How to survive with raider?

Hello, I am currently playing a raider with flicker strike, and even though some people say that dying every once in a while with flicker strike is normal, and I fully accept this notion, I feel like I am dying more than what would be considered to be normal. My character is only at 75% suppression, could that possibly be the reason why I am dying? Also, I've seen in poe ninja that most people playing flicker do not get any chaos res, but according to some people, chaos res is a must in this league, is this true?

So a couple things I see off the top looking at your characters are an abyssus and a lack of good life rolls on a lot of your gear.

Id guess your hp pool is well under 4k so any phys monster will sneeze on you and kill you with abyssus.

And with suppression there is a 25% chance to take normal spell damage so thats not helping either.

And uh if I did the math on your passives correctly you have 63% increased life from tree. Your health pool is probably closer to 2-2.5k and at that amount I am impressed you made it to level 78 with an abyssus flicker.

I'm playing the Raider and am having some issues with survival but I just got into the Atlas and don't have my gear the way I want it yet. Still haven't accumulated gear with maxed out elemental resists and high life rolls.

You need way more life and you probably won't be able to pull off that helmet with the Raider. The increased damage taken will crush you, try the Starkonja's Head.

I'm not sure if you got that build from somewhere but you'll have a hard time investing in both frenzy charges and critical strike, it leaves no room for defense. So even if you do get everything right you'll be having problems.

Sorry, first time playing flicker, decided to follow an old guide on how to flicker and they recommend Abyssus, I will lay off the Abyssus and use a starkonja's instead, as well as try to get more supression and life, thanks!

The best Flicker Strike build I think is the one that uses some boots to inflict bleed on yourself to generate frenzy charges. I can't remember how it works but it takes a certain combination of items for it to work right.

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0piate wrote:

The best Flicker Strike build I think is the one that uses some boots to inflict bleed on yourself to generate frenzy charges. I can't remember how it works but it takes a certain combination of items for it to work right.

The Golden Rule (to reflect bleed and poison you inflict to you), The Red Trail (to gain a frenzy charge on hit while you are bleeding), and a source of being unaffected by but not immune to bleed (not sure if there is one aside from a Watcher's Eye).

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Lidella wrote:

Hello, I am currently playing a raider with flicker strike, and even though some people say that dying every once in a while with flicker strike is normal, and I fully accept this notion, I feel like I am dying more than what would be considered to be normal. My character is only at 75% suppression, could that possibly be the reason why I am dying? Also, I've seen in poe ninja that most people playing flicker do not get any chaos res, but according to some people, chaos res is a must in this league, is this true?

1) 2500 life is very low
You need more flat life on gear and more %life on the tree
Drop some minor damage nodes (Primeval force) or Essence Sap and invest them to life nodes (Golem´s blood) or jewels (life, damage, res,..)

2) Cap spell suppression at 100% to work all the time
Aim for gear with both flat life and spell suppression (you can invest spell suppression passives to life then)

3) It´s quite easy to get 100% ailment imunity for Raider too
If you allocate Avatar of the Veil (ascendancy) you just need 30% more to hit the 100% avoidance (Crystal Skin or 30% elemental ailments from gear)
It will make you immune to freeze/chill, shock!, ignite,, (all elemental ailments!)
You just need bleed imunity (unless you want to use The Red Trail thing mentioned above) and work with curses / poison eventually

I am not an expert on FS but Farrul's Fur seems perfect for such build.
You can have FC and PC all the time with little investment (endgame body)
https://pathofexile.fandom.com/wiki/Farrul's_Fur?so=search
Avatar of the Veil also gives you nice DPS boost and you can take AotS too (for uber lab).

4) I would get more chaos res too but it will be expensive to get all together

5) You can also get Grace aura + source of blind to boost your Evasion rating to high numbers eventually but it will cost good DPS so probably not worth doing now.

You will still be vulnerable to physical damage though...
You might take Iron Reflexes + Vaal molten shell as alternative but I would also get a bit of block in that case for endgame.

6) Gear gear gear
You can get nice shield with high life and evasion etc once you get better FC generation (Farrul's Fur) etc ...