What the hell is wrong with the Searing Exarch?

I'm mostly doing Physical Damage. the only Elemental Damage I do is when Herald of Ash is Active and it's just adding a bunch of Fire Damage based on my Physical damage.

I didn't realize people couldn't see my stuff.. I think I fixed that.

I'm just frustrated, I've enjoyed the game so far for quite a while, but I feel like I've hit a damn wall and I don't know how to make myself tankier. I have Health nodes, I have health on basically every item I have equipped almost, I have over 600 Strength which is also the stat that scales my Health (As well as my damage and accuracy) But apparently it's not enough, and I just don't know how to make it better?

Hitting a wall in PoE is somethin you just need to get used to.

mamby change build? Try something else? Do something different? You dont need to do all content at the first time. Or second. Or 1000th.

i hate the ball phase and he does it so often. even when i played RF chieftain and had 90% fire res, i couldnt tank the balls.

Yep, I think you can push your build further, it just might need some improvements to get it to go as far as it can.

Too much focus on strength might be part of the problem. Strength is good for your build both for life and damage, but there are often more efficient nodes on the tree, unless your build specifically functions off stacking strength. I think your tree can be improved, there is some redundancy. In generally it doesn't look too bad, but you might be able to save some points. You have a loop near Juggernaut and your tattoo nodes, that might be better as say a 6% life nodes. If you don't need or can get that dex elsewhere, you might be better off pathing through the life and strength node on the the way to the left of your tree. Your cluster jewel is inefficient. It might be fine for where you build is at, but it uses a lot of nodes that could be saved with a better one. I think you can probably get a better rare jewel than the one you have in the tree socket fairly easily as well.

I see what you mean with your gloves, this seems like it might be good, but when they drop off because you cant attack you will be more susceptible. So a large portion of your defense may not be up during the ball phase.

Your gear looks not too bad to me, but you might need to prioritise more higher life rolls, especially like you said that you are using a set up that doesn't allow base life rolls in multiple slots. Six linking will also certainly help, even if that is difficult to achieve. If you could get your life pool closer to 5k it would probably help the tankiness. Just be careful you keep it below your accuracy, but you can still go to atleast 4.5k with out going over.

Wont give any specific advice on the build because I'm not familiar. Though i'm wondering if infused channeling or impales would be good. Your already touching most of the impale clusters on the tree. You would probably have to POB it to find. Maybe there is another way to solve mana that lifetap. Is probably fine, but on 5 link with lifetap and fortify, it starts to eat into your total damage. Your fortify will also be down during the ball phase, thats another thing that will be contributing to be less tanky when not attacking. Flesh and stone has also been made pretty strong for melee this league and might be good for you. May not be able to fit it in and it wont hep with the ball phase but it might be good for the build.

Try some other bosses and see how you go. How are you going with the gaurdians? I assume your doing them fine since they should be easier than eater. Awakener and maven will probably be very difficult on this build. I think shaper you can do, but you will also need to know the mechanics. Still it might be a bit more enjoyable than the exarch fight. Have you done catarina? That is a good inbetween difficult boss that you can also try. Should be fine on your build, just dont get hit by the slam. You have good chaos res and decent phys mitigation, so it should be a pretty easy fight for you. Exarch also doesn't need chaos res. Gear swapping is not fun, but it might be an option if you are focused on doing just that fight.

I mostly keep my Strength High due to a passive that says I need 600 Strength.

Also I had a node allocated that makes my Strength Give Accuracy as well. So that hopefully my Accuracy stays solidly above my max HP for the extra damage.

I haven't found any Max Hp tattoo's yet. The one's I've been getting have been sort of all over the place. But I can keep an eye out for them.

I just simply do not know what to look out for it feels like.

Thank you for the advice though I will try to figure it out.

Ah I see, I was wondering where all your accuracy came from.

Yeah take any of my advice with a grain of salt, I don't know how the build works, but hopeful some will be helpful.