Animate Weapon

Animate Weapon is a spell that animates a weapon on the ground as a flying allied minion.

Skill functions

Animate Weapon can be used on identified weapons lying on the ground, but not on any ranged weapons unless is used. The weapon is permanently consumed. If the "Key Pickup" option is enabled in the UI tab of the Options menu, the "Highlight items and objects" key must be held down in order to cast Animate Weapon. Attempting to animate a weapon with an item level higher than the level of the gem allows will cost mana and perform the cast animation but have no effect.

Animate Weapon can also be used on Lingering Blades left behind by and .

Animated Weapons are minions that are considered to be using the original weapon animated. They are therefore affected by modifiers to minions, as well as support gems for weapons, such as , but not affected by any of the player's damage or weapon modifiers.

Interactions

• Loot Filter - Some modifiers on identified weapons can be highlighted by correctly editing custom loot filters. When combined with sources that cause items to drop identified, characters can quickly use weapons that are stronger than normal items or lingering blades. causes magical items to drop identified. Sextants can can modify watchstones to causes all items to drop identified in maps. Heist Trinkets can give up to 15% chance for items to drop identified per heist member.

• Special benefits - Animated weapons can gain special modifiers that only apply to unique and rare weapons. Because it destroys the weapon for temporary benefits, most characters do not do this.

• Buff Damage - Animate weapon can be used to buff other damage sources. Due to their large numbers and fast attack speed, can apply max Withered stacks fast.

• Main Hand - 1 handed weapons summoned from items are counted as being used in the main hand. This only applies to weapon bonuses that come from being used in the main hand like .

Calculating damage

There are different calculation for weapons summoned from items on the ground and lingering blades from spells.

• Note - These calculations are meant to calculate animate weapons base stats only. It will not calculate other things like modifiers. See minions and other wiki pages for calculating the entire damage of minions.

Casting on a weapon

Weapons gain the base damage, base attack speed and base % critical strike chance of the weapon they are summoned from.

The minions deals additional physical damage modifier is added to the base damage.

The lingering blades damage is not added to weapons created from items.

Casting on a linger blade

Lingering blades have the base stats of a Glass Shank.

The same formula is used as casting on a weapon, except the lingering blade physical damage is added on top of the other physical damage.

Gem level progression

Level				Mana Cost	max. Item Level	More Damage	More Attack Speed	additional Physical Damage	Maximum Animated Weapons	Lingering Blades Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	4	0	0	4	9	10%	10%	5 to 8	5	1 to 2	0	0
2	6	0	0	4	11	12%	12%	6 to 11	5	1 to 2	841	841
3	9	17	0	4	14	14%	14%	10 to 15	6	1 to 3	3099	3940
4	12	21	14	4	18	16%	16%	13 to 18	6	1 to 4	7433	11373
5	16	26	18	5	22	18%	18%	17 to 25	7	1 to 5	22895	34268
6	20	31	22	6	26	20%	20%	21 to 32	7	1 to 7	49725	83993
7	24	37	25	6	31	22%	22%	26 to 38	8	2 to 9	95714	179707
8	28	42	29	7	35	24%	24%	32 to 47	8	2 to 11	169595	349302
9	32	47	33	7	40	26%	26%	39 to 57	9	3 to 14	283759	633061
10	36	52	36	8	44	28%	28%	48 to 72	9	4 to 17	453996	1087057
11	40	58	40	8	49	30%	30%	53 to 81	10	4 to 21	703128	1790185
12	44	63	44	9	53	32%	32%	61 to 91	10	5 to 25	1061223	2851408
13	48	68	48	9	58	34%	34%	68 to 99	11	6 to 30	2065870	4917278
14	52	74	51	10	62	36%	36%	73 to 112	11	8 to 36	2507110	7424388
15	55	78	54	10	66	38%	38%	83 to 124	12	9 to 42	2573731	9998119
16	58	82	57	11	70	40%	40%	89 to 136	12	10 to 48	7611351	17609470
17	61	86	60	11	74	42%	42%	99 to 148	13	12 to 55	13437908	31047378
18	64	90	62	12	78	44%	44%	108 to 159	13	13 to 62	25052147	56099525
19	67	94	65	12	82	46%	46%	115 to 173	14	15 to 71	43869436	99968961
20	70	98	68	12	100	48%	48%	126 to 184	14	17 to 80	242081178	342050139
21	72	100	70	13	100	49%	49%	130 to 190	15	18 to 86	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	13	100	50%	50%	134 to 196	15	20 to 92	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	13	100	51%	51%	138 to 202	16	21 to 99	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	13	100	52%	52%	142 to 208	16	22 to 106	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	14	100	53%	53%	146 to 214	17	24 to 114	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	14	100	54%	54%	150 to 220	17	26 to 122	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	14	100	55%	55%	155 to 227	18	27 to 131	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	14	100	56%	56%	160 to 234	18	29 to 140	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	15	100	57%	57%	165 to 241	19	31 to 149	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	15	100	58%	58%	170 to 248	19	33 to 159	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	15	100	59%	59%	175 to 255	20	34 to 163	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	15	100	60%	60%	180 to 263	20	34 to 168	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	15	100	61%	61%	185 to 271	21	35 to 172	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	16	100	62%	62%	191 to 279	21	36 to 176	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	16	100	63%	63%	197 to 287	22	37 to 180	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	16	100	64%	64%	203 to 296	22	38 to 185	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	16	100	65%	65%	209 to 305	23	38 to 189	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	16	100	66%	66%	215 to 314	23	39 to 194	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	16	100	67%	67%	221 to 323	24	40 to 198	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	16	100	68%	68%	228 to 333	24	41 to 203	N/A	N/A

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Animate Weapon:

Related unique items

The following unique items are related to Animate Weapon:

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Animate Weapon.

Alternate skill effects

Animate Weapon has the following alternate skill effects:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.10.1d	Updated the gem descriptions of and to clarify that they cannot be used by Traps or Mines.
3.10.0	Now has the Physical tag. Now animates a weapon in an area around where you are targetting (you don't have to target a specific item). Animate Weapon has been reworked and undergone some cosmetic upgrades as well. The damage multiplier on Animate Weapon was not applying to the minion's damage at all. Whoops! Because of this, the skill has been rebalanced. Can now be supported by and . Now has a base duration of 40 seconds (from 37.5 seconds) at all gem levels. Now allows a maximum of 5 Animated Weapons at gem level 1, up to 14 at gem level 20 (from 50 at all gem levels). Now has a base cast speed of 0.6 seconds (from 0.8). Now costs 4 mana at gem level 1 (from 7), up to 12 at gem level 20 (from 26). Now grants your minions' attacks 5 to 8 additional Physical Damage at gem level 1 (from 4 to 6), up to 126 to 184 at gem level 20 (from 38 to 56). Minions now deal 10% more damage at gem level 1, up to 48% more at gem level 20. Note that there was previously similar (but numerically higher) bonus listed on the skill gem that, as it turns out, did nothing. Now grants your minions 10% more attack speed at gem level 1, up to 48% more at gem level 20. Previously the gem granted increased attack speed rather than more. Now gains 1% increased Minion Movement Speed per 1% gem quality (from 2% increased Minion Movement Speed).
3.6.0	Mana Cost at gem level 1 is now 7 (was 9). Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 26 (was 36).
2.6.0	Now has a maximum of 50 animated weapon minions that can be active at once.
2.3.0	Animate Weapon and have had their range modified. Previously there was a bug where you could bypass the range. Now that this is fixed, the range has been tripled from 25 to 75 units.
1.0.6	The Animate Weapon skill now adds a flat physical damage to the weapon. The animated weapon has had its innate elemental resistance values increased. , , , and have had their base duration increased by 25%.
1.0.1	Fixed an issue with key pickup and the Animate (Weapon and Guardian) skills.
1.0.0b	Fixed a problem where an Animated Weapon would pause for too long when summoned.
1.0.0	Animate Weapon has been added to the game.