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What spectres do you recommend for pure single target?

Using them in a helm purely for that reason in a DD necro build with some very high minion scaling.

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Orbu wrote:

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SparkleMotion wrote:

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KalHirol wrote:

I think Slaver Drivers are dead...

from patch notes:
"Fixed a bug which caused the area of effect of Lightning Whip used by several monsters to get way too big." (this is the tooltip name of the their flame whip ability)

We all know what that means...

Slave Drivers use an ability called Lightning Surge according to PoB. Don't think it's the same thing. Not sure though.

According to PoEDB, the Slave Driver skill is actually Flame Surge so hopefully not the same as the 'Lightning Whip' mentioned in the patch notes.

Slave Driver spell is actually:

2470 SlavedriverFlameWhip [1484, 1485, 5792, 216] 5, 15, 50, -65 [618]


1484 spell_minimum_base_lightning_damage
1485 spell_maximum_base_lightning_damage
5792 active_skill_area_of_effect_radius_+%_final
216 base_cast_speed_+%
618 is_area_damage



GGG generally never changes spectre abilities, so don't worry.

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DaveNotDave wrote:

Is it worth to switch to Turong spectre during leveling? I found on poedb.tw that they spawn in lvl10 delve but I can't find them. Am I missing something?

It's just an option if spectres are dying too much. Turong is early access super tanky 525% life vs 150% for Fire-Eater (100% for Slave Driver).

It's random spawn. Usually find it between encounters, so you need to go back and raise it.

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Merkoh wrote:

Does anyone have a simple gear priority list once hitting maps? Thanks!

Spectres dont need any special gear to work.

Means priority look as follow:

1. Cap Resistance with gear
2. Grab as much life as possible on that gear.
3. 4 links for all gems + roll the right color.
4. 6 link Armor (Tabula Rasa)
5. Get all the mid/endgame stuff 1 by 1.

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thjokeR wrote:

What spectres do you recommend for pure single target?

Using them in a helm purely for that reason in a DD necro build with some very high minion scaling.

If you use helmet, SD has the highest scaling damage. They can benefit from all the big helmet mods. So you can get 9L helmet for them.

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muramiri wrote:

So, Kay, i think i finally found the setup that can go with spectres at lvl28 without them dying.

The key is Purity of Elements... yeah, it just makes minions so much tankier agains ele dmg.

https://pastebin.com/bF0S96b9

Here is the setup. none of my permanent minions died to Dominus.

The next big boss is Mom Piety from Act 4. She will kill zombies and Spectres 101%...

Piety uses some special ability made from ball lightning. I think the whole beam is just stack ball lighting.

PietyCorruptedBallLightning
PietyCorruptedBallLightningMalachai Deals 46.89 to 70.33 Lightning Damage
base_skill_effect_duration [2800]
active_skill_cast_speed_+%_final [-20]


Could try to stack lightning res with Purity of Lightning and Elemental Army?

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Psycomantje wrote:

isnt burning legion on SRS way faster for clearing then putting it on skitterbots? Maybe together with minion instability? For smooth leveling, or bad choice?

You can just run through the Acts and almost everything dies from the infernal skitters.

You might be surprised how smooth levelling is with the 'flame army'.

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Mibgestalt wrote:

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FrooostyTheBlowman wrote:

With the right spectre/gem swap ele reflect maps are doable?

Honestly, because Rings/Pantheon aren't super crucial parts of these Spectre builds, if you really want to run Ele reflect maps, you can just have a Sibyll's Lament around to throw on your left ring socket + swap to Yugul pantheon for any ele reflect maps you find.

This gives you 100% ele reflect nullification for a very low cost, especially since you don't seem to mind swapping things around.

Shakari getting nerfed makes this an even less impactful swap, and Necro is one of the easier classes to get Chaos res on anyway. When I was doing map marathons in Delirium I just sat on Yugul for simplicity's sake.

Spoiler

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I had no idea there was a ring that negates 80% of reflect damage, that's huge. This might be worth a mention in the FAQ answer for reflect damage.

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Fixed a bug which caused the area of effect of Lightning Whip used by several monsters to get way too big.

Only one pageshows up when searching for "Lightning Whip" on poedb and that's the metamorph part list. In that list there's 3 mobs body parts that grant "Lightning Whip"

Slave Driver who uses SlavedriverFlameWhip which is Lightning Damage
Crazed Driver who uses KitavaSlavedriverFlameWhip which is Physical Damage
Lowlands Hopper who uses DustScrabblerLightningWhip which is Lightning Damage

Since it specifically mentions "several" monsters, I'm betting it refers to all 3. I could be wrong though.

EDIT: I guess looking through the spreadsheet there are more monsters that have XxxxLightningWhip, Scale of Esh and Shavronne's Greed. But since Slave Driver's metamorph part grants Lightning Whip as an ability I wouldn't dismiss it too easily.