GhazzyTV's Spectre Summoner Necromancer Build Guide (Keepers of the Flame 3.27)

Introduction

The Spectres are back, baby!

Spectres in general can be a bit tricky. One should not forget that minion builds are the most complex genre of builds in Path of Exile. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know and then some.
Do not swap to full spectres until you have at the very least three spectres.

Below you can see the build from YouTube. However, you should always refer to this guide to make sure you have the most updated version. The video showcases the gameplay of the build, so make sure you give it a look!

Build Overview

In this section, I will outline the pros, cons, and the general playstyle. This will allow you to determine if the build is for you or not!

Pros

+ Laidback – As the Spectres do all the heavy lifting, we get to focus on dodging mechanics.

+ A Variety of Options – The build is showing the play style that I personally prefer. You can always change around and tweak this to your own liking.

+ Straightforward gear progression – It’s very plug and play as long as you have the helmet in the lower budgets.

Cons

– Minion Build – Since your minions are doing the heavy lifting, defensive layers such as leeching are not possible in this build; this means you don’t want to be having any kissing sessions with packs of enemies or bosses.

– Socket Starved – To be optimal with this build, you’re going to be extremely socket starved.

– Act Leveling – The current state of Spectres means you don’t want to transition to full Spectres until you have a minimum of three.

– Limitations – You can easily manage all 4 Voidstones in low and medium budgets. T17’s will be rougher until you’re in High Budget gear, depending on how closely you read map modifiers.

Playstyle

Early on, it is normal to be re-summoning your zombies before your gear and gem levels improve which can be a bit annoying in the early-stages of map progression. Once you’ve grabbed yourself a trigger-crafted weapon a lot of nuisances this build brings to the table is pretty much non-existent after that point.

Normally you don’t want to face-tank bosses but instead let your minions do the tanking.

In medium and higher budgets, we will be limited to Spectres only.

Damage Scaling and Defensive Layers

The damage scaling is all from ramping up the level of your Raise Spectre skill-gem and getting minion-related stats whilst we cover ourselves from both having an army of minions soaking aggro and stray projectiles with a high block % chance.

PoB and Passive Skill Tree

All my guides use Path of Building. We have a simple guide for you that shows how to import my build into Path of Building, you can find the guide here.

Here’s the PoB: https://pobb.in/H9VfgcXrZSA_

We cannot currently calculate the actual damage the Frosted Forgebearers are doing. They are in PoB, but PoB is bad at simulating shotgunning. This is why the count in the PoB is as high as it is, we need to simulate the shotguns forcefully.
The old saying rules “If your damage feels fine for the content you are doing, it is fine”.

You can find more information on our dedicated page.

PoB & Passive Skill Tree Page

Gearing

A lot of the endgame gear can easily be crafted, to learn how to craft as well as learn how to craft specific items check out my crafting guides here.

You can read more details about our gearing recommendations on the dedicated page, but for now you can see a summarized version below.

Gear, Jewel & Flask Page

Item Slot	Item Name	Rarity
Head	Life then res/attributes, +1-2 level of all minion skills	Rare
Amulet	The Jinxed Juju	Unique
Chest	Life then Res/Attributes as needed (Higher budget can get a Delve dropped chest with “+1 to maximum Spectres”)	Rare
Gloves	Life then Res/Attributes as needed	Rare
Boots	Bones of Ullr	Unique
Belt	Darkness Enthroned	Unique
Rings	Life then Res/Attributes as needed or Bone Ring	Rare
Weapon	Minion DMG with +1 level of spells and/or minion gems Wand	Rare
Shield	Rare with +1 level of all minion skills, life and preferably resistances	Rare or Unique

Ascendancy, Bandits and Pantheon

You can read about the recommended Ascendancy, Bandit choice, and Pantheon Power recommendations for this build on our dedicated page.

Ascendancy, Bandit & Pantheon Power Page

Leveling

Spectres are rarely usable in the early stage of the campaign as they need higher gem-levels, so before we get to that point we’ll be using Absolution all the way until level 65-70+ before making a switch to our beloved Spectres! If you are new, I would suggest looking at the levelling guide.

See this guide for levelling Leveling Guide Absolution

• Our step-by-step leveling walkthrough, which allows even more experienced players to save time and speed through the leveling process.
• Our guide to Unique Items for leveling, which helps you gear up your characters for the leveling process.
• “Our beginner leveling guide”: Beginner’s Guide which answers many of the questions new players might have and will set you on the right path.

FAQ

High budget

• How do I set up my defences for the higher budget?
  The high budget makes use of a combination of Sublime Vision, Watcher's Eye and Glorious Vanity to negate the downside of the Doryani chest. This requires some planning, and I’ll explain.
  Sublime Vision needs to be of the variant that interacts with Purity of Ice, to shift 30% of lightning and fire damage to cold.
  Glorious Vanity needs to be of the “in the name of Xibaqua” variety, to convert 50% of all elemental damage to chaos.
  Watcher's Eye needs to have the modifier “20% of fire and lightning damage taken as cold while affected by Purity of Ice”. It needs to be exactly 20%. No, you cannot use 19. It has to be 20.
  Combined they give us 50% of fire and lightning shifted to cold, and 50% shifted to chaos. This leaves us needing cold and chaos resistances, but no longer needing fire or lightning. As we now take 100% of our lightning damage as other sources, Doryani no longer hurts.

Final Notes

As much as I love making build guides, it is very crucial in a game like Path of Exile that you play the game the way you enjoy playing it. With that said, if you’ve made any tweaks to the build compared to what I’m showing in this guide I would love it if you’d posted it in the comments! It’s an effective way to show other approaches and it helps me grow as a build guide creator!

I hope you found the build guide useful and I wish you all many Divine Orb drops!