Dying too much as a sorcerer what should i do?? LV 43

[Wakawakachewbaka]

Should i be focusing on more armor right now? Currently have 24% armor with 14 fire, 10 cold and 19 lightning resistance. 700 life and 224 energy shield.

[Mike]

Armor, no.

Stack more energy shield and you need to really work on resists too.

[Paroe]

Position yourself better, too. At no point should you be in danger as a long ranged class.

[Shajirr]

Definitely get resistances. Getting 50% cuts the damage taken in half, and 75% reduces damage taken by 4 times.
Then take more energy shield nodes if you're dying too much. You can trade for some gear with energy shield and resists too.

[Wakawakachewbaka]

when do i want to focus on chaos res?

[Trehek]

That ES sounds low for a sorceress that level, but you've offset that with armor, so I'll allow it. Your obvious glaring problem are your resistances. Anything elemental is going to destroy you. In early cruel difficulty I'd consider 40%+ an acceptable amount, but ideally you want to get to as close to the 75% cap as possible.

Early on, a split of ES with either armor or evasion is more viable, but the further you get the more you need to pump up str/dex to keep equipping the alternate defenses. The most natural defense for sorceresses is to just focus on ES and pick some of the plentiful +ES% nodes in the top area of the tree. ES can scale really well for a sorc, with notables giving up to +40% increased ES. Being able to focus on just int allows you to take better advantage of the nodes which give you stats from your max int and max mana. The easiest layer of defense to add is block. Use a shield with a +block% attribute, and consider travelling to the far left of the tree to pick the block nodes there. Another option is to build for the Mind over Matter keystone, which turns your entire mana pool into a layer of health.

[TrashPanda]

Originally posted by Shajirr:

Definitely get resistances. Getting 50% cuts the damage taken in half, and 75% reduces damage taken by 4 times.
Then take more energy shield nodes if you're dying too much. You can trade for some gear with energy shield and resists too.

My Witch has over 1k ES and still gets annihilated by elemental attacks, at this point im not even sure ES works for elemental stuff, I know it does nothing against poison.

[Trehek]

Originally posted by Wakawakachewbaka:

when do i want to focus on chaos res?

Chaos is hard to focus into. You can get a little bit from lucky gear rolls and you can get +10% from a cruel difficulty reward. However, an option for sorcs is to eventually spec into the Chaos Inoculation keystone, which negates all need for chaos resistance. Therefore, people may opt to not take the +10% from the story. If you don't want to do a CI build, you can stack more chaos resistance by obtaining soul cores in maps and socketing the +chaos resist ones into your gear's rune slots.

[Phynix]

Get on POE2 trade and buy gear, items worth 1exalt each. You will max out resists, including chaos, armor and whatnot, unless you torture yourself by playing solo self found.

[Trehek]

Originally posted by TrashPanda:

My Witch has over 1k ES and still gets annihilated by elemental attacks, at this point im not even sure ES works for elemental stuff, I know it does nothing against poison.

Resistances apply to damage you take to your ES just as they do to life. If your resistances are good, your ES will be more effective. Poison is an ailment that deals chaos damage, scaling with the combined physical + chaos damage of the hit. It is reduced by chaos resistance, so yes, elemental resistances are useless. If you have no chaos res, it will of course burn through your ES like butter. However, a poison immunity charm can be quite helpful.

You didn't specify how far you are, but I'd expect 1k-1.5k ES from a character who just reached the Atlas. At least, that's where I was at. Right now I'm up to T8 maps and have almost 5k ES which feels quite comfortable, with 1.2k life and no MoM, max elemental resistances and 22% chaos res.

[Arbadacarba]

Originally posted by Phynix:

Get on POE2 trade and buy gear, items worth 1exalt each. You will max out resists, including chaos, armor and whatnot, unless you torture yourself by playing solo self found.

It’s only kinda torcher ;D

[TrashPanda]

Originally posted by Trehek:

Originally posted by TrashPanda:

My Witch has over 1k ES and still gets annihilated by elemental attacks, at this point im not even sure ES works for elemental stuff, I know it does nothing against poison.

Resistances apply to damage you take to your ES just as they do to life. If your resistances are good, your ES will be more effective. Poison is an ailment that deals chaos damage, scaling with the combined physical + chaos damage of the hit. It is reduced by chaos resistance, so yes, elemental resistances are useless. If you have no chaos res, it will of course burn through your ES like butter. However, a poison immunity charm can be quite helpful.

You didn't specify how far you are, but I'd expect 1k-1.5k ES from a character who just reached the Atlas. At least, that's where I was at. Right now I'm up to T8 maps and have almost 5k ES which feels quite comfortable, with 1.2k life and no MoM, max elemental resistances and 22% chaos res.

This is great info, thanks for this itll help a lot in understanding whats missing and what I should be aiming for.

I have a few items in my stash that provide chaos resistance, its not a huge amount but I guess itll be better than nothing for areas heavy in poison and chaos.

As for other ele res its a gear issues and finsing enough of it on gear thats useful for infernalist.

been told I should drop the arsonists for snipers and use poison gas arrow with flame wall and hound for big bang damage, going to try that out and see if its any better, I use corpse explosion a bit too so that may work better with poison gas arrow.

[magnumaniac]

ES is ridiculously low for lvl 43 Sorc. Mine is 951 at lvl 38. Resists are low too.

[TrashPanda]

Ok so I did a littel farming and gained a level upgraded a few skills and he became a cake walk, I guess if you cant kill them at the correct level just farma bit and get a level or two then go spank them.

Also switched to using a shield .. helps a lot at letting me face tank damage with the ES XD.

[Shajirr]

Shield can increase survivability massively. There are nodes that specifically increase ES you gain from shield by a huge amount, and there is also a mod to increase block chance on the shield