Level 100 LL Raise Spectre Puppeteer^{3.25.alternate}

Notes

TIPS AND TRICKS

Minion levels are the most important thing in a minion build, it adds a lot of survivability and damage.

You can use light radius energy shield mastery for quality of life if you prefer to play maps with dark layout.

Raise Zombie of Slamming is better after level 28-30 Zombies. Your build needs to be setup well for them to survive high juiced maps.

You need 1000 strength for leech to work.

DO NOT USE MONTREGUL WITH BRUTALITY, use ruthless instead. It disables Mon'tregul explosions.

You can (should) use brutality with a +2 wand.

I recommend using Perfect Warlord if you can tolerate his sounds as it greatly increases your survivability.

Use absolution until you realize zombies are clearing enough that you don't need to use absolution anymore.
Get an animate guardian as soon as you can. It provides decent damage to everyone. Make sure your ag gem is at least ~18 level, link it with meat shield while starting out. Updated the pob for animate guardian, check it in the items section.
Try to fix your resistances and switch purity of elements to determination. If the damage is fine but not tanky enough, keep purity for a while and switch haste-determination instead.
Get a 5 link chest. You can use geofri before switching to ghostwrithe. I tend to get +2 minion corrupted geofri and 5 link it with tainted orbs. Most of the time its cheaper. You can also use a decent rare chest with right colors until geofri.
While hitting the red maps, start to collect medium cluster jewels. See the gear progression video for alternative cheaper versions.
If red maps are hard, keep farming low yellow maps until you have decent gear and open the atlas in the meantime.
Keep using Sacrifice and Righteous Army notables until you think your minions are tanky enough. Usually until red maps, then deallocate.
Block chance for minions is mandatory for high juiced maps, delve or simulacrum. Use either impossible escape-decay ward or bone offering
Medium cluster's are very important. Get at least four with dread march-(renewal or feasting fiends/hulking corpses)
Minion leech is another good form of defence for your children
Make sure to get a minion taunt jewel.
Use convocation often, make it a habit
Use delve setup in the pob for your animate guardian. Asenath has great defensive aspects and it is arguably the best explode option. (3% guaranteed explosions vs ~30% chance of 10%.)
Blind from Asenath's, sand stance and garb of the ephemeral provides a great solution to critical strikes.

Progression after hitting the maps:

Fix resistances and get 1k str. 10-15c should be enough for all. Use purity of elements for a while.
Get two large cluster jewels with at least +3 attribute (can be found for 1c each): https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Phrecia/pzyrprvH0
Get animate guardian, link it with meat shield. Make sure at least level 17-18
5 link chest, rare is fine
Drop purity of elements and get determination
Get tempest shield, drop precision and herald of purity
Get taunt ghastly jewel with str
Get Perfect forest warrior (2 carnage, 1 PFW, 1 Host)
Get burn flask, bleed flask, granite flask before the switch.
Get 3-4 medium cluster jewels, very important for t10+ (Dread march + Feasting Fiends (or renewal)
Upgrade wand, get +1 minion/+1 all spell. Maata is a good alternative.
Enchant flasks
Switch to the endgame version.

Endgame upgrades

start with maata +2
+2 asenath + windscream
6 link
lvl 20/20 zombie
lvl 3 empower
dread march/renewal x 4
baron +4
amulet/anoint
+2 wand
Watcher's eye (phasing/haste is a great quality of life.)
21/20 Zombie, Spectre, Animate Guardian.
Get awakened gems for minions. Use wild brambleback to level up the awakened gems.
empower 4
better belt and rings
grand spectrums
21/20 purity trinity with +2 shapers touch (you don't need 21 if you have +1 all spell wand)

Pantheons:
Use Brine King / Ralakesh
If you have stun threshold mastery (energy shield) use lunaris for better ms/phys reduction.

Videos:
- Gear upgrade video for budget builds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX4H1yCo2a8&t=0s
- Build explanation: https://youtu.be/nlIs28Tdufg
- How to craft endgame rings: https://youtu.be/SvGVfvVNZ6I
- My Butler's Funeral: https://youtu.be/fAEfpKo75a4

v3.25.06 - Phrecia Event:

- Add level 100 build.

You don't need impossible escape for t16's, it's nice for t17's but not necessary. Avoid Abomination until you got it though, final boss is dangerous for minions. Sanctuary is nice.


v3.25.05 - Phrecia Event:

- Add Level 94 build.
- We are using Perfect Blood Demon, Perfect Forest Warrior, Carnage Chieftain (or Perfect Dancing Sword) and Host Chieftain


v3.25.05 - Phrecia Event:

- Fix level 75 build skills.
DO NOT USE BRUTALITY WITH MONTREGUL! IT DISABLES THE EXPLOSIONS!
- Minor bug fixes on leveling skills.
- Updated animate guardian gear.

v3.25.04 - Phrecia Event:

- Trees are updated to Phrecia along with ascendancy classes.
- Some minor fixes on leveling skills.

v3.25.02 - Phrecia Event:
- Removed lab enchantments from some items.
- Removed some alternate quality gems appearing in the build even though the names are different.

v3.25.01 - Phrecia Event:
Changes:

- Updated the build with the new Puppeteer ascendancy.

   PoB supports the new trees with the jewel, thats why we use 3 extra points to simulate the stats.

- Removed maata from endgame builds

v3.23.01:
Changes:

Made some adjustments and fixes on the leveling skills and the tree.
Level 75 build tree and skills have changed, should be more smooth now.
- Use haste while leveling before you can fit pride in the auras.
Disabled feeding frenzy for bossing dps correction.
Increased children counts on endgame builds due to quality changes.

Build Video:
https://youtu.be/Ec2vo6vC0ao

v3.22.16:
Changes:

Polished the build.
Removed greatwolf from leaguestart and mid tier versions.
New gem quality changes should provide us the same amount of children now.
Added hematophagy to the love story version.

Build Video:
https://youtu.be/BlIobDPmDkM

v3.22.13:
Added Deep Delve Build.

Changes:
My Butler's delve gear
Anomalous animate guardian gem for aoe on explosions
Impossible Escape
Split Personalities
Fortress Covenant
Bastion of Hope
Drop immutable force
Tree changes for better survivability.
Switched to a safer flask setup for delve, less movement speed but better ehp.
Changed increased critical strikes support to awakened melee physical damage.

This is my 800 depth version, I will update it as we go further.

Spectres are 2x Host Chieftains and 2x Carnage Chieftains.

Use the matching animate guardian gear if you are delving!

Build Video:
https://youtu.be/fAEfpKo75a4


v.3.22.12:
Added new tree and gear setup for those who can't find an attribute greatwolf.
You can use the dragonfang setup until you get a greatwolf.
With the reservation and lord of the dead anoint on it, It should only cost you one child.
Strength will be an issue without greatwolf, but we can fix that too with a split personality.

There are some tricks you should now:
Try to get at least 13% reservation efficiency dragonfang, this is the cheapest option.
If you got a lesser roll, your first alternative is to use anomalaous precision.
Second alternative is to get level 4 enlighten in your purity setup.

Spectres are changed now to:
2 carnage chieftains.
2 host chieftains.

We are letting go the demon harpies as their burst has very little uptime, carnage chieftains feel superior.

Fixed damage inflations, now what is shown is the pure damage we have.
You should switch feeding frenzy and use predator on big delve bosses, as it has good damage output.
Vaal haste is a great buff once activated, but I'm also disabling that one in the default trees. Toggle to see the difference it makes.

Build Video:
https://youtu.be/nlIs28Tdufg



v.3.22.10:
Endgame and delve update.

Use 2 Host Chieftains and 2 Demon Harpies as your spectres.
Use Animate Guardian Delve Gear for your butler.
Use Ghostwrithe switch items, tree and skills to start up the Zombie Father, then upgrade your gear as you get currency.
Try toggling the items and skills to see what makes the difference in damage.
Your first upgrade should be getting grand spectrums, they are very cheap.

Build Video:
https://youtu.be/nlIs28Tdufg


v3.22.4:
Add Love Story mid tier build.

See this video about the build explanation and changes.
Build Video:
https://youtu.be/l7KVLpH9HI4

v3.22.3:
Add budget build and gear, as well as my implementation gear and leveling trees.
We use montregul's now for budget and we have minimal tree changes.
Added several new skill and gear setups while leveling it.
Added budget animate guardian gear.

See this video for upgrade order for your gear.
Build Video:
https://youtu.be/JX4H1yCo2a8

Use haste and purity of elements before you fix your resistances and get your reservation jewels.
Then drop purity and switch to determination, and add pride aura.

v1.0.1
Leveling tree in 77-92:

Try to get a large cluster jewel, a reservation jewel 
and a small mana cluster jewel with destructive aspect. 
(You can also use pure might or sublime form, but you have to switch the one you will use with the pride in boots, hence lose generosity buff.)
It should have minimum of 3 points to allocate.

See this video for how to search for a reservation jewel (reservation tricks chapter) and some other tips.
https://youtu.be/celuWa8wUrk

This will make you be able to use all the auras in the build.
If you are struggling with resistances, and most probably we will at start, drop haste and use purity of elements.

Endgame:

This is the tricky part and it will depend on your currency situation.
Do not make the switch unless you have your jewels.

Import your character to pob, bring in the jewels you will purchase and make sure you pass 1000 strength.

If you struggle finding a jewel with 8+ str and +35% effect, get two jewels with lesser strength, aim for 1000 strength.

Upgrade your jewels as you go along. Look for resistances, life and all attributes besides strength.

Gear:

Use cyclopean coil with 18% attributes while starting out.
30% reservation efficiency on shield is mandatory for auras (for now).
You can use purity of elements and get haste after your fix your resistances.

Build Video:
https://youtu.be/qvnHkXWvyYQ

If there is a mistake in the pob, let me know in the comments.
See you next time!