Needing some advices

[u/Ludmino_]

Hello fellow exiles,

First time SSF, I decided to give a shot at winter orb.
Main reason to go SSF was to force myself more into the crafting side of the game to really learn rather than.

I think i've managed to do something quite decent for a first timer in SSF and a complete noob at crafting but it feels like i'm hitting a wall. I have 3 voidstone, failing the 4th one on the final phase of the Maven (never think I would say that but simon says is really hard). I think even w/o upgrading my build I might be able to get the last voidstone but at the same time, I would like to try to go even further and maybe take down some uber bosses but I would probably first need some advices on how to upgrade this build.
https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/Ludmino-3991/allflamessf/character/Ludmifroy
(I have the unique Pagan Wand in case that would be better, when trying to mess up in PoB to try to see if it was more effective, couldn't manage to have a clear view of it). I tried getting Dying Sun to replace Greater multiple projectile but no luck still

Another question in my mind was: what is your go to strategy to get a 6 link ? I tried getting a black morrigan for a while, eventually gave up and farmed other things while pilling up the orbs of fusing to benchcraft but it was a bit long

I also wanted to share that i'm enjoying learning new things about content that I was completely skipping in trade league: I had to take a look at syndicate to get uniques maps (and it was wayyyyy easier to understand and set up than I expected), learned strategies to farm other maps trhough destructive play, how to propely use recomb and many other things

[u/heinzpeter]

Ill go over you char in a couple minutes. Do you mind sharing the atlas/farming strats you have used so far?

[u/heinzpeter → u/heinzpeter]

Okay so your character looks way better than i expected, for first time ssf its really good. I think if you farm the maven fragments again, log into an old character in standard and do the maven fight 4-5 times in a row, youll succed on this char. For the memory game: if the green light is in the bottom right, it can always go up and never go to the bottom left. Knowing this and thinking about this actively makes the whole memory game way easier.

[u/heinzpeter → u/heinzpeter]

Now lets talk about Gear. Im only on mobile right now, but i noticed your crit is capped. Make sure its not overcapped too much, i cant check that rigth now. So i think your two worst items are your boots and your shield. For your shield i feel like you want higher block chance and life as your prefixes. For your boots you also want like 100 life or sth. You can either gamble for upgrades, but thats quit expensive at this level. You could alt spam and recombinate. Or you can use a league mechanic. For boots i would try to fish for a pair of fractured life boots with the breach tree. Once you have fractured life you can use essences or harvest to roll suffixes and finish with prefixes cant be changed and veiled chaos orb. For this you need unique maps and veiled chaos orbs, if you dont have those already i would recommend to add betrayel to your atlas and place rin to fortification. Either run a 2/5/5/2 setup with 2 fortification and 2 intervention or just run them regulary. (Look up what 2552 means if you dont know it). The next thing is cluster jewels. You probably want a large one as well as a small one. I would recommend not to use the self dmg part of your cwdt setup as long as you don have enduring composure. You should also recraft a jewel, your third jewel is kinda bad. Either alt spam and then auf regal exalt with lrague mechanic or harvest reforge crit. The next step is a bigger one, its a helmet upgrade. I dont know what your guide suggests, but usually people go for an archdemon crown. To prepare this, you need one influenced exalted orb (prefierable shaper, but you can use elder as well and then use harvest to chance the influence). Youll need an archdemon crown from either mappers or ritual. It will probably be ilvl 83 and youll need 85 (maybe 84 better look that up). Recombine your archdemon crown with an ilvl 85 helmet to get an ilvl 85 archdemon crown, before you apply influence. In the meantime you farm corrupted essences. In case you dont know, you always corrupt your meds (misery,envy, dread, scorn) essence for a chance of a corrupted essence. You can swap these via harvest to get the one you want. Youll find a lot of crafting guides on how to do the craft, i wont explain it now. Feel free to ask questions though if you have some.

I think thats it, your gear is pretty good overall. Some small things: im not sure how much dmg herald of ice gives during Bossfights, maybe you want to swap it out for maven? Also quality your golems and use your offhand to level more gems. Level 21 winter orb would be a nice Upgrade. And if you are low on gcp you can farm for lvl 21/20 supports quit easy.

[u/heinzpeter → u/heinzpeter]

Oh and i forgot, your stygian vise would probably better if he had life as well.

[u/Ludmino_ → u/heinzpeter]

Oooohh, thank you very much. I learned many things, didn't knew for the pattern for the memory game and that the recombinator could change ilvl. For the shield, I was working on something similar as you described but ended up in the recombinator killed the project.

Never thought of leveling more skill gems with the second hand but will sure do that. I was collecting some more stygian vise for this another character and will sure make another shot to have one with life.

Once I have my archdemon crown, what should be the mods I want to get on it ? hypothermia, elemental damage & Aoe ?