simulacrum

Please tweak simulacrum on max difficulty. Or tweak stun treshold.
On maximum difficulty, the last waves seem impossible to complete for hybrid EV/ES builds. The damage from the monsters becomes so high, that every hit stuns and interrupts once's attacks.
I do have a large amount of mitigation on top of my chance to evade and have invested a couple jewel modifiers and passive nodes to boost my stun treshold. Despite it all though, and despite using a great stun charm as well, somewhere around wave 10, i just keep getting interrupted, which ofc leads to inevitable death.
I'm sure it's all nice and dandy for pure ES builds since they can get thousands of additional treshold with a single modifier, but things are a lot more complicated for hybrid builds. Investing in life would improve things for sure, but will always go at the cost of mana or damage.
Damage is sorely needed in maximum difficulty and cannot be spared.
And with skills being costly for everyone, trading in mana will come with it's own set of problems.
Please do not let ES builds be the only ones capable of clearing the highest simulacrum.

I feel like hybrid builds should be rewarded with higher flat defenses on gear, rather than penalized. Since nodes on the passive tree usually only scale one or the other, they should make it easier to get them to an "okay" state.

Once again, the 'exponential scaling' aspect rears its head, incentivizing you to pour all of your points into a single scaler, rather than have power scale linearly. It's the source of nearly every issue in the game.