I've been extremely happy with this build until now. I sailed through Act 1, Act 2, ACT 3, And am now in the early stages of Act 4. I started with the Aqueduct, and then the Dried Lake, and there were no problems at all. So today, I go into the mines, and start up the little cart that lights the way, and four straight times I get blown away by the first full wave of attackers. It happened so fast, I'm not even sure what creatures caused it, or what I was being hit with, but my life suddenly was draining to nothing far faster than it was possible to use flasks.
I would appreciate your thoughts on what is the issue, as I'm essentially lost. And, until now, I've been able to pretty easily get through anything. My stuff is all linked, so any advice, recommendations and strategy would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Last bumped on Apr 25, 2019, 10:18:31 PM

Posted by
Reinold1
on Apr 25, 2019, 7:50:00 AM

Sounds like you were doing a delve. The darkness is deadly and some monsters down there hit extremely hard for the unprepared exile.

Posted by
METAL666nz
on Apr 25, 2019, 9:01:19 AM

Just imported your build into Path of Building (get that tool asap) and took a look.
1. Your res are terrible and elemental damage will kill you pretty much instantly. Try to cap all your ele res at 75% or at least get as close as you possibly can.
Run a purity of elements aura if you have to or run a Bismuth flask or upgrade your gear ;)
2. Your lifepool is on the low end. Try to stack about 300hp per act, which means you should be at 1.2k hp right now. You are at about 900 hp, which would be alright if your res were capped. But they are not and this is killing you.
3. Get rid of unique items.
Rare items with good rolls will pretty much always be better than unique items. The only reason to equip unique is, when the item itself does provide something you cant get otherwise and is mandatory for your build.
If its not mandatory, drop the unique item and go for rare items with res and flat life instead.
4. Try to craft some easy upgrades.
Like if you find 4linked gloves and it happens to be a useful base for your build - probably evasion based stuff - then use essences or delve fossils for crafting.
Essences are working the same way as alchemy orbs do, but they do guarantee a specific roll. If you were lacking say cold res, then use an essence which will roll cold res guaranteed and hope for good stuff.
Its doesnt need to be perfect. At your lvl you´ll be replacing gear quickly anyways, so dont spend too much currency on temporary gear.
5. Grab more %life on tree - a lot more!
You kinda avoided all life clusters but one. Thats nowhere near good enough. You could get away with about 160% life, 180% would feel a lot better if you can manage it.
Try to get the life first and dmg is an afterthought.
Think of it this way: A dead character deals zero dmg and you cant lvl anymore. So dont fall for the usual: 'I´ll focus on dmg first and get some defense later' trap. You´ll die all the time and you´ll be unable to lvl.
6. Run hatred aura and herald of ice.
Both are cold based auras and to me it looks very much like you are trying to build around cold dmg. Hatred doesnt need to be linked to anything, but you could link Onslaught gem to herald of ice for some more speed.
Downside will be the massive amount of mana reserved. Roughly about 80%.
To counter mana issues you´ll need some sort of mana leech.
You are very close to Essence Sap on your tree and just 0.4% mana leech should be good enough. This early in the game your dmg might still suck and 0.4% might not cut it. If so, invest more into leech and respec it later, when your dmg is high enough.
Cheers

Last edited by Orbaal on Apr 25, 2019, 11:32:45 AM

Posted by
on Apr 25, 2019, 11:27:32 AM

Hello Exile,
it seems like a Delve experience.
https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Delve
Monsters can hit harder than a typical act 4 creatures there.
There´s also darkness mechanic you should avoid (keep away from the darkness -- it applies damage over time on you and it´s stackable).
Do you follow any guide?
Well you have fine items for your character but you should prioritize life and fire + lightning elemental resistances now (cold res seems capped at 75).
Try to cap your elemental resistances as soon as possible and you should also focus on getting more life from the tree.
Orbaal is right about unique items but you should keep the ones you have right now and replace rare ring and boots to get more life and fire/lightning resistances.
You can use purity aura to improve your elemental resistance eventually.

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My stuff is all linked, so any advice, recommendations and strategy would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

No it´s not*. The sockets have to be linked with each other.
You should watch Engineering Eternity beginner´s guide to have better knowledge about the basics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEZtq6FSebE&list=PL7GqFLebBU8inlrcqTZFXtIwP362XrdNe&index=1
*Part 5 is about sockets/links
You have more active skill gems than needed. Try to stick to one or max two (one for singl target and one to clear packs) and use proper supports.
You can make your gloves four linked (use armourer´s scrap to make it 20% quality before applying fusing orbs) or buy four linked boots (movement speed, life res, evasion based for green sockets).
Your flasks are bad. Make them at least magic.
Bleed imunity is a must have for later game (or delve)

You should have freeze and shock imunity (for delving) ideally.

Last edited by Rakiii on Apr 25, 2019, 11:56:55 AM

Posted by
Rakiii
on Apr 25, 2019, 11:46:11 AM

I'm not sure if this is it, but Niko digs as you progress through game, so experienced players can go in mine and jump down to a level close to where they should be.
There is a whole new set of light radius and resistance to the VERY deadly darkness stacks that need to be mined.
Were you on a lv1 delve, or a lv30?
You will have to start at the top and gather currency to purchase protections.
If you are in act4, you should have no issues at lv1 as long as you 'stay in the light exile'.
Oh yeah, and hug the cart, it's your only light source!
And I read previous posts and agree, take their suggestions and go check out POE trade.
You will change your game for about 5 orbs of alchemy!
Just make sure you are the level of the gear you are buying (made that mistake once).
It's probably easier and cheaper to buy gear that's fully socketed/linked with 2 or 3 resistances and life. Get Movement speed on boots. Gear is cheap right now, especially lv37 stuff.
The hard part may be getting someone to answer..
One final thing, you are falling for the noob trap.
More uniques isn't better, you are sacrificing your resistances and your life pool.
Like was stated above, pick one or 2 main skills, and 1-3 uniques that will make them explode. Glass cannons die fast in Wraeclast..
Final edit ;) you were in the regular mine of the act and you have no life or resistances.
Looking at your gear it's pretty obvious now. There is a TON of fire damage being thrown at you, plus heavy physical. Those big guys throwing bodies and the the flame throwers are wiping you out. You are an evasion build I am guessing, but you cannot evade yet, but you can get life and resistances.
Get resistances to 75% (I am usually there by the time I get to the mine.)
Buy things with at least 30 life, trust me it's all cheap, everyone wants shaper mods and end game crap so the stuff you need will be very cheap.
I have a stash full of rotting crap, if you would like to find me in game I could give you some stuff. I will be on tonight around 5pm Central US and I am serious, I wouldn't mind helping you. This sounds exactly like my first trapper, I bet I had 1000 deaths and gave up at act 10 boss!

Last edited by GrunkleBob on Apr 25, 2019, 5:11:01 PM

Posted by
GrunkleBob
on Apr 25, 2019, 4:43:13 PM

Thanks to everyone for their evaluations and suggestions. I great appreciate the tutorial and assistance. I will work on making those changes as soon as I reasonably can.
To answer the one question, yes, I am following a build and putting things into the tree as it maps out.
And Rakiii, I will take you up on your offer. Thanks very much. I'll whisper you at around 5:00 Central time.
JC

Posted by
Reinold1
on Apr 25, 2019, 8:15:01 PM

Also, while I am not yet at a level to use it, I was gifted with a Tabula Rasa six socket, completely linked piece of body armor. The sockets also accept any color. When I reach the level to use that, the right gems will obviously add a lot to the build.
I do understand why 'linked' means, I was referring previously to the fact that I had set up the link here in the forum so you could see my gear, and tree, etc.
Lastly, I realize that I do have too many active skill gems in sockets. I will cut back to just a couple, but am having trouble finding what gems would be best socketed in my items, Any recommendations would be immensely appreciated.

Posted by
Reinold1
on Apr 25, 2019, 8:21:46 PM

Unless there is something IN the tabula (or it has a crazy corruption)..
You should be able to use it. Tabula Rasa has NO requirements. Take the gems out of it.

Last edited by Thror2k5 on Apr 25, 2019, 10:19:25 PM

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on Apr 25, 2019, 10:18:31 PM