Spectres not on the ground after unequipping helmet

Wanted to equip my new bought Spectre.

1) So i went to Einhar's menagerie.
2) Unequipped my wand (with my desecrate setup) to not consume a corpse.
3) Unequipped and reequipped my helmet, expecting to see my spectres on the ground.
4) All Spectres were gone (Perfect Hulking Miscreation, Perfect Spirit of Fortune, Perfect Forest Warrior) and nowhere to be found ("Corpse Targeting" is on "Always Enabled", Raise Spectre is in the action bar). I have looked in my hideout as well, nothing.

In the past it has always worked like this. The only change might be, that i unequipped the whole helmet, not only the spectre gem.

Same thing happened to me in the delve mine stash by niko... pretty sure the similarity is that we were in a 'hostile/combat ready' zone. Still feels like a bug to me.

Here is a similar one. Also in a "hostile Zone":

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3463135

I took out my spectre gem in the labyrinth to add xp to it via craft.
Spectres didnt drop on the ground. Went to hideout, different zones, nothing there. I just lost 5 expensive spectres.
This whole mechanic is absolute dogshit to be honest. Add them to desecrate already, if you cant fix the bugs. I'm sick of burning currency to bad/not working game mechanics.

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Jatin_GGG wrote:

Corpses only drop on the ground in the following cases:

• In Hideout when you lose the requirements for Raise Spectre Gem or unsocket the Gem.
• In the next combat area if you were to lose the requirements for Raise Spectre Gem or unsocket the Gem while in Town.

If you lose the requirements for Raise Spectre Gem or unsocket the Gem while in a combat area it'll behave the same as if they were killed and they will disappear.

Thanks for the reply. Can you explain why my spectres dissapred when visiting another player's hideout?

Also, was the combat area exclusion implemented recently? I was able to unsocket my Raise Spectre gem in A1 Cove several days ago and the corpses dropped to the ground.

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Jatin_GGG wrote:

If you lose the requirements for Raise Spectre Gem or unsocket the Gem while in a combat area it'll behave the same as if they were killed and they will disappear.

Thanks for the reply! But that is still odd, because i was able to unsocket the gem in the menagerie just fine before (some content creators even showcased switching spectres in the menagerie). I didn't even know it was considered a "Combat Area". I would suggest GGG streamlines the Spectre experience, a lot unwritten rules that can kill them and some really expensive new Spectres.

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Jatin_GGG wrote:

Corpses only drop on the ground in the following cases:

• In Hideout when you lose the requirements for Raise Spectre Gem or unsocket the Gem.
• In the next combat area if you were to lose the requirements for Raise Spectre Gem or unsocket the Gem while in Town.

If you lose the requirements for Raise Spectre Gem or unsocket the Gem while in a combat area it'll behave the same as if they were killed and they will disappear.

Any chance to add the divine font room to the list of 'safe' zones?

It's hot garbage to quality your spectre gem only to lose them.

All my spectres are gone again. I applied Armorer Scraps to my helmet (in my hideout) while it was still equipped. That also causes the spectres to get on the ground (tested this in Standard) and now they are also gone (noticed it too late)! Might then be consumed by my Flesh Offering auto setup.

It is really frustrating to be able to lose a lot of currency like this!

I was in menagerie, unsocketed the spectre gem expecting corpses to drop. Nothing happened. 4 spectres gone. This is so infuriating, especially in SSF where I'll just spend multiple days finding a new set. If that's even possible since my builds only does a fraction of the damage now, thanks for nothing.