Path of Exile hardcore, Scourge League, solo self found part 6. act 5 and end of 1st half.

Act 5 is the last act of the 1st half of the story.
the awakening of Kitava.

because this is the ending of the 1st half. completing Act 5 means.
you take -30% to all elemental resistance and chaos(poison)
so you better gear up and preapre 105% resistance before you end Act 5.

a good place to farm endlessly is the Chamber of Innocence. all the instances of this map is the same.
you start at the top and go counterclockwise to the end. in which case you portal out. and restart the map.

there are 2 bosses that will have a good chance to make your character dead.
these are Innocence and the Act 5 boss Kitava.

Innocense has this Bullet Hell attack in which if you fail to notice and avoid, your character will be pretty dead.
Kitava on the other hand.... all attacks deadly. the arm sweep...deadly. the bloody land dolphins... deadly.

Is Kitava really evil tho. you see. if you think about it. Kitava is called the devourer.
he devoured everything and then got locked up.
but the thing is.. when you defeat Kitava. your character take a hit in -30% resistances to elemental and chaos and another -30% when you defeat him the second time in part 2.
this leads me to believe he didn't just devour the good, but also the bad.
so when Kitava dies . the evil stored inside him is spread to the world like wildfire.
He was hungry but not evil, Chaotic =/= Evilness.

as Act5 signals the end of part 1. onto Part 2!~
Cheers.
p.s. indeed I'm just slapping the text 'part 6' on a screenshot using paint. lol.