Hey I have been enjoying my spooder build (aegis cyclone version), but am running into some problems optimizing it further.

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Currently at 22mil dps (no AG, no feeding frenzy, but cull included) with aegis aurora, 88% all res, 75/74 true block, triple cluster setup. Here are the problem I'm running into while trying to optimize further.

1. Animate guardian: How do you keep it from dying? I have 4L 20/20 Divergent AG-Anom Controlled Destruction-Minion Life-Feeding Frenzy (could get Anom version) and my AG gets chunked by 1/3-1/2 of its HP very frequently. For his gear I am running Doppelganger's Guise, rare glove with corrupted blood immune, and boot with 2% life regen on hit enchant. I feel like he can die at any moment and am afraid to take him into Sim wave 30 and uber bosses. Is the build just not meant to run AG with our non-existence investment into minion life? For his safety's sake budget is not a concern.

2. Feeding frenzy: If AG is not an option, then how do you proc feeding frenzy? Resummoning carrion golems/spectres every other map? Any other tech?

3. Max res: I am stuck at 88% max res with Melding of the Flesh. I have aegis, rare body armour with elevated offering effect (so no brass dome). Lvl 23 Purity of Ice with 40% aura effect for 7% max res, and 1 max res implicit from The Eternal Struggle. Outside of annointing Prismatic Skin (I need Charisma right now) I cannot figure out how to get that last 2% max cold res to reach 90% all res.

4. Ashes of the Stars: I can't afford this. I am running the Eternal Struggle for the 15% cull (decent DPS increase) and 6% spell block, which allows me to unallocate the block cluster. I know Ashes and alt quality are big for the build. How big is the power and/or QoL of ashes? I don't have 40ex to find out.

5. Squire: Should I try to save for one to replace aegis, how does the defenses change with the Squire? I would lose my ES on block, so is going hybrid not viable with the squire? I would lose 5% max all res, so I would assume 90% all res is not possible with squire unless going brass dome. If I can keep my AG alive I can probably reach 30mil DPS without the squire, so not sure if the blow to defense is worth the DPS increase.

If anyone have any inputs or feedback on any of these points I would love to hear from you. Thank you so much for the help!