Tactician, "Watch How I Do It" and Spectres

Per title above, Tactician's ascendancy node, "Watch How I Do It" does NOT apply to spectres. However, it does add damage to other skeletal minions.

I am able to replicate this by adding/removing main-hand weapon resulting in a tooltip change to skeletal minions, but no change to spectres.
It seems to have the same issue with totems/ballistas.

Thanks for your time and hope to have this issue fixed by next hotfix!
Last bumped on May 22, 2025, 6:36:56 PM
Bump in hopes this gets fixed in 0.2g patcn
Still broken.
bump, still broken
still broken.. bump
Just wanted to let you know that the damage bonus from "Watch how I do it" appears to affect only attack-based minions, spectres included. On frost and lightning skellies the node does not affect their dammage (as they only cast spells). On skelly warrior and for a spectre example "Ravenous Brute" use skills based off attack and thankfully show the skills' info in their tabs to verify. I confirmed that this node was working correctly on the Brute with a 2-handed hammer with big Phys, Fire, and Lightning flat rolls. Brute got a massive boost showing the attack modifiers and minion modifiers even boosted the flat dam bonus given to even higher numbers than my own hammer.

Quill crabs, on the other hand, I'm struggling to test as they do not have a skill page displayed when summoned and I cannot see any shock/fire effects when using weapons with those bonuses provided. Poe2db shows they should be attack based not casting a spell. My only guess would be poe2db doesn't count it or- if the minion doesn't show a bonus info tab outlining their damage profiles and effects then likely not worth risking.

Ravenous Brutes and Vaal Guards vs Frost Skelly are good examples of what attacks the node interacts with when working.

Not a solution but hopefully helps you with minion selection until all spectres get their attack panels updated in-game properly and not just some of them.

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