Remove pls (wrong forum)

I think there's a huge shift here in us being expected to have actual resistances (cold and fire at least) in A1 but the tools to get it are not there. Pretty much it would require grinding for gold to gamble in vendors, buy resist rings (if they even show up in vendor) or buying items (could be socketed, then you need the res rune too). This touches on another topic which I won't go into here, gold acquisition speed.

I've for sure found that rare items are powerful, if they are even remotely good for you, but there's not enough opportunity for making rares. I've cleared act 1, farmed executioner for a little, and am sitting at 2 total regals and one alch. So every item I have is a 2 mod magic item. This is probably just because rare items are few and far between in A1, about to venture into A2, so they may ramp a little and alleviate this. But that doesn't mean that A1 has to feel worse because "its going to get good soon". An exponential rare drop rate from the beginning to A2 levels would probably be better than what I'm expecting is going to be a jump in rare drop rate.

Pretty much any elemental damage based enemy projectile or attack rips through your character, and is being spammed. I've only played warr so far so no evasion (and no blocking since 2H), and I have to actually GET to the enemies before I can stop them.
This was never an issue in PoE1 because you didn't really have a lot of elemental attacks/spells coming at you, until lightning skeles in A2 (other than Merveil) and at that point rares are much more common than A1.