The Spectrel Gods ( A Summoners Guide ) [Updated 4/22][Now with video!]

What about "Life Leech" or "Life Gain on Hit" for the Spectres, I cant test it due to wrong socket colours. Anyone done this? Does it even work?

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Any ideas how I could solve this? Aura-wise I'm running Haste and Discipline right now. Should I gem Minion Life instead of Chaos Damage? Or should I switch up my playstyle in general?

Try running purity and discipline instead of haste. It has to do a lot with your play style I assume your taking these spectre from cruel to merciless? They won't last. Try grabbing some sandspitters or lightning archers from act 1 merciless.

For summoners a lot has to deal with positioning. You want your zombies and skeles in the front while you chill in the back with your spectres.

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and they get destroyed every time I face melee packs.
Does Increased Area Effect make the difference? Because I don't have that gemmed at the moment.

Must be your playstyle. The only way my spectres ever die is if i purposely try to ru n them into a pack. Let your zombies and skeles absorb the agroo beforehand.

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but after my plans with chain-supported Arc didn't quite satisfy me (manacosts are surreal)

Yes, this is why I just use elemental proliferation.

P.s. you could try to use enfeeble and temporal chains curses they debuff the mobs real hard.

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What about "Life Leech" or "Life Gain on Hit" for the Spectres, I cant test it due to wrong socket colours. Anyone done this? Does it even work?

Pretty much every support gem works on minions. Idk why you would since minions are replaceble with just a press of a button. And regen can be taken care of with a regen aura or pots.

Been using this build to level a summoner, and so far it's just awesome!

One question: Why did you take Inner Focus instead of Leadership?

I recommend speccing both and respec when your aura range is large enough with just quality gems and levels.

we could also put a skill that lowers the enemies' attack or armor ratings...

At 53 using this build so far and loving it!

I have enough Dex for Temporal Chains level 1, so I used that for a while. Then, I decided to use my 15% Q Vulnerability to far Ledge for XP and it's working out nicely.

Once I get dual curses, I can see Enfeeble and Temporal Chains working out, or even Temporal Chains and Vunerability.

On the "personal damage" side of things, lol!, I was thinking of putting a Spell Totem with Shock Nova on it, and throwing it in beside the skelly totem. Does anyone know if it would get the benefit of my Static Blows?

For auras atm, I am running Purity, Clarity, and Discipline. I maybe got Eldritch Battery a little early, but who cares. The less I have to resummon zombies the better.

Edit: Nevermind. Not enough sockets.

Im having a shot at this build, lvl 24 now. I dont understand how you can get up to 4 spectres? I can make 2 now, one from the skill itself and one from the additionel spectre node at the top of the passive skill panel. What am i missing?

Thanks!

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StefanKelevra wrote:

Im having a shot at this build, lvl 24 now. I dont understand how you can get up to 4 spectres? I can make 2 now, one from the skill itself and one from the additionel spectre node at the top of the passive skill panel. What am i missing?

Thanks!

Several unique items let you summon more. Bones of Ullr boots, Queen's Decree sword, Midnight Bargain wand.

Mapping/running Docks on Merciless for a few days now with 3-4 spectres (depending if solo or in group), Level 72.

I think that the Burned Miscreations fall way off late-game, especially on maps with Alchemists or any other mobs with high AoE. The only way to safe melee spectres is to run for you life to reset their position to yours, but most times it's already too late, especially with all the other effects on the screen.
I'm satisfied with Zombies/Skels overall, but I still have the problem that my spectres, no matter if ranged or melee, die way too fast.

I currently run Discipline/Purity/Clarity since I don't see any reason to run the armor aura because I want the frontline to die, and the backline doesn't benifit from armor because they'll get mostly killed by magic damage.

Tried out Eldritch Battery, respecced it a couple of hours ago, and I feel much tankier overall. If you are group-mapping, 2,5k Life just isn't enough, even with maxed resistanecs. Mana is still okay-ish thanks to a couple of manareg nodes, and I have enough to run three auras.

On a side note: I personally prefer insta-restore health flasks over minion-life restore. It's way more important to save yourself in sticky situation than guessing that your minions could have taken damage and pressing the button to save them.

I'm running through Cruel and I keep running into the problem that my spectres keep dying, and there are no good ones around. I can usually tough it out with Skeletons, but I keep on getting torn apart by various AOE enemies (that one skeleton with Rain of Arrows in the rocky climb killed me twice!). What do I do about this problem? Also, does it matter at all that my DPS sans minions is 68? I figure not really, but still...