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

"Animation"-pots are by far no "emergency-heal" for minions. Their giant life makes it a small life regeneration at best. If you have no pots, and no aura/totems to reg its clear you can't keep them up. They are damaged to death with even the lowest of damage after enough time has passed. Just the flame sentinels with a nice amount of ES, that always regenerates, can handle that to some degree, as long as they aren't damaged beyond ES.
Im running 4 auras right now, the 3 standard ones clarity, discipline, and purity as well as vitality. Vitality + animation-flasks still can't rescue any spectre in emergencies but provide a solid heal over time.

And against these anti-summon AoE Bosses theres just one thing... summon-skeletons-totem...
Keeps the guy busy and with MI, maybe slowly, kills him. As the spectres are the main damage source they will most probably be targeted first, nothing you can really do about this. In most cases you will need new spectres afterwards. The Flame Sentinels in merc may survive such an encounter.

However, as I already wrote in the spectre-feedbackthread, the problem is the player is forced to be unable to utilize his/her own skills. That needs a change, but none of the GGG's seems to care for this right now.

Would this build work with dual midnight bargains?

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trionify wrote:

Would this build work with dual midnight bargains?

Yes, but you would have pretty much zero survivability.

Guide Edit

Dropped Queens decree from core, your better off using a shield/wand setup for more stats.

Dropped purity for vitality, free heal for your entire party

Reduced mana gem trick with auras:

Once you cast an aura with reduced mana gem you can then take out the reduced mana gem out and the auras will still take the same amount of mana. With those red slots freed I put in an anger gem or a choice of rejuv totem/leap slam/decoy totem/molten shell

Edit: I was thinking about my end game build and a option might to to grab all those nearby reduced mana gem nodes and potentially stack more auras. although you might need a heavily linked piece with reduced mana cost support gem.

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mattc3303 wrote:

Edit: I was thinking about my end game build and a option might to to grab all those nearby reduced mana gem nodes and potentially stack more auras. although you might need a heavily linked piece with reduced mana cost support gem.

You could max out energy shield bonuses to max out battery and then reduce the cost of the reserves?

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgMBAW8HYwj0DH0QfxCXEVATWxSwFm8ZhRpsHNwkPCSqJ6ko-iqYLKYxiDQKNuk3ZjeDOVI6MDrhO-E8LTyOQYdEBEZxSOdJUU25TeNObVXGVdZXK1fJWAdabVqRYqxk52qsa9ttGXNTeQN6uHyDfRh-WX_Ggh6Cx4RIhWCIQIjxi3qPRpAzkyeVIJuhna6hbaKjplemrKbrpwinK6dcqH2pbqrErFmsmK6TtAy18rc-uJO8N7yfv5fAVMHzxPbGnsauyT3MvM36z2XQ0NP71BnWndkL2t3bC-L342rjn-dj6rrr7uyK8h7yRffX-oD-Cv6P

Maybe, but the thought of putting so many points into a inefficient 8% es node makes me cringe just for more mana. Not worth dropping the hp nodes I get more the Templar tree.

maybe something like this

I mainly want to stack hatred but am already using vitality(40%) + Haste(40%), I need like 200 mana left over

This build is amazing, if you combine it with the marauder tank build, you are invincible! Only thing I'm still having trouble with is the god damn chaos alchemist, since my chaos resist is only 22% at the moment.

You guys are gonna like this, I changed my endgame build again and I came up with this

Aura Stacking Mania

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If you get all of the Reduced Mana Reservation passives and use a level 20 Reduced Mana.
Purity 40% (original cost)
4 x Reduced Mana Reservation -20% (of 40%) is 32%
Reduced Mana (level 20) -29% (of 32%) is 22.72%
Final Cost 22.72% (%43.2 reduction)

40% auras become 22.72% which means stacking

Purity, Haste, Hatred, Vitality, Anger, Wrath, Grace, Discipline, Clarity

9 auras. (even determination if you have a high quality reduced mana or that prism guardian shield

Also you will have 89% all resist with

I might drop the shock nodes if am going to massive stack auras might not have room for them.

Actually, I just unspeced out of the bottom reduced mana nodes, it costs too much survivability (8 points!). I might try it again at end end game though.

Thanks for your guide, I've been collecting gear on my main toon for a few weeks, looking for some suggestions on what to supplement my setup with. ... Here is my lvl 31 setup



Here are the upgrades I am waiting to equip:



So, knowing what you know. ... What gear should I be looking for. Is my minion helm any good? I'm trying to plan for level 65+ by watching trade chat as I level. Most of the gear I have now is just for the correct sockets.


Coming from a spork shadow, this build is so much fun.


The gem setup you see in my grear is pretty much how I plan to rock it.

Zombie helmet
Skeleton boots
Aura/curse gloves/shield
Arc wand
Spectre chest

Aside from Boots of ullr which is the only core item now, Try getting HP, cap resist, some chaos resist, armor and es, and dex is important mainly for the dex aura

cast speed helps with shock stacking