Simulacrum is impossible on certain characters?

I realize some are easier than others, but is it even possible to do Simulacrum on a COC Ice Nova build? I'm not sure where I can make improvements, and still I can't do enough damage or survive long enough to get past about wave 25.

You can clear simulacrum with a lot of skills.

HOWEVER, later stages of simulacrum require you to have an extremely well built character.

While you haven't linked your full character / a PoB of it, your gear tells a lot. Here's a short overview:

- Every single rare item is objectively a bad item except that one cobalt jewel. It looks like they're just there to cap basic things like res or accuracy.

- No general ailment or slow (maim, hinder) mitigation.

- Determination without armour scaling or molten shell.

- Very low elemental penetration.

- Only very few corrutions or jewel implicits.

- Forbidden Taste probably kills you. Also, you made it actively worse by putting quality on it and increasing the damage you take.

- HH is just there to give you stats and a tiny bit of hp in later simu stages.

Yeah I'm going to give it another shot at building a couple different ways. What would you suggest as the MUST HAVE things? Chaos res, shock immune, etc?


1) I still would like to try it with Farrul's and Brotherhood, since it's my favourite items in the game.


2) Might just try to build around mass armour, max Chaos resists, ailment reductions, and maybe even Divine Flesh node for 85% chaos res.

High dps with damage penetration & enemies take increased phys/fire/cold/light/chaos damage is key (shock, intimidate, wither, etc).

In waves 20+, simulacrum mobs have like 90% damage taken reduction, skitterbots+bonechill would probably triple your dps.

Ha, I didn't realize that when an enemy is shocked, cold damage done to them is also increased. I thought shock was for increasing lightning damage, and I don't deal any. Ok, I'll try Skitterbots


I also didn't realize bone chill would increase the damage enemies take from cold. I can try to fit that in too


So if I'm trying to do it with CoC Ice Nova, would I be better off using Inquisitor? The only penetration I currently have is:

-20% from 2x Cospri's
-14% from Wise Oak
-6% from tree



So here's the changes I'll make and see if I can do this thing:

inquisitor + Skitterbots + bone chill + 80% chaos res + assassins mark instead of enfeeble


Wish me luck