First time playing Titan… I wanted something classic like what warrior supposed to be. What’s made of. I’m trying sunder/fissure build, and the damage is pretty damn good BUT the defense is the problem.
I constantly die and the fact armour doesn’t do jack shit and my HP feels way too low and squishy.
Is there a way to improve defense for titan? Here’s my pob.
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Ghastlord-0306/character/RhaastVaal
Your ehp and armor are both extremely low. You could be getting more from your ring and boots at the very least. If your damage is good swapping cherno for a rare shield will also boost sustain quite a bit. Also may want to consider swapping to a rare chest piece for the same reasons. Additionally finding sources of extra cold so you can drop polcerkiln and still freeze most of the time could let you get more life from gear
Swap to Earthquake, get 15% more life in your ascendancy, keep Hulking Form, get duration down to zero without the need of support gems (by buying a Palm of the Dreamer and getting all the reduced duration nodes on the tree), equip Time of Need, get 3 ruby grand spectrum, get % life, life and strength wherever you can on your gear, get an Amanamu Undying Hate unique diamond and spec into Sacrifice of Flesh, spec into blood magic. You will be basically immune to any type of degen and can aim to reach 4k life (you will still get one shot occasionally).
Giant's blood is really tanking your life total. I'm not sure it's worth clicking at all after the nerf since strength stacking is so important for life. You would instantly gain over 400 life by getting rid of it.
Ideally you want t1 or t2 life on every piece of gear and high tier strength as much as possible, though this will be harder because you are using so many unique items. You have really good strength but Giant's Blood is halving the life it gives you.
12k armor is also a really low amount, and I notice you have armor increases set to weapon set passives, meaning they will deactivate frequently. Most importantly though, your gear just prioritizes damage over defense. It will be hard to get more armor with your setup, but you could swap gloves, rings, boots, and amulet for ones with life and strength (or try to look for t1 life on amulet by re-desecrating).
You could also look to invest more in block instead of armor to increase ehp, but this wont solve the max hit problem without getting more life on gear. Like others have said, definitely pick up 15% more life through Mysterious Lineage ascendancy.
Pretty different build because I played Shield Wall this season but here's my 98 Titan if it would help to look at gear: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/UrNan-4827/character/twohundredthousandrats
I got bored at this stage in the league and decided to spend many of my hard earned divines on a small project. Wouldn't it be funny to stack Energy shield for a min-level char? [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a027) Tabula rasa has relevant jewel mods noted on it in POB so the math actually works out since it doesn't seem to work properly in POB. second screenshot is with a lvl 29 discipline aura with 36% increased aura magnitude - I didn't wanna spend another several thousand divines on a support character, I just wanted to see how well it would work theoretically >3000 ES without aurabot is possible, however, its basically impossible in practice. As of now, there are \*18\* 2 socket uncorrupted crown of thorns left on trade - on average it takes \~11 to hit a 30% and then another 1 in 3 to get a 3 socket one. Hitting a double corrupt on said 3 socket would be better then my current one, but that's not plausible sadly. Same for the boots. Hitting a better double corrupt on the gloves and focus would likely be plausible, but I couldn't buy more bases from Finn. Grip of Kulemak 59% ES \*should\* be possible, but it already took me over 40 attempts to hit 57% so I think I'll just leave it as is. Belt I didn't find any other way besides the 25% corrupt to get ES without a level requirement - if anyone has any idea tell me. Amulet could sanctify for 19/19 but again, would require silly amounts of currency (each try is \~30 div as is with annoint + sanctify + quality). I \*think\* patient barrier should be best annoint, but correct me if I'm wrong. Total investment into this character so far is about 3000 divines, probably a bit more. further thoughts \- maximum technically possible is 3112 ES at level 2 unless I'm missing something important. POB [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a02a) \- doubting this but: is it possible to get an ascendency at this low level by skipping straight to geonor with a helper? In which case it might be possible that xp penalties kicking it would allow me to ascend at lvl 2? This would allow +20% +20% (ascendency) +60% (jewel) ES, which would get me to 3218 ES (actual build) / 3732 ES (max technically possible) Did I miss anything?
I made an elemental crossbow varashta sorc this season as my starting build (goal was to exploit yoke of suffering's full potential, you can find poe ninja below, don't be fooled by the dmg tooltip, it kill ubers before they can move) and so since I was in the intel side of the tree I used my weapon swap to maximize exposure (with whispering ice) and curse magnitude. Here with some non-optimized gear I'm reaching a total of -338% res (that's -169% on bosses), meaning it's better than rakiata's. I use cursed ground support to apply the curse and icestorm (which comes with the staff) with prolonged duration and potent exposure to make the exposure last longer. This tech doesn't require much investment apart from your weapon swap and a few sockets at most so it can be plugged into many elemental builds. As it is now, it requires you to cast the spells with your weapon swap, so I use it mostly for bosses, but i might cast icestorm on bulky rares in juiced maps once in a while. If you have a skill dedicated for mapping, it'll propably better to use rakiata on it, and remove it or use another skill for bosses. Here's the poeninja: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala](https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala) I might make a build showcase if people are interested, it's a fun league starter build. With yoke and the electrocution node on the tree, enemies have 120% damage taken, more if they're cursed, on top of the giant res drop, plus you benefit from a lot of the "damage against enemies with ailments nodes" so that's why the tooltip is low (explosive grenades indicate 60k in game but they hit bosses for like 2M) at first I was playing with permafrost bolt with frost nexus + navira's fracture + fragmentation rounds, it was a fun combo and really strong for leveling but I couldn't scale navira's fracture damage in late game (I had command + minion nodes on my second weapon instead of the curse/exposure at the time) Hope this inspires some of you!
The Oracle Death Star is fully operational- only took 30 days of playtime. GGGs https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/L0L-breh-1628/character/ShapesofWrath