mmh.. how they suppose to fo this ?
Dot dmg is the worst for Sim xD you need something that does dmg instantly. It’s just a hard fight. Last season I got to t2 with my war and that was harder than any pinnacle difficulty xD
I cleared every t4 content with my witchhunter and monk, but simulacrum always whooped me even at first try.
Dam the slow and methodical gameplay is too much to handle
im crying
Simulacrum is just very hard in general
Without tiers added or even just the base model of it? I have my first one im gonna use tonight
Simulacrum is not tuned for POE 2 style characters.
It’s for the 100% dodge/50k Regen/20k Ward/15K mana builds that can also one shot a screen in a single press.
Also Simulacrum modifiers are random and some can instantly destroy the way you do damage by capping monsters resist/making them have thousands of armor while being evasive/hasted/critting. - Just vile stuff.
Hello, idk what version of the build this is, but I can tell u that since 0.2.0g was deployed i literallly just farm T4 simulacrum no stop with my chaos dot lich. In order to make it even easier (like a walk in a park) i run 3x curses at the same time which is done with doedre’s damning lazuli ring. Curses are enfeeble (-20% monster dmg) and temporal chain (slows everythin) run trough blasphemy and despair (lower monster chaos res) which I cast myself. Also have hinder. The rest is pretty much the same so u open with despair, deploy 2x totems with dark effigy and then 2x contagion/essence drain. It feels very smooth and I basically never die unless once every 30 runs in very unlucky spots like 2x mana siphon rares with high movement speed and stun/freeze/slow happening same moment. If u are intersted in this build i uploaded it on maxroll, u can pm me i can give u link. Hf exile ;)
Don’t be shy, drop that link boss.
There u go! Not shy just didnt want my post to advertise the build. :)
https://maxroll.gg/poe2/planner/8r1et0jx?flow=bad87b4f-0b57-4f57-bfc7-65c5a4d00ecf
Thanks. Looks like a fun build to try next
This is very similar to what I’m running, though your gear is definitely better. I went down the curse nodes for the ascendancy for the third curse, as I can’t afford the ring yet. The clear speed is wild with the curse explosions, but I’ve been eyeing the same setup you have for when I do my 4th ascendency.
I tried my first simulacrum last night, and steamrolled my way to the 14th wave. I got my teeth kicked in by two mana drain elites (looked nearly identical to OP’s video). I was pretty discouraged, but I’m hoping that was just bad RNG and not a normal occurrence.
Yeah i know gearing is pretty expansive for this version, since the +1 curse ring forces us to have resistances and other good mods on the other items. That 3rd curse on the ascendancy path is kinda good but if u follow that way u sacrifice damage bypass on energy shield (Soulles Form node) and Eternal Life which are key to be tanky, along with Atziri Disdain and the Heavy Buffer notable. So imo, get 4th ascendancy and the ring which is very cheap and start to follow this route asap. I bet u will destroy T0 Simulacrum :D
Then when u can start farming simulacrum completing gear will be so easy since u earn a lot more than mapping and in way less time. You know sometimes u loot those high tier gears and your divine count goes up by 30-40 divine with just 1 item.
Keep up the good job. Also keep in mind any % to curse magnitudes is pretty damn strong with this setup. ;)
Little showcase of last 3 waves of T4 Simulacrum: https://youtu.be/Upy7T1Ifv-w
Oh I intend to make the switch for sure, along with heavy buffer. I didn’t even realize that helmet existed until I saw your link, so thanks for that. I’ll make the change once I finish my 4th ascendency. Died twice on the 9th room last night due to user error and bad RNG on my debuff options.
I’m curious as to why you’re using extraction support with essence drain. I thought “gain” effects didn’t affect DoTs. What am I missing?
You are right. DoT stays the same but projectile dmg goes up more than Deliberation, and since i use ED mostly for single target dmg in simulacrum (on bosses) while i spread DoT mostly with Contagion, i find it to be helpful. Its not like strict tho u can switch that for Deliberation of course or wathever u like more. Maybe ill switch back to Deliberation after your comment! :D
Edit: just switched back to Deliberation on ED and moved Extraction on Dark Effigy instead of Execute. Ty for pointin it out!
Does the life cost of extraction get blocked by the lich node that prevents hp change while you have ES? My guess is yes, but I haven’t tested it.
I’ve been using consume affliction on ES paired with envenom on dark effigy. It reapplies the poison so fast it seems like it wouldn’t matter, but I really have no idea how much damage the poison is adding
Yes it does get blocked, thats why so good! What’s consume affliction? I do have envenom on dark effigy and it feels fine. Poison damage is quite tricky to calculate, here’s a discussion on how it works: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExile2/comments/1hghym6/so_how_does_poison_work/
Is this simulacrum viable even without eternal life and atziri disdain or particular uniques ?
I run a similar chaos minion lich in ssf but with spirit invested in specters
I’ve been debating for a while whether to drop my cultist archers for blasphemy and go full spellcaster
Yeah, thats basically what i did at the start of the season. Tested minions, didnt work, so turned into full spellcaster. But idk if there’s a chaos minion lich version which can beat it easily, maybe it’s out there. Try to check community builds on maxroll maybe someone sorted it out.
ah cool.thx that helps me with my lich currently, it looks like i hit a wall with my lich. thanks for the insperation
Youre welcome fellow exile! Thanks for your appreciation <3
Annoyed that Blasphemy doesn’t work with Decaying Hex tho.
Yeah, thats why we run it on Despair which we cast manually, so it can apply DoT and totems will kill mobs even if u dont spam contagion/essence drain.
I have a “unrelated” question, maybe you can anwser it?
Does multiple profane rituals stacks? Does each circle deals a instance of chaos dot? Do you know if this is the case?
Hi, i dont use profane ritual that much, but the skill panel says rituals are limited to 5 per time. So i guess it should stack up to 5 times. Will try to test it and let you know if i get to understand it better.
Very much appreciated if you can check it out ! thanks anyways!
almost capped res
What’s “almost” capped resists? Capped resistances (at least the elemental ones) are a bare minimum requirement of mapping.
“Slow and methodical combat”
Yeah i agree for sure, but i thought “ok is not the best build for sim” but cm’on.. it is T0 XD..
I feel like you meant to reply to someone here lol
Yeah same
You would probably need to use cc like freeze or electrocute if you want to do simulacrum, or slow from temporal chains aura. 10k ES does nothing if you are being hit constantly.
Not all POE builds are viable for all content, DoT builds are especially bad here unfortunately.
When you die, the wave should restart; otherwise, you’ll keep dying because the monster is still there, and you can’t even move. This is bad design
Almost capped resist is very impactful. Damage reductions work the other way around, so the closer to cap to more meaningful is the difference
I do simus with a caos dot lich too, and i can be tricky if you dont have good stun treshold and a charm, keep your totems+despair with dot support+contagion up all the time.
But yeah, anyway simu sometimes can bring some crazy modifiers to the monsters that gonna make the fight 10x harder
I did Simu T1 and had the same happen at wave 13, with my Infernalist Minion Build, felt more like a gang rape.
I did Simu T1 and had the same happen at wave 13, with my Infernalist Minion Build, thought it was just me but glad that other ppl have the same experience.
Very high evasion is required for simulacrum. There are tons of mobs that deal small damage all at one, this is where evasion is the only thing that will allow you to survive. High ES and life pool is good for bossing, but when dealing with large crowds is where you want to have evasion as they do mostly targeted small damage many times.
Looks like a good possibility to do A 3 SKILLS COMBO as per VISION.
Sim is the bane of my existence. I’ve been doing them with my buddy to get some of the mobs off me. We have been trading off back and forth I’ll do his and he’ll do it with me.
sim strategy is usually “kill the entire screen with one tap so I don’t get hit”, since otherwise the mobs will stun lock me.
dot builds in poe1 have traditionally relied on infinite recovery (e.g. defiance of destiny which is kind of weak in poe2, bloodnotch tech which is not in poe2 yet) to handle swarmy mobs that can’t be killed fast enough by dots.
I have the exact same build and am on T3 sim with 0 fails. I delete everything pretty much instantly? Have you focused to much into defence and not enough into boosting your dot? I usually sigil of power then despair in the middle along with the turrets, contagion and Drain I delete everything instantly. I even carried my level 79 buddy through the T2 version last night.
Yeah I did my first simulacrum on my Kitava last night, made it to the same wave as you, died 5 times in a row from being swarmed before I could move, just like you
Beat t0 sim with my smith of kitava, gear worth less than 1 div. Only died once on wave 15 💪
The revive in the active round is dumb, its almost guarantee brick. Just restart the round like the other bosses
Your damage needs to function in a way that doesn’t let it get to this density. You have to be able to keep on top of it. Might also just need a “good run” too.
I’m fairly sure something is bad in your equipment, either wand or jewels.
I also play dot lich and beside the sneaky one shot by the twins, I can farm it pretty confidently.
Sigil+ curse+ double totem takes care of everything 99% of the time and I only have 9k ES with 20% chaos res/70-76% other res. So I am less resilient but probably I have far more cast speed and DMG than you
strategic combat, brother. Your strategy was simply wrong 🙃
Cap Armour, cap Evasion, 10k ES, and 400% recoup
I managed to get to wave 15 with ed/c lich. Maybe the damage is problematic? I have 12k on ed and 10k es
I did tier 0 on the same chaos dot lich. I just spam low lvl contagion along with some dark effigy and it worked out. 10k es, 50% chaos res and others capped. Hinder and chaotic freeze on contagion helps alot. Give those supports a try if you havnt already.
You forgot to dodge roll
What were the mods? The difficulty of simulacrum relies on the density of the monsters, plus the negative modifiers, plus the %delurious (damage reduction + monster damage iirc) Some combinations are okay, makes the wave really, but some combinations are really tough, even breaking some builds, so yeah, simulacrums are the hardest content by far imo
I got whooped on t15 today with my galva Merc. Similar levels in all other content, that shit is just hard.
I barely managed to beat T0 Simu on LS spamming stormlance and LS. I know i could just buy better gear but i like to only use exchange and sell, not buy. I dont even know whats an upgrade or what to search.
nice shitpost
That’s ballsy!
Daring today, aren’t we