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What do you think about when you get close to level 70, to use Spellslinger with Desecrated + SpiritOffiring and any other skill. You can use this combo until you get the Trigger Socket Spell.

And it works very well with the new tree node Undertaker.

"Undertaker
30% increased Damage if you have Consumed a corpse Recently
Skills which create corpses have +2 to Maximum number of corpses allowed
Regenerate 2% of Life per second if you've Consumed a corpse Recently

(Recently refers to the past 4 seconds)"

First of all, thank you Kayella for your detailed guide and for sharing all your information and ideas with the community! I've been coming back here for ideas and answers to several of my questions over the course of several leagues and wanted to say that all your hard work is very much appreciated!

I remember reading that you mentioned a spectre bank at some point, but haven't been able to find a description what it is (apologies if I missed it in the guide). I wanted to ask you how you set up a "spectre bank" and if by any chance it might be possible to do so even in SSF? My guess would be that it's not possible, but I was hoping to be proven wrong :)

Also, I'm looking for some suggestions for the new league about some spectres that would go well as a starter spectre early on before switching over to redemption knights. Preferably using the same or similar gems and similar in behaviour. Do you have any suggestions about alternative spectres that could be up to the task up until I get my hands on those juicy RK:s? :)

Thanks again!

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brumpis wrote:

I'm looking for some suggestions for the new league about some spectres that would go well as a starter spectre early on before switching over to redemption knights. Preferably using the same or similar gems and similar in behaviour. Do you have any suggestions about alternative spectres that could be up to the task up until I get my hands on those juicy RK:s? :)

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kayella wrote:

Act 3:
4. Spectres - main damage dealers
Use a fire spectre: Cannibal Fire-Eater (Act 1 Ledge) or Flame Sentinel (Act 3 Battlefront)

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kayella wrote:

Act 3:
Can change spectre: Turong (delve)

- these have more HP so can switch if your spectres keep dying

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kayella wrote:

Can change spectre: Solar Guard (Act 8 Solaris temple)

hope that helps!

Noob question but how much resistance do you guys overcap by? I've seen so many different answers I'm not sure what's too much or too little.

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msilveirati wrote:

What do you think about when you get close to level 70, to use Spellslinger with Desecrated + SpiritOffiring and any other skill. You can use this combo until you get the Trigger Socket Spell.

And it works very well with the new tree node Undertaker.

"Undertaker
30% increased Damage if you have Consumed a corpse Recently
Skills which create corpses have +2 to Maximum number of corpses allowed
Regenerate 2% of Life per second if you've Consumed a corpse Recently

(Recently refers to the past 4 seconds)"

Undertaker does not increase minion damage, but your own damage, and because it is non-existent (you damage) in this build, it is worthless.
Another aspect is that spellslinger will reserve a good chunk of mana, and is not worth it, so you are better casting yourself or spamming Jun missions in order to unveil the trigger mod ASAP.

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brumpis wrote:

Also, I'm looking for some suggestions for the new league about some spectres that would go well as a starter spectre early on before switching over to redemption knights. Preferably using the same or similar gems and similar in behaviour. Do you have any suggestions about alternative spectres that could be up to the task up until I get my hands on those juicy RK:s? :)

Thanks again!

First of all, spellcaster spectres are a lot easier to use early on, thay scale based on gems that witches get inherently, such as spell echo, controlled destruction, elemental focus. This makes it easy to get a 6L going
Second, as far as i know, there are no melee spectres that would perform at the same level as Spellcaster Spectres do. At least early on.
And third, you can start leveling the support for RKs in your weapon swap once you got them, and when you finally get RKs just recolor your body armor for the new setup.

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Agahan wrote:

Noob question but how much resistance do you guys overcap by? I've seen so many different answers I'm not sure what's too much or too little.

Red map's mod "Players are cursed with Elemental Weakness" will lower your resists buy 39%, so 75+39 = 114 elemental resists is required to ignore that mod.
But, at the same time you can get cursed with Flammability/Frost Bite/Conductivity, that will stack with the Elemental Weakness from map mod. In order to solve this one problem, get a "Immune to curses" Flask, since overcaping the resists to overcome the said combo is too much of an investment for too less of a result.

Please notice that map mod "Players have -x% to maximum elemental resistances" will lower the cap, and will not be affected by the overcapped resists.

Excellent build. Had a lot of success with it last league!
Looking forward to the new version.

Thank you for your hard work!

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muramiri wrote:

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msilveirati wrote:

What do you think about when you get close to level 70, to use Spellslinger with Desecrated + SpiritOffiring and any other skill. You can use this combo until you get the Trigger Socket Spell.

And it works very well with the new tree node Undertaker.

"Undertaker
30% increased Damage if you have Consumed a corpse Recently
Skills which create corpses have +2 to Maximum number of corpses allowed
Regenerate 2% of Life per second if you've Consumed a corpse Recently

(Recently refers to the past 4 seconds)"

Undertaker does not increase minion damage, but your own damage, and because it is non-existent (you damage) in this build, it is worthless.
Another aspect is that spellslinger will reserve a good chunk of mana, and is not worth it, so you are better casting yourself or spamming Jun missions in order to unveil the trigger mod ASAP.


You are right. It's not works.
Thanks a lot for you explanation. :)

Hi all,

I have just run an SSF test using the leveling section until Dominus, it was absolutely fine. Anyone who has issues keeping minions alive should focus on gem levels.

What I did differently do to missing sockets is that combustion was linked to SRS. I used the following links:

SRS+Minion Damage+Combustion+Melee phys
Raise Zombie+Minion Speed+Melee phys
Summon Skitter+Infernal Legion+Minion damage
Raise spectre+Deathmark+Minion Damage

What I noticed is that minions die at Dominus unless you level yourself to node: Sacrifice, Indomitable army. If your reach these before Dominus you are good to go. But you can also use SRS only if other minions die. I completely skipped Skeletons and Holy flame totem due to missing sockets.
I used Cannibal Fire eaters.

@Kay: If you need any help with tests later on after any guide change, I mean not just leveling you can drop me a message ;)

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kayella wrote:

GGG generally never changes spectre abilities, so don't worry.

They nerfed fire-eaters by about 30% damage when they did their rework of act 1-6 :(
Im kinda scared.