Hybrid Kitava looking for advice

Hello

This season I've been slowly building my hybrid smith, focusing in WA and supplementary damage from fire spells and CoC comet. I'm doing CI with the usual tech for leech (soul tether and fast metabolism).

My main concern right now is: 1) It's pretty hard (almost impossible) to find a QS upgrade because I need gain as physical and crit; 2) I'm still getting oneshoted from time to time, specially from hyper juiced boss maps (I'm not talking about big avoidable slams, that's for dodge for sure).

Why do I need Gain as Physical so bad? Because I'm running Ancestral Cry on weapon swap, wich means with 4 endurance charges we are talking about 1:40 cry duration, and more than 3 min if I get lucky. As Ancestral Cry converts all physical damage to fire, without Gain as physical in QS is impossible to leech any life (ES) or mana.

My first option would be to ditch CI and use Atalui's Bloodletting in WA, so I can upgrade my QS focusing just in crit and melee lvl. But, this implies to rebuild all my gear to get chaos res and some life affixes. In this case, idk if I should keep ES as main defense layer (because I'm also using Blackscythe training to convert Str to ES bonus) or focus on more Life and Armor. Besides, idk how Soul Tether works to leech ES with constant life drain from Atalui's?

My total budget is 1000 div, i don't know if I can make it. Another option is also ditch CI, go full MoM, but I can't scale Int so high because I need a lot of Str and Dex to equip QS and skills, so maybe 300 Int max. Moreover, I'm planning to redo all my passive Tree, going south, so not %mana nodes near that.

Here's my ninja, so I'll appreciate any advice guys

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/ChicoJulius-1588/character/ChicoJuliano

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silversurfer022•5 months ago•1

Isn't gain as phys an essence mod? You could put it on any QS you want right? It should be super easy to craft an upgrade.

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