Spectres giga bugged

Not only do almost all specters suck, the ones that show potential are bugged to the point of being unplayable.



Tried making a build around Farindun impalers:

-They are fast

-Have both good aoe and single target + bleed

-They have good AI

-They look really cool

Turns out they have an ability that doesn't do damage or proc anything and clutters the whole screen. The animation of the skill shows that it should do damage when enemies pass through the ring of spears, but it does not.
They should either not have this ability so they don't waste time casting it or have it do damage or something.

And the final touch to these specters is that they don't attack in fairidun enemy zones, so my build based on them basically is not able to go past act 2 cruel Halani Gates.

And not to mention the bugs that they share with other specters, like the spirit randomly not being able to summon the quantity of specters you were already summoning. Through the acts, it randomly went from 2 specters to 3 to being able to summon 4 for some reason(while not having the spirit to do so), to summoning only 2 again while having the spirit to summon 3. Then, sometimes your spirit stays reserved when you reduce their quantity, making you have to either unequip them or change weapons so it resets.
+ they also sometimes idle around doing nothing after moving to you when you get far
+most enemies ignore them making it so if they are targeting a rare tanky enemy you just get chased by white mobs without being able to do anything
+sometimes they dont lose agro while you are fighting a boss and you are running around and sometimes they dont agro the boss even if you are standing right next to him (Lachlann of Endless Lament was a pain to kill the minions kept losing agro then just stand still after he walked 10 cm around the tomb)


I always loved the concept of specters in poe 1 but didn't play minions much there. So, when they said they were doing it for poe 2, I didn't expect it to be so absolutely miserable. Most of them are either so slow to the point of them being unusable or having insane spirits costing not that much reward or have insane bugs like these + minions being so weak early that they lose constantly to normal mobs, almost making leveling with minions impossible.