Ball Lightning Archmage Hiero - Help with build please - why do i die all the time?

Hey Folks!

Necropolis is my 2nd season that i play poe and i really need some help understanding what i am doing wrong with my build. i am level 89 got caped resistances and still die to so many different things while mapping. its really starting to get annoying.

https://pobb.in/dwhoSvf6BfzA

i am grateful for every hint you may give me.

thanks!

First of all your resists are only capped when your flasks are up, either make a traitor set up for perma ele flasks or get the rest of the resists on your gear, second of all you have an abysmally small hp pool, no mitigation and very limited recovery.

You have a total hit pool of about 7k, most hiero builds aim for closer to about 9 or 10k before including various layers of mitigation. Additionally your damage is relatively unimpressive which means it will struggle to supply you with sufficient leech to survive protracted periods of damage.

Kitavas thirst is not a good way to automate curses, you would be vastly better served by running a good es helmet in its place and using bane to apply hexes and applying your mark manually or simply swap off the anathema build for another good survivability ring.

Furthermore you are using archmage with a very small mana pool, my recommendation would be to buy an atziri's foible and run that as your ammy to increase your mana pool to something more worthwhile while swapping anathema to a rare ring with life mana and resists. Furthermore this league has easy access to gear with lots of t1 rolls, get better stats on your gear, the main issue is all of your rolls are really low and it leaves you very short on survivability.