[3.x - Discontinued for now] Burning Spectres - Torch the Atlas - HC Shaper, Elder, Uber Atziri

Short question: My zombies are always dying when i'm doing guardians, etc. Am i doing something wrong or is it just "normal"?

Thanks!

Hi! I've done a character according to your build by expensive gear. But spectres usually die and damage less than yours. Could you help me, what I've done wrong? Thats my profile. Thank you. https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/GGPharmacist/characters

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OberstGruber wrote:

Short question: My zombies are always dying when i'm doing guardians, etc. Am i doing something wrong or is it just "normal"?

Thanks!

Normal. Zombies are very temporary meat shields.

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GGPharmacist wrote:

Hi! I've done a character according to your build by expensive gear. But spectres usually die and damage less than yours. Could you help me, what I've done wrong? Thats my profile. Thank you. https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/GGPharmacist/characters

You're not doing a whole lot that's wrong, to be honest.

Your jewels are messed up. You want jewels with life or mana - your mana acts as life through Mind over Matter on the tree - and minion percentage damage. Flat damage doesn't help, and damage types other than fire also don't help.

You took the Spirit Eater ascendancy, which doesn't help as much as you might think. Minions deal increased damage, sure, however, the 40% increased damage only affects you, not your minions, and you don't deal much damage. Same for the increased attack and cast speed, it only affects you. I'd suggest respeccing that to Commander of Darkness, which gives you the same damage bonus as long as you have an aura up - Clarity is cheap - plus it's attack and cast speed applies to both you and your minions, and you get a bonus 20% elemental resistance, so you can ditch that minion elemental resist gem.

Lastly, you've picked up Tukohama's Fortress and Necro Aeigis on the tree. This was fantastic... last league. They nerfed this combination for 3.1, so now your minions only cast one totem each unless you add in increased duration, which drops you back to an effective 5L. I'd suggest either changing shields to Victario's Charity, or re-speccing entirely out of necro aegis and picking up one of the new shields with high block percentage and life or mana gain on block.

PS: If your spectres are dying ... well, they shouldn't be. For example, I've lost one spectre since level 40, and I'm up to level 90 with over 5 days of playtime with this toon. Your desecrate gem is high enough level, and so is your raise spectre gem. Are you summoning your spectres in a high level area?

Question: Should i rather get an (affordable) 5 link Vis Mortis or keep Tabula Rasa? 6 link vis mortis is currently at 8 EX on Abyss, and that means it is unaffordable to me for weeks.

Uber Atziri is freaking hard with this build ... the AOE wrecks the spectres :( any tips? has anyone been successful on UA?

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NewLanatir wrote:

Question: Should i rather get an (affordable) 5 link Vis Mortis or keep Tabula Rasa? 6 link vis mortis is currently at 8 EX on Abyss, and that means it is unaffordable to me for weeks.

5L Vis Mortis for sure.

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spark_Kegs wrote:

Uber Atziri is freaking hard with this build ... the AOE wrecks the spectres :( any tips? has anyone been successful on UA?

Absolutely. The only really hard thing to do with this build is Hall of the Grandmasters.

Your characters are marked as private, so we can't check.

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spark_Kegs wrote:

Uber Atziri is freaking hard with this build ... the AOE wrecks the spectres :( any tips? has anyone been successful on UA?

Skullhead

By the way, about victario charity shield.

With the thing about how burning damage of our spectres works, we don't even need necro aegis for that. All death by TV's totems count as your kills (we have a proof with spectral wolves from scourge), so victario charity basically more effective without NA, than with it.