I’m curious, what would it take to to get this build to wave 30 comfortably?
So far, I’ve made it to wave 15 in the Simulacrum before I get 3-shot into oblivion, and I’m only really having trouble doing T14-T16 rare red maps outside of that. Inside the sim, I can’t tell what’s killing me but it feels like I’m getting stunned.
Any advice?
I’m not following a guide. I threw this one together myself in an effort to better understand the systems underpinning the game. If this won’t get to wave 30, what will?
No reason other than I thought it would be fine.
What kind of jewels should I be using with this build?
Simulacrum is usually done with a very fast character that kills the mobs faster than they spawn. It may be that Holy Relic is not fast enough due to its cooldown and slowly expanding circle. Also note that Simulacrum 20 is already a pretty tough goal. The levels after that are only for characters that do stupid amounts of damage.
Before Simulacrum you could maybe set an easier goal of doing rare T16’s while never dying and one shotting whole packs. Then you need to up the damage because T16 mob health is rather low.
I believe that Holy Relic and Agony Crawler are best when used as a damage source for builds that invest purely in defense.
This can be nice but usually not for Simulacrum. I have played a character that easily stayed alive when the rest of the party was deleted in juicy T16 delirious maps but it still died to Delirium, so how fast you kill is much more important than durability.
Fair enough, wave 30 is basically endgame for the top 1%. But as far as my current build goes I’d think that this would be enough for T16 rare reds but it’s not. I’ve got spell suppression, max resists (except for chaos), capped block, and decent phys reduction through armour and charges on hit. What am I missing?
One thing that you can try is set incoming damage to 10k of all types in PoB. That helped me a lot with armor, as the default hit is very small.
If phys is not a problem, it is probably elemental. To be really durable you need a lot of HP, high max resist or Transcendence (my favourite) or some other interesting mechanic.
Maybe you are killed by shock or corrupted blood? Have you taken note of what kills you?
In terms of guardian, you can do arakaali’s fang/Herald of purity. Mostly you either need to do unbelievable amounts of damage or be mostly immortal to do wave 30. Guardian can’t really do the damage so you need to try and be as tanky as possible which means aegis aurora, chaos inoculation, divine shield, max block and so forth.
I do wave 30 on a cremation Necro for example because I can’t really die due to 88 all res and aegis.