How to beat a damn Simulacrum ?

This is my current stage and I am building now. I don't have one of the new support gems that cost 30 Div or crazy stuff, but for someone who is an average player, I think my damage and gear are decent!

How hard is it to beat a damn Simulacrum 50 splinters?

This is so stupid. The devs never tried to play the content ? How come it is fair to be played as a ranger or warrior ??

Unless you have a damn spark with a crazy light pen, you can't do the damn content.

It is not fun and boring. What is the point of collecting those stupid splinters if my character can't just do it. Why do I have to recreate a spark build to achieve anything in this game.

I'm not very experienced with LA Deadeyes, but what I can see is that ur defenses are basically non existent.

Simulacrum is a build and gearcheck, so if u're not one shoting everything before it can touch u, u should definitely have more life/evasion/chaos res/deflection.

I'd aim for at least 60%+ evasion and deflection with 50%+ chaos res. Life around 2k or even better energy shield is also appreciated.

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SaKRaaN#0012 schrieb:

This is my current stage and I am building now. I don't have one of the new support gems that cost 30 Div or crazy stuff, but for someone who is an average player, I think my damage and gear are decent!

How hard is it to beat a damn Simulacrum 50 splinters?

This is so stupid. The devs never tried to play the content ? How come it is fair to be played as a ranger or warrior ??

Unless you have a damn spark with a crazy light pen, you can't do the damn content.

It is not fun and boring. What is the point of collecting those stupid splinters if my character can't just do it. Why do I have to recreate a spark build to achieve anything in this game.

I mean..... I had your HP when I started tier 4 mapping at level 70. Too low. Rule of Thumb, the more you go into the end game, the more defences matter. 20% res in chaos? can't be serious.

As said above, no life, no evasion, no deflection and no chaos resistance. work on your gear.

One shot everything before it can get close to you.

You know:
Meaningful combat. 🤣

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This is so stupid. The devs never tried to play the content ? How come it is fair to be played as a ranger or warrior ??

My first piece of advice would be to stop reacting to every challenge you come across like this; the content in the endgame is meant to be difficult and punishing and you're just not going to enjoy the game if it sets you off like this every time.

The Simulacrum is a war of attrition - each wave you're getting more delirious and the enemies are getting stronger and more numerous. Looking at your stats it seems like you've basically gone all-in on offense; your elemental resists are fine but otherwise you're essentially naked.

You need to bring your defenses up. I'm not sure how important Chaos Resistance is in there, but honestly at 92 you should be thinking about capping it anyway.

I'm 92 as well and you can see my stats below (none of my equipment cost more than 5 divs). For Simulacrum I put a lot more effort into defense and mitigation including Wind Dancer with Maim & Blind to knock enemies away when I take hits, and Trail of Caltrops for the same when I run away, etc.

Of course Pinning is doing a lot of work for me too - that's basically why I play this class.

I've cleared T1 and T2 and got to the end of Wave 14 in T3. Here's some footage from my T3 attempt. You can see that even with these defenses I'm still getting my ass kicked hard: https://youtu.be/7z4pAxl8bW4

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KaosuRyoko#1633 schrieb:

Meaningful combat. 🤣

Or you could pick a build that's not imbalanced right now and save your emojis I don't know dude.

The run in my footage above was some of the most intense and meaningful ARPG combat I've ever experienced and I've been gaming since the 80s so if you ask me they're on the right track.

I don't know about you guys, but I play the game to be the strongest I can be. I don't enjoy intentionally playing worse builds. It seems you do and I'm stoked for you. Honestly, it's pretty cool that there's a ton of different viable ways to enjoy our time in this game.

The game has so many mechanics that swarm you and so many mods that easily add up to one shots even on my 16k ES Lich, that the game absolutely pushes you towards one shotting everything before it one shots you. I'm not even saying that as strictly a bad thing, I'm a PoE1 player so I love zoom zoom blast content. I just think the concept of meaningful combat is incompatible with swarms of abyss monsters in a breach on a delirious corrupted juiced T16. I mean, you kind of even have evidence of it yourself by not being able to clear max sim yet, because max sim pretty much demands one shotting everything before it one shots you.

But like I said i enjoy it just fine. Currently my only big gripe is that i hate the infinite atlas so much I keep logging out after a couple maps. Balance will improve and missing content will be after and that's all gonna be sweet. Endgame just genuinely feels more tedious that Satisfactory for some reason.

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KaosuRyoko#1633 schrieb:

I don't know about you guys, but I play the game to be the strongest I can be.

Well for me, I don't enjoy playing the strongest, fastest build that's already been figured out before I started playing it.

I wanna figure out a build myself and shape it into it's most powerful form.
Also I wanna try out new mechanics, even if they might not be the best. Like I tried to make Acidic Concoction work, I really did, but to no avail.
Everytime I didn't have time to plan a build myself and I started playing a build guide I struggled to keep myself entertained and usually didn't stick long to that league.

Everyone enjoys the game differently and that's fine.

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Sadaukar#2191 schrieb:

Everyone enjoys the game differently and that's fine.

100%

Also I didn't actually follow anyone's guides. I fell into meta builds through my own experimentation and prior knowledge from PoE1 where I did follow guides for a long time. I just didn't try to force something to work, and kept switching until I found the best thing I child be doing. Which I've seen since I've quit the league still isn't the best possible. I even saw Captain Lance refuses to level his contagion which I find so weird because with contagion alone I kill everything but map bosses on a single cast.