PoE Simulacrum builds without Blood Mage

Important notes Mana regen % anywhere you can get it from is really really good - start with clarity and replace it with herald of thunder once you get enough mana regen Gloves w/ spell damage leeched as ES are a huge survivability boost. Surgeons prefix on flasks is stupidly OP (we have 100% crit chance and fast cast speed so this is insanely good for us and gives the flasks massive uptime on bossfights)

I've been trying to narrow down my league starter for Heist the past couple of days. Somewhere along the line, I decided I want to do a cold DoT Occultist, more specifically a Wintertide Brand Occultist (SC-trade). I have a few reasons (that may or may not be valid, politely let me know). Full reasoning summaries below, but TLDR: I think cold DoT Occultists will survive nerfing and might even be buffed by new Hexes. Wintertide brand also feels safe from nerfing, is non-meta, and there is always Vortex to fall back on. I may or may not be able to take advantage of new Hexes more easily. Al

My take on FB Zerker, all gear is self-crafted via harvest and will be hard to obtain without it. While I wouldn't exactly call the build tanky, it's built more defensively than most other FB builds I've seen. Defensive features: 7k life Fortify with 25% increased effect full Elemental Ailment Immunity Overleech Acro / Phase Acro (+ can swap in Quartz over Quicksilver for more defense) 30% of Phys taken as Ele Wind Dancer Blind Endurance Charges Simulacrum Waves 19/20 video: PoB: [

EDIT: Got the build together, I'll put together a showcase tomorrow (its is... quite tanky) Theorycrafting PoB: I've been thinking of making an immortal build to loot fractured fully delirious maps. It is mostly just for fun, to see how cheap it can be to make a character tanky as fuck if you focus on little else. Requirements are: Fast (200%+ movement speed) Tanky (unkillable even in highest level of content) Because of this, pathfinder is basically mandatory; otherwise, since you can't kill mobs, you will have no way to sustain flasks. I opted for pathfin

I REALLY WISH shockwave totems would rotate to face their targets, to fully realize the guntotem vibes on the Dragon Totem skin. GGG, Guns of Oriath basetype expansion in POE2 plz. "Delve but pirates" can be the excuse\~ Reference POB: [

An interesting build based on mana stacking using Mind of the Council and Manastorm to scale damage. I wrote Archmage in the title but it's just a reference to how we scale damage with mana. This was a build I was really excited to try and it turned out really well. It was a very rounded build with good defensive layers, good single target, and very fast clear for a budget. Agnostic is pretty broken and makes this build feels a lot tankier than it should be due to the constant regen. With 70/60 dodge chance, it's a pretty tanky build. Even cleared super uber lab which my other much squishier

I'm curretly looking to up the damage of my Deadeye, it does well but I'm feeling that if I want to fight A8 Sirus and killing Delirium bosses I will struggle, so I think the easist way to do better is with a better bow. Currently I'm using a death opus, and I have look some builds on poe ninja to copy the bows but I don't know which one will be better suited for my build. My current POB is