive).

Boots: Flame Dash, Phase Run, and your choice of any other 2 skills such as Flesh Offering, Convocation, Desecrete, or Vaal Molten Shell.

Ring: Summon Chaos Golem

Movement Speed Note: Simply popping a quicksilver flask gets us to 180% movement speed. AWESOME!

Popping Phase run gets us to 230%. It's a very nice boost!

Add Flesh offering to get an extra 22% movespeed (if you do this you have to swap Commander of Darkness ascendancy to Mistress of Sacrifice)

Popping Vaal Haste gets us an extra 23% movespeed.

Using these above additions (+ pantheon bonuses) you can reach over 280% movespeed. CRAZY.

If you want to go all out on speed, there is also a +15% movespeed chest you can wear, and also some nearby passives you can pick up to get you over 300%... I haven't tried it yet... but I will purely for the shits and giggles :)

Gear Setup

Helmet: The Baron

Just great for zombies and all minion builds in general... 

Gloves

Best in slot when coupled with Geofri's Sanctuary chest.

Budget item to get +100 strength to help us get to 1000 strength for Baron leech bonus

Boots: Seven-League Step

Because we want speed.

If you are struggling for resistances or strength, use rare boots with 30+ movement speed and fill any strength or resistance gaps.

If you don't care about speed and just want to be even more tanky, just use rare boots with strength, life, resistances. This is a slot you can do anything you like with!!. As you can see my boots are nothing but speed.

See Alternate Setups further below in the guide for some other options you may want to consider.

Belt: String of Servitude

Because we want speed

If you don't care about speed and just want to be even more tanky and do even more damage, just use a rare belt with strength, life, resistances, increased damage during flask effect, abyssal jewel... pick your poison! This is a slot you can do anything you like with!!. As you can see my belt is nothing but speed.

See Alternate Setups further below in the guide for some other options you may want to consider.

Weapon

Grim Ram Steelhead: Best in slot giving level 30 Raise Zombie giving an extra zombie AND a shitload of extra damage.

Queen's Escape: It's cheap and gives great bonuses:

Because we run so fast, the minion speed is important so that they can keep up while still killing things!

Other Zombie builds (known for caring only about DPS) go all out on stacking as many zombies and as much damage as possible. You don't need more damage. Extra damage is a waste of currency, waste of passive points and a waste of time because you go slower. In fact, we clock up faster Uber Elder runs with our simple gear :) We, instead, get to an optimal level of zombies (14-15) without need for restrictive gear and then prioritise speed and defence (we reach over 15,000 Life/ES in late-game compared with 8-10k regular zombie builds)

Can also use a Chaber Cairn, Femurs Fur, or rare mace.

Armour

Geofri's Sanctuary: Best in slot providing a tonne of ES when coupled with Shaper's Touch Gloves

Dusk Mantle Astral Plate: Life, strength, resists... bonus with the minion modifiers.

If you want to use ranged spectres, just swap in a Tabula or get any BBBGGR chestpiece. See Spectres section for more details on this setup. Alternatively you can put ranged spectres into gloves on a 4L (which is what I now do).

Amulet: Astramentis

We want strength for Baron bonuses. Also helps with dex/int stats for gems such as Haste.

Oils: Anoint Death Attunement or Ravenous Horde

Rings: Strength, life, resists.