PoE2 Witch + spirit with weapon swap

This can obviously also go for auras on other classes but - Jonathan was promoting swapping weapons to combo. However, I also saw he showed spirit was on weapons and spirit is how you have a certain amount of minions. If you use an ability that uses your other weapon do you lose random minions based on how much spirit you lose when swapping? If so wouldn't it be bad to swap weapons? If not, aren't you kind of pigeon holed into having more spirit weapons in your extra weapons?

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tenshinokama#2240 wrote:

If you use an ability that uses your other weapon do you lose random minions based on how much spirit you lose when swapping?

Yes.

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tenshinokama#2240 wrote:

If so wouldn't it be bad to swap weapons?

Not sure, I guess if your character is spirit-dependent, you want a sceptre in both weapon sets. Also I think there's an option to swap only one hand, so you can keep a sceptre when swapping.

I think the weapon swap mechanics in POE1 could be improved. Currently i'm trying to weapon swap with an aura in my 2H weapon because ive got a good bossing weapon and a good clearing/cull weapon. It would be nice if I could do that and keep the aura active if I have the same aura in both. Being able to have skills active for both weapon. Understand that they cant make it too powerful where this become mandatory, and people have to use weapon swapping, but it seems very inconvenient currently and only used for niche purposes. I've only every really used spare weapons for levelling gems. Another thing i've tried to do in the past was weapon swap with identical unique shields that had an allocated aura skill from corrupted mod and utilize a different single hand weapon. Seems to be too difficult, because you loose the aura for a while and it becomes more clunky pushing buttons than it is worth to get any benefit out of doing it. I know it gets used for a range of purposes, but it seems mostly a hassle for basic setups.