I theorycrafted a max defence mechanic build

DPS: 27.5
Energy Shield: 5.2K
Level: 100
Min budget

Overview

I theorycrafted a max defence mechanic build is a Path of Exile Ascendant build by le_reddit_me, made for the Ultimatum league (3.14). It is centered on Molten Shell and plays as a strength, spell, area, duration archetype. In Path of Building it reaches 27.5 DPS with 1 life, 5.2K energy shield. Key uniques include Ephemeral Edge, Rumi's Concoction, Apep's Slumber, Skin of the Lords, Hinekora's Sight.

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Warning: this build should be made if you want to clear content because it deals no damage.

It has max dodge, block and resistances (CI) without glancing blows or acrobatics. As well as decent evasion and armour.

Max resistances are achieved with veteran's awareness, apep's slumber (can be replaced with a double influenced shield with all +3 max res) and tree nodes (CI for chaos res). To maximize veteran's awareness, molten shell is used and it's duration is increased as much as possible and cooldown reduced as much as possible.

Dodge: ascendant raider node, phase acrobatics from skin of the loyal, grace with watcher's eye dodge mod, hinekora's sight, green nightmare, withering step for elusive and tree nodes.

Block: ascendant raider node, shield, blue nightmare, reckless defence, rumi's concoction (I used my legacy one) and tree nodes.

I used the extra points on es and movement speed which allows for changes (such as using a normal rumi's and getting more block on the tree).

There should be improvements to be made. I don't think this is a viable playing build but could be very fun for pvp trolling and it is a beautiful meme build. I hope someone makes it!

Estimated EHP pool 700k for physical (900k if hit recently), 1.7M for ele (1.9M if hit recently).

Edit: Made a mistake with pob

PoB: https://pastebin.com/UkWBrgJs

Hope you find it as interesting as I had fun making it.