Evasion/Dodge/Block/Leech tank: Need advice to improve

Hello Exiles! After months away from Path of Exile I decided to return for the release. Built myself a tanky shadow and it's going pretty well, I can do 67-68 maps fairly comfortably (except Orchard, I hate that place) but I could use some advice on what I should improve. Up to level 70 now, this is the build I use:




And this is the equipment I have (I know, it's absolutely awful, give me a break I only have so much time to grind):




Up and running I get to 2.7k life, 46% evade chance, 46% dodge chance and about 44% block, 75% elemental resists and -21% chaos. 4.7k tooltip dps on frenzy and 3.2k on reave.

The major issues I have are as follows:

1. Mana is a concern. At 0.09 attack speed on a 37 mana cost frenzy, I end up having to rely on mana flasks a lot which is not ideal for bosses. Mana leech is bloody slow and there's no vaal pact type effect for it that I've found. It's also the reason I'm not running an aura at the moment. I tried blood magic gems, but I found the cost to my suitability excessive.

2. Heavy hitting enemies are still an issue. Despite the pretty good mitigation I have going sometimes I still end up with an unlucky streak of hits getting through which with no armor is pretty lethal. I'm hoping to improve this with more of the dodge passives and a much better chest armor when I can afford it, but I'd like to know if there's something else I could do to make the situation better.

3. Chaos. Nuff said :(.

4. Damage isn't great. It's not terrible either, I don't feel like I'm struggling to kill anything, but yeah, it's not amazing.


So what can I do to improve?

I would recommend this tree. It gets alot more life. At 2.7k you definitely need more life. I also finished the acrobatics/spell dodge tree and got ondar's guile. You should try and get better gear, emphasizing life, resists, and evasion. A little bit of armour as well as enduring cry/granite flasks is also good. For a claw I would go for a high physical claw.

I don't know that I dare play without either the Bloodseeker or Vaal Pact honestly, it's the only thing keeping me alive most of the time. But yeah, more health is definitely on the menu.

Life leech builds are tricky since DPS really doesnt mean much and by that I mean if you look at an ability it breaks down where the damage comes from you may have 4.7k dps on frenzy but the physical damage it does is low then the leech won't be enough.

Suggestions:

Replace faster attacks on frenzy with melee physical, Mind Drinking and the Unique claw leech are based of off phys damage with Faster attacks and Multistrike you attack faster but don't hit hard enough, also try taking out mana leech and running added fire damage, with melee physical your damage should be enough to sustain without mana leech gems.

Don't focus on getting chaos res if something has it great but should prioritize main resists to 75 and hp first. Chaos damage hurts everyone unless your CI, not sure I've ever seen someone with 75% chaos res and if they have it there gear is insane and expensive.

New 4 link, Cast when damage taken, enduring cry, molten shell, Immortal call/warlords mark/decoy totem/detonate dead , the last one is preference but the base is Cast when damage taken,enduring cry and molten shell.

Run an aura with reduced mana if your lacking damage you can run hatred, but grace would probably be best level 16 grace gives 1721 evasion rating.

Whirling blades and flicker strike dont need anything linked to them support gem wise they are more for pure utility of moving around.

New helmet with life ex. 80hp helemet would increase your overall hp by roughly 202 with the 153% life you have from skill tree as well as higher evasion.

Replacing helmet will drop your resists so ring without HP (Kraken Grip) should be replaced with a ring with HP + 2 res (the 2 your lowest on) and have some added phys dmg, usually you can pick up something with 40-60 hp dual 20% res and some phys damage for 1-3 chaos.

Overall Gem setup

Frenzy,Meleephysical,multistrike,addedfire(manaleech if still not enough dmg for mind drinker)

Reave,Melee physical, multistrike, added fire(manaleech if still enough dmg for mind drinker)

Cast when Damage taken, Molten Shell,Enduring Cry are the must after Decoy/immortal call

Redcued mana, grace

Whirling blades flicker strike warlords mark can all be somewhere they fit dont need supported gems on these

Drop blood rage if you dont have the leech for it.

Ignore grammar and spelling mistakes its very early, if you have any questions feel free to ask.

Wow...thanks a lot man! That's all really useful, I'm going to try that. Don't think I need to drop the blood rage, my leech more than makes up for it and it's really useful to not have to pause and hit with a frenzy when I'm in the middle of a huge pack with my leech being the only thing keeping me going. Def will try the rest though, thanks again.