Constructive Assistance would be appreciated.

I'm not sure what it is that keeps me coming back to this game on xbox one. Hardcore is a joke, simply impossible. Optimization for the last gen consoles is also a joke. Why care about severely dregraded gameplay when you're making so much money from PC, am I right?

I've never had this much difficulty just completing a game...ever. I've never beat Siris. Never seen Elder or Shaper in solo game. Die with 50 ex worth of gear in a f-ing tier 10 map with Zero mods... I truly have tried time and again to forgive this games shortcomings on xb1, but I am at a loss. Please do not tell me to just buy a next gen console or a pc, that is not helping. It would be much easier for GGG to just fix the issues, I am not a multi-million dollar game development company.

All of this ranting aside, I would appreciate anyone looking at my most recent build, still in the tail end of Heist League on xb1, a Cold DoT Occultist, and tell me how the hell I am still dying on a tier 10 map with maxed blocks, over 50% phys reduction, maxed resists, including chaos, and have been played the game for over 1000 hours, implying that I do indeed know what to avoid, how to move around, etc...

Please, if you are another community member with nothing helpful to say, keep it to yourself, I am desperately trying to save what little love I have left for this game.

how much HP you have? you should either go CI or low life at this point

4500 es and 2500 life approximately

here if you have the PoB fork

https://pastebin.com/1DHeri9S

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ChefSlippyFist wrote:

4500 es and 2500 life approximately

going CI will make you tankier. or if you can afford a shavs then low life with taking the pain attunement node on the tree

Won't I just essentially be losing my 2500 life then? I doubt going full CI or lowlife with only 4500 ES is a great idea... It is in my plan once i get 7k plus es for sure, but if I am getting one shot by things with 75% chaos resistance, even being immune doesn't mean I'm safe from other form of damage, and less that 5k es is a big risk even then.

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ChefSlippyFist wrote:

4500 es and 2500 life approximately

here if you have the PoB fork

https://pastebin.com/1DHeri9S

There is a lot of room to improve.

- Grab Elemental Overload and trigger it with a Storm Brand + Inc Crit Chance combo. Thats a lot of dmg right there and easy to get.

- As others said, go CI. You are Occultist and stun immune as long as you do have ES, so thats already covered.

- Think about grabbing Wicked Ward as well. Its basically the same mechanic as Vaal Discipline but without having to charge up souls. As long as you can avoid taking dmg for a moment ES recharge will kick in and save the day

- Ditch those inefficient mana node and possibly the entire templar section.
Instead grab the entire Foresight and Unnatural Calm wheels as well as Arcane Focus and stack much %ES as you can. Shoot for at least 200%.

- Your chest is very pretty weak defensively. A 500+ ES chest would serve you better.

- If you can afford another Energy from within jewel turn the melding cluster into a pure ES wheel.

- Look into Crystal belts. Uniques like Auxium or Bated Breath can also help out a lot. Yes you will miss out on some dmg, but the above mentioned EO makes easily up for it.

- Stack Int on every gear piece if you can. Int directly translates into %ES.

- If you have room for it, think about a cwdt (lvl1) + tempest shield combo for 3% additional atk/spell block


Right now you are dying a lot, because chaos dmg is bypassing ES and directly hits your tiny lifepool. CI takes care of that.
Your overall ES pool isnt good enough. Occultist can reach 7k fairly easily and 9k-10k with investment. Your are about half way there and thats why you keep dying.

I went ahead and simply clicked some random things in PoB - I know your res and stats are scuffed badly as a consequence - but you should get an idea:
https://pastebin.com/Ek2sub27

Its only 5.9k ES unfortunately because your base items dont allow much more than that. But that will be more tanky than your current setup

Wow dude, thank you for taking time and responding in such detail. Mana has been an issue , already had to rework tree twice to get more since the auras take up +85% of mana, was using a cluster jewels with 30% less discipline reservation, maybe go back to that?
What mana nodes are you referring to? The ones around Mystic Bulwark and Prodigal Perfection are needed for the Spell Block chance.


Here is what changes I could make with the currency I had...

https://pastebin.com/dMhH4RYL

Welcome :)

Looks already way better. I was talking about the 3 mana nodes leading up to Prodigal Perfection. You could just grab Written in Blood again, thats a good notable and the remaining one could be invested into some random ES node.

If you wanted to improve your spell block as well as gain some more ES look into Rainbowstride boots. Its got some flat mana as well, which will help a bit.
You will lose 5% movespeed but thats ok.
Your lightning res would be uncapped tho, which can be fixed by switching the fire/chaos res craft on the belt to lightning and you are back in business.
Your chaos res is at 100% anyways thx to CI.

Overall that should result in roughly 5.2k ES
Thats still on the low end but manageable.

Im not sold on Glancing Blows because honestly your ES sustain is horrible. If you had massive ES regen and ES gain on block it wouldnt be an issue. But you dont.
Right now you are taking 65% dmg if you block and 100% if you dont.
Without glancing blow your block chance would be lower, but with tempest shield you would have a 68% chance to block attacks and 46% for spells - and take NO dmg at all. Thats way better than a 75% chance to take 65% dmg.


Maybe this works for you:
https://pastebin.com/TfFWAEK7

I already changed the fire/chaos res on your belt to lightning, but I ditched the templar section and that causes trouble in the res and str departments. That said: Your Demon Grip Ring does nothing for you in this setup and this slot could be used to stack the lacking res as well as some attribute stats.
There is also an empty jewel socket availabel to serve the same purpose and may get some more %ES or cold dot multi.
Shouldnt be hard to fix and get going again.

I didn't realize it was that small of a block chance increase, I thought with the Double Effect of glancing blows it was much more.

Thanks again for everything, I must admit that it is a bit nerve-racking to play CI with only 5.2k es, but nonetheless already does feel a bit more survivable. Going to get rid of the templar nodes next for sure.

Prodigal Perfection was more taken for the 40% extra spell damage, which scales directly with the Cold DoT of Creeping Frost, but perhaps I dont need that, especially after reassigning Elemental Overload?...

And I just realized that I will be losing about 20k dps from dropping Glancing Blows, since i have Command of Steel allocated in my amulet anointment ... Are there any other anointments that could help get that damage back?... if i actally can get my last ascendancy point I will more than make up for the lost dps so there is that.

Haha yeah being on the low end playing ES can absolutely be nerve wrecking xD
Thats why I recommended Wicked Ward. That keystone is really strong and helps a lot in sticky situations.

As far as dmg goes:
You lost 20K because of Prodigal and another 20K if you pick another anoint.
But EO is worth 120K in your current setup and you gain another another 100k from EE, which you didnt have before if I recall correctly.
So in the end you are looking at a solid 180k dps gain - could be worse :)

At this point you might want to anoint something more defensive or double down on block. Sanctuary would be great to help out with block as well as res.
Or Deflection for about the same block numbers but you´d gain some more ES from your shield.

Thats up to you and you can always anoint stuff in PoB and check whats best for your build and your budget.