How do I stop dying?

[Mr Compassionate]

I've just hit Act 8 or 9 and everything is totally fine except every god kills me at least twice.
I'm following this build https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1995010
Because a friend has the equiptment and suggested it's a good first timer build.

Obviously as a first timer I don't have the equiptment shown in the guide but I'm following the passive tree and picking up the best armor avalible. I'm not dying to mobs at all because I just plow through them but how do I stop getting 1 or 2 shotted by gods?

The Sun and Moon guys just killed me like, 4 or 5 times. I'm willing to bet that's not supposed to happen.

[Rikkore]

what's your life/ES armor/evasion and resistances

[Dies Fourth]

Whats your DPS and are you getting killed by reflections ?

[Awesome!]

its not "supposed" to happen but honestly there is a lot of damage getting thrown around in that fight and it is pretty easy to die if you dont know what is going on. your life and resists are probably a little low at a guess but a lot of these fights are about learning what to dodge.

[Mr Compassionate]

Armor 1613
Evasion 1618
Max energy shield 68

My resistance scores make no sense at all. My equiptment alone puts my fire resist well above 40 but here's what my character sheet says.
Fire Resistance 33% (33%)
Cold Resistance 11^ (11%)
Lightning Resistance 22% (22%)
Chaos Resistance -5% (-5%)

But my helmet by itself gives me 31% lightning resist so whaaat?

[Rikkore]

Originally posted by Mr Compassionate:

Armor 1613
Evasion 1618
Max energy shield 68

My resistance scored make no sense at all. My equiptment alone puts my fire resist well above 40 but here's what my character sheet says.
Fire Resistance 33% (33%)
Cold Resistance 11^ (11%)
Lightning Resistance 22% (22%)
Chaos Resistance -5% (-5%)

But my helmet by itself gives me 31% lightning resist so whaaat?

what's the Life.

Ok so once you get past act 5 you get hit by a -30% all resist penalty for the whole game and another -30% after you get past act 10

so just cap you resistance back to 75 again

[Mr Compassionate]

Life is 2604
Edit: Okay I just found armor that is somehow literally twice as good as my previous armor. That might help.

[Grumpy]

just a general tip, it would be much easier if you would link us your profile or utilize sites like http://poe-profile.info/ - becaus then other people dont need to play the asking game for every stat out there

also the bosses do elemental damage, so the armor stat is in this fight quite useless.

also other stuff like defensive setups or forms of leech/ life on hit helps also alot

[DarkFaceGlow]

Try to get your resists up. Should be at 75%. It’s a start. Those are low for Act 8-9

[Mr Compassionate]

Originally posted by MikeDommy:

Try to get your resists up. Should be at 75%. It’s a start. Those are low for Act 8-9

How do I increase my resists?

[Dies Fourth]

Originally posted by Mr Compassionate:

Originally posted by MikeDommy:

Try to get your resists up. Should be at 75%. It’s a start. Those are low for Act 8-9

How do I increase my resists?

Ive found that rings are the quickest easiest way.

A little less DPS or firepower is a good trade of for survivability, if you cant survive all the DPS in the world wont matter if your to dead to use it : )

[Dies Fourth]

Like Grumpy said................ link your toon and we can see everything rather than us guessing whats wrong or needs improvement.

[archmag]

If you are doing those bosses for the first time, spend some time to learn their patterns of attacks. Don't worry about dying, next time it will be easier.

[DxDark]

Originally posted by archmag:

If you are doing those bosses for the first time, spend some time to learn their patterns of attacks. Don't worry about dying, next time it will be easier.

Either this or use Youtube. There's some guy who does awesome WoW-style boss mechanic breakdowns for most fights :3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp-8SnkZHvw&ab_channel=Huizui

[archmag]

Kitava. First time I died to it 50+ times before killing it (even misclicked once and teleported to town instead of checkpoint so had to do the fight from the beginning). After I killed it myself once I watched the video that explained his attacks. So on second character it was only 1 death during last phase when some champ stunned and killed me. The character was totally different so it's not that easy to compare them, but still I was able to avoid all Kitava's attacks when I knew what to look for.

[DarkFaceGlow]

Originally posted by Mr Compassionate:

Originally posted by MikeDommy:

Try to get your resists up. Should be at 75%. It’s a start. Those are low for Act 8-9

How do I increase my resists?

Start with rings. Play around with crafting and try to get some good percentages. Pretty much all gear, jewels etc can help. Check out Engineering Eternity on YouTube. It’s a good learning channel.