Rolled 2 characters in 3 days, still getting annihilated in maps.

Simple post. Started with toxic rain pathfinder for league start. The damage in campaign was good and fun. Get to maps, cannot kill anything. Play enough to reroll another league starter. Did a simple minion build. Invested into +2 helm and +1 wand, capped res for minions... minions getting wiped clean in maps. I no longer want to play the league because I'm not rerolling a 3rd time in 3 days to play a meta build just to be able to play the content.

reroll your minion build to BAMA or SRS...permanent minions suck unless you heavily invest into them. i am playing BAMA now and its one of the best builds i played in a while.

I guess for me, it's more than that. I understand the scaling issues and being able to effectively run red maps is determined by level of investment. However. I'm running into issues of, ritual mobs in white maps being as strong as juiced red maps mobs. Some blight mobs shooting 100 projectiles that 1 shot me. I have over capped rez and chaos rez on both the characters I rolled. I even looked into some streams to see what they are farming, and some of them aren't even rolling the maps. Something changed between last league and this league that makes it feel like all league mechanic mobs are inherently stronger. I feel crazy for saying that, because I don't see anyone else talking about it

What happened is last league everyone had turbo gear with the necropolis farming so you would either instantly delete things or you could make insanely tanky characters. Now the gear progression is tougher and we lost access to most phys as ele mods which makes solving phys damage reduction extremely difficult for a lot of builds.

I think as the league goes on and people get access to better gear it wont be as bad but early defenses are in rough spot.

The new ritual mobs are insanely overtuned though. That I will agree with

it doesn't mean that you have to play meta builds just because you don't know the game well enough to craft a well rounded character. there are thousands of people playing non-meta builds to level 100. I'm playing power siphon deadeye, which is pretty squishy compared to trickster, yet I almost never die in t16s

welcome to me last league, i created over 13 different builds in an attempt to clear t17s maps, took me 3 months... but the key was, choose a good build.
You can't be playing gimmick and off meta builds and you have to play the build that suits your playstyle even if that takes over 100 builds to find that out...

Should be much easier than last league to map without lantern. Given you have 10 lvl90-100 characters, what is different with the league or the builds you are playing this league that is making it so difficult?