Losing Perfect Dark Marionette Randomly

It has happened to me two times. My 2 Perfect Dark Marionettes just despawn out nowhere. I don't have my Raise Spectre skill in my hot bar so I don't accidently press it. I think it has something to do with using the portal to hideout. This second time I noticed it quick since it's the second time it has happened to me.

I was inside the wilds and spawned a hideout portal during mapping, because my inventory was full. I was using the 2 spectres to fight and when I came back to the instance I noticed that they were not there.

I checked the portal in my hideout and the portal in the instance to see if they dropped near there. They were not around. These spectres are supposed to die and come back, so its not likely they were killed like other regular spectres.

I am reporting this because at the moment Perfect Dark Marionette are like 35c each to trade. That's already 140c I have lost. And I need to buy a pair for 70c.

I also had this problem multiple times (I already bought 10+ somehow), typically happened if I unequipped/lost level of raise spectre, causing me to lose 1-3 of the marionettes, for example:
- it happened in the lab during a weapon swap, I could not go back for them, I lost 2 there
- I went to the bestiary, put the weapon to the beastcraft socket, lost 1 level of raise spectre, and lost 1 dark marinette, there was no corpse anywhere
- also happened during trades in someone else's hideout randomly

Quite frustrating... The proper solution would be for the unsummoned special spectres to go to the inventory if there is room for them, or appear in the hideout even if they were lost somewhere else.

Just changed my Affliction ascendancy and somehow all my auras turned off and my 3 perfect marrionettes are now gone...........

Happened to me today, logged out all were fine. Logged in 2 hours later all gone.

same here I have lost 3 sets of them in my hideout, just gone after changing gear

I've been having the same issue, I haven't been weapon switching and I haven't removed any gems. the build is fun but it's annoying having to keep buying them.

I have lost 8 perfect dark marionettes (paid betweeen 100 and 130 chaos each).2 times I lost randomly in hideout and 1 times in lab I lost 5 at once I took out the gem to to add experience to the gem from the divine font, since they did not fall on the floor, also I did unsocket all the desecrate gems and the wand with trigger craft and the infernal legion so they do not keep exploding.

Then now again in lab I changes from one area to the next and went from 7 spectre's to 6 bug number reference 32700956773.
Thanks for adding these improved ways of managing spectre's I really hope you make even more quality of life improvements for spectre's


My humble suggestion of the cuff would be to give players a hideout coffin stash that stores only spectre gems so you can keep maybe 10 spectre's which you can swap in or out of your build, and allow deletion if you need a new spectre you can delete one or buy a new one and place it in the coffin. If your spectre dies, and it's not a marionette that respawns, I don't see the harm in being able to resummon it from any of the ones in the spectre coffin.

One point to note is, I only tried this build because of the poe build of the week, you should have bug free builds of the week please ;)

Correction, I now lost 15 marionettes in total, because I also lost all 7 at once respec-ing into primal huntress from warden of the magi and now my build is busted useless and I don't feel like spending any more currency on this non-sense way of handling spectres. Going to to see if I can get some other minions going, but seriously GGG this is super disappointing.

its happened to me 2 times and i have absolutely no idea what happened for loosing them..i will have to put this build on the ice ..sadly