Help me get more life! I keep dying in maps
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Can anyone analyze my character and see if there's anything I can do specifically to gain more life?
I keep getting killed by exploding corpses and used to get killed by corrupted blood but got myself a gem that grants me immunity. Also, I can's seem to beat the Core man (level 2 map) because Piety keeps killing me with something and i'm not sure what it is??? i'm immune to corrupted blood now so no idea. Anyway, can anyone look at my stats and character and let me know? I know my life is pretty low but my energy shield is pretty good no? Last bumped on Mar 6, 2026, 5:35:44 PM
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Your profile is private. We can't see your character.
https://www.pathofexile.com/my-account/privacy  Last edited by Scarletsword#4354 on Mar 2, 2026, 1:52:03 PM
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shoot sorry! i'm a noob!
Made it public now. Let me know what you think? I'd like to NOT die.....or preferably to LIVE when I play LOL |
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Yeah hybrid builds are pretty hard to pull off on that kind of hit pool, because how are you recovering? Flask is not helpful because doesn't work with es. Leech is not that useful because too low on the es pool before it kicks in on the other other two pools. If your not dying instantly, having some non chaos dmg bypass es might help, so your mom and life pool activate earlier, with leech and other recovery. I'm just guessing though. Corrupted soul on timeless jewel maybe, but may not help that much if your just getting one shot, or es is depleted anyway. You're also not near ghost dance or zealots oath and I doubt you're sustaining enough damage for recoup to work well.
You've made an interesting build that's for sure. Is it your own creation or from a guide? Probably has some potential but is going to have to rely off glass cannon dps and not getting hit for long enough to recover shield. You've got some defenses, but are you getting one shotted? I'm assuming Phys damage is killing you since your chaos res is capped (also are you ele res capped? they are not in pob, but sometimes that is misleading with something not ticked. You need those caped though if they are not.) I think one of the problems is trying to scale both life and es, without a good way to recover. You do have a lot of defenses and items on the build, Es, mom, life, evasion suppression, block etc., but it's hard to scale them with what you are doing, so I think this build would largely rely on dps and not getting hit. Which might be where you've started to hit a bit of a wall. Probably the life/es cluster you are next to might be helpful. Lucky spell suppress might be helpful if you took the suppress wheel up near the other life/es cluster. Its all relative though, I think when phys damage gets through your defenses it is often going to be rough and with these levels of defense that is going to happen if you are getting hit often. Probably take a look at some other KB builds and see what they do for defenses, relative to what you are doing. I think a lot of them are CI and scale es, but does look like there is some hybrid ones, maybe see what they are doing. There might be a timeless jewel and watchers eye that would good on your build as well. Also, what's your 4 ascendancy going to be? That might help if you can get it? Last edited by Belegur85#5784 on Mar 3, 2026, 4:35:43 AM
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thanks for this. I'm using a guide that I found somewhere online. I saw a short video clip of the action and said "ok this LOOKS cool!!" and then just followed it on Path of Building. It's basically a mirror copy of the build except I don't have all the crazy items from that final build.
I'm generally ok doing mapping so far but every once in a while a monster or a pack will one shot me to death and I know it's because I don't have enough life. I rely on my zombies and golums and totems to distract packs of enemies mostly but I have pretty poor crowd control sometimes. I have to run around a lot and I sometimes use frost wall to keep some enemies at bay while i work on killing in another area. At the end of the day I just think i need more life. My elemental resistances are all capped at 75% as well as my chaos. I'm using the Grace gem to get my evasion rating to around 10K but if I get hit it's still game over. So what you're saying is that i need a timeless jewel? Which one? I might get it from POE trade if it will help with my life pool. I'm willing to have less ES if it means more life. Just not sure how to go about that? P.S. not sure what my 4th ascendancy will be. Not even sure i can get there with this build. Always appreciate anyone's input! |
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just to piggyback on my previous comment - this the the build i'm following
https://pobb.in/2kNnyRIm7FGt i'm not even close to the total life as this build has so not sure where i'm going wrong |
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Yeah I think you are probably dying to phys damage, which isn't that easy to fix. It's probably designed to be a bit of a squishy build that relies on dps, but i'll take a look at their guide and see if I can see anything different.
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What I would say, is try and get your fourth ascendancy if it is not too difficult. You're probably going to have to not get hit by him or you will die to phs. Depending on how much dps you have, which I havent checked, will probably depended if this is easy for you or not. If it's too difficult don't waste time on it, but there might be some things you can swap in just for the fight to make it easier if it is a problem. If you don't think it is possible to complete currently, can look at something else, but I think this will help a lot if you can get it.
+30 all res will give you a lot of room to play around with your gear, along with the damage increase. I think crown of the inward eye is probably pretty good for this build, so would look at getting that. Assuming you can't get a mageblood, so your build is going to be weaker than theirs in that regards, but I don't think it is essential. Important to have the ascendancy for res because of this though. Might also help with freeing up some jewel slots to get some better ones. Thats one of the main differences, they are using a lot of unique jewels. It depends on what kind of budget you have, but I would definitely look at getting a watchers eye, since your build uses all mana/life/es, even if you can't get one as good as theirs. It looks to me like the timeless jewel they are using is only for the notables, and not the keystone. Seems like mainly for dps, 160% increase, 10% frenzy on hit. That may not be necessary, if you cant get it, especially since your main problem is survivability. You may also be able to use a different one. The other jewels are probably pretty useful too, and they have CB immunity. With the hit pool. I think you have a good body armour, but it may not be ideal for the build. This might not be immediately needing to change, compared with other things, but you actually have more es than they do. Which is good, but might not be as important as the other two pools, life/mana, since these are the ones that you are leeching. They have 4.5k life, 7.5k mana, which I think you are right, that is your main problem with survivability at the moment. This is also extra important, because you get more leech, the higher these are. The helmet and watchers eye would begin to help with that, but overall, you probably need more rolls of life/mana on gear and jewels, to head in the direction of these numbers. So I suggest getting that lab ascendancy if you can, and that will free up one of the constraints, to allow for fitting in some more life and mana. If you can get that hit pool a bit closer to theirs, the main difference is going to be their max res, and less dps, which might be fine if you are staying alive at the moment. From memory you had about 800 unreserved mana, they have 7k mana, not reserved, and arcane cloak, so that will be the main difference in surviving. It probably is actually solid build with that, and not just squishy dps. Its possible running with out grace is better, but i'm not sure. Could be in your case you need grace currently, because of the low hit pool, but might be worth try without. They aren't relying on evasion or suppression at all, but they can probably handle it. Until you get a larger HP pool, it may be that what you are doing is best for your current set up. Does look like an interesting build, and I don't think you're that far off getting it to work, albeit it in a non-mageblood version. Last edited by Belegur85#5784 on Mar 3, 2026, 11:37:21 PM
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" Appreciate this insight. I'll try and get that other gear you mentioned and play around with it. Which ascendancy should i be getting specifically if I complete uber lab? The exact one in the guide? also to recap: get gear that has +to max life or % to life? |
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