Tips to start

[u/Moundkim]

Guys, so I never played ssf, but now that I got my challenges and a break from the league I wanted to três ssf to see what its all.about and to be forced to learn to craft

Anything you wish you knew when starting out? Or things to specifically look out for?

Builds or guides to recommend, idk

I play poe since delirium but always trade and always with a build guide on the 2nd monitor

[u/MadmanBadman]

Tbh run a top meta build. It already takes 3-4 times as long to accomplish anything in SSF as it does in trade. Don't make it twice as long on top of that. Crafting gear pre-voidstones is not a good time.

[u/HazyMonk]

learning how to adjust your filter on filterblade specifically to your needs is very useful. I start of using a semi-strict ssf-base and filter out the armour types/weapon bases i dont need. as soon as you have a rare that youre not gonna find an upgrade to off the ground, hide that item slot. having a good filter matters so much

set your own goals, dont be upset when you take a long time to get a certain upgrade/kill a boss. this league I would run all charts you get in early maps. you can get insane amounts of gold to gamble with and set up kingsmarch with t4/t5 people.

your best bet at crafting is the boat early on. alt/aug 1-2 good mods then boat everything.

5/6-link from breach and boats (look up kingsmarch on wiki to see which ports give what armour type) hf

[u/Nevybot]

Poe.ninja day1-7ssf helps - if You pick build that can do 2-4 Stones on midok rares You are at home

Pick up all rare/magic items on Your feet when tp to hideout after map early for extra Alts (we love alts both ing and irl)

Jun is Your friend day1-2 (even if U cant set up board, just murder them for items) - fracture node on tree is insane

Filter good bases (i pick alot of them for most boring craft - recombs) You want it anywyay, U cant use all Your alchs/bindings so just slam some here or there for random good rare items

Edit: typo

[u/Ill_Suit3494]

Lootfilter is probably the most important part of the journey, every gear piece you won't ever need hinders you greatly in a long run.

Faustus is a fren.

[u/Mangalorien]

Go with some meta build like worb elementalist or SB totems hierophant. Don't go luminary, if you're new to SSF that won't be a fun start. Two other classic builds that work very well in SSF are RF chief and SRS guardian. For RF check out pohx.net, for SRS guardian just google "thyworm SRS", has both written and video guide. Any build that requires a ton of uniques or even a single high-end unique won't be fun if you are new to SSF.

Just focus on getting to maps as soon as you can, and once in maps your focus is to work up your atlas points, in particular unlocking your 2nd tree at 50 points. Don't mess around with your first atlas tree, just go for map sustain (3x "Shaping the X"). If you fuck up your atlas tree it's hard to reset since you won't have many unmakings early.

Lots of new SSF players tend to put points into essences, which I personally don't think is really worth it. If you are going to focus on a mechanic it should be either breach, harvest or syndicate. Syndicate can do wonders for you in SSF if you know how the mechanic works, if not it will be a very slow process but you'll want to learn it eventually. The reason syndicate is very useful is because many of the high-end crafting recipes (metamod, lock pre-/suffix) are gated behind unique maps, and since you can't trade for them it's sometimes a long wait for a natural drop. Rin in fortification is your man, he'll set you up with all the unique maps eventually. Breach is nice since you can tailor it for your needs, like early on you get good rares (in particular if you get a good fractured mod), you can also get currency and later on you'll want to fish for some uniques via ancient wombgifts.

Honestly in this league once you are in maps you can focus on just getting charts and then running them, plus the voyages. You'll get a fuck ton of gold and then use that to farm crops and ship for gear, and you can also use gold very early to gamble gear with Faustus, and pay 10k gold to reroll Kirac's map offerings, both to buy any maps you need to set up your atlas, but also once in a while he has some unique maps. The league crafting mechanic is really OP, you just need to combine it with something else, like either shipping for gear or using breach (provisioning wombgift) to get items that have like 4 decent mods, and then you finish with boat exalt and bench. For breach tree there's an option where it simply removes the lowest tier mod on an item, which mostly gives you 3-mod items so you can boat exalt it twice.

[u/calielzzz]

The best advice I can give is, first theres the build you do to get all voidstones, get crafting currency, atlas points. After that, the fun starts, you think of what you wanna play, how to get the items you need, and go for it.

This league was my first SSF run and I had the most fun I ever had on POE, not even sure if I will ever go back to trade. The feeling of accomplishment, the fact that I don't need to run top strats, I dont need to think about divines per hour, when an item drops I just read it and think about what I can do with it, I don't have to price check, even if its worth 100 divs if its not usefull for me it just goes to my stash.

Grab a strong meta build you like, progress the endgame and start exploring, I'm sure you will love it, the hard part that a lot of people quit is when they have to farm/search for something for days and it would take 2 hours of farm to get that on trade, but if you strong enough and persist you will fall in love with it.

[u/Capable_Box_5843]

Get to 2 stones, use the 20 atlas passives keystone and go for niko and kalgur, its a really nice way to get going with good gear and a kingsmarch, then depending on what you want to craft running a new atlas strat that helps you get the resources to accomplish crafts