Critical effectively BRICKED ALL offhand rattling sceptres by failed spirit allocation bug
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I've got a dark defiler rattling sceptre with lv20 summon skeletons as my offhand and have 279 spirit, 30 used by ravenous swarm, leaving me with 15 summoned skeletons with the +1 minion support gem in place. After removing my wand, it crapped out killing off all my summoned skeletons even though I have 249 spirit spare. I can drop it back to 2 skeletons and they reappear, and I can click on the plus button to get more skeletons but they never appear and no spirit gets consumed. If I put the defiler into my main hand, I can summon 15 skeletons again.
Video of the spirit allocation bug https://youtu.be/OG1NWALkZ1A This is a critical component of my build and it effectively bricks it leaving me to find a lesser sceptre to replace it until it's fixed! Even replacing the sceptre with ANOTHER dark defiler limits me to just 2 skeletons. EDIT: Found the cause - equipping a dueling wand with spellslinger in it, and not equipping any spell in the spellslinger confuses it. Throwing any old spell gem into spellslinger is a workaround. Last edited by Ittaku#1103 on Sep 12, 2025, 5:30:53 PM Last bumped on Oct 19, 2025, 11:53:57 PM
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Temporary workaround was to use a different wand, but this is otherwise bricks my build if I hadn't figure that out. It appears spellslinger wand in main hand is what causes it.
Last edited by Ittaku#1103 on Sep 10, 2025, 3:06:00 AM
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It is constantly dropping the first 1-2 free summons even when it is working. Here's a quick video showing the 13 skeletons switching to 15 simply be re-equipping the sceptre.
https://youtu.be/9MJwg9W8Q-Y Last edited by Ittaku#1103 on Sep 22, 2025, 6:20:51 PM
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This bug remains, and I have to unequip and re-equip my dark defiler every couple of minutes to get the remaining 2 summons.
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Potential solution here: I was using an Abyssal Lich and I was using the passive that converts summoned minions into bonus spell damage or whatever. Point being, I was following a build (Deodre’s Despair) and the build guide and video were able to summon more than the base 2 minions while I was not able to.
I was using a Duelling wand as my main weapon and I had a scepter in my off-hand. I was unable to summon more than 2 minions. After an hour of scratching my head, I stumbled upon this quirky issue in the game - the dueling wand in my main hand did not have any SKILL gem inserted into it. Nor did it have any support gems inserted into the Duelling wand. I wasn’t trying to use anything regarding my main hand Duelling wand - it should not have interfered with my off-hand scepter. But the game wouldn’t let me increase my minions even though I had several hundred spare spirit. Solution? I inserted the skill and support gems into my main hand and magically the minions were able to be summoned from my off-hand. No relation between those two weapons or skills. So that’s not right. A terrible bug, but knowing the solution is a life saver. I hope this answer provides some solution to your issue. GL exile Last edited by HuffingFarts#7144 on Oct 17, 2025, 10:38:40 PM
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" Thanks, I gave up on the build. Switching the sceptre around all the time was doing my head in. |
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