Spectres in Path of Exile (PoE) have traditionally been the dominion of minion-focused builds. However, the recent changes in PoE 3.23 Affliction League, including the ability to purchase corpses from vendors in Wildwood, have opened up new possibilities. This guide will explain how to integrate Spectres into non-minion builds, turning them into a powerful asset for any character.
PoE 3.23 Best Spectres for All Builds & How To Setup Spectre on Non-Minion Builds
Today, we aim to discuss Spectre setups in non-minion builds, clarifying their functions and highlighting their remarkable impact. It's noteworthy that in this league, we can procure corpses directly from vendors in Wildwood. These aren't ordinary corpses; they are Spectres that can be resurrected to confer a variety of benefits upon your character.
Previously, you might have overlooked these as solely pertinent to Minion builds. However, we're here to demonstrate that they are, in fact, applicable to virtually any build. The advantages they provide are extraordinarily powerful. It's akin to having a team of Bots by your side, along with two extra auras, all for the modest investment of a four-link setup and a flask.
So now we'll talk about the different Spectres you can employ in your builds, including those not centred around minions, and we'll provide strategies to ensure their survival.
PoE 3.23 Spectre Setup for Non-Minion Builds
Minion builds are going to have their setup, they don't have to worry so much about keeping them live because they're more invested in minion life and that kind of stuff. So here is just going to be a setup for non-Minion builds and how to essentially make sure that you are keeping your minions alive:
We are using a four-link setup with a flask for setting up the Spectre for any non-minion build:
Gems:
Raise Spectre
Minion Life Support
Meat Shield Support
Elemental Army Support
This setup is going to give your minions more life and make them be more like defensive around you. So Meat Shield essentially makes sure that the minions stay close to you when they're not actually attacking anything and of course it gives them additional life. Elemental Army gives them a maximum resistance as well as ton of resistance so that their resistance cap basically just from this. With this setup, your minions become very tanky and they're going to be more playing passive - staying close to you so they're going to not going to be running into things.
Flask:
Essentially you're going to want to pair that with a life flask with the modifier: Grant high percentage of Life Recovery to Minions, meaning that every time you use your flask, it's going to also heal your minions as well as yourself. Of course this is going to take up a prefix slot, so you're not going to have an instant flask or something like that, but it's definitely a worthy investment because it allows you to keep your minions alive and it also of course as previously mentioned gives you additional auras and so much damage or utility right.
PoE 3.23 Best Spectres For Non-Minion & All Builds
So now you get Spectre Setup on non-minion builds, here are the best Spectres to use:
1. Perfect Warlord
Endurance Charges: Can generate Endurance Charges, which typically provide resistance to physical damage and elemental resistances for the player and minions.
Vitality Aura: Radiates an aura that grants health regeneration to the player and allies, enhancing survivability.
2. Perfect Hydra
Hatred Aura: Offers an aura that increases the cold damage of the player and allies, which can also chill and potentially freeze enemies.
Costly and Less Utility: Despite its powerful aura, it is more expensive to maintain, possibly due to higher mana reservation, and offers less versatility compared to other Spectres.
3. Perfect Pain Artist
Zealotry Aura: Provides an aura that increases spell damage and critical strike chance for the player and allies.
Critical Strike Multiplier: Additionally grants a bonus to Critical Strike Multiplier, amplifying the critical hit damage dealt.
4. Perfect Blood Demon
Pride Aura: Casts an aura that increases physical damage taken by nearby enemies, which scales over time as they stay in range.
Corrupting Blood: Has abilities related to the Corrupting Blood debuff, which stacks bleeding damage on hit.
5. Perfect Judgmental Spirit
Discipline Aura: Offers an aura that significantly increases the energy shield of the player and allies, which is particularly useful for energy shield-based builds.
6. Perfect Primal Thunderbird
Grace Aura: Provides an aura that greatly enhances evasion, improving the dodge chance of the player and allies against enemy attacks.
7. Perfect Spirit of Fortune
Wrath Aura: Emits an aura that increases lightning damage dealt by the player and allies.
Lucky Lightning Damage: Nearby allies' lightning damage is lucky, meaning that when determining damage effectiveness, the higher of two rolls is used, resulting in higher average damage.
8. Perfect Guardian Turtle
Determination Aura: Projects an aura that significantly increases armor, helping to mitigate physical damage.
Physical Damage Reduction: Offers additional physical damage reduction, which can be crucial in leagues with heavy physical damage threats.
9. Perfect Naval Officer
Precision Aura: Grants an aura that increases accuracy and critical strike chance for the player and allies.
Fortification: Provides a significant bonus to fortification, which could either refer to increasing fortify effect or offering some form of damage reduction.
Perfect Eldritch Eye/Frozen Cannibal/Fiery Cannibal
Purity Auras: Each of these Spectres grants one of the various Purity Auras, which provide resistance to elemental damage (fire, cold, or lightning) and can also provide maximum resistance caps.
10. Perfect Forest Warrior
Culling Strike: Offers the ability to instantly kill enemies that fall below a certain percentage of health, which is especially beneficial for finishing off bosses.
Onslaught: Grants the Onslaught buff, which increases attack speed, cast speed, and movement speed, useful for both clearing and bossing.
11. Perfect Needle Horror
Impale Effect: Enhances the effect of Impale, a debuff that causes additional physical damage to be taken on subsequent hits, and this bonus is always active.
12. Perfect Runic Skeleton
Physical Attack Damage: Provides a boost to the player's physical attack damage, which can be beneficial for melee and some ranged attack builds.
13. Perfect Hulking Miscreation
Extra Physical Damage as Lightning: Converts some of the physical damage dealt into lightning damage, enhancing overall damage output.
14. Perfect Half-Remembered Goliath
Skill Effect Duration: Increases the duration of skill effects, which can be particularly advantageous for skills that have effects over time, like caustic ground or duration-based buffs.
16. Perfect Spider Matriarch
Withered Effect: Enhances the effect of Withered, which is a stacking debuff that increases chaos damage taken, synergizing well with chaos damage and poison builds.
17. Perfect Druidic Alchemist
Life Flask Charges: Periodically grants life flask charges, which can help maintain life flask uptime and thus sustain in combat.
18. Perfect Blasphemer
Smite: Uses the Smite skill, which hits an enemy and grants an aura-like buff that adds lightning damage to the attacks of the user and nearby allies.
The effectiveness of each Spectre can depend on the specific build and the synergy with other game mechanics. We encourage you to try a Spectre setup in their builds. It stresses the importance of using high-level and high-quality gems to enhance minion survivability. There is a warning that if Spectres die, they need to be repurchased, which can be inconvenient. The advice is to start with cheaper Spectres to test the setup before heavily investing. If the setup works well, then it's recommended to invest more into it.
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