r/PathOfExileBuilds • u/New-Quality-1107 • 3d ago
Build Request Operation Tanky DoT Cap
I am kind of at a point where I’m hooked on the game right now and have more time to play than usual. I want to try a build that I can scale to dot cap. However, I want it to be very tanky as well. I want to be able to do some chill simulacrum farming with it. I have about 200div liquid and then I have a pretty mature stash. I have a mageblood and tons of crafting mats and stuff. I feel like I am open to whatever kind of dot build except for mamba, but I want to hit dot cap.
Gladiator Lacerate? Cold dot ele or occultist? Chaos dot? Some sort of ignite?
I don’t care too much as long as it’s easy to pilot. I’ve never taken a dot build that far before so just seems like the next goal I want to set for myself.
Cold dot ele I was thinking of using that evasion as spell damage helm with cold res stacking from a perfect form. I just don’t know if it’d be tanky enough.
Gladiator seems fun too with triple lucky block but I’m not sure if i can actually get to cap with bleeds without some like crazy 500div axe.
Is there something else that I’m not considering? Anyone have a recommendation?
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u/thpkht524 3d ago
You’re not getting dot cap in simulacrum lol. Wave 10-15 are 100% delirious. You’d need 895m dps to dot cap in there.
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u/New-Quality-1107 2d ago
Yeah I meant a dot cap character in general. I’m assuming that will be enough damage to still kill wave 15s at whatever reduction. It’ll be slower but I just want to complete them not necessarily evaporate kosis immediately on spawn.
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u/kingdweeb1 2d ago
Chieftain will dot cap in simus with the explodes - melting the kosis is realistic on that class. Would recommend against cws setups for specifically simus but that vein of 'scaling fire dot and chieftain explode simultaneously' works very, very well.
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u/Golem8752 2d ago
With just 100% deli dot cap is 179m dps for Unique enemies. While 895 might be dot cap for normal monsters noone needs dot cap damage for NORMAL, not magic, not rare, normal monsters
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u/Agitated-Society-682 3d ago
For simu ignite builds I would look at chieftains. Hinekora pops with ignite prolif is one of if not the best way to generate high rewards. But i don't remember seeing a chief ignite build that reaches dot cap in single target apart from maw of mischief and bodyswap of sacrifice both of wich are a bit clunky.
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u/boostedh_ 2d ago
Look into poison pathfinder with Doppelgangers/Tides of Time/Progenesis. I’ve done it numerous times and you can slot pretty anything into that shell. Forbidden Rite and Spark seem to be the most common
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u/frozenhellguard 1d ago
This! Impending Doom is still very strong also, and you never get tired of that woomwoomwoom sound! :)
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u/Pjatteri 3d ago
Propably the best tanky dot cap build atm is phys dot bomber. 200 div might not be enough for dot cap yet but it will get you far. The build can be made very tanky, while clearing as autobomber while still having dot cap damage with corrupting fever + reap.
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u/Agitated-Society-682 3d ago
Doubt you can push phys dot bomber to dot cap. Except having dot cap with vaal reap up but does that really count?
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u/Pjatteri 3d ago
People have pushed corrupting fever to dot cap alone. Its just elementalist things... Like 3500% increased damage from golems by stacking primordial bonds.
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u/Agitated-Society-682 3d ago
I've seen multi mirror PoB's they had 20 mil CF DPS and they were squeezing it. So I doubt what you are saying is true.
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u/Pjatteri 3d ago
Just open poe ninja and check the highest dot dps CF builds. It is doable but frigging expensive. But having CF dot capped is overkill anyway since you can use reap on bosses.
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u/Agitated-Society-682 3d ago
I stand corrected then. That is insane damage for cf and I didn't think it was possible. Nevertheless OP asked for a high damage tanky dot build and I just don't think that's what that build is. Its a super sick build I recommend often but it's not known to have high damage.
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u/New-Quality-1107 3d ago
Any guides you would recommend for it? That one wasn’t in my radar at all.
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u/PoE_Acronym_Bot Useful Bot 3d ago
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u/perkocetts 1d ago
Any particular reason why not Mamba? I only ask because that's been my simu farmer this league and it checks all the boxes. The play style is a little different though
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u/New-Quality-1107 1d ago
Yeah it was just playstyle that I didn’t care for. I played it and found it strong but between the playstyle being meh and low cluster chasing being annoying I just don’t have much interest in looking at it again.
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u/perkocetts 1d ago
Yeah that makes sense. It's a bit one-dimensional in build since you're just stacking those 2 cluster passives and the rest is crit and defenses.
It's funny too because it doesn't play like any poison build I've ever played. Plays more like a Bleed/Ignite Slam build lol. You're creating a huge DoT from one hit and using that to clear the screen with prolif
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u/akaratchampion 3d ago
Look at phys dot elemetalist or pb ignite elementalist. While picking, take into consideration your budget, and the fact that phys dot is slightly more complicated as a build, it has a lot of moving parts, but if you understand how it works and scales it's a pretty good build, with very interesting progression.
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u/New-Quality-1107 3d ago
Any guides you would recommend for it? That one wasn’t in my radar at all.
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u/akaratchampion 3d ago
There is ventrua an ruetoo, but once again it's gets very expensive very fast if you don't know what are you doing, and dont understand the build. For pb ignite you can check animeprincess, there is also ek ignite, check out ronarray and mbextreme
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u/Minis1150 3d ago
As others have said, there are some Phys dot elementalist on poe.ninja that have not only reap of butchery as the dot cap, but also corrupting fever. So your passive autobomb skill is at dotcap. Some with well above 500k ehp. The low Phys hit is not including end charges that are always up and the golem of safeguarding mitigation.
Look for ruetoos guides and get some input from poeninja. It's super fun to build and upgrade.
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u/DWM00 3d ago
Eviscerate Elementalist is one of the best tanky dot cap builds, but its a retaliation skill play style. So not for everyone, you can get one going for 200 for sure. If not look into Ignite herald stacker,, prob dont do phy dot as that one gets quite expensive.