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Chaos Minions Witch FAST Leveling

0.2 DotH
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Speed Leveling
Starter
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Updated on Apr 19, 2025
Apr 19, 2025

Build Overview

This is a minion chaos leveling build that will take you through all the way through the campaign and to endgame maps extremely fast!
By combining high damage chaos damage over time from Despair and Essence Drain with minions and spectres, we have a massive amount of both AoE and single target damage, perfect for leveling.


We also add in spectres to apply additional chaos damage, which really ramps this build straight through any boss or challenging part of the campaign.

Build Variants

Leveling through act 1-3
This is for when you have only 2 sockets on your gems + only level 1 support gems.

Equipment

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Equipment Priority
0
Main Hand
Withered Wand
1
Off Hand
Rattling Sceptre
2
Amulet
Solar Amulet
3
Body
Altar Robe
4
Boots
Sandsworn Sandals

With this hybrid minion + chaos build we take a minion sceptre and a chaos focus.
Look for spirit on your chest + amulet.

Look for levels to minions or levels to chaos and take this over pretty much any other stats.


Alternative (pure chaos build)

Now you can run this purely as a chaos build, with no minions. If so you want to take a Withered Wand and look for chaos damage and + levels to chaos spells. This will give you significantly higher chaos damage, but you'll need to take more energy shield to make up for the lack of minions protecting you.

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 5

Dex 20

Int 25

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Essence Drain

Essence Drain
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Contagion

Contagion
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Withering Presence

Withering Presence
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4

Skeletal Sniper

Skeletal Sniper
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5

Unearth

Unearth
6

Despair

Despair
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Gem Priority
+10

This the basic early game set up, once you have all this move over to the next variant at the top, where add in higher level skills and rank 2 support gems.

Passive Tree

main:
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set 1:
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set 2:
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20

We take a mix of minion support and chaos damage. If you want to go for full chaos, drop out the minion support for other chaos nodes.

How it Plays

We open with Essence Drain as our main damage.
Cast Contagion on the same monster to then spread this once we beat the monster.

Keep Withering Presence up by staying near mobs for extra chaos damage.


Minions:

For minions, the Skeletal Sniper work fine as an additional source of damage, and an extra DoT from their poison cloud ability., can switch this to Skeletal Arsonist if you prefer, or can go all in on Skeletal Warrior for more protection.

Spectres:

After level 11 we can unlock spectres where we can go and captures random monsters and use them as minions, here are some really good ones I've tried so far:

Act 3: Slitherspitter from the Venom Crypts. Very high poison damage AoE

Act 3: Filthy Crone from Apex of Filth. Seems to apply curse debuffs and deal chaos damage

Act 3: Chaotic Zealot (melee version). These deal very fast melee chaos damage, and we can have lots of them at once.

How it Works

Apply DoTs to enemies, spread it with Contagion and melt packs instantly.

Video Guide

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