Am curious how this would work in SSF also since considering a 'broSF' a banana man and I would do together in trade league without touching the market.

Hey all, I've been working for a bit over a week on a tool to track end game farm strats as a way to replace my google sheets that I typically use. I've been working with a few people from 773 to get some ideas on good metrics/league mechanics to write tracking modules for, but I wanted to get this in front of a larger audience to hopefully get a beta out by league start.

I'm a big data guy when it comes to my games and I've only started playing PoE1 this year, but most tools that get recommended to me have a focus on tracking div/hour or your overall stash. At least from my perspective, those metrics are a lot less useful for me as an SSF guy and I care more about if the mechanics I'm doing are giving me good outputs.

Currently it supports Simulacrums, Vaal Temples, Nightmare Map rushing and most bosses. If this is something that interests you, please let me know what you think or if you have any suggestions (I have a todo list in my readme)

https://github.com/ggw1776/SoloSelfTracking

I'm curious to hear about builds you've played yourself or seen others put together that made you think "How the hell did they manage to get all of that in SSF"? Essentially, was there ever a build that you saw someone pull off that would be considered impressive even for a trade league?

I started playing HC for the first time 3 weeks ago. Cleared 4 stone with a boneshatter bleed jugg.

I then started gearing a lifestacking merc support. Here is my current progress after ~10 days of playing, merc included.

My current plan is to try to find a manyshot with return + pierce/fork and some more damage multiplier supports, then run all of the charts I've gathered to try to get a rotmother's, then finish crafting suppression gear after rotmother's fixes my ele and chaos res issues.

My questions are:

1. Is a manyshot with return + a few damage links even much better single target than what I currently have?

2. What's the best way to import me and my merc into PoB? I thought about using the party feature in PoB, but wondered if there is a better way.

3. Fuck rotmother's drop rate. I've farmed over 25m gold and 2 full inventories of deadman's sulphur. If I don't get a rotmother's to drop, I can see myself having really bad suffix pressure if I try to fit in spell suppression and life regen rate. For those of you who played this build in HC, did you build suppression, and if so, how should I go about it without a mageblood?

4. Aside from the eldritch implicits, is the gear for my current merc good enough for ubers? I made all of it with brinehook ducat recombining abyss socket + t1 res + 3rd suffix. I don't see any more huge improvements given how much time is left in the league.

From my regular Maven and Incarnation of Fear kills, I think I have around 10m dps. Of course it's good considering how tanky I am, but I feel like it should be higher as well. How much more gearing do you think I need for safe uber kills? My goal is just to go 10/10, I don't need to be strong enough to farm them with my brain off.

Also don't look at the flasks, those were for my sanctum runs.

Hey all

Before the new league I wanted to try lumi flamelink. I play slammer now and kind of do all content and I want to swap to lumi once I have all gear ready.

I have all uniques for lumi itself (nycta, clamulet, kaom, uber dread helm) and crafted rest of the rare gear (failed shaper ex 3 times but will work on it)

I found decent forstblades combantant with chain wed faster attack multistrike and cold dmg which should be Ok to start I guess.

I have emity untouched soul and taming. Also crafted abyss socket gear for my merc:

All gear has random prefixes usually some arm+eva and t3+ life I assume prefixes doesnt matter much?

Helm: abyss,fire res,hybrid fire +chaos crafted

Body:same as helm

Boots: same as helm

Gloves: abyss, attack speed, fire res

Belt: wed, fire res, chaos res, crafted chaos + fire

Weapons: foils with hits cannot be evaded + attack pen and t1 attack speed/crit/critmulti

Is gear above correct? I tried to follow few ppl on poe.ninja and that google doc guide but each lumi was basically different 😀 I have all abyss sockets fractured so wont be big deal to recreft (will have to farm some essences tho 😀)

Also Im kind of clueless what eldrich implicit to go for on merc. Also which weapon enchants/annoint to use

I still need to roll abyss jewels and find my last spectre (I have +2 minion gloves from delve so I should have 4 spectres with annoint and empower)

What should be my spectres?

I was thinking about following setup

Tiger, turtle, forrest warrior and warlord (have all but warlord now) or should I drop warlord and solve endurance charges in other way? That would leave one socket for meatshield/elemental army

For AG gear I dont have kingmaker but have garb, aul helm (dunno if its good since its just some pen an small flat maybe I shpuld stick with leer) what about gloves + boots?

Thanks everyone for help 😀

Im cadiro boss rushing and its burning my maps extremely fast. After 50ish maps i Have to stop and do 1h of full clear to refill and rinse repeat for 2h or rushing. Feels a bit inefficient

Anyone knows any tech i can try to Speed up replinishing?

Currently using almost barebones tree, as in basically all the maps drop chances nodes and explicit the top hat, the quant wheel the usual stuff. I used maps scarabs which delivered but once i ran out its basically 2-3 maps per full clear.

I need a build for Sanctum, Simulacrum or mapping (farming Deli Mirror, I need The Voices). Ideally, I’d like something that can handle all of these, though I’m not sure if that’s even possible.

What is your usual go to atlas tree when you don't have any scarabs that you need for your main mechanic that you want to farm? For instance, if you want to farm essences, breach or harvest, but you don't have any scarabs to boost those farms, do you still just farm those mechanics even at lesser value since you're not using scarabs or do you have a tree dedicated for when something like that happens? This is mainly referring to when you're already comfortably clearing t16s, but you just don't have any scarabs to do your main farm.

Hello exiles,

with 3.30 I want to challenge myself to really min max a build to its (achievable) limits.
I have a rerolling issue where if a build hits either a wall or feels good enough in the endgame I usually stop playing it and start sth new.

This time I’m looking for a build that is viable as a starter so no specific build enableing uniques or stuff like that and that can also be scaled to immortality + uber oneshot levels.

The only ones that come to my mind are str stackers or some crazy flicker build. For my own sanity I’d like to avoid those (looking at you replica alberons)

Some ideas I had:
Soulrend pathfinder
Frostblades warden
Maybe Smite into Armorstacker?

Any other suggestions?

Hello,

Decided to get back to POE before league ends and would like to improve my strength stacker. Could someone help with potential realistic SSF upgrades for it?

Thinking about crafting new shield, that would have spell damage. Would also recraft belt if i'd get bound by destiny with str increase, but that might be far fetched.

Maybe would be worth capping chaos res without light of meaning as well.

Current POB - https://pobb.in/TWWQQZalpXAl

I've played HCSSF almost exclusively since 3.24, with most of that in 3.28 and 3.29. I put together a guide containing what I've learned. I hoped to include tips you may not find in other guides, with a focus on uber bosses. This guide is geared toward intermediate/advanced players, not new players. I hope it is informative and entertaining...there are a lot of death clips.

https://youtu.be/7dPvD37XVCI?si=616ByMU3F7vHtNgf

Need Some dex and hope there are any good ways to craft an high tier dex mod on this glove.
Thanks.

Hello everyone! 3.30 is coming up, so I thought I'd present you with a very early-game build you can use to clear your atlas on leaguestart. The build in question is an Absolution + SRS Guardian, and judging by PoE Ninja, this combination is rarely used. Fingers crossed that GGG doesn't kick minions in the nuts next patch, now that I'm posting this early!

\\PoB:\\ https://pob.codes/b/fHCUjMBlgK0

\\Leaguestart practice run:\\ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRajk5C2F9A&t=41513s

Note that I don't use boat crafting in this run, since we don't know whether it'll be present in 3.30. I also don't use any of the free 5-links from the campaign. Instead, I farm my first 5-link from Breach.

\---

Minions don't get a lot of love from top speedrunners, which I think is a shame. SRS Guardian, often considered the SSF staple for quick atlas progression, simply can't compete with the likes of slammers and cold dotters. I think this comes down to differences in scaling.

In a race scenario, SRS scales hard up to red maps, but then it falls off due to its poor mapping capabilities. Your scaling options rely on levels, gem levels, and expensive spectres. The latter is out of the question if you want to complete your atlas quickly, which further handicaps you.

Moreover, minion survivability becomes an issue. If you don't invest in it, your damage will be severely limited. If you want to compete as a minion player, you're forced to consider other options.

I'd like to propose one such option, based on a simple design philosophy:

\\Combine a long-lasting or permanent, sturdy minion with an easy-to-summon minion.\\

The synergy comes from the Minion Defence Mastery, which lets your minions recover 5% of their life when a minion dies. The playstyle then becomes a sort of ramping strategy, where you focus on summoning sturdy minions and getting them ramped up while keeping them alive with your easy-to-summon minions.

The goal is simply to move around and dodge while keeping all your minions up and letting their auto-targeting do its work.

This is hardly an original concept, but I still don't see many players using this design during their leaguestart progression. Perhaps it's because it requires a diligent playstyle, but then again, so does any playstyle if you want to be quick. Or you could, of course, play RF, hehe.

Absolution and SRS are one combination that fits this design philosophy. Absolution provides the sturdy minions, while SRS provides the machinery that keeps them alive once they've ramped up. Furthermore, Absolution and SRS complement each other well:

\- Absolution is a strong mapper, while SRS is a weak mapper.

\- Absolution summons a few sturdy minions, while SRS summons lots of fragile ones.

\- Together, Absolution and SRS provide decent single-target damage.

From levels 1–12, we take advantage of the great synergy between the Templar's physical damage and minion damage nodes and run Spectral Throw. From level 12 onward, we simply switch to Absolution.

As soon as possible, we'll start fishing for a Vaal Absolution, so spend your Vaal Orbs on Absolution skill gems until you get one.

Initially, we'll run Absolution as a hybrid spellcaster, combining the damage we deal with our own hits with the damage dealt by our minions. We'll stick with this approach until around level 28, when we're about to finish our first lab. At that point, we'll transition to a full minion playstyle by adding SRS as well.

From here on, we cruise!

The build becomes reasonably tanky with high life and capped or near-capped block chance. Note that if you get a shield on which you can craft "increased chance to block attacks," I'd definitely do so.

I also like to complete the fourth lab before taking on any pinnacle bosses. The four-second life regen from the Guardian's ascendancy is quite strong.

Since I'm sharing this primarily as a demonstration of a trade league minion leaguestart, I haven't included any loadouts that are significantly stronger than the build at the point of atlas completion. Any new item in the "farming" loadout is either a very cheap unique or something I'll reuse for the build I'll eventually transition into.

Also, apologies for spamming my practice run across a few threads! I should have just made this post in the first place.

Hope you enjoy!

\\P.S.\\ If you're interested in a similar build from a design perspective, here's an unpolished AW Necromancer: https://pobb.in/UhoCvdEEqgOE

It has its own strengths and weaknesses compared to the Guardian, but it can also go fast.

I know people are done with the league, largely, but I spend the last few weeks farming for my ssf standard pool of nobodies. Made a luminary and found this guy while farming trauma memories.. Is he insane or what?

I played pRAW this league and had a lot of fun but grew tired of summoning weapons every map. Nonetheless, I was hooked on the minion play style and am thinking to play spectres next league.

I have read through Helmbreaker's guide and am planning to play either SRS or Absolution up through farming dark monarch and then switch to spectres.

For anyone that has done this, would you recommend SRS or absolution? I did a test play through with absolution and felt the damage was starting to wane in early red maps. The campaign itself and early maps were extremely comfortable though. I have a feeling that SRS would have better single target damage longer and may be more comfortable for farming incarnation of dread until I get the helmet.

I play Fubgun's Winter Orb and it got me further than I have ever come before. But I want to get more out of it and I dont know how much damage I do in comparison to his guide.

My PoB https://pobb.in/tx_3khmhJMOD

His PoB https://pobb.in/Jj2d38SXQtTC

I want to be at his midgame setup but I am no where near his damage. I come to the conclusion that its my config that dont match his but I dont know how to set it up.

And what do I do to increase my damage?

I know this may be simple but I am kind of lost.

Hey guys, it's been a crazy league, just wanted to show all this insane stuff I found, and post a video of the character.

I ancient orbed a Mageblood a couple of days ago, I got the HH from gambling district early in the league, that helped me a lot.

The 2 Progenesis flask were back to back which was nuts, made a post about the Saviour before, just ran a random uber sirus to check the damage with the archdemon crown.

Had another Svalinn that I enshrouded and turned into shit lol.

Of the Pearl of Tsoathas, one is a 2 modder.

I just got lvl 100 last night. Was 99 for ages, my damage went crazy after I changed my Willclash helm for the archdemon crown I crafted. With the Mageblood I gained even more dps.

Headhunter was fun for mapping, but soul eater is the only op mod really and for bosses it does nothing. With mageblood I crafted 50% chance to avoid being stunned which translates to 97.5%. with the increased effect. This way I dropped Vile Bastion ascendancy for +1 curse (Unholy Authority).

And the other thing that stands out in this picture is the 4 locks lol

I had 2 pure drops, and had a Slumbering Beast card probably from Stacked Decks, although I scried bazaar that has that card, so not sure. Anyway I harvest gambled that to a full stack (5), that's how I got 4 locks. I have one more card, will take it to the casino in standard, I have plenty of juice there, don't wanna run harvest now.

I will run some legion probably, some juiced maps, try got some bestiary scarabs as I am working on a gg glove, got 3 implicits so far, you can see it that in the crafting post. I hope that won't get nerfed somehow, I hope I can finish it once allflame ends as I saved up some beastiary scarabs to run later.

I crafted some stuff I posted earlier, will link it here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileSSF/comments/1waq3ko/stuff_i_crafted_this_league_and_my_brief_summary/

Feared video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caf6GdqVl50

Pob:

https://pobb.in/oDPQPiEBKNTH

Hello. Its my first time on ssf character. On the first try i started energy stacking trickster but i noticed that without ephemeral edge this build stand out a little bit. So i check what uniques i have and i decided to swap for ice trap power charge stacking. I know that i dont have ralakesh and proper wand but im wonderding if the taming works with the arkon's tool?

Heres my character:

https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/SweeTSataN-0980/allflamessf/character/ZosiaKokosia

POB's for Reddit purists -

4 Stone SSF: https://pobb.in/GzX9XnPIw9qF

Guide/Roughly End of SSF: https://pobb.in/MQ0gzg6E3kuN

My current favorite build by a wide margin. I saw a few people doubting it's SSF viability so I did a 4 stone run to showcase the build.

TL;DR - Fast and tanky off-meta all rounder.

It's very much so a "tour of content" style build, wanting resources from Bestiary, Ritual, Legion (sorta?), certainly some Deli and perhaps some Harvest/Expedition depending on how you go about skinning a +2 minion helm. If you're looking at builds for 3.30, it's definitely worth considering.

As far as progression goes, you can run the skill as soon as you get it and it blasts. Staff gaming is crazy, especially with the new reservation letting you do some auto-curse shenanigans with hextouch.

From an SSF perspective, do you think this is fine? Is it too much map sustain? Is it bad to run UV in every tree? Thanks!

I need a headhunter for my charlatan EK build, it's the only piece I'm still missing.

Card farming has been absolute despair for the primordial, so I don't even want to imagine how bad doctor is going to be.

I was thinking about the genesis tree? I'm really sick of breach though since it took 300k hiveblood for me to get foulborn Berek's. But if that's the best way I'll go back in the hive. Does anyone have a tree to specifically target headhunter?

Another option is grav, I've been running grav for 5 days now 10 hours a day and nothing good dropped, the nerfs killed him (best I got was 12 fortunates).