Lvl 62 and not happy with my survivability...

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zythyl wrote:

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Is this all because I powerleved or rushed through some areas and missed out on gearing up naturally? What could've caused my severe undergearing? Where should I go to farm level appropriate gear?

I'm not sure what you did or how you played through. I generally farm the waypoint to Piety for 3-4 levels in Act 3 to generate the wealth/equip I need for the next act. Other than the Piety stop, I don't really farm beyond making sure I'm the zone level +1. My guess is you didn't farm and/or trade effectively.

Be sure to buy things via shops/poe.xyz.is so you don't have to spend days farming to fix things.

At 62, your situation is rather awkward but fixable. Go back to Piety Cruel

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Lunaris_Temple_Level_3

Zone level is 52, she should be 54-55 iirc. Run through once and see how you do. Then replace some of your equipment with IIR, IIQ and run again. If this was hardcore, I'd say replace one item at a time. Since your standard, do whatever.

Farm piety until your equipment is better and/or trade for what you need on the market.

Minimum
63% Elemental Resists
-5% or better Chaos Resist
8.5k Armour w/ Iron Reflexes
4L - Dualstrike, Melee Splash, Multistrike, Added Fire or Physical Damage
Clarity+Grace or Grace+Determination [Do clarity if you can't handle the mana consumption, Grace+Det if you can]
2K DPS absolute minimum, my 44 duelist is ~1k DPS with no Hatred.
2.5K HP absolute minimum
Run Warlord's Mark [Leech/Flask Regen/Charges on Mob Kill] + Enduring Cry, make sure you have 2-3 Endurance Charges quickly when facetanking anything that isn't a white
Get Cast On Damage Taken + Decoy Totem + Enduring Cry

Once you can do that, restart Merciless from Brutus onward and see how it feels.

Examples of what I'd suggest you just go out and buy:

Viper Brow Fluted Bascinet
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/562246
Provides good resists, the 4L, and provides 556 armor [bout 200 more than your current helm.]

With this, you could just run Multistrike+Added Fire+Melee Splash+Dual Strike

Same.
Its my tree on 55 lvl,
http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQAmy0XHVeXYEER1b6n7-NjcDSTtkFOKimlW6_dDfzFtxc4lmegh3ZKfZkrvYGrxUd-ZU2E2VjbU9-bg4TvdO1672BLBS0l3xv6pBkB3L6KeA2pbmxGcmwyCbXyNZL-j03jplcxnjrh8kX-ClivRmk26AHnn8unMPe-hyk=

but when i am on party i see i am less survive than many other in grp.
Especially Marouders did good dmg (not less than mine) and have more good surviving.
Im with 2.3k ho now, 33% phsy red, 61 life regen.
3k dps single target, and 1800 with LS.

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schizophrenicpanic wrote:

Run clarity on hp

How?

EDIT:

Nevermind, found out how to do it. BUUUUT now I have severe mana problems if I swap out Blood Magic / Dualstrike for Bloog Magic / Clarity to support my right clicks...

I have no mana leech gear.

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callitaday wrote:

You have no resists.
You're using BM without life leech.
Your gears suck.
Your build is bad.

If you were a HC player you would have died before 30 and since you're a standart league player I assume you can't finish ac3 on merciless with this char.

Better start over.

Go back to your hole kid...