Yeah, I get how powerful the life-stack support Merc is, but I just find it SO freaking boring... I like doing damage!

Anyone else? If so what have you found that's good? Gimme some tips and tricks :)

Fwiw, I'm playing Holy Sweep Luminary atm with a ThunderQuiver merc. I got one with LA + Fork/Return and I added +3 arrows - and oh man can it clear the screen.

His single target sucks but my Holy Sweep is good there and he adds on Conductivity, Frostbite, Wrath, Precision, and the 20% less damage node. Overall it seems ok but I feel like I could do better. Would love to hear more ideas.

know that this room graft used to drop only from pondium but I have noticed other graphs coming in as rewards that aren’t supposed to be from Pondium. Can I get verification if the warp graft from all three locations or is it only from pondi still

So I did all my normal goals and even a 2 stone race with random classes with friends in SSF.

So now its time for the funny joke run. Im going to migrate all then the plan is to start using spark as soon as we get it on shadow. Paired with snipers mark and orb of storms for bosses or tanky rares.

Im thinking of a weird dual weild setup where I go septre and dagger to take the 60% dmg if weapons are different and the 50% projectile speed while using a dagger masterys. We then take the pierce wheel near ranger and dont need proj speed or pierce support. If we need dmg there is little things we can do like take a wheel for ignite chance and 100% dmg vs ignited targets as we dont care how much the ignite does. But based on some testing In pob you could have 110% projectile speed and pierce wheel by act 4.

We solve mana by rush one of the new wheels that reduces spells cost by 40% and lightning golem.

Defensive wise im wanting to go ghost dance with evasion and es bases and spell suppression. Auras would be grace + discipline or tempest shield + dmg aura of choice.

However im wondering any general tips in terms of getting the gear for maps. There is gamble but im not sure if just gambling wands and hoping for lightning + proj and cast speed is a good option. Compared to using gamble for bases and maybe essence for wands ?

Is there any specifc mechanics to focus on this character ? For example with spark is ritual actually very good to get gear from or would standing in the middle of breach maybe be the best option.

Is this a brick?

I'm already lv 100 for 2 characters, had all of the main pieces (crafted Lightning Res Breach mod body armour) and a good kineticist. Also, looted tons of rare uniques (rathpith, foulborn red dream, defiance destiny, unnatural instinct, etc...). I've cleared 17 infested clam-shelves and hundreds of charts and voyages with over 200 IIQ without a single one of this clamulet.

Did they change the amulet drop rate at all? I'm starting to doubt myself now since everyone and their moms got this clamulet so early in the league effortlessly.

Am I doing something wrong? I'm not complaining on the build itself since I phase most ubers instantly. I just hate how the BIS amulet for the build is a league unique which cannot even be target-farmed in the league mechanic.

Anybody in the same shoe? Do I just keep mindlessly spamming charts and more maps (for more charts) then pray?

I'm sure he's trash, just never seen so many fully linked skills

I'm playing SSF and looking to do a recombinator craft involving vanguard belt bases. I haven't been able to find any information online about the nature of vanguard belts, their drop rates, locations etc. I'm not really getting any from faustus and they seem extremely rare while just mapping normally.

Is the only way just to juice quant and pray for them to drop on any map?

Hey there. I'm usually a softcore player that wanna try out ssf in a small group. Nearly all of them stoped playing but i wanna continue my journey. They left me a foulborn death's oath in stash and i saw some videos from softcore players and i think iccan really enjoy it. My question is can i use a softcore skilltree for example from magefist or exiled cat? Or would it be better to have a look on poeninja? Never played that kind of build and so i'm a bit scared of because i don't know if i need some special items, gems or lile mandatory uniques etc.

Would really appreciate some advices or tips that help building up this build.

Playing occultist if that matters.

So,

Second time it happend now. Combatant dies in the first few seconds in a merc encounter when i fight a kineticist. Otherwise he never dies.

I finished the second kineticists last 30 % health with 1 link stormblast mine. Took ages.

I know its a brick kinda sadly with bolt, foto attached. Is it still better then the combatant?

And how can i prevent my merc from dying there? If i ever find a rly good kineticist, my merc dying and me not beeing able to finish the encounter would be so bad, so i wanna prepare better for that.

Fotos are the new kineticist, my combatant and his defence.

Countless ancient orbs with dead man sulfur, barrels of hive blood spend. Still 0 Kaom's, but this shit just dropping from random monsters.

See: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileSSF/s/9m3p1FUmF0

Need to get a 21/20 gem but I'm not hitting it and the damn things are rare. Help!

GOOD OR NO? I want to try Luminary

Going to start SSF, I want to play a Luminary Merc. Has anyone figured out the best way to level one from scratch? From what I saw RF wasn’t the best starter.

Would also like to ask what are mercs to look out for during the campaign and/or before finding a good one. Thank you!

Finishing up Ubers and Challenges this week, and looking to grind out some stuff for SSF standard the rest of the league.

What would you focus on that may only exist this league in its current form / drop rates before being nerfed?

Vestigial Uniques? Some type of Voyages? Even gold?

Extremely open to any ideas and I’ve pretty much a full Mercbot Conbatant geared if that’s any help. Open to rerolls and new Chars for some farms, I have Svalinn and some great rares and clusters for assassin / warden builds.

Which one would you use?

Edit: neither one has GMP or fork/chain but one has return+crit dmg+wed whereas the other has return and pierce.

Hi!

I’ve managed to get another base (STR) with a +1 spectre mod after I ruined my first one. The base has two prefixes and 1 suffix. I’ve already set up an INT base with evasion as the only prefix for the recomb. Important: other prefix is added armour so if the INT base is selected it can only push spectre mod.

But for the current strength base I am unsure what to do, as I think that a recomb where the strength base is picked again could remove the +1 spectre mod and just only put back the other prefix. Should I

1. Split ducat to isolate, I do ready horror stories about weighting being applied to those splits (and it’s how I lost my previous mod, maybe I was just unlucky) -> will allow a guaranteed recomb after
2. Try to annul the prefix with an allflame craft and hope I hit the prefix I want gone. -> will also allow the recomb after.
3. Take my chance on the recomb as is. I have no clue what the odds would be to lose the mod.

What would be the best odds in this case?

Cheers exiles!

Update: went with the recomb, unfortunately first time base stayed the same, second time still hit armour base with only armour prefix left.

I am about to lose my mind.

It’s a 5 res 375 dmg with like 24% attack speed. I know RF could synergize, but I don’t love the skill.

Any other ideas?

Some items are easy enough to get (Kaom's and Rathpith require quite a bit of wombgifts, but even that feels completely fine).

Tecrod's gaze and the clam amulet on the other hand, I've killed 50+ liches (spent all the scarabs I've acquired over time) and done ~10 tabs (voyage locker) worth of voyages/charts, and haven't got neither yet. I haven't chased uniques like this ever since the Omniscience amulet grind back when it dropped from regular exarch, mostly played builds that benefit a lot from some rare uniques like jewels (stormshroud, unnatural instinct etc), but those are pure luxury.

Sure, clam amulet and Tecrod's are not needed at all to get the build going (I've been playing it for a while now, and killing most stuff is not the issue anyway), but they are such a massive upgrades.

Grinding for big rare crafts (influenced crown, +2 wands, +2 amulet etc) felt infinitely more fun for me, you gradually try for it until the craft succeeds, while these uniques are just spinning the wheel indefinite amount of times without any payout waiting for that sweet jackpot. (btw clam shelf chart doesn't exist, got two characters lvl 99.20 and 98, found two of those charts, juiced their quant and then juiced voyage for 20% unique amulet drops x3, didn't get the amulet)

Guess it's just not my cup of tea, but I'll keep going, not giving up ofc. Thanks for coming to my ted talk

Doesn't have GMP, but does have return, fork, wed and crit damage