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[0.3] AFK Simulacrum + Fast Mapping Bleed/Poison Proliferation

0.3 TTE
presentationWarrior
presentationTitan
Starter
End Game
Creator
Updated on Sep 5, 2025
Sep 5, 2025

Build Overview

Tank like no other, walk like no other, if you don't want to hurt your fingers then there is no better.

This build was brought to you by the tourism expeditions of Kalguur.

PoB

V2: Building Toxins

picked up building toxins, big improvement

rarity: https://pobb.in/EV08Cf8vNAwF

(double ventor ring swap)

V1: https://pobb.in/qM5pRFaVNwGq

PoE Ninja Progression: https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/abyss/character/Skyforth-6071/TitanBuffZeroPointThree?i=0&search=name%3Dtitanbuffzero

Simulacrum

Lets begin with AFK Simulacrum. In the video, I demonstrated that you can AFK the encounter but actually, the build can just kill the boss and waves normally and faster. So you do have the option of just playing like normal build and killing monsters with skills.

How it works

How the build works is by using a very strong Massive Greathammer with very high Physical damage, not pdps. We care about the big number and not so much about the attack speed.

Wind Dancer is our "AFK" skill that procs attacks, which damages enemies around us with our Massive Greathammer base damage. The new Poison III support gem provides almost 100% poison chance when combined with Hulking Form + nodes around Exposed Wounds. Taking Aggravation and Bloodletting gets us around 80% bleed chance, which is enough for our purposes.

Herald of Blood with Poison III and Magnified Area I will then bleed and poison enemies around enemies that die, essentially proliferating the degen across a pack.

Herald of Plague is also used to spread even more poisons.

During mapping, Leap Slam or Stampede can be used as the primary damage/travel skill to apply big degens to packs. I prefer Rolling Slam as the single target as I dislike the glory mechanic behind hammer of the gods. Armour Breaker or Mace Strike can be used to apply armour breaks to bosses.

Annoint

Building Toxins appears to greatly improve clear as it allows 2 poisons to help spread from Herald of Plague. Prefer Annointing amulet, but can also swap around with Megalomaniac. Next best target is Material Solidification.

Defense

Defensively, the new armour applies to elemental damage such as Tempered Defences provide incredible resilience vs elemental damage when stacking armour.

As a result, armour is a heavy focus for the build, taking Iron Reflexes and Leather Bound Gauntlets. It's very important to get a very very high armour glove, as it will double and provide the majority of the base armour. Heavy Armour adds even more base armour, along with Stone Skin (optional) for Warlord Cuirass.

With the use of Giant's Blood, we can use a shield such as Prism Guardian along with our mace. The block nodes i have, perfectly cap our block at 54%.

Prism Guardian also generates a huge amount of spirit for us, allowing us to add additional auras such as Magma Barrier > Scavenged Plating > ( Berserk Attrition, both optional tbh).

Crystallised Immunities is pretty important, with good dex nodes leading to shock immunity.

The new timeless keystone from Amumumuamu gives us Sacrifice of Flesh, which is essentially a shitty Progenesis by raising our max hit by 20%, but deferring the prevented damage as 150% damage instead. TLDR, raise max hit and take a degen = 150% of original defer.

To offset such insane degens, we rely heavily on slow leech and Made to Last. With so much armour, the recoup becomes significant in high damage situations.

Leech is important as we need to offset the progenesis effect. Fast Metabolism gives us overleech and Savoured Blood gives us more and longer leech, which helps extends healing through slow animations.

Attributes

Attributes will be on of the hardest things to manage with this build. Giant's Blood + Heavy Greathammer = 312 required Strength. Wind Dancer @ level 18 requires 135 dex. When buying gear, try to keep in mind that high roll attributes will go a long way. I have a single T2 strength mod, and If i could i would and loved for it to be a T1 dex or str.

Constricting Command

Constricting Command is in my opinion the mageblood of PoE 2. This helmet does everything, when you take all the nodes around Frantic Fighter Favourable Odds Tactical Retreat In the Thick of It and Thrill of Battle.

With Hulking Form, the 37% attack -> 50%, 45% armour -> 67% and so on. The efficiency of these nodes beats everything else allowing us to skimp on inefficient nodes and pick up more important nodes.

Defy II is a new support that allows for Soul Taker like effects on all our attacks, while also give it lucky damage. This synergizes incredibly with Ryslatha's Coil and Heft.

Atalui's Bloodletting is the new lineage support which we swap between clear and bossing. As we scale our gems higher and higher, we can increase our cost and bonuses to an insane amount. Since skills cost mana/life over time, our Fast Metabolism makes it so that we stay at full HP at all times.

Final Thoughts

This build is extremely tanky and you will be able to enjoy not dying. Single target is far from the best, but it's definitely acceptable.

This feels very CWS-eqsue if you're familiar with my CWS Chieftain build from PoE 1 (yay tourist).


I'll keep working on this build and any new stuff i'll add and keep a change log below.

If i feel like answering, you can ask questions at twitch.tv/emiracles

Video showcase + guide: https://youtu.be/Jj2Yc_-kItE


Update

1. Rage when hit from Ignore Pain and get a extra link on Wind Dancer

2. Rage on hit from Time-Lost Ruby next to battle trance.
Annoint/megalomaniac Building Toxins. This seems to improve clear even more.

From nothing, to save points Leather Bound Gauntlets and Gem Enthusiast and Bleeding Out.

Cheaper than 3x Grand Spectrum and seems to be a fair trade off. If you want life, go back.


Strengths and Weaknesses

  • Insanely tanky
  • AFK walking simulator
  • Fast clear speed
  • Off meta gigachad
  • Not bow speed.

Equipment

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Equipment Priority
0
Helmet
Constricting Command
1
Off Hand
Prism Guardian
2
Main Hand
Heavy Greathammer
3
Body
Warlord Cuirass
4
Gloves
Massive Mitts
5
Boots
Bulwark Greaves
6
Belt
Ryslatha's Coil

Look to try get 100% ish armour applies to elemental damage. If you can't take Tempered Defences if you feel like you need more.

Skill Gems

Support Gem Requirements:

Str 60

Dex 65

Int 20

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1

Leap Slam

Leap Slam
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supportdefyplayertwo
supportburstingplagueplayer
supportrapidattacksplayertwo
supportataluibloodlettingplayer
2

Rolling Slam

Rolling Slam
supportpoisonplayerthree
supportdefyplayertwo
supportmeleephysicaldamageplayer
supportheftplayer
supportclosecombatplayertwo
3

Herald of Blood

Herald of Blood
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supportcorrosionplayer
supportburstingplagueplayer
supportescalatingpoisonplayer
supportmagnifiedareaplayer
4

Herald of Plague

Herald of Plague
supportchaosmasteryplayer
5

Wind Dancer

Wind Dancer
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supportrageplayerthree
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6

Scavenged Plating

Scavenged Plating
supportphysicalmasteryplayer
prolongeddurationsupportplayertwo
supportcannibalismplayer
7

Magma Barrier

Magma Barrier
8

Attrition

Attrition
9

Berserk

Berserk
10

Armour Breaker

Armour Breaker
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supportrapidattacksplayertwo
supportrageplayerthree
supportdefyplayertwo
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Gem Priority
+29

Swap Atalui's Bloodletting with heft. Close combat can be something else.

Passive Tree

main:
123
123
set 1:
20
20
set 2:
20
20

Blood magic is actually the new keystone Undying Hate by amumuiamum

Changelog

V1. Release

V2. Rage on hit from Time-Lost Ruby next to battle trance.
Annoint/megalomaniac Building Toxins. This seems to improve clear even more.

From nothing, to save points Leather Bound Gauntlets and Gem Enthusiast and Bleeding Out.

Cheaper than 3x Grand Spectrum and seems to be a fair trade off. If you want life, go back.

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