Poison Needle Horror Pure Spectremancer 3.27

PoBB link: Level 100 Raise Spectre Necromancer [3.27]

Quick 3 min Clip of a Fortress Map to give an idea of how it plays: Poison Needle Horror Spectremancer - Fortress Clip - PoE 3.27 KoTF

Hey Exiles,

Just wanted to share a build that I've been messing around with over the last week or so. I was initially playing poison HRoC but started to get bored with it, so I decided to play around with some different pure spectre setups because I wanted a really relaxed and lazy playstyle where I mostly just walk around and pick up loot. After trying a few different spectres I ended up landing on needle horrors.

The shell of the build is extremely similar to a typical HRoC setup in a lot of ways. Just to be completely honest though, this setup is not very cheap and I'm sure there are far more cost-effective options to blow currency on lol. I think it could probably work decently well on a more budget setup, but this definitely isn't in the budget category.

I've looked around online, and I can only find a couple different posts talking about using this spectre at all, especially in a poison setup. Of the few posts I did find, it seemed like most people were going with cold convert. Information on this build seems extremely limited so figured I'd share my setup in case anyone else ever decides to play around with this spectre.

Anyways, I've been having a lot of fun tinkering around with it and it has honestly turned out to be a pretty solid build. It isn't the best at anything, but it is pretty good all-around and has pretty good clear, damage, and is very tanky.

If anyone has any questions or suggestions to improve the build, please let me know! Like I said, information on this spectre is very limited, so it has been a lot of tinkering around in PoB and in game to feel things out and I'm sure there's probably ways to better optimize it that I haven't thought of yet.

Here are a few of the key highlights of the build (also included in the notes section of the PoB link):

7x needle horror spectres in the 6 link and 1x perfect warlord in the utility setup for vitality, endurance charges, and feeding frenzy.

Needle horrors have three skills that they use, one is a single projectile attack, one is a rain of arrows attack, and the final and most important one is a spell called AzmeriBarrageDemonSpinestorm (https://poedb.tw/us/Perfect_Needle_Horror#PerfectNeedleHorrorBarrageDemonHigh_). This spell is the ability that they use the most and is the one that we specifically scale in this build. This skill is essentially a fully physical version of firestorm which last 4 seconds by default and rains down projectiles every .09 seconds. With unholy might from the necromancer ascendancy, we convert this spell 100% to chaos and stack poison and wither on enemies very quickly. They also have very far targetting range with this spell and will regularly be casting it nearly off screen.

Note that it does not matter whether you use imperfect, regular, or perfect needle horrors. We do not care at all about any of the mods that you get with the higher versions on this spectre.

Level 1 ball lightning in svalinn with a level 1 greater multi proj paired with vitality LGoH watchers eye for a lot of LGoH and despair on hit when blocking.

Lycia bloodline for Bitter Heresy and rational doctrine for permanent profane ground, stand on the enemy to apply malediction and convocate minions to your location so that they gain chaotic might with 100% uptime possible since the effects of profane ground linger for 4 seconds due to rational doctrine.

replicating eshgraft with minion damage prefix for shocked ground and molten xophgraft for essentially a better molten shell.

elegant hubris timeless jewel in the socket directly to the left of the witch start to get 160% minion damage for 5 points (note this does make it more difficult to get enough intelligence to use a convoking wand).

I chose stranglegasp as my amulet to get more survivability for both myself and my spectres, ideally would want to corrupt this into a rare. But could also use a +3 spectre levels replica dragonfangs flight or uul-netols vow, either of these would be the higher damage options but would sacrifice survivability and cost extra points on the tree.