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TLDR calculations
Aurabot with insane aura effect gives 64 K base evasion rating, scaled by uniques, passive tree, abyss jewels, and the holy spirit into nearly 4 million total evasion
A massive Divergent Determination's quality gives 615% of evasion rating as armour ( 25 million BASE armour)
Armour is scaled by uniques, cluster jewels, and an omega buffed Vaal Molten Shell
BTW Determination also grants 763% more armour, just as usual
After 4 broken calculators, 7 computer crashes, a triple overflowing integer, and a rescued puppy we got a big number:
12,416,469,711 total armour
Detailed calculations
64,252 BASE evasion from lvl33 Grace aura with 1034% increased effect, Jade flask with x % increased effect, and from gear and jewels
1167% total cold resistance from gear and lvl32 Purity of Ice and Elements with 554% and 914% increased effect
420% increased defences from a support char with 7021 Strength and Mask of the Tribunal, nice
3726% increased evasion rating from The Perfect Form unique body, evasion scaling tree and dexterity
20% more evasion rating from Wind Dancer keystone on tree
39% more evasion rating from Willowgift amulet with increased fortify effect from tree
= 4,100,414 total evasion rating
615% of evasion rating gained as extra armour from lvl32 Divergent Determination with 101% quality and 1116% increased effect
= 25,217,543 BASE armour from the above 2 lines
37,093 additional base armour from a 23183 life Guardian with all of his life reserved
1569% total fire resistance from gear and lvl32 Purity of Fire and Elements with 554% and 914% increased effect
3065% increased armour from the Formless Flame unique helmet, armour small cluster jewels
763% more armour from lvl32 Determination
80% more armour from lvl26 Vaal Molten Shell with 150% buff effect helmet enchant
12,416,469,711 total armour
Highlights
Highlights from the project: 1 2 3 4
Story
At every league's end Empy makes meme builds / projects that are funded by ingame donations from the players who quit the league. This league's project started out as an attempt to beat the 142,469 ES record in hideout The initial theorycrafts for the ES project started with 4 characters in: Mana guardian, Discipline bot, Strength stacker, and the ES scaling character itself. After the team had sat together and done the math for ES project, they realised they could reach around 120k energy shield, 20k ES short of the record, because of the rare item mod nerfs, guardian ascendency nerf, and lack of good synthesis-based ES crafts since the last project was done. T hey decided to go for a different record, which is taking benefit from currently very strong auras and new additions to the game from this league, the highest armour on a single character in hideout. As a byproduct of both playing discipline bot and making the tree for the min-maxed discipline bot, specifically for the energy shield project, they noticed that the build could be altered slightly to make it scale grace and determination instead.
I - Márkusz - joined the day after Empy revealed the project on stream, I received already fairly minmaxed PoBs for the builds, however in PoE there is always room for improvement. The original plan was only the Grace+Determination aura stacker, Strength stacker, and the EV/AR final character, but every day we found something new to add. The idea of Formless Flame and Perfect Form changed a lot of gear choices, every place where we got dex, we instead tried to get resistances, and that's when we added 2 more builds, the Purity aura stacker, and the Necromancer. The new ideas and changes to the gear we could actually aquire came in right until the final moments when the builds were shown on stream. The final armour value was bouncing by hundreds of millions by each change, and we didn't even see higher than 10 billion until the final hours, when we added every final gear piece to the PoB, and also bought a divergent whirling blades as the last piece.
The accompanying builds are scaling very different things, and some of them probably set a record in and of themselves:
23183 Life Guardian This is a build only stacking maximum life, and reserving all of it, to grant a total of 37,093 flat armour. To put into perspective with the crazy aura stacking bonuses, in the end this bonus equals to only 1/3 of... one small passive node on the tree. Yet we spent multiple mirrors even on this build. This life number is most likely not an all time record because in the past temple and fossil mods on armour allowed a lot more possibilities (let alone standard items such as Legacy Kaom's heart with the new enchants)
Fortify Willowgift necro: this build only has 3 purposes, and doesn't scale anything in itself: grant 30% all resistances from the necro Ascendancy, grant an altered Fortify buff (30% more Evasion rating from Willowgift), and generate Frenzy charges for the main character (grants increased evasion from Precursor rings)
7021 STR Grants 420% increased defences from the Mask of the Tribunal unique helmet. This is by far the most minmaxed character we have thanks to the passion of Eirikeiken and Unveiling minmaxing passive trees, items, and divining timeless jewels countless times to hit exact bonuses we need at very specific locations on the tree (locations plural as we discovered more efficient pathings, we had to start again with the timeless jewels). One day before the final reveal when we first assembled the character ingame, we found out that the Split personality jewel, which grants a huge strength and intelligence bonus, simply doesn't work with Scion if it starts from a different place on the tree (this is a bug), so we had to redo the entire tree again, but we still achieved the desire to get the 420% defence bonus from this character.
Grace+Determination aura stacker The backbone of this whole project, with the totally broken aura stacking currently available in the game scaling the single highest multiplier gem, Divergent Determination to it's absolute limits, enabling evasion scaling as a base, and granting 4700% more armour.
Evasion and Armour scaling The most sugar child build in poe, starting with 25 Million base armour in it's pocket, brings it to it's highest potential by performing an incredible choreography in the game: hits itself with a flask to gain Wind Dancer Bonus, chugs Soul Ripper and 4 other flasks to cast VMS, carefully carrying 7 frenzy charges, and slides into success with whirling blades.
The team:
Empyrian, theorycrafting, Evasion and armour scaling build
Omni5cience, theorycrafting, Grace + Determination bot
Unveiling, theorycrafting, trading, it that divines, lover of blue rectangles, Purity bot
Rasmus, theorycrafting, Strength stacking build, being a chimp
Redsameri, theorycrafting, Life stacking build
Snap, theorycrafting
Chilly, theorycrafting Inspiration, being a hype man, moral support, big penis
Markusz, theorycrafting, necro build
Eirikeiken, stronk
Hobbit, theorycrafting
Stefan, theorycrafting, and lending us a voices
Evan, theorycrafting, trading
Twitch chat, theorycrafting, funding the entire project, spamming
Big thank you to everyone who helped make this happened!
Ingame results
The numbers we saw ingame are unfortunately displaying incorrectly, simply because the armour number would be too big, so the integer storing it is overflowing, and displaying a very different number
We even tried putting on dreamfeather sword, which scale attack damage from armour, but because of the overflow issues the game froze up (awakener) or the boss took no damage, or the boss took very little damage (shaper - 10-20 mil autoattack hits), even though we're supposed to have tens of billions of damage.
This is probably a record that will not be beaten, because it exploits a mechanic that has been too op for a while now, aura stacking
Still, there is of course a lot of room for improvement in some places, because we couldn't adjust and minmax everything for the later additions to the project.
I would like to thank the team for including me in the project, this was the most fun I had in PoE in a while! <3
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