80+ Armor and 4000 Life is weaker than 4000 energy shield

I love POE2, I even bought my friends the hundred plus versions of the supported packs to support the game and get more people into POE2 but unfortunately im almost at my breaking point with the game, I have a warrior and Witch this season and my only and biggest issue is my warrior has 6600+ life and 85% armor with the max armor being 90% at base and im dying so much i cant even complete a blue T15 maps meanwhile my Witch has 1632 life and 6344 energy shield and is a complete god on yellow T15 maps with atleast 5 modifiers in them. I’ve spent so much money and divine to get my builds the best of the best and for my warrior its not enough, my warrior is a bleed giants blood build and I’ve tried everything to make it work but it just cant handle T-15 so i didnt know where else to go other than making a forum in hopes that other players can engage in conversations about this or anything similar while also hoping GGG can see this. Please help

My apologies about the header not accurately representing my Witches stats, idk how to change it

I believe the endgame system right now isnt good for most people who aren’t following META builds, we spend all this time leveling up our characters through time invested into the game and once you reach level 88+ it all falls crashing down into something currently incomplete, we want to feel like our characters are more and more bad a$$ as we progress more and more closer to level 100 but it feels the opposite in most cases and doesn’t give the positive feeling to continue playing the game, making new characters etc. but instead deters most poeple do to builds falling short like the initial post I made in this forum and it sucks because I like many love this game. Please GGG fix armor and life so the only resort is an invisible field around the character over maxed out armor and high life.

Why would you spend “so much money” on a early access game to begin with?

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