Animate Weapon of Self Reflection Lucky Lightning Style

by gabrion22 years ago9

Animate Weapon of Self Reflection Sanctum Simulacrum

Effective HP: 477.05K
Energy Shield: 4.45K
Level: 95
Min budget

Overview

Animate Weapon of Self Reflection Lucky Lightning Style is a Path of Exile Necromancer build by gabrion2, made for the Affliction league (3.23). It is centered on Animate Weapon of Self Reflection and plays as a dexterity, duration, minion, spell archetype. Defensively it sits at 477.05K effective HP, 47 life, 4.45K energy shield. Suited for: Sanctum, Simulacrum. Key uniques include Rakiata's Dance, Darkness Enthroned, Coruscating Elixir, Ashes of the Stars, Skin of the Lords.

gabrion2's Notes

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Build Premise

Animate Weapon of Self Reflection using Rakiata’s dance with a focus on minion buffs to push lightning damage. Animate guardian wears Doryani’s Prototype and has 90% lightning resist, which Rakiata turns into -90%. Specters provide further buffs, especially flat lightning damage and lightning damage rolls being lucky from Perfect Spirit of Fortune.

Offence

~10 million DPS. This number usually applies regardless of enemy resists (though flat damage reduction of course reduces it). With absolute ideal gear my highest POB hit ~17 million DPS.

For clear, a second Rakiata’s can be used with melee splash and minion speed rather than multistrike.

Defense

75 block, 72 spell block

~35k evasion (buffed)

~30k armour (buffed)

80 fire, 80 lightning, 75 cold resist (could swap fire and cold)

75 chaos resist

Crits mitigated through Soul of Solaris, Sanctum of Thought, and Defiance Banner

10 perma-fortification

90% chance to avoid bleeding plus Soul of Ralakesh

72% chance to avoid poison

Elemental status effects transferred to guardian (Sign of the sin eater)

~5k ES (nothing to write home about here)

POB

https://pobb.in/UobX9pOAUBWs

Notes: Custom flask used to simulate auras of lvl 82 specters, enemy lightning resist should be set to 90%, power and frenzy charges come from shield on guardian (set as you please or zero). Finally, you have to do some manual final calcs based on hits being lucky (or tell me how to do this in POB). With numbers in POB my simple math says its about 1.33x damage from lucky.

Final thoughts

It’s a fun and pretty well rounded build, but honestly far from top tier given the amount of divs put into it. Has been second character project since early in the league with virtually all currency put into it (in a rich league) and still comes out with modest DPS. If anyone has ideas to improve, please share!