Itemized Spectre's are extremely frustrating.

I never play minions. Minions are a weird and unique playstyle that can be very daunting to play in Path of Exile, especially when compared to more straight-forward styles like spell casting, ranged, or melee.

I decided to take the plunge and start a minion build. I invested quite a bit of time and currency this league to build up a skeleton mage Necromancer. Part of my build utilizes Raise Spectre to get support minions for their powerful buffs.

I found out some of the spectres in the game are itemized and either must be found in league content or traded for with other players. I also painfully found out there is a bunch of different ways to accidently delete your itemized spectres.

The first accidental deletion of a spectre happened to me was when I went to swap my weapons to grab a gem I was leveling in my offhand. This immediately dropped my skill level for my Raise Spectre gem down to a level where I can only support three spectres instead of four. My 2+ divine orb valued spectre immediately evaporated with no corpse to resurrect. After doing a bit of googling I found out that itemized spectres do not produce corpses in certain instances, thus cannot be resurrected.(This is to protect the economy on itemized spectres I guess)

The second accidental deletion of a spectre happened when I was trying to annoint a ring for blight league content. I had to remove the ring to annoint it, this dropped my dexterity stat to a level that forced a couple pieces of gear to unequip. This gear included my helmet that provided bonuses to minion gem level and my raise spectre gem instantly killing all my spectres and lowering my max spectre count to just 2. This killed my forest warrior and provided no corpse to resurrect it.

I dont really have a solution as I am not a game designer, just venting my frustrations and hoping GGG will do something to fix this problem. Maybe if an itemized spectre dies, it goes into your inventory or drops on the ground as an item. Or maybe create an interface or minion "library" that can store a limited amount of spectres to be summoned. This library could be stored on the Raise Spectre gem or something.

This whole spectre management is just to much of a hassle currently and has really derailed my desire to continue playing this league.

Thanks.