PoE Art of the Gladiator, Cold, Simulacrum builds

4.3k life, 2.1k es, 100% supress, 25k eva. Pretty happy at 60% delirious, but struggles at 22+ simu. I have a pretty good investment into this - and sitting at (maybe?) about 7m base dps, 12m if I swap in barrage. I've been very conservative with hits from the manaforged arrows, and not even considered the avian aspect damage. The damage definitely feels good, but I want to push it a bunch, and I'm really struggling to figure out where to invest. I can see a few obvious upgrades - double corrupted shapers touch, corrupted or

So, damage is up a little bit, and mostly speed is up by a lot! This is starting to get insane really. I usually run deli on my maps as normal mapping is no challenge anymore. Having said that, defenses of this build are still very much lacking. This will be improved but i kinda decided to go full meme build and ditch some defenses. For instance my body armour now has an elevated +1 gems and +1 support gems prefix instead of defenses. This gives flicker strike an additional 18% teleport range. It is possible even to get the elevated %dex suffix for another 8% via +1 dex gems. With the abov

I built this because I wanted to build around fatal flourish and perma-freeze sanctum (Southbound is a little better for freeze and mapping, hotht gloves for dps bosses). I just gambled away most of my currency and failed my no-hit run to a degen that occurred after I killed the sanctum boss floor 2 :( after doing many flawless practice runs... so I'm kind of feeling done with the league but wanted to share.

TLDR: Frozen Legion possibly (i.e. not confirmed or hinted at by anyone at GGG AFAIK) scales similarly to Shockwave, gaining CDR and EAD please please please remember to cross-check when gem information is dropped and do not take this as gospel - it is hypothetical although at least an educated guess It's a decent 6th link for average attack speed builds It might be mainable if your weapon is exceptionally slow, but Heatshiver is likely the most straightforward way to scale it for now. 4 sample builds to get your own theorycrafting started, although those

DISCLAIMER: I have not actually played this build in any way yet and 3.18 is when I'll possibly try it, so it could have periods of build progress where its shit before it becomes good, or just be shit forever. DISCLAIMER 2: This is NOT intended to be a day 1 all uber bosses killed build with all magic gear like DD, but one that can function early without needing gear in SSF but will also feel rewarding to build it up as you play throughout the league. Build Features Ethics Not DD, Seismic, EA +++ Hit based attack build +++ Does not use omniscience +++ Does not use Ashes of Stars ++ Does not