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I never played 3.8 and so I never experienced the OP summoner stages. I am playing it now though and tbh, I'm trying to figure out how exactly people are saying that this is a weakened build. In my 4 man party, I'm easily carrying all of them with really cheap gear. And when I'm solo, bosses really don't stay alive for more than 2-3 seconds. If this is how the build is AFTER the Nerf, I think the Nerf was warranted because I already feel way more powerful than any of my friends playing other builds.

Level 88 after first weekend, and so far i like it a lot. I think progress is a little bit slow, but thats because of the new atlas system, i'd normally go red map only now, but because i need balance progress at all parts of atlas, i still need run white ones now... :-(

I run 4 slave drivers and 9 zombies (plus vaal skeletons as an distraction), so far not a single spectre ever died, a lost only 1 zombie once on some nasty metamorph. Still kinda shitty equip/setup, i dont wanna invest too much currency into it until i'll have PoB, as last time i just fell in love in one hand build and never switched to PoB then. So far i only get to T11-T12 maps, feels very easy and similar to 3.8. Even just zombies are fine to the job, slowly, as i tested on one ele reflect map.

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nexxen666 wrote:

Zork I just inspected your skill tree, and it seems interesting and totally different from Kay's. What are your thoughts behind that?

He is using Avatar of Fire to convert all his damage, so he can use lightning spells for EE (you can choose one with better AoE). Its not a bad solution, i played it like this once before, especially when you have use more points in top left area of the tree...

is there a reason that Queen's Decree isn't use on this build? I noticed another build in running spectre's that highly recommends it, due to the +1 spectre and the damage increases etc....

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kayella wrote:

15 DEC:
W&S build updated with player feedback.
- Raise Zombie replaces Animale Guardian in 4L
- Feeding Freezy moved to Spectre 6L
- Minion Damage replaces Feeding Frenzing in 4L

PoB:https://pastebin.com/UUz1EdjT

Would it be better to replace Stone Golem instead of Animate Guardian?

Just wanna say thank you for the detailed guide, really help me out as a new player.

Everything seems just fine for now, doing t4-t7 maps atm with 2 Slave Drivers and this is the gear I got so far:



I guess it will take a while to get 3 Slave Drivers, but it is possible :)

4 with +1 Spectre Body Armor.

What about 5? Tho 4 is more than enuff I guess ;)

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Everything seems just fine for now, doing t4-t7 maps atm with 2 Slave Drivers and this is the gear I got so far:

That feels strange, I'm only at act 9 right now and I'm already playing with 3 slaves drivers (2 from the gem and 1 from a keystone). Did I mess something?

Great build by the way, I first played when the game came out few years ago and I'm coming back for metamorph: the indepth leveling guide was very useful and well writen. Thank you!

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spoobg wrote:

I guess it will take a while to get 3 Slave Drivers, but it is possible :)

4 with +1 Spectre Body Armor.

What about 5? Tho 4 is more than enuff I guess ;)

Are you sure you can't summon 3 specters with your current gem and ascendancy? Put raise specter on your bar and mouse over it. How many specters does it say you can summon at the top of the tooltip?