PoE Chaos, Simulacrum builds without Blood Mage

Hey guys, been theorycrafting a Trickster Low-life reap build since seeing the skill in action + the changes to low-life and the addition of petrified blood, and I wanted to see what others thought/get suggestions etc. PoB: Substitutes used: Soulrend in place of Reap, which I believe will have similar damage scaling from 1-20 considering their base damage at level 1 are nearly identical. Chaos damage multi in place of phys damage multi when I cannot get generic multi. Void Manip at level 40 to simulate what Brutali

Prices estimated by looking at or purchasing similar items listed 1 month ago: Budget Version ---- Stats listed in approximate order of importance for each slot Shield: 10c Life, Resistances, Block, ES, Dexterity We DON'T need spell damage Wand: 5c +1 spell is best, +1 chaos very much fine, +1/+1 is BIS for wand Get +2 Gems, Fire DoT muli, DoT multi, increased Burning damage, increased fire damage I think +1 gems should be most important, but a very high Tier 2 or better Fire DoT might be as good if you can't find any combinations above Nice to have: crit chance, cast speed, mana, mana r

I wanted to give an update two weeks later. I'm super super glad I rolled a ranger this league as by FAR the Deadeye is the BEST once you get your end game bow (T1 attack speed, dot multi, chaos multi, +1 gems, +2 support gems.) I'm super glad I started out pathfinder - I ended up doing pathfinder toxic rain mines. It carried me to red maps until I could farm up enough exalts to craft the end game bow. I tried switching to Deadeye early but you really need attack speed for Deadeye and mirage archer to be effective. Crafting the bow is super easy - no need to spend 27 exalts on the ones list

Could use Despair or Elemental Weakness. Despair will add a bit of extra chaos damage to the hit and might work better against bosses. Need to figure out how I will get multiple curses out. Witchfire Brew, Bane, Vixen's Entrapment are all options. Probably going with Witchfire Brew though. Could use Flame Wall as an additional damage skill. Support with high Spell Damage Multipliers. (Searing Bond used as a Place Holder) Hexblast Ignite Calculation Hexblast - Archmage - Burning Damage - Deadly Ailments - Ignite Proliferation - Added Lightning/Combustion Dark Pact is used to Simulate Hexblas