Build "Desecrate + Volatile Dead" still usable?

Read the patch about the Desecrate change 3x.

Looks like I can't create bodies with Desecrate for Volatile Dead any longer.
I use this 2 skills with Cylone and "Cast while channeling".

Not very strong but ok, you don't need to hit an enemy.
So it's a caster build with auto aiming.

Is there another option to get many many corpses from the void?

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Jerexil wrote:

Read the patch about the Desecrate change 3x.

Looks like I can't create bodies with Desecrate for Volatile Dead any longer.
I use this 2 skills with Cylone and "Cast while channeling".

Not very strong but ok, you don't need to hit an enemy.
So it's a caster build with auto aiming.

Is there another option to get many many corpses from the void?

Desecrate Dead is fine, and still works for Volatile Dead. The change was specifically concerning the corpses of Spectres that you introduce into a zone beyond its normal monster pool, which people continually abused to bring super high life critters into every zone to cause shenanihijinx with Detonate Dead. Now, whenever Desecrate or whatever else spawns a corpse introduced into the monster pool via Spectres, that corpse is a spectral corpse that can't be detonated or otherwise monkeyed with, only used to create spectres. If you weren't using spectres your build is entirely unaffected.

I wouldn't get too comfy with that sort of build for Path of Exile 2, though. Jonathan is on record as believing that Desecrate Dead and similar corpse-spawning mechanics were a mistake in PoE1, and they will not be present at any time in PoE2.