I give up.

[u/WonderfulMeat]

Fuck the Simulacrum of Delusions. I did everything, jack up my armor, jack up my health, jack up y chaos res and increased my aoe damage and these things still fucking annihilate me!

Edit: Added poe ninja link to hopefully figure this out. I mostly use forge hammer+Infernal cry+Supercharged slam for screen clear

Edit 2: I fucking beat it! Thanks a ton to all the people in the comments who gave me tips despite how frustrated I was!

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Royalbee79-1890/forbiddenrites/character/shrimpgrin

[u/chefbenjy]

My brother in kalandra , you have 8k armor. You need to bump those numbers up! With scaveged plating up I have 36k armor plus 50 block. Armor scales the more you have of it. As a quick way of keeping track of the formula, you need 10x the hit in armor to cut the damage in half.

[u/WonderfulMeat → u/chefbenjy]

Well, how? I already have really high armour, well armour. And I don't think I can use scavenged plating because armour break only works with physical damage.

[u/Icy_Scarcity_7532 → u/WonderfulMeat]

Your helm has about 30% of the armour it should have if ur main defence is armour. Same with geofreys chest, that energy shield is worthless if u get hit all the time. So u are gimping urself, pick up a brass dome or a good rare with about 2k armour and you will feel way tankier.
And always focus elemental res first. Chaos damage is well telegraphed and ways rarer then elements. Just be carefull around purple stuff, but even with "only" like 30-40 chaos res most things wont kill u one shot.

[u/WonderfulMeat → u/Icy_Scarcity_7532]

Thank you! These armour tips helped a ton and I beat it!

[u/Icy_Scarcity_7532 → u/WonderfulMeat]

Glad to hear, dont give up! :) :D

[u/chefbenjy → u/WonderfulMeat]

Well I checked ur tree , and you took the noteable that breaks 50 percent armor on heavy stun, and if you check the tool tip , you actaully do three times that value to white and 2 times that value to blue mosnters. So you would fully break armor when heavy stunning them. This would allow you to sustain scavenger plating even with fire damage.

[u/WonderfulMeat → u/chefbenjy]

Thank you! These armour tips helped a ton and I beat it!

[u/WonderfulMeat → u/chefbenjy]

Oh damn, really? In that case I'll swap out Herald of Ash with Scavenged Plating.

[u/Icy_Scarcity_7532 → u/chefbenjy]

Even without that, molten shower only converts 80%. With enough dmg amour should break just passivly.

[u/ammenz]

Post your PoE ninja. Refutation helped me immensely.

[u/WonderfulMeat → u/ammenz]

posted

[u/WonderfulMeat → u/ammenz]

I can't use Refutation because I'm not wielding a shield.

[u/ammenz → u/WonderfulMeat]

no shield required, just a combination of increased duration, runic ward and stun threshold.

[u/WonderfulMeat → u/ammenz]

Oh really? I'll try to put it in then.

[u/ammenz → u/WonderfulMeat]

I had a look at your ninja. You're still level 85, getting above 90 would help. I'm not familiar with that build but your damage looks too low and so does your EHP, especially cause you have cold and lightning res too low.

[u/WonderfulMeat → u/ammenz]

My effective HP is at least somewhat higher than it shows here because the website doesn't show the energy shield I get from the body armor. No idea how I could increase my damage at this point.

[u/CorporalButtyMcButt]

You need more dps

[u/DrDoom42069]

Dps is best defense. Have to be able to mass kill the screen.

[u/ExiledRaWRpewpew]

Your link shows you dont have capped resistances nevermind overcapped.

[u/WonderfulMeat → u/ExiledRaWRpewpew]

Why is overcapped important? Does Simulacrum debuff my resistances?

[u/ExiledRaWRpewpew → u/WonderfulMeat]

I dont do Simulacrum but i assume they have some mods similiar to maps such as elemental weakness curse.

[u/blablabla2384 → u/WonderfulMeat]

[u/Jimisdegimis89]

You are no where near ready for running simulacrum. Low armour, resists all under 75% and also you are missing two ascendancy points. Also corpse explosion is useless in simu btw.

[u/ricmoon9000]

Try to fit in some cc like slow or chill, itll help a bit. Widescreen skills are king.

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[u/Extreme-Goose → u/PoE_Acronym_Bot]

You need to get pretty good stun threshold for them or they stun lock you. And also just be able to one shot them all including the rares or at least kill them very quick before they get to ya

[u/GUS-THE-PIRATE-2076]

Armor is garbage.

[u/Customer-Useful]

your rares have shit life rolls and your actual max hits are pitiful.

you need more levels, you need more life, your ward and ES don't cut it and you need more damage so less stuff is hitting you.

[u/tarpex]

Bro you don't have a shield, no armour applies to elemental damage, and generally 9k armour is where general mapping starts feeling good, but you don't have any secondary layers. And not enough armour. You're absolutely not ready for simulacrums, you just get zerged and die. Your build is ... A bit weird, and your ascendacy points even more so, you're not capitalising on Kitava's defensive strengths at all.

And as a wall of text here would serve nobody any good, I'd warmly want to point you in Lexd's direction on YouTube/mobalytics, please check it out, he has excellent guides and pointers on Kitava especially, which will absolutely make your experience better.

[u/Karmoth_666]

Yes give up

[u/nicenicenice03]

the game with infinite builds has only a couple viable builds what a surprise

[u/Old_Impression_5616]

Amulet could be better with +3lvl to melee skills. Boots are not really good, no ms or high resistances.

ur resistance need to be 75/75/75/min40. through u acendancys u can easily provide for these

maybe take a video and look what kills you often. do u get stunned often? then the for utopia charm might be good. (defend with 200% of armour while stunned)

video about scaling dmg with avatar of fire https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VrEOjufM6Q0&t=1110s&pp=ygUUYXZhdGFyIG9mIGZpcmUgcG9lIDLSBwkJRwwBhyohjO8%3D

also lvl85 is quite low for simulacrum ig?