equipment farming frustration

[LochnarITB]

I posted my gear as a reply to the thread you mentioned. I am making an assumption that it sucks. You may say "OMG, you must suck because that gear is phenominal!" for all I know. I only know that the only piece I have replaced, in a very long time, is the chaos resist ring that became available with 1.0.

I'm not really looking to rebuild her. As I said, I try to live with the choices I make along the way. Any shortcomings I end up with, I try to compensate for through equipment. I've done that from D1 through WOW and now in POE. In POE, I have backed out a few nodes, but mostly to grab something else sooner and then I go back to those nodes with subsequent points. I do reconsider builds on forced resets, but try to stay close to the build I had. It is their identity. If I want to go radically different, I build another toon from the ground up.

I do like your build, Shoju. I had considered going with Chaos Innoculation, but could not see myself staring at a 1 point life ball. With _of_noob, I've grabbed life and energy shield nodes. Her gear tends to evasion/energy shield mostly because that seemed most conducive to the gem colors I wanted. The chest she is wearing, I tried getting to 5 link. Best I could get was 4. I've also used a lot of nodes for crit chance and multiplier. She uses Ice Spear as main and pulse/fire trap/skellies to support. To have Ice Spear doing its best, I go for power charges and I use positioning to filter her shots through a close baddie to charge up the crit for the second strike of each ice spear. I'm just really hoping to find better gear to up her damage and increase her survivability.