HELP XD Survive with my cyc Slayer

https://pobb.in/V-aN25utfECL current gear

hey hey
i need help, i somehow need a defense slayer.
shock, burn, instant death
no idea what i have to change to survive
currently i can't manage 11-16 maps :(

I am in a similar boat, but followed a maybe not so great build guide. But you mentioned shock and burned and instant death. Looking at your build, your ele resistances are 61%/55%/72% (fire, cold, light).

So maxing them out at 75% and it will help, especially for fire and cold damage. Your helmet also makes you take more physical damage. If you think your damage is fine, maybe try replacing it and see how that feels.

to the op it looks like you fell into the unique item trap a lot of newer players fall into. That is most of the unique items you have on have no life mods on them. Generally you want around 5k health on a life melee build to survive in higher maps. With like 7 uniques with no life rolls you'll end up only having like 3k health. Health is basically a multiplier for your defenses if you think about it so having more basically multiplies your max hit and effective hit pool. Max hit being the largest amount of damage you can take from a damage type and ehp being your hitpoints with regen leech and defenses factored in.

At any rate I would consider droping a few uniques for good rare items with top top life rolls. Basically gear without a high life roll has to be insanely valuable offensively to be worth putting on if you want to do high tier content.

I would also suggest watching or following the hc community players as they generally have more budget friendly tanky builds as they need the defenses to survive hc and most of them plan around ssf most of the time when league starting. I don't want to drop names but there is a multi gauntlet winner who does pretty meta builds that you can yoink the gear choices from to get a really solid hc viable character.