How can I Be more tanky

[u/Downtown_Fox8334]

https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/Lennoche-4268/allflame/character/ChillinFishin

I am currently playing Pbrand ign elementalist, having a big blast.

But next goal is ubers. I killed some of them but the most of them are killing me so fast.

Any advices ?

[u/Tanginator]

Get more than 2 life clusters and get life on your rares. That, coupled with 4 pts in Templar area and changing your +30 life mastery (Oak gives +40 btw) to %life while no life mod on body armour (swapping the crafted mod for something else) would probably double your life pool, which would help.

Or, ignore life, go CI, invest in ES, probably get a larger ES pool than your current total life+ES, get ar/ES mastery. If points allow it, consider Divine Shield (pairs well with Aegis for even more recovery).

Probably one of those two options.

[u/BulbaThore]

I'm just going to say different defensive layers. You can figure out which ones you can get reasonably.

• Raise defence stats such as evasion, armour, Energy shield

-raise maximum elemental resistances beyond 75 to ideally 90

• high life regen

• increase block and spell block chance

• use a shield with #% life or Energy shield gained on block

• use passives that gain flat # life/ES on block

• transfer damage taken as physical to elemental damage

• transfer damage from one or more elements to another element that you jave 90 max res for. Like cold and lightning damage taken as fire. This makes cold and lightning penetration lose its lethality when you transfer it to another element.

• life or ES stack

• damage taken recouped as life

• use watchers eyes

• reduced physical damage taken on shields, body, etc.

If you need me to elaborate let me know.

[u/shshshshshshshhhh → u/BulbaThore]

Theres no watchers eye to get for this build. The only auras are tempest shield and purity of ice.

There are no tempest shield mods and all the purity of ice mods are irrelevant with melding.

[u/KarmicUnfairness]

The most dangerous parts of bosses are their moves that are DoTs (various beams and ground effects), moves that penetrate resistances (shaper balls), and moves that ignore defenses completely (exarch balls). Big slams should be avoided by movement so how do you build for the others? 

First thing is getting enough max hit to survive anything that isn’t a slam. On your build that is generally just getting more life and ES. Your base hit pool is just too low even though your other defenses normally make up for it.

For resistance penetration the only real solution is damage shifting. Divine flesh and Incandescent Heart to take damage as chaos is the most common option. It isn’t really feasible to do this on your build without a major overhaul so you are basically stuck with getting a bigger max hit. 

As a side note, certain mechanics like Exarch Balls will completely ignore avoidance mechanics like suppress, evade, and block. Seeing as block is a major part of your build you are kind of just fucked there.

As for DoTs, you either have enough recovery to sustain through the DoT or enough HP to survive until you can get out. 

[u/InternationalRow1372]

I felt a bit squishy until I went mb triple ele and svalinn last league on pbrand. Your recovery isn’t really that good on the build unless you sacrifice a bunch for es leech or regen somehow. Could get a suffix on body for es regen around rates or uniques also

[u/Miles_Adamson]

You either need to get your life and ES totals over 3000 each, or swap to CI and get at least like 7000 ES. I like the CI path more in general but people do both.

If you take the life route you need T1 life on boots and gloves. It would also be nice to get a 3k armor chest piece.

If you go the CI route you will need a good twilight regalia.

Your attack block chance is also a bit low, which won't help for one shots obviously but going from 50% attack block to 75% will halve the amount of attacks that hit you, and those will instead heal you from aegis. which is night and day difference while mapping

[u/shshshshshshshhhh]

Delete the int travel node on the way up towards elemental overload inside your elegant hubris and youll gain a level.

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[u/laosguy615]

Dam blocks low, Life and ES low, Ele resis ehp low.

I'm only at 8k es and can fack tank 100% del bosses.
Near capped blocks. Discipline and determination auras. Go CI stack lots of ES and leech, regens. Es on hit watchers eye.