Weep with me for the loss of a turtle

One of the quirks of itemized corpse spectres is how easily they are accidentally destroyed. This evening I found an entirely new way to do so and thought I ought share.

As sometimes happens when I am messing around with my gear, my spectre count will momentarily drop causing spectres, like my perfect guardian turtle, to collapse to the floor. Panic ensuing, I remove my bone offering and other dangerous gems, and then quickly raise the fallen and life goes on.

Unfortunately if this happens to occur in a mirage the spectre does not fall to the floor and instead is instantly obliterated. After scouring the map, removing each corpse one at a time there was no turtle to be found. With my remaining spectre cohort, I conducted a test and they too met oblivion when I removed their gem, not falling lifelessly to the ground but instead being instantly incinerated.


In terms of the feedback I have for this, all I can say is that it was very hard to find Floyd the turtle and I am saddened I did not enjoy their company for a longer period of time due to something so fleeting and careless as accidently left clicking on my wand while manipulating menus. For suggestions I would only say that if distress is the goal then it has been accomplished. If this was not the intent of the itemized corpse system then perhaps there should be an adaptation to the game that would aid in maintaining your current spectre menagerie with less danger of self destruction.

My first ever poe build was an SRS guardian back in day. Minions in arpgs are some of the most miserable poe experiences and ive never played a single ARPG that does minions correctly. Poe, Poe2, all the diablos, grim dawn, LE, you name it all of them are pretty bad in terms of minion QOL.

I come from dota and warcraft 3. So Im familiar with heros like visage, beastmaster, meepo, chen, broodmother, helm of the dominator, necronomicon (for the old dota enjoyers), lone druid, etc where you can literally micro everything about the minion, and even have special control group hotkeys for minions

I think the reason all of the arpgs fail is because they are trying to dumb down micro minion control, but imo itll just feel like shit if you try to remove some of what makes micro so engaging. YES it takes immense skill to micro minions but for good reason.

I will give poe the slight edge on all of the arpgs but I still hate minion controls and AI, after that 1 SRS build (took it to ubers, did all content) ill still never play a minion build ever again.

Maybe im one of like 2 people in the world that prefer RTS or MOBA micro minions compared to afk brain off arpg minions but ill die on that hill.

I feel you though, it hurts so much losing a spectre.

Back in Affliction I lost 2 perfect naval officers (1 mirror each during that league)

I thought my UBER SRS build would be able to take on hall of grandmasters and almost did without losing a single spectre but lost naval officer on the last hall

Then later I accidentally miss summoned the spectre chain in order and lost one that way

Hopefully tutle will come back EVEN STRONGER THAN BEFORE

Minion control in POE is simply atrocious and needs a full revamp for sure. 99% the reason I refuse to play minions in this game.

This legit made me sad :( as I know the feeling all too well. I know Floyd can never be replaced but I'd love to help you get a new turtle. PM if you're interested :)

I appreciate the empathy all. As by some sort of divine intervention I managed to find a second turtle (Lloyd) today! And then I promptly lost it (and Timothy the forest tiger!) while closing menus in ritual during a mirage and somehow clicking my robes (clearly divine comedy at this point).

I am starting to think the feature I desire is a lock panel to not allow any gem or item modification except. With fortune I shall find another in this group found league I host with my friends or somehow perhaps Einhar can be convinced to capture beasts for me rather than me for him...

The only thing I can say for certain is that I will swear off spectres for at least 2 years after this.

I died at 99 to weapon swap on a build that can tank 99% of the game.

Softcore, so who cares, but anyway why is weapon swap bound to X when most people do not ever use it outside of leveling gems?

I rebound it to ]. Thinking now, should just change it to Not Set.

They must extend the spectre stuff on gem removals. I.e. if you remove gems extra spectres turn into white blobs (like dead spectres today).