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Hemanse wrote:

My first time playing pure spectres and i have been having a lot of fun. My damage so far is pretty alright, nothing near what i see in videos, but that is most likely down to my mediocre gear.

My one problem right now is being very squishy. Anyone that would feel like taking a look at my character and maybe suggest some things?

Thank you in advance :)

What you could do is use a high level Steelskin gem and link it to your L/H mouse button so you have that skill up 100%. You may need another unset ring to fit that in. This build could easily use another 4 gem slots.
Having your AG properly set up with Kingmaker helps as well but is expensive.
Then you need to get a shield that gives "recover 5% of life when you block"
Extra chance to block spell damage on shield is good as well.

Good luck.

Edit: i did try the ""pure" version and found the loss of my zombies did hurt my survival, probably because of the way i play, so i went back to the basic version. Also using the ammy The Jinxed Juju helps but of course you cannot get +1 to all int gems with that.

Hi,
I have a character is SSF standard that is geared for Slave Driver (SD). How much better is the Syn Operative (SO) compare to SD?

If SO is only slightly better, it might not worth the switch.

Thanks

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TheWizz87 wrote:

Hello,

I'm trying to end my build ( lol ) but I'm a bit lost. Dont have much currency, got a lot of worthless..ex.
I want to kill boss faster or / and have more survavibility. I realy have problem with single DPS...

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What should I focus for? Jewel? Belt? Cluster?
And if I have to use cluster, what should I pick? Never used them, dont even know how to buy them

cheap ways are: remove predator from minion supports (zombie/golem) and put feeding frenzy + elemental army (the bonus from FF are 10% more and 10% attack and cast for ALL minions).

Elemental army will proc exposure too.

Cheap AG gives some dmg and move speed.

so with really few chaos, u can got nice dmg boost to bosses.


ps.: put 20% quality in gems helps a few too, gcp's are very cheap and u can recipe they.

pps.: a similar stygian vise belt will do +1 ghastly eye to got more stats (blind/taunt/hinder on minions, or life/es for u... or dex (for more haste lvl's) or attack/cast/dmg on minions!!

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egg911 wrote:

What jewels do you use for the base build? I should be using Slave Drivers as spectres, correct? Also would love any advice on my gear!

Yes, use Slave driver as spectres!


some changes to do in gear:

1- Wand with trigger socketed spells craft (to easy desecrate/offering/skells);
1.2- +1 lvl wand;

2- remove phys to light and put elemental army to apply light exposure and help slave drivers dmg;

3- got +1 spectre chest;

4- life recover on block in shield;
4.2- spell block on shield;

5- boots with +1 spectre lvl;

6- unset ring to cheap AG... cheap AG gives some dmg and move speed, its nice!
6.2- unset ring with +1/2/3 gem levels;

7- stygian vise with better life/res and ghastly jewel with minion stats and life/es for u;

8- some life and res in amulet and annoint it with death attunement;
8.2- +1 lvl to int gem skills;

9- rumi's flask!!



some tips are cheap a lot (1alc to 3c) and others are 'not so cheap'

but i think u can upgrade in that way and will do red maps fine (t16 bosses will be hard, maybe).



TREE CHANGES:

1- u not using cluster... but u can pick jewel slot near 'The Agnostic' (put ghastly jewel with some life/es for u and minion dmg/cast/attack or blind/taunt/hinder.

2- the node near 'Indomitable Army' u using down way with resists, ur slave drives have nice resists... change to the phys reduction!

3- For next levels (or pts u gain when annoint amulet) u can pick:
Sovereignty, jewel slots (near 'Stamina', near 'Risk Awareness', near 'Resolute Technique' or near 'Minion Instability'!!

4- Or change to 1 cluster passive tree (will need do many changes in this way).

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Hemanse wrote:

My first time playing pure spectres and i have been having a lot of fun. My damage so far is pretty alright, nothing near what i see in videos, but that is most likely down to my mediocre gear.

My one problem right now is being very squishy. Anyone that would feel like taking a look at my character and maybe suggest some things?

Thank you in advance :)

Change shield to rare one with spell block and recover life on block...

the Victario's Charity Shield work better in bosses using totems to got easy charges to minions... but they are in secondary weapons in many of Kay's videos!!

Sorry for the dumb question but for Spiders & Spectres, noticed that the PoB doesn't take Sovereignty so can't use two (50% mana reserved each) auras -- either Hatred+Haste for SO or Hatred+Zealotry for Snow Rhex, right?

Or am I missing something else in Kay's S&S PoB where there's some mana saved?

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iamDoudar wrote:

what can i upgrade it feels like i hit a wall and cant get anymore unless i spend +60ex and the increase doesnt justify paying that much.

I will try do some tips to 'not so expansive' upgrades:


1- Frostbite on hit ring instead profane proxy...

2- Maybe try got more unreserved mana to bonechil combo with skitterbots and enlighten linked with hatred/haste...

3- Maybe a hungry loop with carrion golem and put zombies/vaal skells in boots gem slot.

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EDMOSES wrote:

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Hemanse wrote:

My first time playing pure spectres and i have been having a lot of fun. My damage so far is pretty alright, nothing near what i see in videos, but that is most likely down to my mediocre gear.

My one problem right now is being very squishy. Anyone that would feel like taking a look at my character and maybe suggest some things?

Thank you in advance :)

What you could do is use a high level Steelskin gem and link it to your L/H mouse button so you have that skill up 100%. You may need another unset ring to fit that in. This build could easily use another 4 gem slots.
Having your AG properly set up with Kingmaker helps as well but is expensive.
Then you need to get a shield that gives "recover 5% of life when you block"
Extra chance to block spell damage on shield is good as well.

Good luck.

Edit: i did try the ""pure" version and found the loss of my zombies did hurt my survival, probably because of the way i play, so i went back to the basic version. Also using the ammy The Jinxed Juju helps but of course you cannot get +1 to all int gems with that.

Great thanks, will look into that. Should be pretty easy to find a ring that is better than what i have :) I might also just look into going back to the normal build with Zombies, they do add a nice meat barrier.

Just need a minion helmet, but getting good ones are massively expensive, but i guess a +3 minion and some life might be a bit cheaper. Going for damage ones really adds up in exalts.

Is the glove curse "invulnerability" any good or not really?
I ask because i want to drop "curse enemies with ele weakness"from my ring and replace it with +1 min endurance charge.

Sorry for the repeated questions

Edit: why don't we use "wintertide brand" seeing how it is a cold build?

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EDMOSES wrote:

Is the glove curse "invulnerability" any good or not really?
I ask because i want to drop "curse enemies with ele weakness"from my ring and replace it with +1 min endurance charge.

Sorry for the repeated questions

Do you mean Vulnerability?

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Curse all targets in an area, causing them to take increased physical damage. Attacks against the cursed enemies have a chance to inflict bleeding, and ailments inflicted on them will deal damage faster.

https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Vulnerability

It will help for Pure Physical.

It doesn't help for Cold conversion or other elemental damage.


You can get Elemental Weakness on your gloves though.