I die in 2 hits [lvl 64]

[Rocky_Highway]

Hi, just recently i got back into the game. Started following a build too, everything was going great until i got to lvl 60-64 now im getting 2 shot by enemies. I do really good dmg but i cant tank a single hit. Boss fights i usually die in 1 hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO0Hv4zlN8s&list=PLgFY2XVX3tWIIMIQckQm9hxIHjaj21k9Y&index=2&t=922s

My current dps with Stormblast mines is 5,600, Lightning trap 5,500 and im clearing well and not having any problems with anything except my low HP and res.

My current hp is 1,600 and have 300 shields.
My resistances are Fire:42% Cold:40% Lightning:33% Chaos: -33% (i have no clue how to up my chaos res eather).

Please if anyone can help me out id be really happy. If there is anything else you need do let me know.

[Lyc]

At that level you should aim for almost double that life, get more increased life from passive tree, more life on gear.
Also, Those resists are killing you too, get those to soft cap (75%) asap.

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by Rocky_Highway:

lvl 60-64 now
[...]
My current hp is 1,600 and have 300 shields.
My resistances are Fire:42% Cold:40% Lightning:33% Chaos: -33% (i have no clue how to up my chaos res eather).

It's a bit on the low side for health as well as too low on resists. Resists default-cap at 75%, that's where you want to be at, because with say 50% resists instead, you receive double the damage.
You may also want to look at your flasks and make sure they are fitting for your level and are magic, possibly one of them providing instant recovery.
Also not that you're not supposed to tank hits from bosses. Sidestep. Do damage while it's safe, not when it might kill you.

[Rocky_Highway]

Originally posted by Lyc:

At that level you should aim for almost double that life, get more increased life from passive tree, more life on gear.
Also, Those resists are killing you too, get those to soft cap (75%) asap.

Hey thx for the help. Il see what i can do. Im playing shadow so im not sure where to aim. Got a tip ?

[Rocky_Highway]

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Originally posted by Rocky_Highway:

lvl 60-64 now
[...]
My current hp is 1,600 and have 300 shields.
My resistances are Fire:42% Cold:40% Lightning:33% Chaos: -33% (i have no clue how to up my chaos res eather).

It's a bit on the low side for health as well as too low on resists. Resists default-cap at 75%, that's where you want to be at, because with say 50% resists instead, you receive double the damage.
You may also want to look at your flasks and make sure they are fitting for your level and are magic, possibly one of them providing instant recovery.
Also not that you're not supposed to tank hits from bosses. Sidestep. Do damage while it's safe, not when it might kill you.

Hey thx for the help. Yea ofc i try to avoid boss dmg but even if i get hit once i inste die. Il try to take a look at my resistances but im not sure where to start. My gear ? I managed to get my fire resistance to 75% but i dont have any better gear to use to get cold and lightning. Do you know a good farming spot ? Im currently at part 2 act 9

[Lyc]

You can craft life or resistance on gear using the crafting bench in the hideout, use that.

After finishing act 10 head over to the trade site and look for cheap gear from other players, decent life with some res for maximal 1chaos orb or so.

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/search/Metamorph


Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZET4C5HAz3s

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by Rocky_Highway:

My gear ? I managed to get my fire resistance to 75% but i dont have any better gear to use to get cold and lightning. Do you know a good farming spot ? Im currently at part 2 act 9

Either slap something on gear with the workbench, try to use low tier essences on rings with resistance/life-implicits or buy something from pathofexile.com/trade ... or push through and buy endgame gear once you've reached a few more levels.

[Dregor]

Pick a gear set (armor/ES/evasion/hybrid) that you want to go for (ES/Ev based on what I'm seeing in the build) and start IDing everything in that set. You should easily be able to find upgrades from what you're using now. Even with crafting its not going to get you anywhere close to where you should be at by now. My elementalist had 3k hp and 1k ES and 100+ in all resistances (except chaos) by then and thats barely tolerable. I ended up dying a couple times on the boss fight at the end of act 10. Farm Blood Aqueduct if you need gear. If you can't do that yet then just farm anywhere that you can quickly clear to find a couple of upgrades. Two decent pieces will probably get you capped on resistances and double your health pool.

If you're playing in the current league then HMU with a friend request and I can probably give you some upgrades.

[<color=#CD3210>Lunatic]

Your dps is rather low compared to mine at that level, but your defences were higher. I played a Dead Eye Ranger first, and at lv65 i had only 850hp and 150 shields, but as you say your still "clearing well" i don't know if you meant you are one shotting everything except bosses and full vial metamorphs.

Or if you were just sustain combat at a decent range and kept your health up.

I had those low defence numbers AND minus resistances (except cold, i had the full 75% even after kitava). But i also had some 32k dps on the tooltip, miscalculated too, because it only calculated the combination of damage conversion, Base crit chance, and crit multiplier with speed bonuses, it didn't add the bonus cold damage times chill duration, the damage bonuses against chilled enemies, the 100% chance to crit against frozen target's, to which i had 81% chance to freeze, plus it also didn't add some of the support benefits from skill gems and passives on the skill tree.

The actual dps was about 660k, explains why i had virtually no defences, and everything was dying off screen before i could see the names of every elite pack and mini boss, most full vial metas died in 1 second, their adds they summon when the blood spreads were spawned after it's death animation, lol.

So as for you, i think it's a case of jack of all trades, sounds to me like you have invested in resistances, health and shields, some dps and you havnt specced into either or, just half way between and your still getting pummel'd.

I don't know much about mines and traps, your probably a staff wielder. If not, why not? Because unique staves have trap and mine bonuses and come with blocking attacks.

But my best possible suggestion? Maybe reinvesting your passive points into crit and crit dmg, pick an element and get bypass resistances and conversions or....

Since your already using traps and mines, why not totems, turrets and a golem. Different minion build, but spec an element and focus on that dmg type.

I remember a staff effect that causes you to toss your mines in a volley in front of you, and a ring that lets you place multiple traps, that act as conduits.

[Rocky_Highway]

Originally posted by Helghast Agent:

Your dps is rather low compared to mine at that level, but your defences were higher. I played a Dead Eye Ranger first, and at lv65 i had only 850hp and 150 shields, but as you say your still "clearing well" i don't know if you meant you are one shotting everything except bosses and full vial metamorphs.

Or if you were just sustain combat at a decent range and kept your health up.

I had those low defence numbers AND minus resistances (except cold, i had the full 75% even after kitava). But i also had some 32k dps on the tooltip, miscalculated too, because it only calculated the combination of damage conversion, Base crit chance, and crit multiplier with speed bonuses, it didn't add the bonus cold damage times chill duration, the damage bonuses against chilled enemies, the 100% chance to crit against frozen target's, to which i had 81% chance to freeze, plus it also didn't add some of the support benefits from skill gems and passives on the skill tree.

The actual dps was about 660k, explains why i had virtually no defences, and everything was dying off screen before i could see the names of every elite pack and mini boss, most full vial metas died in 1 second, their adds they summon when the blood spreads were spawned after it's death animation, lol.

So as for you, i think it's a case of jack of all trades, sounds to me like you have invested in resistances, health and shields, some dps and you havnt specced into either or, just half way between and your still getting pummel'd.

I don't know much about mines and traps, your probably a staff wielder. If not, why not? Because unique staves have trap and mine bonuses and come with blocking attacks.

But my best possible suggestion? Maybe reinvesting your passive points into crit and crit dmg, pick an element and get bypass resistances and conversions or....

Since your already using traps and mines, why not totems, turrets and a golem. Different minion build, but spec an element and focus on that dmg type.

I remember a staff effect that causes you to toss your mines in a volley in front of you, and a ring that lets you place multiple traps, that act as conduits.

Yo man lvl 70 now and i relocated some more skills here and there not too much and got some better gear my hp pool now is 3k and i do 15k dps with my mines granted they are thrown quickly so it adds up. I think my build is starting to look like smth all i need now is to cap my res. And yes before i started following the build i linked i was specking into a claw build but i changed my mind about it quickly and switched to arc mines. Thou with my dps of 5-6k i didnt have that many problems

[Dexamon]

make sure your resistances are at cap +75%

akt 1 : 300 hp
akt 2: 600 hp
akt 3; 900 hp
akt 4: 1200 hp
akt 5: 1500 hp
akt 6: 2000 hp above Akt 5 :chaos resistance > 0%
akt 7: 2500 hp
akt 8: 3000 hp
akt 9: 3500 hp
akt 10 : 4000 hp especially for kitava X

I die only 1 times by opening a chest in akt 8 and finished main story ez

[la_nague]

those are HC life values, you dont need that much for softcore.

[Traveler]

The Resists are 100% the reason you're so squishy. Fix those and the game should become playable. You should try to get life on every piece of gear possible as well. You should be about 3k life at level 70 and over 4k by 80 with the end goal of 5k+ when you're able to afford good gear.

[gonk]

Max out every resistance. Focus on HP nodes in the skill tree if you don't have enough currency to afford a ES build.

[Dregor]

Originally posted by Helghast Agent:

But my best possible suggestion? Maybe reinvesting your passive points into crit and crit dmg, pick an element and get bypass resistances and conversions or....

So having trouble with getting one shot. Answer is to gimp defenses even more in an effort to get more damage...

This is the noob trap and the reason why many people new to PoE end up ruining a character and rerolling. That might work early on, but when you're in maps and dying constantly and then are never able to make any levels because you keep losing all your exp you'll realize that this isn't a viable way to build a character.

Just like most other games of this type... end game is less about the max health scaling of the mobs being an issue and more about your survivability. You can't fight a boss if it sneezes on you and you die. Sooner or later you're going to get clipped by something and instagibbed.

You might be able to instakill trash mobs and rare stuff, but you're not going to instakill uber shaper or any of the other end game bosses.