the question "is my build this bad? or am i just bad at the game? " its neither really . only the best of the best (not me) can make builds that can farm all content well in PoE. there is always SOME content that will have your number. the longer you play the more more you learn. and the easier it gets to know what your build is strong at and what it is not. early on you'll do well if you just do your best to follow a guide of something that is proven to work, but you'll still find things that kill you even after playing the game for years. if this is your first league in PoE you are doing WELL above average imo.
So, watching your eater fight and seeing you being one shot means whichever build guide you're following is terrible defensively. PoE endgame builds are heavily predicated on feeding layers of offence or defence into eachother for multiplicative / divisional benefit, so it's really easy to mitigate Eater of Worlds beam and not be a one shot. Take a hit of 52k lightning damage (roughly what red map Eater's beam slaps for with a max damage roll) with budget defences - • Divine Flesh keystone from the timeless jewels changes that to two lots of 26k by making you take 50% of elemental damage as chaos damage • 80% lightning and chaos resistance changes that to two lots of 5.2k • Fourth Vow body armour applies armour to chaos damage you take from hits, so with just over 100k armour in total (easily achieved amount) that changes the damage to about 5.2k lightning and 1040 chaos • 20 fortification changes that to 4160 lightning and 832 chaos • 100% spell suppression (99% effective with lucky chance mastery) changes that to 2080 lightning and 416 chaos. 90% raw suppression from a few dex base gear pieces + one passive tree wheel and the lucky chance mastery to make it 99% effective is easy enough to get. End result = Just over 2.5K life needed to survive a hit of 52k (caveman math with the armour calcs but it's accurate enough).
Just thought I'd comment this to let you see the order of operations for certain defensive layers and how easy it is to chunk down large hits from things that aren't super endgame. DPS is always a currency wall when it comes to melee builds, but defences are surprisingly easy to build up without too much investment. It's better to guaranteed clear the content slower than it is to die because you'll always come up against some apeshit rare enemies that'll hard counter you without the ability to practically one-tap them if you can't take large slaps (worst case scenario you walk past if they have a ton of regen with defensive layers and you don't have the dps to kill them, best case it takes you 10 seconds to munch them down but at least you're safe doing so without gambling portals). You only need maybe 3-4 mill single target dps to make red maps a very comfy experience and it only takes a week of casual grind following low investment guaranteed currency making strats to make enough currency for a 20-30 div build that has both chonk defences and knife through butter offences for anything but delve, T17 maps / ubers and very fucky league mechanics like 100% delirious or sanctum.
Man, I'm gonna be honest, this is a pure comedy xd Sry, I know you're new to the game. So the reason why Minotaur destroyed you is pretty simple, you got a lot of phys as extra ele on this map. Slayer is VERY weak against phys as extra mods, and spell suppression doesn't help against it, if you get hit by physical attacks. This is the reason why tanky Slayers tend to get 4.5k-5k hp. You're just forced to avoid phys as extra mods on your maps, if you want to get xp and eventually to lvl up. I didn't see your complete build, but I'm assuming you don't get any +max ele res nodes on the passive tree. Slayer is cool and feels good to clear maps, but as soon as you're doing some mods such as phys as extra, you'll have a hard time. Too bad that *buildmakers* don't usually say anything about it, as a Slayer you MUST to watch out for the shit mods on your maps. So, the list of mods that will make your life hard: 1. Phys as extra mods; 2. No recovery; 3. Can't leech; 4. -max res; 5. Lower armour (big probability of killing yourself with trauma, especially using your gear); 6. Lower effect of auras (same).
something is missing in your build, or the build is terrible but I dont believe that. Get more armor and a larger health pool and try to get a good automatic less curse effect potion, curses can be whats killing you if it increases your phys dmg taken or reduces your leech. I havent played boneshatter yet but this cant be it. You also need endurance charges since they increase your phys mitigation and therfor the damage you do to yourself. Are you missing max endurance charges? Are you keeping your endurance charges active? Do you have them before you engage?
fyi your last map barans map has "less accuracy" which is a big deal for you cause now you deal almost 2/3 of your dmg. also Baran deal a lot of phys damage and you got the modifier phys as extra which pretty much 1 shots you.
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minotaur wants you to fix your physical mitigation before shaper so you're ready for the shaper slam.
the question "is my build this bad? or am i just bad at the game? " its neither really . only the best of the best (not me) can make builds that can farm all content well in PoE. there is always SOME content that will have your number. the longer you play the more more you learn. and the easier it gets to know what your build is strong at and what it is not. early on you'll do well if you just do your best to follow a guide of something that is proven to work, but you'll still find things that kill you even after playing the game for years. if this is your first league in PoE you are doing WELL above average imo.
So, watching your eater fight and seeing you being one shot means whichever build guide you're following is terrible defensively.
PoE endgame builds are heavily predicated on feeding layers of offence or defence into eachother for multiplicative / divisional benefit, so it's really easy to mitigate Eater of Worlds beam and not be a one shot.
Take a hit of 52k lightning damage (roughly what red map Eater's beam slaps for with a max damage roll) with budget defences -
• Divine Flesh keystone from the timeless jewels changes that to two lots of 26k by making you take 50% of elemental damage as chaos damage
• 80% lightning and chaos resistance changes that to two lots of 5.2k
• Fourth Vow body armour applies armour to chaos damage you take from hits, so with just over 100k armour in total (easily achieved amount) that changes the damage to about 5.2k lightning and 1040 chaos
• 20 fortification changes that to 4160 lightning and 832 chaos
• 100% spell suppression (99% effective with lucky chance mastery) changes that to 2080 lightning and 416 chaos. 90% raw suppression from a few dex base gear pieces + one passive tree wheel and the lucky chance mastery to make it 99% effective is easy enough to get.
End result = Just over 2.5K life needed to survive a hit of 52k (caveman math with the armour calcs but it's accurate enough).
Just thought I'd comment this to let you see the order of operations for certain defensive layers and how easy it is to chunk down large hits from things that aren't super endgame.
DPS is always a currency wall when it comes to melee builds, but defences are surprisingly easy to build up without too much investment. It's better to guaranteed clear the content slower than it is to die because you'll always come up against some apeshit rare enemies that'll hard counter you without the ability to practically one-tap them if you can't take large slaps (worst case scenario you walk past if they have a ton of regen with defensive layers and you don't have the dps to kill them, best case it takes you 10 seconds to munch them down but at least you're safe doing so without gambling portals).
You only need maybe 3-4 mill single target dps to make red maps a very comfy experience and it only takes a week of casual grind following low investment guaranteed currency making strats to make enough currency for a 20-30 div build that has both chonk defences and knife through butter offences for anything but delve, T17 maps / ubers and very fucky league mechanics like 100% delirious or sanctum.
Man, I'm gonna be honest, this is a pure comedy xd
Sry, I know you're new to the game.
So the reason why Minotaur destroyed you is pretty simple, you got a lot of phys as extra ele on this map. Slayer is VERY weak against phys as extra mods, and spell suppression doesn't help against it, if you get hit by physical attacks. This is the reason why tanky Slayers tend to get 4.5k-5k hp. You're just forced to avoid phys as extra mods on your maps, if you want to get xp and eventually to lvl up. I didn't see your complete build, but I'm assuming you don't get any +max ele res nodes on the passive tree.
Slayer is cool and feels good to clear maps, but as soon as you're doing some mods such as phys as extra, you'll have a hard time. Too bad that *buildmakers* don't usually say anything about it, as a Slayer you MUST to watch out for the shit mods on your maps. So, the list of mods that will make your life hard:
1. Phys as extra mods;
2. No recovery;
3. Can't leech;
4. -max res;
5. Lower armour (big probability of killing yourself with trauma, especially using your gear);
6. Lower effect of auras (same).
welcome to the league =)
something is missing in your build, or the build is terrible but I dont believe that. Get more armor and a larger health pool and try to get a good automatic less curse effect potion, curses can be whats killing you if it increases your phys dmg taken or reduces your leech.
I havent played boneshatter yet but this cant be it.
You also need endurance charges since they increase your phys mitigation and therfor the damage you do to yourself. Are you missing max endurance charges? Are you keeping your endurance charges active? Do you have them before you engage?
"can i zoom in on this" no, but you can alter the pointlessly over the top resolution and it'll be bigger
fyi your last map barans map has "less accuracy" which is a big deal for you cause now you deal almost 2/3 of your dmg. also Baran deal a lot of phys damage and you got the modifier phys as extra which pretty much 1 shots you.
Ah makes sense
You need to buy or farm t16 cowards trial for exp
You can also take the atlas node, enemies gain 50% health but minus 25% damage
Lol passes up grand ichor chance 🤦
Someone in your chat had your back
theres a month left of league so its more than enough time for a ssf start if u want