Wave 28-30 On Very Tanky Spectral Helix Champion | No Omni | Path of Exile Sentinel League 3.18

Sooo, this is what I have been playing for the last couple days.

pob: https://pastebin.com/Kdxr755e ~5.4m dps (still not sure if point blank is good, kinda hard to test in simulacrums since it's hard replicating same situation, maybe I should test on some uber bosses)

I have done 10 Simulacrums on this character and died exactly once so far, on a wave 30 with 5 or 6 damage mods. Should have dodged the Kosis giga-slam.

This character is pretty cheap to put together, around 30 ex I'd say. Only expensive thing is the claw, which is not that hard to make with recombinators and some luck. Not using omniscience, since I hopped a ton of builds this league and still have not really amassed currency.

Gear is basically damage wherever I could get some (stacking all the small things really adds up) with capped chaos res and spell suppression. Purity of Elements is used for ailment immunity and easier gearing. No item should be more than 1-2ex. Chest was selfslammed chaos harvest until good mods. Blizzard crown essence of envy spam until decent life and open prefix.

Should probably craft better boots (hunter evasion base and reforge crit in harvest until spell suppress + tailwind). The shield was bought for an ex, the entire jewellery was also not more than 1ex per item. Yoke of suffering for bigger shocks is probably a good idea (get more - cost on rings for example, or use a militant faith with reduced mana cost would be easy swaps).

The lethal pride has 2 double damage and 5% of phys taken as fire. You could forgo that entire part of the tree and spec more into the ranger/shadow area probably, maybe adding a 2nd inspired learning.

The build could easily be converted to omniscience for way more damage (pretty much THE meta build right now/at the start of the league)

The character is decent at mapping but shines farming simulacrums. Flagellant flask mod is op, armour/eva stacking on champion and capping spell suppress/chaos res makes for a pretty much unkillable character. If we ever get hit by something that deals a bunch of damage there are still 2 more failsaves, adrenaline instant recovery and a 10k shield from molten shell.

If you want to casually level to 100 I would recommend playing a champ with similar defences (I pretty much copied ben_/darkee/lightee's defences)

If you don't like mapping with helix there is the obvious change to lightning strike..