desperatly need help with boss damage

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Lordzero2-6853/character/Idkwhatnameis

I feel like i should not be struggling with t15 map bosses yet somehow I am.

Can anyone make some suggestions?

Best guess it's big physical damage hits from the increased boss difficulty.

You could switch herald of ash to scavenged plating for the boss fights to buff your armour 40% more.

Other than that you could try converting some of the damage to another type.
Molten being is 4 points away from your current tree.
Catalysis would need your amulet or a jewel to get.
Perfect essence to convert to chaos would require changing your body armour.

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Fyrel#3118 wrote:

Best guess it's big physical damage hits from the increased boss difficulty.

You could switch herald of ash to scavenged plating for the boss fights to buff your armour 40% more.

Other than that you could try converting some of the damage to another type.
Molten being is 4 points away from your current tree.
Catalysis would need your amulet or a jewel to get.
Perfect essence to convert to chaos would require changing your body armour.

funny enough originally i had stacked armor and the bosses still annihilated me. the reason i have less armor now is it felt like armor was pointless (has 88% phys reduction)

well while you have a lot of life 17k armour is quite low and it looks like you've got all of about zero armour applying to elemental damage.

I would SERIOUSLY suggest sitting down and watching some carnarius videos on armour stacking, particularly his "Hulk Smash" series

https://www.youtube.com/@Carnarius_v2

He rambles a bit but he's also the only person i've seen face tank all of arbiter's meteors and be perfectly fine and he's doing it with just armour lol

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funny enough originally i had stacked armor and the bosses still annihilated me. the reason i have less armor now is it felt like armor was pointless (has 88% phys reduction)

The big problem with armour is the scaling against big hits.
Even with 90% reduction being shown you only reduce damage by 90% on hits up to 1% of your armour.
On hits of 10% of your armour total you take 50% of the damage.
On hits of 20% of your armour total you take 33% of the damage.
On hits of 30% of your armour total you take 25% of the damage.

To make it work against the big bosses you need to really overcap the armour.

Also without armour applies to elemental/chaos you will end up taking to much damage on any map where the mobs gain additional damage.

why are you travelling all the way to ancient aegis when your armour doesnt have energy shield? There must be closer pure armour nodes...

Try that hunting rune for 50% increased damage against rares/uniques.

Can also try the banner that gives like 25% more damage, banner skills (especially with that lineage support) are EZ to get going now.