Were changes made to Perfect Serpent Warrior?

Question:

Were there changes to Perfect Serpent Warrior spectres in the last year or so?

Context:

I think Perfect Serpent Warrior spectres changed, but I could not find any related patch notes or threads. I tried to use this spectre in Mirage, but it didn't attack or take any actions, it just followed me around. I loaded up an old build in Standard that uses these spectres, and there as well, the Perfect Serpent Warriors did nothing. When I first made the build a few leagues back these spectras performed actions.

After playing a bit more I think that this spectre had its "mortar" skill disabled. They seem to do nothing when defensive, but will use a melee attack otherwise.

I have not found documentation of this change, so I do not know if it is intentional or not.

Is it a faux pas to bump my own thread?

Not with a reasonable amount of time.

Not that I noticed on the wiki currently:

https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Serpent_Warrior

I see it says fires mortar when defensive though. Is it possible you have a different support gem configuration for your raise specter, that is causing it to no longer be defensive?

When the spectres are linked to meat shield, they take no actions. They just float around and do nothing.

I do not have a support gem or skill or item that causes the minions to be aggressive.

It seems that the mortar skill is simply disabled. But I do not know if this is intentional or unintentional.

Yeah I don't see anything in this the patch notes, but maybe this is something quite niche that wasn't listed, or some sort of result of another change.

Which was the league where it was working for you? Mercenaries? Or something earlier? There has certainly been some changes to corpse spectre mechanics as a whole in that time. I think some of them have been adjusted in that time. eg. https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Forest_Warrior , but not have a wiki note on the serpent doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't changed.

Maybe some of the more HC minion communities would know. I haven't hear a lot about this particular one in the past myself.

It seems still work last season, so i perfer its just a bug, i'll track it every single day and lets push GGG fix it lol.

If it is a bug, you probably need to raise it on the bug section. They do monitor here as well at times, but I think more specifically there for bugs.

Cobra Commanders unite. Look out GGG, there are dozens of us!

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