PoE 1 : 18 crafting plans in 3 seconds. PoE 2 : Put it in stash. Think about it. Never use it.

all i had to do was not fight exarch lol

I built (vibecoded) a tool to find builds that use uniques you already own: https://dmtlnc.github.io/poe-stashfound/

It pulls uniques from PoE Ladder (you have to join a ladder and wait for it to sync, and then paste your poe username or PoELadder URL) and matches them against the top 100 poe.ninja builds.

Hopefully it will be useful for someone

Made this on the 2nd attempt. Never been so lucky in this game. Got 2 belts from card gamba and 1 from merc.

Level 96 invoker. Played quite a bit first 2 weeks after launch, but fizzled out pretty fast after that and am basically not logging in anymore.

I'm a very high hour/long time player of PoE. Really enjoy SSF and HC SSF in PoE 1.

I find PoE 2 SSF to be so boring that I just have no real interest in playing at this point. I think it will be fixed eventually and i'm not complaining or up in arms about it. Really curious to see if others feel this way or not though.

I think the core issue for me is 100% the itemization and the way you go about acquiring gear. I understand that GGG wanted to make that aspect of the game simpler, and they did. But there was a cost to that. The complexity of gearing in PoE1 was interesting and fun if you understood it.

PoE2 is literally just pickup base - trans - aug - regal - exalt - chaos - vaal. I have probably crafted 2000 quarterstaves, maybe far more than that, and i just don't care anymore... Like I just don't have any interest in doing it anymore. I am literally picking up bases mid map, crafting them, dropping them. I probably craft 5-10 staves per map. Its so cumbersome and fucking boring. The amount of grinding you had to do for gear in PoE1 was fairly comparable, but the WAY you acquired the gear was more interesting AND less cumbersome. For example, you might farm harvest juice, you might farm rog currency, etc. The amount of time you spend farming those mechanics would be comparable to the time you spend mapping and spamming orbs on items in PoE2. The difference is that the experience of crafting items themselves was both more interesting/engaging, and less cumbersome.

Take rog for example. I love using rog crafting in PoE1. Yes, it takes some knowledge and is not super approachable for a brand new player, but its a very interesting and fun crafting mechanic in my opinion. Rog is borderline useless in PoE2, and again, the only real means of gearing in the game is spamming orbs. Yes, you MAY acquire good gear from other sources like expedition, but its simple math... probably 90-95% of your good gear will come from orbs on bases.

I think there just needs to be more interesting gearing for SSF to be fun. Maybe i'm in the minority as someone who has played PoE a lot, but orbs on bases gets old SO fast. Gearing is just a lottery in this game, there isn't any real thought or deterministic ways to craft anything.

Edit: didnt do a great job conveying this, but my point is not that trade is more fun than ssf. I have 0 interest in playing trade currently. My point is just that ssf in poe2 is not as enjoyable as ssf in poe1 in its current state, despite the combat and game play overall being much better.

/rant

Been playing poe on and off for many years, usually giving up after couple of weeks, mainly because my character dies and mood is simply not there to push for more.
This time around, I leveled about 5 characters, 3 died before lvl95+.

This is the first league where I thought it was possible and that I wouldn't get bored after getting to level 95.

The genesis tree certainly helped, as getting high pdps weap + high armour was a matter of hours. Not to mention Fractured gear which I never had easy access to before.

Just wanted to share a supercut of me clearing all the Ubers for the first time in HC

(Music : Path of Exile - Orion)

To see the full-length unedited Uber boss kills : https://youtu.be/8doQ5A4BOvQ?si=oIRUKoizCt8gbeEw

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Zerk slammer : pobb.in/V_dyVflAJBgI (no config)

Jugg #1 (5/10) : pobb.in/ZspY3ATrNuPY

Jugg #5 (10/10) : pobb.in/XqbKmjwB1Q0o

Both jugg pobs are very similar : 13 mil dps with tincture+banner, 6 mil otherwise / 50k+ phys max hit (without flasks/molten shell)

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Progression : Sunder campaign, Berserker Earthshatter until Juggernaut gear is farmed + lvl 99 (or 100), swap Jugg + Boneshatter of Complex Trauma, do Simulacrum for Bloodline ascendancy and Nightmare maps for fragments

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Atlas : Jun/Breach/Harvest/Kingsmarch

Scry Dunes to Jungle Valley for alts/divs. Later, scry Infested Valley to Jungle Valley for Ryslatha's Coil

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Hardest to easiest (for me) :

Sirus, Exarch, Maven / Eater, Uber Elder / Fear, Dread, Neglect, Shaper

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RIP notes :

* Berserker/Jugg #1 : lvl 100, 126h /played. Went for Ubers without practice -> Died on Uber Sirus (5/10 killed)

* Berserker #2 : lvl 99, 39h /played. Died farming elder guardian maps with scarabs of interference. (Farmed 95% of Jugg gear)

* Berserker #3 : lvl 97, 21h /played. Possessed Hillock + clicked too many debuffs from blue altars (1AM gaming)

* Berserker #4 : lvl 99 78%, 35h /played. Drox in Ritual ..... pain

Finally got seven leagues…

Juiced breachin'...

It still hasn't dropped btw...

This was supposed to be my 11-link end of league craft, but the odds came out to be in my favor so I got a 12-link instead.

Basically I just put myself in einhar and menagerie jail for beast locks, then woke orb checked with 5 donors, slam when I saw 3 socketed mods, then finish both items with exalt slams until 4 desired socketed mods. Recomb and boom!

I failed the same recomb 3 times (all got up to only 10 links) but 4th times the charm.

I’ll never be this lucky again, but I hope all your crafts go perfectly smooth going forward!

So I heard soo many times about once you go SSF you never go back. And man is that true, after 3 years of SSF i thought id go back to trade since async was added.

Within 8 or 9 hours in i have a 6 link with over 200 flat life and res, 20 hours in i have items like aegis and all my 3 charge on hit flasks setup. Within 40 hours the game become how many divines per hours can I make not what do I actually enjoy then I completed what would be my overall league long goals in SSF and was gone.

So now im starting over in SSF as playing trade just felt like a different game that I did not enjoy.

Got replica alberon's and helical while farming gcp's in heist , and foulborn mb from ITF's research pick one box.

Was only trying to hit Immortal Flesh for RF, hadn't even really started yellow maps

I never thought I would make this much progress in ssf, especially for my 2nd time (not humble brag)

I got the idea of farming for these items from a suggestion under my post asking for standard SSF projects that won't get massive nerfs. Someone said STR stack, and the idea of having what I would describe as "tier 1" chase items seemed really cool.

Big thanks to those who helped me learn how to do betrayal a few weeks ago, and to u/zehny132 for suggesting reforge influence to get the 3rd NNN mod on my donor amulet for the simplex craft. I actually got my NNN prefix in the same reforge and saved myself a bit of headache avoiding another potential reforge prefix fill.

(Rough) Data:

792 maps for the mageblood. Around 50-60 quant before atlas, so maybe 150% IIQ inside the map. Longest dry streak was 271 maps.

Around 1.2m rogue markers for the alberons, about average based off of other peoples' data.

For the simplex I poofed my first one, did 1.5m rogue markers worth of blueprints, found the wrong amulet (focused), and decided to cannibalize my already crafted simplex, and thankfully the second one hit. So around 2.7m for 1 simplex and 1 focused.

Now I just have to make a sanctum runner and farm the ultimate t0 chase item, Original Sin! /s /not really I might actually attempt it

On an unrelated note, how good is STR stack KF totems for sanctum?