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blastarus wrote:

Just did shaper, deathless for the first time ever in my poe career.
SD are the best.

Awesome.

Now you just need to push influence and give Uber Elder a go! Once you get the mechanics down pat, it's a fairly simple fight with SDs.

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Feurn wrote:

I dont know what im doing wrong. Im using the same trick on the video to summon my spectres with PoH and they still disappear when i switch weapon. Tried to summon with the same gem on my chest too and then switch back the gem in town to PoH, they still disappear. I cant figure out what im doing wrong. (Stats stay the same, i use same "emplacement" slot gem, same level, no mtx, removed my helm, etc).

Found the issue : i dont know why, but i changed my weapon now its working. Might be because i used an unique weapon and changed for white one. Thanks ^^

Was your summoning weapon fully linked? That's the only thing I can come up with.

Switching the Gem from chest to weapon in town will despawn it for sure. Raise Spectre must be in the same position and same equipment slot. So in my video I have RS in slot 1 in my 6L Pledge and slot 1 in my 3L wand.

ps. I really recommend spell cascade for the summoning wand. You get 9 corpses for a single cast and it really speeds up getting the one you want!

Hey genuinely loving this build. I've done Uber Elder in the past, but this has been the easiest and most lazy one i've done. Any tips to getting slave drivers in PoB to test dps? I have looked all over the Spectre list and cannot find Slave Drivers there. Thanks!

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JazaJ wrote:

Hi there, not sure if this question has been answered but reading through 300+ will take too long.

I am having problems keeping my specters alive, I've removed my zombies and just have my Slave Driver specters + my animated guardian and golem but the specters die literally with the first mobs I am encountering now in act 9. I haven't started using the Vis Mortis yet and I see their life pool will be even lower with that equipped.

Can I remove Spell Echo and use Minion Life?

Have you taken 'Invoker' ascendancy passive? Are you still using Wraithlord? Even if you are using a Tabula, you can keep wearing Wraithlord to give your specs +1000 life.

This will probably be the updated build tree: https://pastebin.com/5iy1LeyS

I've dropped Righteous Army in favour of Sacrifice/Spiritual Command for more spectre survivability.

Don't worry about the drop in DPS, this tree can still get you the 2min UE kill.

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Roflcats42 wrote:

Hey genuinely loving this build. I've done Uber Elder in the past, but this has been the easiest and most lazy one i've done. Any tips to getting slave drivers in PoB to test dps? I have looked all over the Spectre list and cannot find Slave Drivers there. Thanks!

Uberelite has provided a work-around for i84 Slave Drivers.

You will need to edit you 'Unending Hunger' jewel and paste this text into the box (completely replace the existing info):

Unending Hunger, 84 Slave Driver workaround
Cobalt Jewel
Unique ID: 6646eb37d8e29a92e2fcba9a58399b6b489339e16f2b2b68d140dd57ab215656
Item Level: 77
Radius: Medium
Limited to: 2
Implicits: 0
Minions have 8% increased Area of Effect
With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Raised Spectres have a 50% chance to gain Soul Eater for 30 seconds on Kill
Spectres have 15% reduced Cast Speed
Spectres have 50% more Cast Speed
Minions deal 840 to 2517 additional Lightning Damage
#Use Bearded Shaman, set ability to Shock Nova.
#Set spectre level to 84
#This estimates what I think the 84 Slave Drivers numbers would be if we had them.

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k_anak wrote:

I've been playing SD with a great satisfaction last 3 days.

Nice work!

what do you think of holy relic instead of stone golem?

it offers more health regen to AG, should be.

and just wondering why you don't use lightning penetration support for spectre?

Thanks a lot for your hard work!

Holy Relic only works when we hit with an 'attack' and not spells :(. It would work with shield charge, though...

I originally had Lightning Pen, but after calculations, we found that the single hit wouldn't crit for enough damage for Lightning Pen to exceed the damage of Elemental Focus. Also Ele Focus is more consistent damage because it's a straight 49% more.

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icovex wrote:

The only problem as on date is Uber Elder, time to time, i do not know, how it is really works, i've tried it 3 times yesterday. One time i farmed it with 1 death, 2 others i've died in a seconds with loosing all the SDs.

I'm thinkg about watcher's eye for me, but i think nothing is viable for this build, or?

Try this tree: https://pastebin.com/5iy1LeyS

This will most likely be the updated tree for the build. I've dropped Righteous Army in favour of Sacrifice/Spiritual Command for more spectre survivability. It's also important to have at least 1 jewel with minion leech, and minion life. I'll change the jewel recommendations in the next build update.


If you can find a way to run Haste Aura, I recommend Phasing/Dodge while affected by Haste. Perma-phase will eliminate any body blocking and improve survivability from being able to always move.

I keep adding defense things and SDs still seem to do plenty of damage. Switched to Mistress of Sacrifice, bone offering, and took a few shield block passives. Have 8.2k HP, Fortify from AG and enfeeble as second curse. 25% phys damage reduction, 47% block, 38% spell block.



Any other defensive things I could add?

I've added some new videos to my youtube channel that people may be interested in.

I've seen some questions about raising spectres while using Pledge of Hands. I've recorded my own short video here:

https://youtu.be/45L0xTzSjCQ

Note that I have a level 20 Raise Spectre in slot 1 of my Pledge and I also have a level 20 Raise Spectre in slot 1 of my summoning wand.

(Summoning wand is Raise Spectre + Faster Casting + Desecrate. Wand also has Spell Cascade as a pseudo link)


You can also watch Uberelite's original video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78i3P2W4mmQ


I also added an Uber Elder kill at level 73.

https://youtu.be/Yum3XTareUU

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kayella wrote:

There is a summoner discord channel but it's kind of dead, you'll find more theorycrafting here. Most of the theorycrafting for this build is done right here. If there's some major development or great idea, I test it out and add it to the build. I also bounce ideas with Uber on discord.

I'm not sure exactly how Uber has built his, but the most aoe you will get is with Pledge + Spell Echo + Inc AOE. You could get more coverage by replacing Inc AOE with Summon Phantasms, but when I tried that I got severe client/server lag. See how it goes for you.

SRS with Unleash might work. If you test it, I'm sure everyone will be interested in your findings. I personally am running defensive stuff in my body armour.

I actually haven't tried the Inc. AoE yet. I'll give it a shot.

It's just nice to have SRS to pick up the leftovers since the spectres AI seems very tight, even if there are mobs on screen they don't attack unless i ask them to.

So what i would be giving up is the totem, EE and conductivity. I keep the golems and guardian. I might even include Tavukai. Then run SRS on a 5L in the body, SRS, Minion Damage, Melee Phys, Melee Splash and Unleash.