Looking for help with a LS Trickster Build

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https://pobb.in/-i1xHLKDAlG_

I was following a guide for a LS Trickster, the video looked good and I thought I understood the basics. However, in the guide there was no real information for leveling. I leveled with the Runecrafting Envy and Summon Spectral Wolves, with Smite. It was.. Not fun. I really need to learn leveling build, what skills to use, and how things function better.

With that said, I am currently hard stuck. I can barely kill anything in T1 maps, Super squishy, and all around. I f-ed up somewhere.

Any advice on how to salvage? Should I swap out LS for a different skill until higher levels? Change the passives completely? I keep falling into blindly following guides and this keeps happening. Lacking the expected minimal experience of the game to level to a functional build.

Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated. My other 2 builds went off without a hitch. SST Glad and IceNova Heiro. Then again, I blindly followed leveling builds for them as well. I am useless without the handholding. Things look fine here too. I am sure I am missing something.

Also, missing belt slot is a Mageblood from my main. I toss it on when I play this guy.

yeah leveling is rough for this build. if i were you i would jump into some 5 ways and get yourself to level 90+ so you can start filling out your tree and upgrading your gear. things like necrotic armor and lich's circlet can only be used once you are lvl 84. the weapon scales damage with ES so the more ES you have the more damage you will have also. you probably want at least 10K ES to start doing some decent damage. get a weapon with "resolute technique" corruption on it also.

I appreciate the information about 5 Ways and the resolute technique. However, do you, or anyone else, have a better way for myself to finish leveling to at least 84?
Preferably, with a skill gem swap. Or weapon, or something to make my current tree viable? It is hard to believe that this is completely unplayable until 84. If that is the case, what other build is close enough to use as a filler?

I do not have enough knowledge or experience to figure this out myself. Plenty of others have leveled this build, according to ninja, so I am positive I am overlooking a simple solution.

you can level with it if you really want to. i saw streamer ds lily level with it but she didnt swap to CI until she had proper CI gear. i think she used a elemental claw and trinity support gem with LS before she swapped. you can maybe ask her in her twitch what she did exactly. as a general rule if you play CI builds,you dont want to swap to CI as soon as you finish kitava if you want to level yourself. CI feels really bad that early without proper gear.