Need help, stuck at lvl90

[Clyan]

So I have decided to go for the godlike crackling lance build:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO8CAM4WnAg

And I have pretty much the best gear or at least copied what the creator himself has as gear.
Despite that i got only 4.5k HP if i take all life nodes he suggests via the skill tree. Now for higher maps like T14-16 this is obviously quite bad. I often get oneshot, 4th Baran fight for example was a real struggle. He would just shot some projectiles with insane speed at me and im instantly dead. In the video he sits around 5.1k HP, which is better, but i'm still confused how he survives bosses like sIrus and so on.

I know im supposed to move around, yet its a bit difficult with this skill since it requieres you to stand still.

Another problem i have noticed is how my armour more or less comes only from the rumi's concoction flask, without it im sitting around 550 armour. maybe that's not really a problem, since rumi's adds another 3000 armour, but it's only for a few seconds even with 20% quality.

I have checked several times and made sure that I have followed the build correctly.

Then there is the golem... I suppose it's nice to have, but that golem dies super fast (gem is lvl20). So im bound to recast it, which in itself might not be a problem, but in boss fights he's like instantly gone.

Now as mentioned before I don't know how he does Sirus. This league is the first time I have managed to get him spawned (i usually don't play this game too much, even tho I think it's a masterpiece). When I got Sirus to float down to the ground and start the fight, he would just instantly kill me with anything. Like literally, any attack that would touch me immediately killed me.
I have seen videos of people playing build with 10k HP and tons of shields, so I wonder if 5k HP is even viable.

On top of that, this build switches the shield over to the mana pool, so i lack that too. So it's really just my HP with nothing on top of it.

And of course for boss fights i have to cast the brand. The brand really helps, but casting it is super dangerous since i again have to stand still and well... even normal attacks from bosses can just oneshot me. Besides, if the boss has phases I have to recast the brand, making it really dangerous to use.

The way I have played it until now was to cast both the concoction and atziri's flask and then just spam my crackling lance. That usually is enough to kill normal and blue mobs. Yellow mobs sometimes take longer, but die still fast. However if their HP pool is over average, they can get into melee and chip like 70% of my HP away instantly.

Then there is the problem with my vaal gems: righteous fire, grace and haste. How do you utilize them on a boss like Sirus when there are no mobs to activate them?

I always make sure to cast all my auras, wrath, herald of lightning and zealotry, yet obviously those are not defensive auras.

So, is this build simply too glasscannony? Or I have I missed something? I can't imagine completing the atlas fully with this build as it is right now, it's way too squishy. I'm not saying it's impossble, it's just really a struggle and not fun.

[Clyan]

Originally posted by Tenzek:

Don't plan for maximum skill points. Level 100 is not that easy to reach, but you'll reach 90 easily. Most builds have a planning break point at 90 or 95 before the full tree.

Sure, but technically, if your build can run t16 maps without dying all the time then reaching lvl100 is just a matter of time.
This build tho cant do t16, not even t15, and t13 and t14 can be a problem too.

In the meantime i have switched my build to another crackling lance from poe ninja, which was expensive but at least works fine in t16. I now have 6.2k hp while before i could not get higher than 4.6k.

While the other build was faster, this build lacks clearspeed, but at least can finish a t16 map safely.

[Rinko]

Originally posted by Clyan:

Sure, but technically, if your build can run t16 maps without dying all the time then reaching lvl is just a matter of time.

How long did it take you to reach level 90?

[Clyan]

Originally posted by Rinko:

Originally posted by Clyan:

Sure, but technically, if your build can run t16 maps without dying all the time then reaching lvl is just a matter of time.

How long did it take you to reach level 90?

I have no idea, I started this build maybe around 2 weeks ago. So I went through the story in.. i dont know, 2 evenings? 8 hours that is usually. Maybe a bit more. Then started mapping. So something around 50-60 hours probably. I honestly can't say, the build worked fine until red maps, from lvl88-90 was honestly annoying due to constant deaths. After that it became pretty impossible. So i switched my build.
I did lvl91 yesterday in around 5 hours, died like 3-4 times because I wasnt paying attention, so id say it's easy to be faster if you have high tier maps and concentrate.

[Rinko]

If you hit 90 in 20-25 hours from scratch your on pace to finish 100 in 5-6 days played, assuming no deaths. I think its going to take you well over 10 days played, good luck though. I'm not trying to discourage you, if you keep at it you will hit it eventually.

By the way you don't have to do t16s at 91, you can still do low reds. You should only move up in tiers when your not really taking damage or having any "close calls" in the current tier. Unless you don't care about deaths.

[Clyan]

Originally posted by Rinko:

If you hit 90 in 20-25 hours from scratch your on pace to finish 100 in 5-6 days played, assuming no deaths. I think its going to take you well over 10 days played, good luck though. I'm not trying to discourage you, if you keep at it you will hit it eventually.

By the way you don't have to do t16s at 91, you can still do low reds. You should only move up in tiers when your not really taking damage or having any "close calls" in the current tier. Unless you don't care about deaths.

Im less interested in leveling up to 100 than beating the endgame bosses Sirus, Elder, Shaper, Maven and so on. The only reason I wanted to level up was due to being almost uncapable of beating 4th Conquerors. As stated before Baran would oneshot me with anything he got. It was quite annoying. So I thought by leveling up I'd become a bit tankier when following the guide, but as it turned out my HP wouldnt reach even 5k with gear that was almost as good or even better than what the build guide recommended.

The issue is now resolved tho. I will push and try to beat Sirus at least.

[Rinko]

Originally posted by Clyan:

The issue is now resolved tho. I will push and try to beat Sirus at least.

Something that will help with that is getting ailment immunity (either through golem nodes since your elementalist or craft it on gear) and corrupted blood immunity which is easily found on a corrupted jewel through trading. Spell block helps a ton for that fight.

Good luck! I'm sure you'll manage to beat him

[Laokon]

I can reach 90 since a few leagues, but anything above that is impossible for me. I tried nearly all builds, i think i suck to much. Its always grinding and 1 death losing all my progress in like 1 hour haha

[taxi83]

Originally posted by Laokon:

I can reach 90 since a few leagues, but anything above that is impossible for me. I tried nearly all builds, i think i suck to much. Its always grinding and 1 death losing all my progress in like 1 hour haha

Hoy much hp or shield you have? As long as you have enpugh and also capped resists this shouldnt happen

[Blood&Fantasy]

Originally posted by Laokon:

I can reach 90 since a few leagues, but anything above that is impossible for me. I tried nearly all builds, i think i suck to much. Its always grinding and 1 death losing all my progress in like 1 hour haha

What you need to get in this game (in order):

- All resists capped (at least at 75%) except chaos that you can try to boost a bit in the "very" end-game
- After that, it's your hp/shield/mana (if you use abilities to get damaged reduced by using mana instead of life)
- Only after that, you try to boost your damages

Also, i highly recommand you to search for SSF build (it means Solo self-found builds).
It means it's builds wich don't requiert very specific items to be good.

You should always do a newbie-friendly build to start the season if you don't have a good view of the mechanics of the game. Basicly it's builds like Chaos-damages ranger/shadow OR necromancer OR totem arc/freezing-pulse hierophant.


You have to rush the main-story of the game and do the quests and then focus on the map device and use the atlas-mechanics well (don't hesitate to watch videos to get all informations you need) and JUICE your maps. Don't rush to open them on the device, always pay attention to the mods (physical/elemental reflexions, no gain of mana/life...)

It's not very hard to reach lvl 92-94...