Need help I die too much

I am really lost. I built a juggernaught, maxed out resistances, ascended fully, maxed out endurance charges, I believe I have decent armor, have 5,5K health etc.
I farm at the moment T2 gold maps in order to not die. Yet I still die if I use any of the additonal league mechanics. One map gives 3% progress between level 85 and 86 I play an hour at least to get 10% with can be lost in an eyeblink basicly the whole evening I get no progress because I die a couple of times. And oh boy its so easy to die.

I really want to like this game but this way not being able to level any further is jut depressing and not fun. Any improvement suggestions are most welcome. I am out of ideas. (Yes I know about small improvement I can still make, but dying on so low map is dishartening.)

Character name: YhoggoWolfbane

How much damage is boneshatter doing to you? I havent really seen the skill in action but if you hit enough things you can start to do some serious damage to yourself, even with high phys reduction.

You could change your trigger setup a bit at least. All guard skills share a cooldown so having 3 guard skills linked with CWDT is wasting two gem slots. Since you stack armor molten shell is probably good but feel free to use whatever. You could add a vulnerability in there or something for a bit of extra damage or enfeeble/temp chains to help the next hit after taking a bug spike deal less damage.

And Im not sure what your playstyle is but its best to always be on the move in this game. Standing still and eating hits will kill all but the tankiest of characters.

Thanks for the suggestion, I implemented the guard skill changes, it seems a bit better. I still wish to have more feedback. I know I have to increase the quality of my flasks and ater getting to lvl20 I will increase the quality of my skill gems via the vendor recipe. I have no good jewels so far, this is why I dont use them in the passive tree. Regarding gear I examined the leaderborad with boneshatter builds and I found the synergy between the staff gauntlets boots and amulet. Body armor supplements armor and the four rares add resistances and the helmet additional armor.

Regarding playstyle I do try to move as much as I can with leap slam. What I experienced so far, is that in the gravest moments with biggest pressure the leap slam is delayed quite a bit. And maybe I dont piano my flasks enough...

Any other suggestions like improvement in the passive tree? Or anything else?

You are using a staff, I think you want to take whirling barrier, steelwood stance, and glancing blows on your passive tree, block is very important. You can sacrifice some two handed damage nodes, path of the warrior by the scion life wheel isn't a great node imo. Also, though I'm less sure of this one for your needs but for me I only take the first .4% life and mana leech node over in the vitality void cluster.

Look at anointing your amulet with something useful as well.

Other than that you just need to keep upgrading your gear. You have some very temporary looking items equipped.

I see that you're using 'Brass Dome' , unfortunately it doesn't synergize with Staffs (block reduction).

Personally i always grab 'Glancing blows' when doing HC Staff Jugg, even better if using 'Hegemony era' or 'Judgment staff' base, that way the inherent 20% spell block from these staffs combined with the 10% spell block from the tree is transformed into a solid 60% spell block mitigation, this synergizes nicely with the playstyle of the Jugg(mitigation tank).

Other than that i think melee target skills (boneshatter, correct me if i'm wrong) are risky this league, cyclone( always on the move, combine with Jugg unstoppable) or a none-target aoe slam e.g earthshatter would be ideal. Make sure your dps is enough for the content as mobs living for too long is of a major concern, even for a tanky Jugg. Offense is important defense in PoE.

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ArturSzT wrote:

I am really lost. I built a juggernaught, maxed out resistances, ascended fully, maxed out endurance charges, I believe I have decent armor, have 5,5K health etc.
I farm at the moment T2 gold maps in order to not die. Yet I still die if I use any of the additonal league mechanics.

Boneshatter might hurt but you have decent physical mitigation.

You are still vulnerable to physical degen such as bleed damage and/or poison/chaos damage especially under shock effect (up to 50% increased damage taken of all sources).
It could be multiplied by curse such as vulnerability and being inflicted by bleed damage under curse and shock effect is fatal for any character.

Omnicide24 has good idea about getting some block that might help you to mitigate some incoming damage.

The Brassdome offers nice armor and crit imunity but makes any shock last longer while crippling your chance to block.

I don´t think it´s very good for your build.
Although I am not an expert for strength stacking Pillar builds The Iron Fortress body looks ideally.
https://pathofexile.fandom.com/wiki/The_Iron_Fortress
It has nice strength bonus (nice DPS boost), decent armor (not BD level ofc) and on top of that chance to block bonus based on your total strength.

Cyclopean Coil belt could also help you with life/damage and ailments
https://pathofexile.fandom.com/wiki/Cyclopean_Coil
It could also get you ignite and cold imunity (if you meet the conditions).
Just check your resistances and keep them above 75 (better without endcharges)

There are more things you could upgrade but better check similar builds on poe.ninja.

You should improve your flasks anyway.
Bleed and shock imunity is must have!

Bleed and shock should have auto-triggering enchant ideally
You want also curse / freeze imunity (the rest is optional)

You can get freeze / ignite imunity from belt above (check resistances before upgrade).

Keep using and upgrading your Pantheon probably Solaris/Arakali + Shakari

Are you following any guide or creating your own tree / gear?
I think you should adapt your passive tree to block and strength nodes.

I don´t know the best gem setup but I am quite sure you can get better DPS with a bit different setup.

Utmost might is too good to pass and just allocating this node with The Iron Fortress body and allocating Glancing Blows will cap your block.

You should have capped block without Glancing blow later though.
It´s not so hard with Steelwood Stance, Whirling Barrier cluster and high strenth bonus with the uniq Body.

Strength stacking builds are easy to reach 7-10k life in late game.
You can scale those builds to the skies both offensively / defensively.

Is it better to scale Impale or Strenght or adding Cluster jewels? (probably some mix but better to check Poe.ninja and PoB)
Path of building comunity planner will help you to optimize your passive tree/gear for endgame.

Oh man I totally forgot brass dome reduced block, nice save guys.

Thank you all for the replies. I implemented many of the suggestions (and depleted all my currency in the process :o) It got a bit better especially the guard skills was a great idea but all were nice. That being said, I still feel very squishy and standing in one place more than a couple of seconds invites disaster. I am supposed to be the tankiest class/ascendency in this game, yet I am hopping with leap slam all the time like a crazed bunny in order to improve my chances to survive... Now that is a bit of a BS in my book. If any of you are interested please review the changes..

And thanks again... I wonder how far this will get me.

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ArturSzT wrote:

Thank you all for the replies. I implemented many of the suggestions (and depleted all my currency in the process :o) It got a bit better especially the guard skills was a great idea but all were nice. That being said, I still feel very squishy and standing in one place more than a couple of seconds invites disaster. I am supposed to be the tankiest class/ascendency in this game, yet I am hopping with leap slam all the time like a crazed bunny in order to improve my chances to survive... Now that is a bit of a BS in my book. If any of you are interested please review the changes..
And thanks again... I wonder how far this will get me.

Hi,

good to hear you are doing better but you have just started.

You have chosen a bit advanced build - "strength stacking" Pillar and I am not sure you understand it correctly.

This uniq is based on strength stacking and can be powerful but it requires rather specific tree and gear.

I see you have allocated many life nodes which is usually not a bad idea but this is not the case.

You need to stack more strength (both for offense and defense) and get the right gear that increases attributes and/or strength (or both ideally).

You want (steel) rings with 50+ strength, same for belt etc.

I have made a quick upgrade of your tree
https://pastebin.com/s1zT5xYC

I have also added "Might of the meek" uniq jewel into the socket near the Eternal Youth Keystone.
(Might of the meek costs 10c+ but gives you 300+ life and +3k DPM)

You need to fix elemental resistance though.
You can drop Vitality and use Purity of elements till you get better gear.

You want to allocate nodes such as Utmost Might or Path of the Warrior.

I dropped some life nodes, Sentinel and changed pathing.
I added Vitality Void bcos you have low damage (it will boost your life leech a lot)
You can use Blood rage gem (buff) eventually (it will cut your life regen though).

You can get 500 more life and 20k more DPS with just a bit of work.

The next step should be getting Cyclopean Coil belt with 14-15% attributes (you need to fix your resistances though).
Maybe double res jewel / helm / better rings ...
It will give you an extra 300+life, 20k more DPS.

Try to fix your flasks
You have no shock and freeze imunity
Some of your flask enchants are not really usefull (I haven´t tested it much so can´t give you specific answer but it should be activated once you are shocked or freezed etc)

If you get the belt you can fix freeze / ignite this way (check attributes).

If you are low on currency you need to farm easier areas (check map mods).
Some map mods are deadly so keep an eye on them (100% avoid physical reflect!).
I would also avoid maps with too many damage modes and/or extra projectiles / chain
I am not sure what maps are you running right now but you can run
all maps up to tier 5 blue (tier 6-10 rare; tier 11+ rare corrupted but only if you need bonus)

You can also check builds on poe.ninja about endgame gear to have an idea.

Thanks for the lengthy post. Two quick questions.

-You mention multiple times to fix resistances. As far as I know my resitances are capped, how should I fix them more?
-Do you advice to make the maps blue instead of yellow up to tier 5 (I mean its easir to survive, but not so good for farming currency)

ATM Im farming en masse maps T2 (I have around 35) in order to bump up the number of T3 maps (I have over 60 already). I plan to switch to farm T3 soon.

Usually what happens I do some 15-20 maps without dying then I get one shot out of the blue. Since I get 1% level/map and death is -10% in a split second I can barely make some progress in leveling.

And yes the gearing idea came from POE ninja top boneshatter builds.