Path of Exile

Started a char on the new league and playing pretty slowly, as usual while I was excited by various stuff when it was announced, watching them on stream didn't look that interesting so went summoner again.

Trying out the new unique jewel that makes spectres short duration but give them 1000%crit and +2max spectres. It seems pretty strong so far for a side 4L thing, with all the duration stuff it lasts 44secs which isn't great but ok-ish, I'm using generic supports for it, specifically minion damage, crit damage and minion life(since a bunch of what you summon turns out to be melee or whatever, although I'm considering dropping it for something else just not sure what), the 1000%crit seems to basically give them 100%crit rate so they do quite a lot of damage, just need to make sure to not summon some of the really bad models so it's a bit annoying.

I was planning on AW with it but seeing as how you have to spend some time fiddling with the corpse thing to summon the right stuff, I'm thinking maybe SRS instead.

Abyss is pretty cool, you get a ton of loot from it so that's nice, very worth doing especially when the depths spawn since this place has a ton of loot, and I like that I have so many good jewels to use(although it makes the passive tree choices a bit stupider since in most cases spending 3points for +20random stats and a jewel is better than most other shit).

Caliane said:

soul wick seems made for the Unearth skeleton archers. no randomness with bodies. you get skel archers every time, to make spectres out of.
Summon hit % was always an issue. "always hits" is massive for mirror arrow builds. so, I do wonder how that works for the +crit of soul wick.

Cause you know its archers every time, you can then throw in gmp, peirce, etc.

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Well apparently the dev who made the jewel said it wasn't made with Unearth in mind, he just liked the leveling spectre thing where you picked up random spectres as you progressed. Although with the new desecrate that kinda doesn't seem to be a thing anymore, before I used the jewels I just sticked to the same spectre and resummoned them when they died with Desecrate at the proper level.

I also don't think archers are that great. As you pointed out, accuracy is still an issue but only for attacks. Any spectre using spells doesn't give a fuck and I've been mostly trying to raise casters and shit. You can do it with archers I guess but at that point you might as well just do normal spectres and pick up solar guards instead, since that's going to be better than generic skeleton archers anyway.