Lesson Learned the Hard Way: Reading is Important
I'm a noob running my first character through PoE. So I'm cruising along through Act 3 with a Flame Witch (Lv 35) using Scorched Ray and Incinerate. I'm loosely following a build guide to ensure I don't get too far off the path. Having a great time basically blasting all the things. I feel almost OP except for the bosses which provide a little more challenge and strategy.
After an extended session fiddling with my support gems and assigning skill points, I get to the Battlegrounds Battlefront. I encounter a mob with a rare monster and proceed with incinerate and scorched ray. I notice then that I'm not doing much damage at all. Eventually my shield whittles down and then BLAM! Dead as Dillinger.
Again I spawn in at checkpoint. Rinse/repeat. Scorched Ray is doing no damage and incinerate seems ineffective.
I'm like - whoa the Battlegrounds Battlefront don't play around. Then after about 11 deaths I start to think more about maybe I did this to myself. Narrator: He indeed did this to himself. How?
#1 Mistake: I added a point to Chaos Inoculation not reading the description. Especially the point about the 1 point of life.
#2 Mistake: I added Void Manipulation Support gem to my Scorched Ray. Missed reading the part about no elemental damage.
#3 Mistake: I did the same with Incinerate.
#4 Mistake: It took me nearly a dozen deaths for my dumb ass to figure this out
So, lesson learned. Moral of the story is read. Read the description.
Lol. That is all