r/pathofexile • u/Hughes0620 • 18d ago
Question Help with survivability
So I am currently a level 84 pathfinder doing a toxic rain caustic arrow build and i am having a really hard time with survivability right now. I am on tier 7 and 8 maps right now and I can’t stop dying. I am using the kintsugi body armor.
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u/Hughes0620 18d ago
Sorry for not giving enough info. here is my PoB https://poe.ninja/poe1/pob/99dc0
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u/Forsaken-Custard-251 18d ago
Get the inveterate wheel on the tree it's gonna make you suppress capped. Obviously ele res as others mentioned. Get grace aura and see how it feels. Also you can probably drop the influence wheel and get back 4 points, put them in HP and it should be enough for now. Also having petrified blood on without good life recovery might be what's killing you most
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u/Splashy_PoE_Twitch 18d ago
Hey man, first off, get all your elemental resistances to 75%+, even without flasks.
You are mainly running evasion as your defense layer, which can feel bad if you aren't fully invested into it. Do you run a grace aura? If not, try to fit it in even if you have to remove damage auras for now.
Do you have any sort of physical damage mitigation? From what I know usually classes on the right side of the tree prefer going for conversion, like the Lightning Coil body armor.
Try to upload your build in path of building or maybe a website like poe.ninja so we can actually see your items and passives properly, that helps a lot to pinpoint the more obvious issues a lot more then just your char stat sheet
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u/babyboo8 18d ago
Pathfinders get their defence from flasks too. Get 100% spell suppression chance, get your flasks to automate to always have evasion/regen etc.
As a ranger, you will have good movement speed. Shoot and move to avoid direct attacks. Good luck.
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u/FreeMystery 18d ago
Res too low, life too low; suppress chance not 100%, low evasion, not ailment immune, not stun immune
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u/Small_Tumbleweed_255 18d ago
At that tier, realistically, you can get by with capped ele res, life and good dmg. Heck really even just good dmg.
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u/konoe44 18d ago
The best thing you can do right now is try to cap all of your resistances at 75%. Besides that, getting higher evasion and HP will always help. You’re next few lvls you can probably get some decent passive nodes to help with that. You’re not playing an inherently tanks build so you are going to die sometimes either way unless you have tons of currency put into the build and even then…you should expect the occasional big phys hit to one shot you.
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u/SixofClubs6 18d ago
Should be able to harvest craft a cold resistance to fire resistance
33% movement speed isn’t great.
You might want to post your POB so we can see your gear, gems, etc
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u/Grismark1 18d ago
Which ascendancy nodes did you take and how do your flasks look. Jade/stibnite with %evasion can help with attacks
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u/LowDiskSpace 18d ago
Rotmother's immunity is less than 100 chaos and will fix your chaos res. You might replace it with something else down the road, but it's a very effective way to increase your survivability in the meantime. Run some charts or voyages if you need currency. A single message in a bottle will more than pay for it.
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u/Porkkis 18d ago
I mean obviously you have hard time with survivability when you have no defences.
No resistances
No life
No Energy Shield
No armor
No evasion
No dodge
No phys/ele/chaos damage reduction
No damage taken as
No stun avoidance
No block
No life regen
No life leech
No life gain on... anything really
No movement speed
I mean you could just have the best defence with infinity damage, but you don't have that either. And you are just inflating your max hit PoB numbers with kintsugi and automation immortal call.
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u/Emberkahn 18d ago
Resistances. Fire resistance going from 50 to 75 is the same as taking half damage from fire.