Life sucks (in Poe2)

Currently playing as a pure evasion life deadeye and man, every time I see a pure Es or hybrid Es Evasion build I regret my decisions. stacking life in this game while also trying to maintain a balance with damage and defense has got to be one of the hardest things to do. I currently have life on all my gear including rings (with ingenuity) and I only have 1900 total life. Meanwhile Es stacking builds with multiple thousand Es with little to no effort. Please GGG put life nodes back on the tree or give us some other alternative to stack more life on builds.

Yup. I wish we got some explanation for why ES is able to be scaled up so much more than life. Most gear can have higher ES values on it than life, the passive tree gives huge bonuses to ES and practically none to life, ES can be doubled with 1 buff.

I get ES has some downsides to it but most of those can be eliminated with CI, which also coincidentally makes them immune to bleeds.

Even stuff like mana/ES remnants being available to all classes while blood orbs are restricted to 1 ascendancy confuses me.

It is a huge disparity, i have no idea why anyone would play life over ES atm. I have a 91 pathfinder with over7000 ES almost 90% EVasion and i only have ES on my head chest and focus. I tested one of the ES nodes by unallocating it and that node alone gave me 1000 ES.

I suspect ES will get 20-30% nerf in future

and then there one guy with literal 9000 life (exact 9000) seen last week posted around here

yes but if you invest as heavily in ES you can get 20-25K ES comfortably, you can get 7-8K ES with very little investment or ES nodes