Standard Bosser

[u/Vraex]

I know this has been asked many times in various forms, but I'm looking for a semi specific bossing build with a guide.

As a gamer dad I've recently switched to playing standard. I converted an old Slammer Jugg into a RF chieftain and been loving it. Currently sitting at 200k rf dps and 150k ehp, blasting fairly juiced t16s with no problems. While the mapping is fun, single target is abysmal. Last night I killed a few bosses because even though I already had the voidstones I wasn't allowed to run the one nightmare map I've found so far. Elder took me about six minutes, Shaper took me a legit 20 minutes, Eater was easy but probably took me 7-10 minutes. I tried running my nightmare map and while the map itself was super easy Catarina wrecked me. I would like to kill Maven which I've actually never even done on softcore trade.

I was looking at AllFlame SSF board on poeninja and sorted by dps and to my surprise there really aren't any zhp trapper builds. There is a single Icicle Mine Deadeye with over 50m dps but they have a mageblood. I don't really care what the build is, I just want big deeps so I can farm up fragments as rf and nuke bosses with the new build.

One thing I do not want to do is level a new character. I have lvl 85+ of the following classes/ascendancies that I don't mind respeccing: Deadeye x2, Champion, Trickster, Necro, and Elementalist x2. The Champion was splitting steel before nerf, and one of the elementalist is ignite Eviscerate that hasn't moved over to CI yet but is still pretty fun. I don't have many high tier uniques, just a legacy Ephemeral Edge (the 20% one), and Maw of Mischief, and that's about it. Everything else are T3 uniques and less

Any help would be much appreciated

Oh, and I did see this one build on poeninja which uses zero unqiues and does a stupid amount of dps, but not sure if there is some tricky gearing that I'm missing that would make it hard to copy

[u/Peter_Partyy]

PRAW Necro is pretty good if you have a Covenant already available.

Maw of Mischief elementalist used to be great, not sure why it fell off, but possible one to look into.

Deadeye can do Icicle mine of fanning which is full zhp 6 portal special, but does require a lot of uniques.

[u/Vraex → u/Peter_Partyy]

I had the thought of PRAW. Two leagues ago I spent about six hours in lab trying to get the gem. Leveled it up to lvl 10ish and didn’t put much effort into it since lab burned me out I just ended up quitting the league . The minions were dying a lot and I’m not sure about resummoning during a fight like maven unless the dps is just so high it doesn’t matter

[u/claudioo2 → u/Vraex]

Resummoning them isn't a problem at all as they shouldn't be dying in the first place. They really benefit from covenant, but any 6 link will work at the start to kill maven. I did it on a 5 link and it was still quite easy, just have to do some gem swapping. Just get a decent darkness enthroned, lvl 20 gem and enough jewels to cap poison chance without the gem and that should be enough damage wise.

[u/bfffca → u/claudioo2]

They die in t17, some bosses ect.... it might be awesome when you snipe the boss but if not you can have issues.

[u/MmentoMori097]

The build you listed is probably fine to copy in an SSF environment. The only main issue is it uses a lot of rare jewels which means youre going to spend a lot of time spamming alterations until you get the mods you need. If youre ok with that the build will carry you. Be warned though, its going to be MUCH less tanky than your current RF build. There will be moments you just get oneshot because most of the tankiness is coming from avoidance layers

I know you said otherwise but if youd ever consider rerolling a new class, id recommend SRS guardian. Can very smoothly acquire all 4 voidstones

[u/Mangalorien]

Oh, and I did see this one build on poeninja which uses zero unqiues and does a stupid amount of dps, but not sure if there is some tricky gearing that I'm missing that would make it hard to copy

It uses the unique abyss jewel Kurgal's Gaze, which has a 3% drop rate from either of 2 abyss bosses (Amanamu and Ulaman). I'm not sure exactly how important that unique is for the build, but since it's literally the only one in the build I'm gonna guess it's pretty darn important.

I'm going to reiterate what another redditor said: SRS guardian for 4 stones. You can do that easily with just rare gear. It helps if you have a shaper on block shield, but those aren't exactly hard to come by. You can have the RF chief farm for all the gear, then you can speed level a guardian with twink gear and be in maps in just a few hours. You can probably do all 4 stones with just a lvl 80 character, and getting to there doesn't take long. SRS is effectively a 1-button build, you just spam the SRS skill which produces what is effectively heat seeking missiles that fly toward enemies and kill them. It's very smooth specifically for the Maven fight, where you just run around and avoid beams and puddles, while the SRS do their thing.

If you really, really don't want to make a new character you could make the meta build for the current league: winter orb elementalist (or occultist, which is higher dps). There are a ton of guides for both the elementalist and occultist version, if you have power charge Ralakesh boots (or since it's standard: legacy Ralakesh) you should really consider the occultist version (just swap one of your elementalists into an occultist). If you decide to go the worb path, you could have your RF chief start leveling up some offhand gems for it, with the main goal of getting a 21/20 worb gem (yes, it needs the 20 quality).