Sounds like you’re missing out on tons of damage, and your defenses are severely lacking. Without your build information that’s all that I can provide

If you want to follow a build to have it easier I recommand the build spark from I believe it’s anime princess on youtube. He has videos that explain the build and have a page where you can find all you need to make it (passive tree skill supports and equipment).

I’m also a nex player and it helped a lot.

Also I find that MyleSwi has also very nice guides on overall mechanics that are really begginer friendly

I saw on your character tab that you mix defenses. It also looks like you are running with 100 spirit. I wouldn’t say you are doing anything wrong but this game requires game knowledge and using builds with synergy. You need to work on resistances and improving armour and armour applies to elemental damage if you go that direction instead of evasion and deflection.

Where in the world are you from? It’s possible I could help you on discord one day.

One of my favorite things about this game are “tinker” days! I’ll get on and spend 6 hours tinkering with everything to pull more dps or survivability out of my build. Home cooked builds are soooo satisfying when you get them banging juiced T16 maps! Not sure how deep you are in this, but if you have a PC, load up Path of Builder and go to town! Max your resistances first, then start poking at crafting videos for your new primary weapon and ES gear. Peeking around at other tier S builds will definitely help you find a direction for upgrades too! You’re gonna find you need a ton more money so next is finding a money Strat to afford your planned upgrades. Good luck!

A lot of new players hit this wall exactly where you did. So dont be discouraged. There are a lot of little things you can do to get over this hump like making sure you have a perfect jeweler orb on your damage skills and quality, as well as doing all of your trials for ascendancy points. Since you are playing around with frost nova I would recommend looking at a video build that also uses frost nova. This way you can get an example of where to take it since it doesnt sound like you are using a build guide. You can also use poeninja to check out other people’s builds.

You need to farm with what you have for now until you’re able to buy those gems from ange.

You’re weak ATM, i get it that you totally can overcome bosses with time but 15 minutes is way too much.

Just follow what the game tells you to do, complete your atlas tree etc…you will get divines eventually to improve or change your build.

A good noob way to make money at that stage is by slamming t15 waystones and corrupting them to sell.

The basic loop of the endgame is: Do maps —> Get loot/currency —> Upgrade/Sell (if possible) —> repeat

But all the good endgame drops (probably) will not drop unless you “juice” your maps (upgrade your waystones and tablets).

The main thing to do when you first get to endgame is to rush the atlas passive tree. The more you complete that, the juicer your maps will get. Honestly, in my experience, rushing to get as many atlas passive tree points is the very first priority.

Then you can choose a mechanic (Abyss, Delirium, Ritual, Expedition, Breach, Atziris Temple) and get those passive points and just farm which ever works best for you!

I had a strong enough build and enough divines that I did the slog to the arbiter of divinity, then just bought the needed fragments to do him again and just outright complete the atlas tree.

Edit: Also, as a beginner, USE A BUILD GUIDE. Homebrewing is great, but it’s just an easier experience using a build guide at least for your first character.

You finished the tutorial.  Congratulations

Press C (character info). Make sure your resistances are capped at 75%. Your chaos res can sit around 0 - 25% until later on.

You lack damage, make sure all your gems are leveled and make sure you’re using some solid support gems.

I believe there’s a lichborn staff with walking calamity for your ascendancy which is probably really cheap. Search that on youtube :)

Basically you gotta thug it out.

Alternatively you can just look up a build guide and copy that. No shame in following a guide when you’re new to the game. Poe2 is way too complex for someone brand new to the game to make a good build going in blind. You can get through the campaign and you could even thug it out and complete all the endgame quests, but it’s going to be really difficult.

Plus to skill level is good damage boost but too much will drain your mana quick unless you got a lot of it. Use arcane remnants and mana cost efficiency if you have mana problems. Cast speed is pretty good with spark. You can socket cast on crit with comet but it will cast very few if you don’t get more damage on your main skill or use cost reduction/mana cost efficiency gems on it.

There are a ton of routes you can take and a build guide isn’t a bad idea. Frankly the path of least resistance is likely to swap to Disiple of Varashta. It can be very strong with peanuts for gear. Can always swap to something else later once you’ve got things a bit more figured out and have built up a bankroll.

Campaign is the tutorial, endgame is the actual game! You’ve only just learned the rules…

First build i played i tried to make it myself and it was ass, i think thats just how it goes theres too much in this game to try to figure out yourself though that is what makes it fun.

Definitely look at a build guide centered around a specific skill you want to use. Guaranteed theres like 100 different combos you are missing to optimize your damage (for one using living lightning support does pretty much no damage and is a waste of a support gem slot). i can guarantee any build in this game with minimal/proper investment (less than 10 divs) can clear all endgame content and not die to a few hits to white mobs. Its fine to adapt your own build but definitely look at different builds using your main skill an take inspiration from those

Capped resistances FOR SURE. And honestly you should prob respec and follow a build guide for your first couple playthroughs. It really helps you learn the game and alllllll the mechanics, because there are a lot and there’s a ton of things that you never would have even known. I’ve been playing since EA launch and I’m STILL learning new things about this game. Once you spec into the right nodes in the passive tree, get the proper gear and quality it all, cap your res, and get the right skills with the right supports it’ll feel waaaay better. If you’ve found any divines you can trade those for exalts and use those to buy good gear on the trade market, but you’ll need to know what you’re even looking for which goes back tk having the right build. Good luck man! Once it clicks it CLICKS

First thing you should be doing is capping your resistances, Fire,cold and lightning. I’d also be looking to make a switch from armour to ES as soon as you can.. if your playing trade you should be able to improve your gear pretty cheaply. Also sounds like your damage is struggling… I’d say you need more + to spell skills which you can get on your wand/staff and other pieces of armour.

If you have ascendancy points, Go Disciple of Varashta, take Kelari’s Judgement get the cheapest scepter, amulet, helmet with + minion skill levels, body armor with + spirit, and find pretty much any Disciple of Varashta build to get a standard point distribution and skills to take. Once you get a grasp of the new mechanics, you’ll steamroll pretty much everything.

I know it deviates from your current build but I’m of the mindset that you pick a class and play a meta build until you can afford to start playing around with a home brew. It beats going up against the wall you eventually hit because you’re too tanky, too squishy, or don’t do enough damage.

Speaking out of love from someone that enjoys grinding. PoE2 isn’t the type of game where you “alone” can improve. I’m talking solely about your position (early end-game). You haven’t seen support gem X, you don’t have stat Y. Here’s the thing: You can’t get them yourself. What you can get is currency so you can buy what you need from other players. If you’re ok with playing market simulator, ignoring most loot and only picking up currency (to trade, not to craft, because it’s a mistake using expensive currency on not the best base items - which are only late-late game) and you can deal with market inflation and window shopping, then this is the way to progress.

Do not expect to find upgrades on the ground (or have the nerve to check everything, because a loot filter is useless if all items are Unidentified and it can’t read stats), do not expect to craft upgrades, because at that point in the game it’s RNG and you’ll be spending 10x the currency ‘maybe’ getting something that you want rather than simply seeing the exact item that’s an upgrade on trade and buying it. Zero risk there.

Love the game, hate the itemization and crafting especially early to early-endgame.

I played ice nova to lvl 98 last league, you can absolutely crush the entire game with it if you can stack +skills up to 40.

Your first mission is to complete the citadel, you got aot of questing still to go

Thats the cute part. You dont get to stop. FOREVER

Reminds me when i thought that poe1 was 1-time campaign game.

Dude, you’re up to most braincrack experience in your gaming life.

first of all, you should use a beginner friendly guide to learn the game through

https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/animeprincess-stormweaver-sorc-league-starter

this should get you started, now read on for some basic game info you should know

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make sure you complete the optional quests in campaign for extra passive points, it’s common for new players to miss some, for example the act 2 letter that needs you to talk to an NPC in town

str,dex,int for equipping items mainly

str = armor based items (reduce physical damage taken from hits)

dex = evasion items (chance to avoid damage from hits)

int = energy shield items (extra health that recharges after a delay, takes double damage from chaos type)

hybrid gear exists, avoid it as a newbie

resistances are mandatory 75% minimum for elemental, chaos can come later but eventually should be at least 50%, ideally 75%

on the passive tree, int related stuff is up top, dex is bottom right, str is bottom left, hybrid inbetween

spells scale base damage from their levels, that is then increased by “increased” damage, that is then increased by “more” damage. if you’re going crit that goes on top as well, these are sequential multipliers

eg. 100 dmg base + 50% increased + 50% more = 100+50%=150 | 150+50% = 225

“more” multipliers work on top of themselveseg. 100 dmg + 50% more + 50% more + 50% more = 100>150>225>337.5

“more” usually comes from support gems, scarcely from passive tree and some from ascendancy points

basic currency is exalted orb, next in value is chaos orb, next is divine orb, the greater and perfect versions are more expensive

currency is all of those orbs that are consumable, we use them to trade

use the https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/ trade site to shop for items from other players, make sure the correct league (server/season you play in) is selected

pro tip, adding ~ before search terms on the right lets you search easier, for example ~proj dam inc | that will show you anything with those 3 lines in it, namely projectile damage increase

getting a 6 linked main skill is a big damage boost, can be bought from currency exchange (ange in hideout) (look for perfect jeweler orb)

you can also buy a lvl 18 or 19 skill gem from there as well

on trade site you can use the ~ i previously mentioned combined with searching “count” to find yourself items with any combination of resistances to help you get started, for example, top left select gloves, add a minimum of say 50 energy shield, and on the right select “count”, put 2, then use ~ to add ~pseudo resist | and select cold/lightning/fire, put min value say 20 or 30 and buy something cheap

do that for helm and body armor, with helm and body armor being big sources of ES

for boots make sure to also add “and” movement speed, 25% should be cheap as fuk

an amulet with resists and + spell skill levels

body armor and amulet can also have + max spirit for more reservation skills

A tip for the future, the best way to get help with your build, either for tips to improve and perhaps try to understand why something isn’t working, is to submit your character to POE.ninja and share the link to said character! The community is happy to help and this way makes it easy for everyone involved hahaha

As your particular build, i’m sorry i can’t help that much, spark is not a build i’m really familiar with, but the general tips would be:

-Capping your elemental resistances (which can be done fairly easy with some blue gear that you pick up + essences)-Try to get your chaos resistance to be at least 0% (some amethyst rings alone can get you almost there)-For Sekhemas trials, it’s rough at the beginning, i won’t deny that, but try to get honour resistance / +max honour, try to follow a path that grants sacred water and the shrine that restores honour, and if you have aroud 300+ sacred water, a merchant can provide good boons

Quit and go play poe1s endgame because it’s better. Hopefully in 1.0 they have some nice endgame changes for poe2.

Seriously though. Welcome to poe.

I suggest actually following a written guide and read it thoroughly. There is a steep learning curve to poe. You actually learn by following guides and understanding how builds work. Trying to create your own build with no knowledge will almost always fail.

The endgame loop is terrible and boring. You grind for currency of all things, no good loot drops in this game. Don’t get me started on “crafting “ which is nothing of the sort. So yeah, you kill endless maps for currency and buy gear in the auction house. That’s it

I think it’s important to remember that you can always make incremental changes to continuously improve, you don’t always need to swing for the fences with the biggest, most expensive upgrades.

People new to the game are generally recommended to start with a league starter build and follow a guide from a well-known content creator. This ensures a few things: 1. You won’t get filtered in the first 100 hours by a knowledge gap. 2. You are set up to do well; all you need to do is follow the guide. A good league starter will allow you to complete most content other than the hardest. Most importantly, it will let you farm enough currency to afford a better build that can ideally handle all content, even the hardest, or fund a wacky build if you want to experiment. Once you reach the endgame, it’s up to you to find your enjoyment. There are many things to do; I personally enjoy chasing low drop-rate items that are worth a lot of currency but take a long time to find. Other people enjoy farming a steady stream of currency. Check out r/pathofexile2builds if you want to find some league starters or if you want to continue your current build you can post asking for help.

In PoE you just buy gear. You will never drop anything good. This is a market simulation game with ARPG elements sprinkled on top of it.

Set your own goal of killing some or all pinnacle bosses / finish challenges / play as long as you have fun and quit.

Just so you know you just finished the tutorial.