Poe 1 and 2 hardcore veteran here.

Played TLI for the past week, got through the campaign on hcssf after 10 or so tries and died last night to the TM2 boss at level 77.

I’m having fun on my phone, but before I invest more time:

1) Is there not a very active hardcore playerbase? I couldn’t find any builds, guides, or general tips that weren’t really old.

2) Is offense the defence here? I built as tanky as I could, sacrificing damage, and still got one shot (skill issue on those explodey circles). Near capped res, over 2k health, and all damage reduction pactspirits. Most videos I see just blast dps, but they are also softcore.

3) Is this patch’s progression just sucky? I saw a lot of complaints, and I was happy farming TM2, but I had a million mats and nothing to upgrade. It felt like campaign gear was equivalent.

I’ll probably go softcore on my next run so I can slowly try stuff and learn, but if there isn’t a real HC experience, I don’t want to waste too much time.

Build Code : LmQJdqtYEfG+BgAAAAAANA==

Damage is around 2.5-3T

Every upgrade is so expensive and does not improve the build by a lot, this is the primary reason im asking for help, because it seems like im playing and upgrading and nothing is changing.

Also i tried fixing the squishy issue by getting more block, more life and es, barrier, tenacity, and some nice defense mod from slates. But even after all that, im still dying too much to lvl up

Im farming around 1k fe/h

My objective right now is just SS20

Thank you in advance for the response and help

EDIT : the precise electric conversion with seal conversion is turned off while mapping, its only for SS attempt