Rare/unique enemies soooooo unkillable at early stages of end game

I am new to POE(latest patch) I’ve played a ton of POE 2 into late endgame and I love it. There were some hiccups with it but it’s solid. I’ve been playing POE for the last week and finally got to endgame. I’ve loved it until I got to endgame. Now I am a big, big souls fan so I don’t mind difficult games. I just don’t understand how you make endgame uniques unkillable, unenjoyable and frankly just stupid! Do you want to have newer players be there for awhile or do you not give a shit. I can’t even count the amount of enemies you have to fight for thirty minutes or more while only having their hp down half way. Whoever can give pointers or ways to actually survive would be greatly appreciated. The game is fantastic but I have too many moments in EARLY endgame where I want to punch the developers in the throat! It’s that maddening. Please address the balance issues. Older players probably feel the same way I do. New players really want to enjoy this if you let them. Thanks!!!

Make your profile public, chances are you just are not doing enough damage.

Maps is where most new players hit a wall. Make sure all of your resists are at least 75. Are you following a build guide? If not, you're definitely not doing enough damage.

Players shouldn’t have to rely on build guide to accomplish things in endgame! This isn’t how games should be. The skill tree should be balanced for every build but it’s not. The gold it cost to respect is absolutely ridiculous. Spell reflection damage is absurd. Instant death when you try to kill the very first mob. Gradually increasing the difficulty as you advance in tier but to get destroyed t1 maps. The only resistance not at 75 is chaos but this shouldn’t have such an immediate impact on endgame. These developers are out of touch with the casual side of gaming. You have a hardcore league for a reason GGG get your heads out o fPOE 2s ass and fix the game thats complete.

Oh and more damage isn’t helping if almost 5000 hp/energy shield isn’t keeping me alive. I am 100% convinced that GGG doesn’t test their changes like they say. How many times has GGG said ,”opps we didn’t realize we had it that way! They are focused more on POE 2 than the completed game. Just fix the damn game.

This game just kicks you while you’re down and than pisses in your face after you are already bloody. I am level 84 and feel like even lvl 90 is impossible to achieve, let alone a 100. I really want to play more but I think Ive given all of what I have to keep playing a game that feels unrewarding and ruthless!

Click this: https://www.pathofexile.com/my-account/privacy

Make sure your characters arent hidden anymore and report back.


If you cant get past the initial maps there is something fundamentally wrong with your build. You have every right to blame the game for doing a pisspoor job when it comes to explaining whats going on, thats all true and fair but wont solve your issues.

Someone here will take a look at your build, pick it apart and tell you whats up. Brace for impact, that might be brutal and not the response you were expecting but it is going to solve your issue.


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OGMrKillJoysHoD#7648 wrote:

Players shouldn’t have to rely on build guide to accomplish things in endgame! This isn’t how games should be. The skill tree should be balanced for every build but it’s not.

Where should builds that haven't done any optimization fall off, then?

To be balanced for every build, should the game be balanced for people who take only stat passives and use skills without any supports?

My stuff is no longer hidden so maybe someone can look at the build to see what I can change.

First off: Kudos for making it to lvl84 with this.
I mean it. I can feel the pain.


I think I have a pretty good idea whats going on here.
You are trying to apply PoE2 knowledge and tech to PoE1. That wont fly.

The Herald of Ice / Thunder tech is not a thing here.
Ignoring life on the tree and just stacking ES, so you end up with 1.5k life and some 3k ES with negative chaos res is a death sentence.

You also specced into really weird stuff - asssuming Glacial Cascade is supposed to be the main dmg dealer.
All those wand ATTACK nodes up north wont scale your SPELL dmg. Thats all useless. Also speccing into dmg over time, why? Glacial Cascade has no DoT componment.

And then you went straight for crit w/o any means to consistantly reach high crit chance number or crit multi. Even with all power charges up you´d end up with 30% crit chance, which is ok in PoE2 but pathetic over here.


You went way too early into endgame stuff you arent supposed to do this early with this lvl of gear. Thats why you are having such a hard time and on top of that you trying to apply PoE2 stuff.

I cant really help you all that much, unless you let me know what this is supposed to be or what the idea behind all of this is.
Because right now, none of this has any sort of synergy and makes no sense at all.