Please help with gear progression on infernalist minion witch

Hi!

I`m a noob and have hit a point where I really struggle with deciding how to improve my gear. Upgrades are quite costly at this point and I`m scared to misplace my limited divs.

I run a minion infernalist with snipers as my damage skill. My question is mostly on how to effectively scale damage, I don`t really have a problem with survivability (lvl 95 with 25 deaths, last 3 from Arbiter). Do I improve my gems first? Do I go for regular ones or time-lost sapphires? Or do I buy a diamond jewel with + to sniper skill? Or do I buy a better weapon? Do I look for a helmet with +1 to minion skills corruption? Maybe I should get more spirit (not sure how without breaking my res balance though) to increase the amount of minions (18 snipers, storm mage, cleric, two warriors from the scepter)?

I've tried my best to look at various guides, installed PoB, but I'm still lost among all the various options. Maybe I'm missing something else entirely, I'm new to this game.

Here are my passive tree, jewels and gear for anyone kind enough to take a look and give some advice: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/pob/1jjnf054

Thanks.

edit: skill and support gems are as per this guide: https://maxroll.gg/poe2/build-guides/skeletal-sniper-infernalist-build-guide

The big question you have to ask yourself is what you actually want to achieve? Do you actually struggle with damage anywhere since you want more of it?

The guide you linked is pretty spot on in the gearing section about what to upgrade to achieve more offense. Level of your snipers is the most important. You already have a helm with +2 and a necklace with +3. Sceptre goes to +5 and of course the skillgem itself should be level 20.

Second most important is spirit as that means more snipers. There are multiple ways to get more for you here. Sceptre can go above 200 easily and hats have a corruption that can add 30 spirit. These two are probably the simplest to upgrade first although the sceptre will be fairly expensive, especially since other bonuses (+5 minion levels!) such as damage from minions should be on it as well. You should buy a corrupted hat rather than trying to corrupt it yourself. Your Oaksworn shield can also go to 60 spirit via corruption I believe (no point if that extra spirit doesn't actually give you an extra minion).

For jewels your next step would be to get at least two properly rolled mods working your way towards 4. If you study the guide you linked a bit more in depth you can hover over all the jewels in his tree and see what would be perfect to have. Also be aware that the jewels aren't all the same. You need one with ele resists for minions for example to max out your minion resists (if you don't happen to have it on the sceptre, which you kinda shouldn't have there). At the top of the tree you can also select two other passive trees for more lategame which include timelost and against the darkness jewels (check the mods on them as well).

Well rolled Ventors gamble rings plus ingenuity would be a super lategame investment.

If I were you I would look for a sceptre upgrade first, depending on your budget of course, as well as getting a corrupted hat with +2 to minion levels and a high spirit corruption (as well as whatever resists, ES etc. you need). Jewels would be the next step as you miss a lot of damage here. If you plan to later get a timelost and against the darkness jewel you can buy only three good jewels now. Most info you really need is in that guide which is probably why nobody has answered your thread here in so long.

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NupidStoob#4103 wrote:

The big question you have to ask yourself is what you actually want to achieve?

Yeah, you are right. I guess I wanted to spend my 25 div on gear upgrades as efficiently as possible. In the process of writing the post, reading your reply and more info on the web I realized that's just too small of a budget to make much difference.
I guess this is as far as i get :)

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NupidStoob#4103 wrote:

which is probably why nobody has answered your thread here in so long

I check with that guide regularly, probably I wanted some discussion with other players, but my questions were too basic. Thank you for taking time to write an extensive reply, I do appreciate that.