3k life is pretty low. I started with 3k and I was dying a lot too cause terrible gear, spent 10-12c upgrading stuff to not great but better gear and ended up with 4k which made most stuff more bearable(I also focused on getting all my dmg passives first so I had low life% on the tree until I lvled a fair bit). Honestly basic gear shouldn't be too expensive even with just the currency you got from lvling, sell some jewellers, buy 70+ life items with at least one resist and open suffix or 2 resists and you should be fine. Or at least better. Metamorph shit is still rippy though, need either really high damage or to just not spawn the biggest metamorph possible everytime, the mods on it get pretty crazy. Also a few specific mob types are rippy as fuck so it helps once you identify them so you don't use the parts, or are extra careful when they get the form.
How's the tankiness of that working out? I'm CI occultist vortex, so I can ignore chaos damage, but it's the chaos that seems to make the metamorph guys rippy.
So far its not too bad but I'm still leveling so havent hit up any harder maps etc.. Currently I just time it and try and nuke it down with plague (bearer? cant remember name of skill) as much as possible until I see my health starting to fluctuate drastically then GTFO. Hopefully some numbers get tweaked although it is pretty hilarious watching streams rip on hardcore.
yeah, plague bearer. I've dropped it out of my build atm. there was a period I was using it..
