Corpse Life Calculations for Detonate Dead - Path of Exile Depends, Desecrate is still the better option in terms of potential damage It has higher corpse life than Unearth in its bugged state With Unearth, you are also investing multiple slots (Helm, Ring, and possibly Gloves) into getting a 95 corpse
Development Manifesto - Desecrate - Forum - Path of Exile There wasn't an internal list, it was just due to the unclear way Desecrate worked We received a lot of complaints in 3 0 0 about how confusing Desecrate's behaviour was, due to the fact that 3 0 0 contained a lot of monsters that shared names between campaign and map versions while technically being different monster types
Skill Gem Feedback - Desecrate - Forum - Path of Exile As of the recent patch, Desecrate almost exclusively spawns 3 Desecrated Bonestalkers in Nightmare for me Occasionally, I get different mobs though (depending on the area), but always 3 of the same kind Is that intended? Haven't been to Merciless yet to see what happens there In Normal difficulty it still works as prior to the patch
Skill Gem Feedback - Desecrate - Forum - Path of Exile Same goes for the start of every league; lvl18 desecrate, which is reasonably attainable for most people (unlike lvl19-20) only provides lvl64 corpses, so anyone that wants to get spectres off sceptre of god lunaris maps is out of luck (or gimps himself)
Skill Gem Feedback - Desecrate - Forum - Path of Exile Also, I fully understand the corpse limit of 10 but detonate dead + spell cascade + unleash detonates 12 total corpses and I thought that adding corpses to the maximum for desecrate might make a really good Lab enchant, it seems a very reasonable power tradeoff as other lab enchants are extremely strong Basically I have 2 suggestions: 1