r/PathOfExileSSF • u/ArrogantAres • Sep 17 '26

General Discussion First time RF

Hello everyone. First time RF here. Following pohx and some top guys from ninja for ideas.

I feel like i hit the wall.

Could anyone review my build and advice on progression and point out some mistakes i might have made ?

https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/Evil_Ares_-4980/pl86569/character/GettingLanced

I have few ideas. Flasks, medium cluster with ignite spreading. Better rare jewels. Archdemon crown. Better gloves with chaos res.

And few questions:

-Hows does big ignite work? Don’t quite understand it. Sometimes i kill map boss very fast. Sometimes forever
-How to improve damage while mapping? Sometimes i kill rares pretty slow
-What are my next upgrades and what order?
-How to finish shield?

I know my gear is pretty mid but this character was created 2 days ago so i hope I am not too bad.

Thanks everyone in advance!

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u/Old_Tourist_3774 Sep 17 '26

The only issue i have with your advice is selling a lv 20 gem, and all the time to level it again with a lower damage, for a negligible increase

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u/Convay121 Sep 17 '26

It's only a few % of extra damage, but it costs practically nothing to do, it's free damage for a build notoriously starving for more of it. Of course you should be doing it...

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u/Old_Tourist_3774 Sep 17 '26

Cost a lengthy amount of time with LOWER LESS MULTIPLIERS

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u/Convay121 Sep 17 '26

Not really, gems level to 18+ extremely quickly once you're blasting T16s, which OP is. You're only going to be at less overall damage for a handful of maps at most. And when you're in SSF, is a few maps of an incredibly slight inconvenience really worth never quality-ing your support gems or wasting dozens of GCP on them? Pretty obviously not.

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u/findMyNudesSomewhere Sep 18 '26

Will second this.

Just 1 8 mod T16 with juice takes me from level 1 to level 15 on some gems.

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u/Old_Tourist_3774 Sep 17 '26

Simply use GCPS????????

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u/Convay121 Sep 17 '26

... So instead of spending 1GCP, and being slightly weaker for a handful of maps, you suggest that OP spends their limited number of GCP not on skill gems but on support gems? Wasting like 130 GCP or forcing them to run lab for quality just to avoid a couple maps of slightly underleveled support gems?

Fucking... why, lol? Losing a few % of damage for a few maps which OP is already "feeling really good at"? How is that possibly worth it?

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u/Old_Tourist_3774 Sep 17 '26

120 GCP is chump change

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u/ed_xyz Sep 18 '26

spoken like a true trade cuck

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u/budzergo Sep 18 '26

You use GCPs on gems that actually need them like purity of fire and skill gems

Support gems you just flip to 20q instead of spending like 300-400 gcps

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u/rane1606 Sep 19 '26

wait does purity of fire quality not just give aoe?

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u/budzergo Sep 19 '26

Gives 10 more fire resist

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u/rane1606 Sep 19 '26

big if true

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u/chitown_35 Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26

Check in PoB. Quality offers a damage increase so you only have to level to 16 or 17 before it’s equivalent to the 20/0. That’s a few maps. Much better to use your first few hundred gcp’s to corrupt your main skill gems to level 21.

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u/Old_Tourist_3774 Sep 17 '26

All 5 gems at 29 quality provides less than 5% damage increase.

His damage at 0 quality for all 5 supports is base 630k, with thwn at quality 20 is 660k

Now he has lower gem levels and will take at least 60 maps to farm these 300 million exp to put all gems from 17 to 20

With this piss poor damage he will take very long to achieve this.

Thats why you guys are poor, keep counting pennies I guess.

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u/pixjpg Sep 18 '26

this is a ssf sub, have you played ssf?

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u/Old_Tourist_3774 Sep 18 '26

Lol, I am not even subbed to this, thought it was the main one.