What am I doing wrong in Temples?

I recommend leeching another temple run, get to lv93ish, then do your own temple.

2 hours indicates you're not doing enough damage

You should be mapping to level up and get better gear. You’re juicing way too soon if you are struggling on the content. You need to find the appropriate farm XP/currency/gear wise. Rares should die with an ability or two. If not, you need to re-evaluate your farm, gear or level up.

Health in general mobs scale extremely high in there. Monster effectiveness is the majority of that scaling. 

If you keep expanding the temple it will continue to get tougher so I'd suggest leaving it for now and level/gear up a little more. 

Plenty of ways outside of the temple to do that. 

If you want to rush it you can look for a temple run to leech. People with built temples regularly look to get leechers because it means more loot for them. Some will even pay you to join. 

You might have gone heavy into effectiveness without being ready for it gear wise. I was making a snake at the start and finally got my first level 3 spymaster and I'll tell you wuuht she probably killed me 30 times before I cleared that damn room.

I had tons of effectiveness from using commanders as bait and I think its synthesis labs that buff the construct monsters but my temple was whooping my ass until I got more items and levels.

Just focus on building a single chain and I like to just make a big spaghetti bowl of trash in the middle as bait rooms, and I also saw a yt video where someone mentioned the game wants you to be able to level up your rooms. So if you have tons of options for the game to give you upgrade cards, you might be less likely to see the rarer ones like spymasters.

So if you can try to often keep a spymaster at the end of a chain the game might attempt to give you another to level the previous one up. Also try to leave a blank spot that wont lead to anything. If you have a spy and just have nowhere to place it, you can use that blank spot for it for the extra chance of a medallion but also the opportunity to level up a apy in your chain.

The only thing you’re missing is your lvl 65 and running temples too early. While they are great for currency (helped me buy some nicer pieces) you should be finishing the campaign and focusing on maps while upgrading gear along the way.

Sounds like I'll pass them from now on. I have seem5 I can go down and build out and leave. Should I? Or leave it all alone until higher level.

Here's the general jist of the temple, let's take a 77 room completed Temple, and doing some minor rounding.

I can complete a temple in 20 min, and net 60 raw divine orbs. I also pick up only the top 4ish unique, and other perfect orbs/annul. So on average, each temple is worth 80d. Yes, I could go in there with 100 I'd scrolls and look to find something of value, pick up reg chaos/exalts, all the maps, etc. This could easily yield another 10d. But it doubles the time. When you get to an endgame farm, it's actually important to remove the lower level loot, bc why would you run a 40min temple and get 90d, when you could run a 20min temple and get 80d.

And this is entirely up to you, and how you want to play. The odds of you finding a REALLY good piece of gear on the ground is so low, it's best to skip, grab the highest loot, and craft/buy what you need.

2 hours in a single temple?

God damn, just having 25 rooms at 65 is insane if you aren’t twinked out.

People underestimate how hard a temple can get, it’s not free div. It takes a lot of div to be able to clear the 77 room set ups even without a leecher. 55 isn’t even comparable to the difficulty of a 77 if you follow milky build as that’s when you get all the commanders. From 0% rare efficiency to 600%. 💀

No single map or content should take hours to clear outside of the actual time in campaign due to all the running and finding shit.

Mobs should drop relatively fast, they don’t have to die to one hit, especially at 65, but darn close. If not, then the content is juiced too much and you should tone it back so you actually kill to get exp. Sure one kill may net less, but you’ll kill 50 in the time it took you to get 15 and net more exp per time. And loot. And upgrades. Etc.

You should make a small synflesh chain the exp and the unique monster efficiency. The exp will be nutty since temple always scales to your level. Everything else at 65 is meh. You aren’t going to make a div farm that early. BUT start this chain on one side, so you can start a spy master or other main chain of your choosing away from it later without needing to delete your entire temple.

OR! Just join someone like myself, leech exp for a bit. Get a shit load of non div currency, and get a few cheap upgrades to get your build rolling. Take the easy levels, then go back to mapping and farming for your own currency. IMO.

But if you wanna do it solo, the exp chain is the way to go to start your temple. I hit 93 within like 4 hours played time after leaving campaign (on a twink so don’t truly compare yourself to that time) because my temple was set up to be an exp farm since I knew what I wanted. And spy chain, its own thing, was on the other side. This chain is later used as fodder to prevent spy chain deletion chance before ample locks.

You don’t need a fubgooner temple to benefit. You don’t want a fubgooner temple if you can’t dish out the damage 🙈

So to answer your question, what are you doing wrong? You made it too juiced. Wrong choice of buildings for a new character. Watch some videos there’s quite a few out now wanting your attention, mess around in the planners to see how to make good chains and what you want. Then build whatever set up you want that’s pre planned for your goals and pray for RNG to let you do it that way

At your level the loot is junk. Grab the currency and focus on stacking as many rooms as possible. Do what others said and leach another temple and get like 25 levels in one run. You won’t get any decent loot until 50-60 rooms.