Simulacrum needs to be tone down

Simulacrum needs to be toned down or at least have Herald of Ice work on the mobs. I am a Deadeye and herald of ice is a big part of my skill for AOE clears. I have not cleat t4 simulacrum because between waves 11-15 it is just way too hard for my character especially when one of my skills herald of ice is not working against all the mobs at the event. Make players to be at max 100% delirious and also when bosses spawn at least make the bosses do animation like taunting before attacking, when a boss spawns after about .1 second they already starting to rush and attack.

My biggest complaint for the event is have Herald of Ice work properly in the event. I just think every skill should be available for use for the game. Yes some are weaker in some cases but skills should be working regardless. The rest should just a basic small nerf to the event because I feel the event is extremely challenging for most players without good gear.

PoE is built around the illusion of build freedom, but in truth, you're not allowed to do most content with most builds. And if you can't afford a 700x Mirror "FastAF" build, your character gets called trash by the community.

I agree with your message, but you're not gonna find agreement from anyone else here. Good luck! My best advice is to stop playing the game. It's not what it pretends to be.

Cheers, and enjoy watching followup posters prove my point. :)

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ShadyC#1006 wrote:

PoE is built around the illusion of build freedom, but in truth, you're not allowed to do most content with most builds. And if you can't afford a 700x Mirror "FastAF" build, your character gets called trash by the community.

I agree with your message, but you're not gonna find agreement from anyone else here. Good luck! My best advice is to stop playing the game. It's not what it pretends to be.

Cheers, and enjoy watching followup posters prove my point. :)

You can build with 20 divine easily Explosive Arrow Totem, Locus Mines, Maw of Maschief, Splitting Steel, Dual Strike and many more to clear all Ingame content.

Sure some of them hit a wall with that investment at one point like Valdos or T17, but the build viability in this game is still unmatched in ARPGs.

How can you even say that? Name me a build that can't clear Diablo 2.

Simulacrum is meant to be a gear/build check (though with current meta builds it fails at this pretty badly).

As the last response mentioned, just because you can make any build you want in POE, not every build can do all content.

This is not a bad thing or an "illusion of freedom".


1. Some build may be meta due to excelling at certain popular mechanics, but that doesn't mean they are good at all mechanics. Deadeye builds are not usually great in small spaces with lots of ground effects (like simulacrum)

2. You build may just be missing some defensive layers (your profile is private so only speculating)

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ShadyC#1006 wrote:

PoE is built around the illusion of build freedom, but in truth, you're not allowed to do most content with most builds. And if you can't afford a 700x Mirror "FastAF" build, your character gets called trash by the community.

I agree with your message, but you're not gonna find agreement from anyone else here. Good luck! My best advice is to stop playing the game. It's not what it pretends to be.

Cheers, and enjoy watching followup posters prove my point. :)

You are confusing build freedom with build viability.

POE empowers you with endless build experimentation. No one at GGG has ever stated that all of these experiments should be viable. The exact opposite actually. GGG has clearly stated a desire to make a wide-range of content, everything from casual player friendly to Uber hard content meant to provide continuous engagement for streamer/no-life level players.

The problem comes from casual players watching streamer content, getting FOMO, and then trying to engage with the same content using their 45 hr played, self-made builds.


POE has a place for both player types, but it is NOT the same place.

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ShadyC#1006 wrote:

How can you even say that? Name me a build that can't clear Diablo 2.

Which is why GGG split off and made POE lol, that was one of the things they wanted to change.

So you're not only saying that GGG wants some builds to be bad, and you're not only saying that you agree with this...

But you're also saying that the bad builds are bad on purpose, and serve the role of "failed experiment that wastes the player's time"?

By all means, tell me if I've accidentally misrepresented you, because that sounds like what you're saying. If that's not what you're saying, please explain it again.

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ShadyC#1006 wrote:

So you're not only saying that GGG wants some builds to be bad, and you're not only saying that you agree with this...

But you're also saying that the bad builds are bad on purpose, and serve the role of "failed experiment that wastes the player's time"?

By all means, tell me if I've accidentally misrepresented you, because that sounds like what you're saying. If that's not what you're saying, please explain it again.

You have in fact misrepresented me.

GGG doesnt want all builds to be bad, they just arent balancing the game around all builds being good.

GGG values build diversity. This simply means they dont want a single ascendancy or combat style to be the only viable option. Depending on this league, this may be 3 builds, 5 builds, 10 builds, etc. Part of build diversity is that some things are stronger than others. Having every build be required to meet a certain power level is antithetical to diversity.

You are given creative freedom in POE, so you can of course choose to play something that isnt one of those 3, 5, 10, etc strong builds that fall into the leagues meta, and you -may- be able to do the hardest available content still, but you shouldnt get upset at GGG if you cant.

GGG also values scaling difficulty. Players can choose to engage in content at the base-difficulty, or they can ramp the difficulty to scale the loot.
When someone says a build is trash or not viable, chances are it can still do a lot of content at base-difficulty (assuming someone that was semi competent in the game spent any amount of thought on the build).

Obviously most people don't play at base difficulty, because we love loot. But this is where emulating streamers comes into play. Understanding juicing and setting realistic expecations based on your game knowledge/skill, time investment/wealth on char, and current power level of build in a given league, all have to be considered.

As far as "failed experiment that waste players time" well that is completely subjective to the player and what it is about that game that provides them with entertainment.

People that play off-meta builds generally do so because they enjoy tinkering with mechanics, or out of a love for a specific skill or play style. In those cases, the inability to do ultra-juiced T17's or titanic unique strats is probably not going to result in a "waste of time"

If you are a player that enjoys pushing endgame, but failed to do any research on what would be good in a given league and just blindly rolled a build that got nerfed or has never been good, then you wasted your own time.

Again, don't want to misrepresent you, but in short, are you now saying...


If you aren't in-game rich, with a meta build, then you don't deserve to be in some content because it's not made for you?

And if you're playing a non meta build in the first place, that's also your fault, because you didn't spend X amount of time researching everything about the game and your intended build beforehand?

If you're playing a non meta build because you just picked some things you liked, and did your best to make it as strong as you could, then the content GGG intends for you is [effectively] tier 1 maps with 0-2 affixes, and if you try to venture off into "streamer content," you deserve to get put in your place?




Again, let me know. I don't really feel like your re-explanation changed anything, but maybe there's something that's not quite clicking.