Kay’s Spectre Summoner

If you want a summoner build for Harvest, a good place to start is Kay’s Spectre Summoner. Aside from the utility it offers, it also deals huge damage against both mobs and bosses alike. A single session with it and you’ll see exactly what we mean.

Passive Skill Tree

Here’s the passive skill tree.

Skill Gem Setup

• Core Skill: Raise Spectre with Concentrated Effect, Deathmark, Awakened Minion Damage, Awakened Melee Physical Damage, and Awakened Multistrike support gems.
• Utility: Summon Stone Golem and Raise Zombie/Animate Guardian with Feeding Frenzy support, Convocation.
• Aura: Hatred with Generosity support gem; Desecrate and Haste.
• Mobility: Flame Dash.
• Debuffs: Armageddon Brand and Elemental Weakness with Curse on Hit support gem.
• Weapon: Awakened Melee Splash, Awakened Melee Physical Damage, and Awakened Minion Damage support gems.
• CWDT Setup: Cast When Damage Taken with Bone Offering and Desecrate.

Gear Setup

• Weapon: Arakaali’s Fang (Unique) for increased global critical strike chance, raise spiders on hit, increased physical damage and chaos damage, and chance to poison on hit.
• Off-hand: Victario’s Charity (Unique) for increased elemental resistances, life, increased aura AoE, allies have chance to gain power charge on hit, and frenzy charge on kill.
• Head: Speaker’s Wreath (Unique) for increased dexterity, skill duration, minion attack and movement speed, and minion’s hits can only kill ignited enemies.
• Body: Any Rare armor with bonuses to life, +1 to maximum number of spectres, elemental resistances, and 10% of maximum life as bonus energy shield.
• Belt: Stygian Vyse wise with bonuses to life and elemental resistances, eye jewel with bonuses to strength, life, and increased minion damage after using minion skill.
• Gloves: Any Rare gloves with bonuses to life, energy shield, and elemental resistances.
• Boots: Any Rare boots with bonuses to life, +1 to Raise Spectre gem levels, movement speed, life regen, and energy shield.
• Accessories:
  • Any Rare amulet with bonuses to attributes, mana, life, and resistances
  • Any two Rare rings with bonuses to energy shield, life, mana, rarity of items found, and elemental resistances
• Jewels:
  • Rare Cluster Jewels that add Feasting Fiends, Renewal, Dread March, and Jewel Sockets (x3), Cold-Blooded Killer, as well as extra bonuses to passives: armor and elemental resistance
  • Kitava’s Teachings (Unique) for Disciple of Kitava
  • Anatomical Knowledge (Unique) for bonus life and 1 bonus life for every 3 intelligence
  • Watcher’s Eye (Unique) for increased energy shield, mana, life, Onslaught after 4 seconds on kill and Phasing while on Haste
  • Rare Ghastly Eye Jewel for bonus life and minion elemental resistances and chance to blind with attacks
• Flasks:
  • Bubbling Eternal Life Flask of Staunching for life recovery and bleeding immunity/removal
  • Experimenter’s Quicksilver Flask of Adrenaline for increased movement speed
  • Cinderswallow Urn (Unique) for Onslaught and life, mana, and energy shield recovery when killing enemies
  •  Enduring Eternal Mana Flask of Warding for mana recovery and curse immunity/removal
  • Ample Jade Flask of Reflexes for +3000 Evasion and 93% evasion bonus

Kay’s Spectre Summoner is going to give you a hauntingly good time, just as it’s sure to give your enemies one heck of a bad one. Send them straight to the afterlife with the help of your ghosts.