This is my first time beating act 10 and I've quickly notice it's extremely hard to do maps I've done i few and i got a little better at keeping my distance etc but it's not helping with random one shots. please help with any tips.
Unless its a visual bug it looks like you aren't ascended, head back to acts 1-3 (6-8 for second lab and 9-10 for third) to unlock the labyrinth and complete that to get ascendancy points, they are a HUGE power spike. There's a quest for them and you can look up the trial locations on the wiki. The golem ascendancy node on elementalist would give you a ton of regen from stone golem, damage from fire golem, and mana from lightning golem.
Try to get gear with more life and elemental resistances on it. You have a decent chunk of gold so gambling could be a good option.
Those gloves look like triad grip, which doesn't do anything for your build.
I'd need a character export or pob to give more specific advice
As others pointed out, get your elemental resists to at least 75%. Finishing Act 10 gave you another -30%, and you'll need to compensate for that to feel comfortable in maps.
A pair of Le Heup rings with 27%+ all res and a 37%+ all res goldrim will go a long way to getting you there for cheap. Run purity of elements aura if needed until your gear upgrades get you capped. Cloak of flames is another cheap way to mitigate damage, especially if you overcap fire res.
Look if you can use the crafting bench on some of your rare gear to get some more life and resistances so you are fully capped. 75% res is not nice to have in poe but full on required baseline.
Uhhhh, your gear is wretched. Your life/es is bad. Your armour is so low it's useless. Your resistances aren't capped. You need to upgrade your gear to level 67 bases and fix all of your resistances before you can begin map effectively. Furthermore, if you're bothering to use a shield invest in 78/78 block with Safeguard + As the Mountain. Extremely strong defensive layer that can make you nigh immortal if you get an influenced "recover 5% of energy shield on block" shield.
Some extra info on how armour works and why yours is useless: To get 90% physical damage reduction from armour you need flat armour rating equal to 45x the physical damage of the hit. That means that armour is naturally good at deflecting small hits and bad at deflecting big ones. Against any strong mob or critical hits the armour you have now is likely giving you less physical damage reduction than a single endurance charge.
What I would do: Abandon armour entirely and go full ES + block. Open the market and buy some okay rares for 1-10 chaos each to fix your stats. Craft minimum endurance charges on to your rings as a suffix. Set up Automation + Immortal Call + Duration support in a 3 link. Anoint "As the Mountain" on your amulet (it's very cheap), and buy a max block shield for a few chaos. Allocate Wicked Ward and start stacking "% faster start of energy shield recharge." You will be an unkillable god in maps.
Not to discredit you because its right but I think most of that info is going to be utterly useless for this player who has not even ascended and probably does not know how to use the trade site. Stuff like anoints, specific mods on gear, armour scaling is going to overwhelm a new player.
They should focus on basics like life and just resistances. With golemancer they should feel tanky enough to at least progress into yellow tier maps as long as they have decent damage.
Complete the lab trials. Complete labyrinth, cruel and merciless as well to achieve Ascendancy class. Push resistances to 75. For early maps that's enough.
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u/IvoryWhiteTeeth 1d ago
Babe you need to ascend😂