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Fear not for you will be invested in Kitava for quite a while. It's also clever story telling if you can remember the stories in the beginning of the game.
You want life (roguhly 300 life per act number is a good aim), and capped elemental resistances.
You need to upgrade your gear.
Also upgrading gear would make me probaly much weaker, because I "cheated" some stats with the sufixes. wihtout them I dont have any STR or DEX, and without those 2 stats there is not very good gear available. That's why I said, I can stop playing the Game.. I am pretty much stuck or have to redo everything, which is basically the same as beginning a new character.
And the funny thing is, I deal good damage, but because enemies have a higher reach, they get the first hit in, and that's when I die... Basically, whoever hits first wins the fight. That is my current built :D
Good thing is, you just started the 2nd half of the tutorial, so not much time wasted if you make a new char and make better decisions this time.
Well, I wouldn't call 30 hours "not much time" and really not sure if I want to start a new character. I played PoE 1 because I was interested ind PoE 2, but I might skip that one if I am forced to have a specific built.. Many skills, many gems, many builts possible and you are forced to do a specific built to even finish the campaign? Honestly, to me it seems unbalanced...
Haveng defenses is the bottom line requirement for all builds.
There is nothing specific about getting life and resists.
And in a game where poeple have thousands of hours, 30 aren´t much, yes.
And you get faster running the campaign once you have at least a bit of knowledge.
LOL, thats cute, 30 hours is nothing. You would be better off playing something else if you think 30 hours is a decent amount of time. POE is not for every one.
If you see it from that perspective, then I agree. But I don't compare myself to those kind of people, because I don't spend that much time in general playing videogames. I only play couple of hours in the evening and for that, 30 hours is alot of time. But I get your point..
You are almost certainly getting one-shot because you don't have capped resistances any more. At the end of Act 5, Kitava takes a bite out of your soul ... and now your naked resistances are all -30%, rather than 0%. There is a chat message telling you this, but it is easy to miss.
If that is what is going on (a quick check of the defenses tab in your character sheet will let you be sure), the first thing you need to do is switch things around to get your resists back to the cap. If you have some currency, check the vendors in act 6, 5, 4, and maybe 3 for items you can swap in without terribly messing up the rest of your build. If the vendors don't have anything useful (or if you can't afford whatever they might have), you can go back to act 5 or even 4 to farm currency and equipment, looking specifically for rare items that have good resist percentages and other stats that fit your build. Don't worry about the XP you are getting while you do this, since it isn't the point.
When looking for items, your best bets are probably rings, since many rings have resist intrinsics that go up to 30% even as a white item, and getting the right mod on them can give you a single item with 60+% resist for an element. Those items are worth hanging on to in your stash even into the endgame, since it is reasonably common to find a really powerful item that leaves you with a resist hole if you just switch the single slot. Instead you swap in the powerful item, and also swap one ring to cover the resist hole. Amulets fill a similar role for stats, since the +30 Str/Dex/Int intrinsics are found on them.
There are also a couple other things you can do: Act 6 is where you get access to the vendor that sells almost all of the possible gems at level 1 (where the vendor offerings before that depend on your class), so if you didn't have access to them before, or were not using them, you should be able to buy the elemental resist auras. If you were using other reservation skills you might have to take some of those out for now, but dead men do no damage. Once you can reliably kill act 6 mobs, you will eventually find gear better than your current stuff and can swap back to the auras you prefer. You can also use the crafting bench in your hideout to put resist mods on items that have a free suffix slot, no crafted modifier, and don't currently have a resist mod of the same type. So any gear you have that isn't already crafted, you can likely slap some resist crafts on to give you a temporary fix while you search for better gear.
Also an option if you have a few Alchemy orbs or essences is to take a white item with a useful intrinsic (probably a ring, as noted above) and make it into a rare. The power will depend on the item level of the white item (which you can see in the advanced tooltip), and essences guarantee one property, so with the right essence and the right base item, you can pretty much force the new item to have 50% or so resist to a single element. The low-level essences are capped in the power of the item they make, so if you hang on to them too long, they will give disappointing results compared to what you naturally find; alchemy orbs don't have that problem, but don't give you the single fixed property.
And yeah, must have missed that part with the resist loss. But that explains the low numbers I had when I checked. had on elemental an average of 30% (Chaos being the only one in the red with -6%). My guess now is, that this is probaly the main reason why I die so quickly.
But the issue is, that even changing a single piece of gear nullifies my other gear. For example, if I take of my Helmet, my armour, gloves and boots get a red background - meaning they no longer are in use. If I change one item, I have to make a full change, which gives me a headache just thinking about it :D
I was planing on looking around tomorrow on what is possible, but I feel like I need to redo my skills as well and not sure where I can get the refund currency (Didn't check if I can buy it anywhere yet). The reason why I think I need to change some things around is because the lack of STR and DEX. Those 2 stats are around 100 (with gear) while INT is at around 300 and no matter which direction I go, I can get INT everywhere in the skilltree, while the other 2 seem very far away and far apart. I am a Pet-Necro with fire magic as "my" means of attacking.
I will leave this problem to the me of tomorrow ^^