In Path of Exile, Carrion Golems & Zombies Necromancer is a powerful, all-around summoner build. This build utilizes convocation to stack summons, increasing farming efficiency and allowing you to focus all your damage on a single target.

This build uses Carrion Golems and Zombies to inflict high Poison and Chaos damage. Your farming speed relies on items that produce explosive effects, such as Asenath's Gentle Touch or Cane of Kulemak equipped on Animate Guardian.

Defensively, you'll need high Life Pool, Life Regen, Life Leech, Endurance Charges, Physical Damage Reduction, Energy Shield, continuously increasing Maximum Elemental Resistances, and high attack and spell block chance.

This build doesn't require any uniques to function, but the following items will help you maximize your damage output: Primordial Harmony, Anima Stone, Rational Doctrine, Amanamu's Gaze, and Ashes of Stars.

Next, this guide will provide a detailed breakdown of PoE 3.28 Carrion Golems & Zombies Necromancer build.

Ascendancy

Commander of Darkness is an Aura that increases your own and your summoned creatures' maximum resistances while also dealing damage. It's a good choice in the early game of PoE, but you'll likely replace it later as you can compensate for insufficient damage and resistances with gear.

You don't need any specific stats or resistances; just ensure your total resistances and stats from all your gear meet the requirements. Unless otherwise stated, your maximum resistances must be at least 75%!

Mindless Aggression is chosen because it lies on your next two Ascendancy paths.

Unnatural Strength converts physical damage dealt by your summoned creatures into Chaos damage. This means all your damage sources will be affected by withered on hit and Void Manipulation.

Bone Barrier provides passive health regeneration when your summons deal damage. Additionally, it provides physical damage reduction and significantly improves your summons' survivability.

In the early game of PoE, as your gear gains more resistances, you can reset Commander of Darkness to Mistress of Sacrifice. At this point, replace Flesh Offering with Bone Offering.

In the mid-game, when you have Rational Doctrine, you can reset Respec from Mistress of Sacrifice to Lycia Bloodline Bitter Heresy.

Skills

Before you reach level 4, choose either Rolling Magma or Freezing Pulse as your primary skill. After completing Breaking Some Eggs quest, immediately replace your previous skill with Summon Raging Spirit, and obtain Holy Flame Totem from Nessa as your secondary skill.

Before you reach level 21, unlock Minion Defence Mastery; your minions will die easily. Before obtaining this Mastery, if your minions keep dying, don't waste time resummoning them, but in the meantime, be sure to socket and upgrade your gems.

Around level 46, you will have both Sovereignty and Mana Mastery. Equip and activate Purity of Elements. After that, try to obtain two additional Raise Spectre gems and one Animate Guardian gem. Place them in your weapon swap slot; when they reach level 20, there's a chance to corrupt them to level 21.

Jewel

Upon entering PoE campaign, your primary objective is to find Death Attunement and obtain a Small Cluster Jewel with Enduring Composure notable. Afterward, upgrade Endurance and Stamina as quickly as possible to improve your survivability. Two other important jewels are One Abyss Jewel with Taunt and One Abyss Jewel with Leech.

The key to this build's significant damage boost lies in giving your Minions a 100% chance to poison enemies. For this, you'll need multiple Ghastly Eye Jewels with Minions have Chance to Poison Enemies on hit modifier. Ensure at least one of them also has Minions taunt on hit affix and at least one has Minions Leech of damage as Life modifier.

To further enhance your damage and summon survivability, you'll need the following unique gems:

• 1  Anima Stone
• 1 Primordial Might (If this one is very expensive, get another Harmony)
• 1-3 Primordial Harmony (This reduces the cooldown for your Summon Carrion Golem of Scavenging's skills)
• 1 Primordial Eminence (This becomes less useful later)

You can have other modifiers, but you should prioritize physical damage reduction affixes:

• Obtain 5-6 Valako Shieldbearers to increase your attack block chance.
• Using 5-7 Tattoos of Hinekora Warmonger will improve your Minions' survivability.

Afterwards, you'll need to continue using these jewels and unique items to upgrade your gear level:

• Amanamu's Gaze to massively increase Poison damage your Minions deal.
• Late 8 Passive (Minion Damage, Strength, and Maximum Life)
• Late 12 Passive (Minion Damage, Resistances, and Maximum Life)
• Late 4-5 Passive (Minion Survivability, Minion Leech, and Strength)
• Watcher's Eye (Physical damage reduction and attack block chance)

Because these jewels and items are relatively difficult to obtain, you can choose to acquire them directly using Path of Exile Currency.

This concludes this guide. While Carrion Golems & Zombies Necromancer Build is indeed quite complex, it's undeniably a very strong build in Path of Exile. If you have ample time, you can spend more time studying it; it will surely bring you unexpected rewards. Of course, if you have any further questions, you can also discuss them with each other.