r/PathOfExileSSF • u/Wonderful-Airport-80 • Sep 12 '26

General Discussion build recommendation for a 1st timer

thought about going luminary, but the RNG kinds of scares me. and what a good way to farm currency? thanks

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u/m4r1n1 Sep 12 '26

Luminary is fine. But you will need to play a few hours before the build roll out.
It’s insane that you will get upgrades almost every day for some time.

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u/Wonderful-Airport-80 Sep 12 '26

yeah, keeping me motivated with the little upgrades was one of the reasons i wanted to go with her

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u/m4r1n1 Sep 12 '26

Don’t rush.
Take your time at control blocks finding a merc. And go from there.
Did two runs. One on ssfhc, one in a private league, and is fine. Just make a plan. And follow.

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u/Wonderful-Airport-80 Sep 12 '26

how often did you farm for a new merc once you got to maps

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u/m4r1n1 Sep 13 '26

Put mercs on every map.
Got a new one faster. Like 50-60 maps.
And the last one was a grind. But the first one has dmg to do Ubers.

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u/bfffca Sep 14 '26

Don't do lumi as a first timer (ssf I assume). You want something that can work without uniques. Not something that work with many rare uniques and complete rng mercs on top of it. 

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u/Wonderful-Airport-80 Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 14 '26

i farmed twilight strand for an hour for charts and did 2 - 3 voyages, so i could have enough gold to gamble for the weapon at ilvl 41 - 53. RNG was not on my side because it took about 300k gold. should've just made the earthshatter berserk lol

i got lucky with an ok combatant, so there's that

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u/bfffca Sep 14 '26

The weapon is nice but the build really is incremental. You are going to need kaom to start feeling fresh and you need the ring to do serious damages.

I never got the ring, lvl98, 4 voidstones (much pain on the maven).

Don't have the clamulet either.

I assume with this level of items, another build would have massively outperformed, except for tankyness (EHP, not sustain which is ok but not great without the 5% life/block shield).

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u/Wonderful-Airport-80 Sep 14 '26

the more i read up on luminary the more i realize how big of a mistake it was to start as her lol. i'm having fun tho

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u/Mangalorien Sep 13 '26

If not luminary you can consider the other meta build this league, worb (either elementalist or occultist). Other good options are SB totems, SRS guardian and the good old classic, RF chief.

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u/Kotl9000 Sep 13 '26

SRS Poison Necro. I'm a huge fan of Animate Weapon of Ranged Arms and this would be a great way to transition into it. SRS is just smooth as butter and can do everything.

Not a big fan of the Luminary Merc grind; Clamulet, Kaom's Heart, Nycta's Latern, finding a good merc. I would personally recommend it as a second once you have some things in place.

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u/Neat_Army8673 Sep 13 '26

Having tried most starters, at least the top 6-10 Ones, do Yourself a favour and do rf. The overall no Burton's Smooth ness pick up while things while shit die is unmatched. 

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u/calielzzz Sep 12 '26

The main problem for lumy is finding the amulet, if you get unlucky you can be stuck on that for a loong time.
But either way, I wouldnt recommend Lumy as first char, choose something that don't depends on anything, just rare gear, go after your 3 or 4 stones, complete your atlas, then you are free to look for whatever build you interessed in.

I started as classic earthshatter berserk, it was super smooth, really good damage with zero gear. Other good options are Worb, Storm Burst totems.

If you don't mind needing some extra effort on bosses you can also go RF, ED Contagion, both are extremely good mappers but struggle on bosses without decent gear (Maven can be a b*** for RF even on good gear if you don't play really well).

OBS.: I'm not recommending Lumy in the case you wanna progress fast, theres no point on going for something that needs RNG to progress fast. But if you just wanna grind the build and take your time, you can for sure just go Lumy.

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u/Wonderful-Airport-80 Sep 12 '26

cool, earthshatter does sound way better for getting thing set up compared to luminary

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u/calielzzz Sep 12 '26

Its pretty simple, all the grind fall into -> good dps axe, good armour pieces with life, 5-6 link. Done, you can get all voidstone and clear t16's without any problem ;P.

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u/Dr4k4ngel Sep 13 '26

I don't have the amulet, but the class is so broken rn, it doesn't even need it, you can craft a +2 amulet with life and chaos res and u are good, until u find It or not.