Lvl 70 but can't progress much more. Any advice ?

i have a dual searing bond templar with searing touch (glass cannon ftw) if you post you skill tree and gear maybe i can help you a little, i started to farm lv66 maps when i was lvl 62, if you are not maping yet you can start with Dunes, Dried lake maps and others easy big outdoors maps

Thank you all for your replies, here is my equipment. I spent some orbs to have more sockets and links.




I think you will clearly see that it is lacking life mana and regen. I question is more how to get it rather than what to get.
PS : dont mind the searing bond on my gloves, I am upping it to be able to upgrade my searing bond gem later.

As for the skills, I is going to look like this at lvl 75 (very soon):
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgUBBVuLjOFz7SBG113G3fNgbZ2AgzgUTQSzogC1BOQiKU-Cm-w4GjinhJBVwBpZ8yoTLKdaK6PyrKpyqfcy6hj46xRxSsT2rnhpDjyfyxpsna4SaRcccXmnCNgkNsW4k-vuKPqCx_noQYe3Pv4K2L01krXybqpKyD8nKk0VICzp3Q1br04qKaUDxv0LJa0J9h8CBAeD21XGOlismBEPTC0UsIIe2wuYrfAfIuJH4tCBpDma4EWdU1IWbySqNunjag==


I am doing the chaos orb recipe already, but I don't loot much rare belts and amulets so right now I need to vendor rares because I don't have enough place to keep everything.

I am doing maps 66-68, but I can see that I will die pretty quickly if I go too fast. My arctic armor is too low level and is useless for now. I am caped resist and have decent armor thx to IR and aura.


Besides theses attributes:
- +% Resists
- +Max life
- +Max mana / +Max Energy Shield
- +% regen mana

what are you guys thinking on the important stats to have on items ? (lets say I want to stay searing totem for now).

I made a Marauder double searing bonder, and went Life and regen nodes focused with blood magic and all the totem nodes plus holy fire eventually, and also max shield block and he is tanky as hell.

Not sure yet how he will fare in the end game but I have an aurora aegis waiting for him, so I wont be using searing touch.

Searing bond doesn't seem well suited to glass cannon builds IMO, it works better if you can stand and tank with it as opposed to having to run away from mobs.

I'm looking to reach 10k armour and 2k ES for the aurora aegis, and as much life and regen as possible. Resists come easy from diamondskin, sentinel, and the ES and Armour clusters. Also +20 chaos resist from the life cluster near holy fire.

Searing Bond won't benefit from Fire Penetration, because the Penetration gem requires an attack that hits and SB doesn't hit. Try to get an Increased Burning Damage support gem instead.

If you do not find specific missing items for the vendor recipe, use an orb of alchemy to transform a normal item into a rare one.

If you feel weak when doing zones too fast, redistribute some skill points (either by using the respec points you already have or by using Orbs of Regret to get more reskill points) from offensive clusters to defensive ones. Eg. you could take the points out of the fire/burning damage cluster at the bottom and put them into life/resistance/block clusters instead. The mobs will still die fast enough.

Always check the vendors. Just recently I bought a 5L chest in act III cruel. It's rng and not always available, but in my case it was much, much cheaper than using dozens of fusings to get nothing. Also 6L chests/two handers are possible. Then alchemy them to make them rare ones. Note that rare items can have up to six mods, but the orb of alchemy also often will produce rares with four mods only. Use an orb of scouring to remove the mods and alchemy the item again until you get some decent mods.

Use Juweller's orbs to max the number of sockets on an item.

I'd also replace Firestorm for another curse or Molten Shell, because Ancestral Bond won't let you do any damage even when linked with cwdt.

i have SB linked with increase burning, faster casting and increase duration (i think IIR dont work with SB, not sure). for survivability try with a devouring totem, will heal hp/mp and you can put it in a safe place behind the SB or you.



for the CWDT you can test with frost wall, SB may be used behind the wall or go molten shell for more synergy