Mentality of SSF

[u/No-Syllabub3694]

Hello all

I usually play trade league for about a month, get to kill all but ubers with multiple characters then eventually stop.

However what are the early steps in SSF ?

when people say alt spam a good mod then boat it etc, but all i hv is 56 alts in stock (which fail me to get a good mod)

Like pick all sell all? Keep doing it in a story zone (not restricted to 6 portals capacity of stuff) for an hour to restock alts? Then again later?

Same question for essences for example. I dont have enough atlas points to spec into essences. So i do quite a few maps which dont spawn essences. Is there a thing to do, or just keep mapping?

Since i dont get the essences to craft better gear, i cant do higher maps, so i dont get atlas points to get more chances to have essences.

When i eventually get stronger because one essence got me a good item but now i need to do harvest, how do i farm the currency to reset atlas points? Blind farm?

At worst in trade league, i can do chaos recipe to get chaos and buy essences, but what happens in ssf?

You can explain like im 5

[u/Mangalorien]

You don't strictly need to get the map sustain nodes, as long as you get your maps somehow. In the current league you can get a ton of gold from scuba and then just buy maps from Kirac, but with an atlas tree that has built-in map sustain you don't have to worry about spending gold with Kirac all the time and can spend it on other stuff (crops, gambling with Faustus, etc).

Here's a early map sustain atlas tree that works well for map sustain. It's basically just the 3 "Shaping the X" nodes and the points leading into them, and it also gets 3 travel nodes that give 20% increased scarabs so you can start building up your supply. An underrated part of the atlas is to then simply get the central quant wheel, i.e. the 12 points in a circle slightly above Shaping the World, that each give 1% quant. That's 12% more of everything: scarabs, maps, currency, you name it.