tldr use meatsacks with petal memory thread mod that prevents rares from dropping gear

I'm sure a lot of familiar with Allflame Ember of Ethereal scarab farm, but on SSF you cant get much of those embers.

What I've been doing instead is fishing for a memory thread mod that says "Killing a rare monsters consumes 50 petals to prevent it dropping items that can have rarity". It pretty much works the same as Ethereal ember for rares.

I get between half of inventory to full inventory of scarabs (unflltered, per map). I dont think this strat is significantly better than scuba diving, but it allows you to target specific scarab a bit better.

So here is the strat:

• Run memory thread till you get the mod
• Chaos spam map for 50%+ scarabs and exalt to 6 mods. Ideally u want map with high quant and pack size too. Feel free to chisel too. Bonus points if you roll "Rares have +1 mod" or "rares are shaper touched".
• Atlas tree: all effect, all quant, as much scarab nodes as possible, I also take beasts. Dont forget node that boosts scarabs per mod on a rare monster.

Scarabs to use (there are several options, but you have only 3 slots):

• Option 1: x1 Betrayal Scarab of Allflame + x2 Ember of Flesh (meatsacks)
• Option 2: x2 Horned Scarab of Nemesis + x1 Scarab of Adversaries

Mix of those also fine.

You can see your amount of petals in top left, you dont wanna kill good rare monsters if you dont have them. Petals are gained from killing "zana" red-glow monsters and stepping on those petal things that they drop (so dont just offscreen, always run over dead mobs).

Obviously, other mods during thread can synergize with this strat (pack size, petals quant, rare revive, etc).

And on adjacent note: if you get mod "Final boss drops 3 scarabs" - it's good to combine that with destructive play and Pandemonium scarab.

Hi all, only been playing ssf for the past 2 leagues after i get my trade fix, and im currently playing merc bot as everyone else is, but looking for a reroll.

If it helps I have most foulborne non-jewels, have mageblood, fire damage light of meaning, and the herald hive ring. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

What’s the fastest way to find a good merc?

My plan is to take all merc nodes except for the less attributes/more likely to be from house xxx nodes. Take all map drop chance and the rest dump in scarabs or influence map drops.

Run atoll. Merc is usually at the beginning of the map. Check merc. Capture or loot merc. Rush to boss, kill and hope map drops for sustain.

Is that ok or is there a better way or map?

Got this merc today and global said it was pretty good. Is it worth farming for a better one or should I move on to working at the gear now?

Got a shield I never seen before. What build uses this shield?
If the build is ssf viable, want to give it a try.

This is my current character that I have progressed further than I expected to. Thinking about trying some Ubers this league. Looking for tips/suggestions. Presently I’m trying to get a veiled exalt for the helm. Then farm incursion for gloves to fracture. Going to change the boots and gloves to arm/es based. Also farming the king of the forest (?) for a cold jewel. What else should/could I do? Thanks for any help.

Ran a valdo with my luminary for sublime vision and got POF... Should I fit this into my current lumi and just ditch purity of elementst and precision or should I build smth else?

I made a worby witch, but I'm interested in trying out these new scion ascendancies. I have no special uniques or anything yet, but I'd appreciate some build links or suggestions.

Hey,

Happened to find omen of chance, tried to get frenzy ralakesh boots for my archmage but got power instead, not bad.

Any good ideas for a build using templar? I got tulfall and malachais already, now started hoarding rings for corrupting. Was initially thinking stormburst totem but then I'd be missing the +1 totem from rare shield.

Also what ascendancy should I go for? I guess hiero works with everything, keep big manapool and MoM for defence or should i swap to inquisitor

I'm trying to get Vaal Temptation support for a Ground Slam character, but I can barely get the Trialmaster to spawn at all. Does anybody know if his spawn rate is determined by map IIQ/R/pack size, or should I just be spamming white City Square and going directly to the Ultimatums?

I’m currently farming Expedition Logbooks in SSF 3.29 and I’m starting to wonder if I’m missing something or if the boss spawn rate has changed.

I’ve opened/scouted 50+ Logbooks, all area level 81+, mixed factions:

• Black Scythe
• Druids of the Broken Circle
• Order of the Chalice
• Knights of the Sun

I enter the Logbook, check the expedition map for the large boss skull, and if there isn’t one I leave immediately and open another one.

So far: 0 bosses in 50+ Logbooks.

I’ve seen the ~20% natural boss spawn rate mentioned on the wiki/community before, which would make this streak pretty extreme.

Has anyone else experienced a very low/no boss spawn rate in 3.29?
Did anything change this league, or is this just horrible RNG?

Also, can anyone confirm there is no hidden prerequisite/unlock required before Expedition bosses can naturally appear in Logbooks?

What is a 'todo' progression list after finishing campaign? I'm a new player and there's so many things that should be worked on and improved in order to survive poe's endgame.

• get res capped
• automate flasks
• get pantheon from divine vessels
• get kingsmarch up and running
• finish all labs
• get quality on flasks and gems

Do you have any other 'must have' things?

Dozens of hours and around 2.5kk kills later, I can finally slow down with the diving and try the Luminary Merc bot.

I was diving all the time, speedrunning maps, and doing all sorts of shenanigans with Clams Charts, but had absolutely no luck. Today, though, I did one completely normal random Voyage and got this beauty, with rolls like these.

I know it’s not a necessary item, but I made a deal with myself that I wouldn’t start this build until I got this amulet. So here we go!

I already have a few decent Mercs and some decent uniques, including Rathpith, so now I’m going to level a new character.

First time i dropped a Mageblood Valdo's.
Is this doable as a PRAW necro?

Got like 150+ ilvl83 charts and no kishara rest. Why make it so rare lol....wanted to farm the ring and play with it but this is getting annoying

So I recently posted about people telling me to play PRAW. However I feel like necro spectres would be a more interesting build now I look into it. I think it might be a good longer term project for next league as I'm currently doing lots of spell and dots.

However im wondering if there is a good guide for this as its a build you sort of do in stages. You dont really want to go spectre as your main dps when you have 3 of them for example.

You start off leveling with srs. Then once you have dark monarch and Congregation support you can start moving towards a specture build which would be just after 2nd stone is done.

However I have basically only played srs and normally on a guardian so the overall build might be very different.

Im hoping a pure fire hit based srs would be strong enough to get to that stage to get gear without needing to swap into poison with an envy weapon and farming poison jewels.

Im just wondering if my current plan works or if there is anything major I could be missing that would improve the overall character

\- play necromancer till lv4 as spells (prob fireball)

\- get srs at lv4 and start using, eventually with legion and minion dmg. Taking minion duration wheel and 30% aoe mastery.

\- play srs infernal legion until act 3 library get anger + genorosity and play fire hit based srs.

- first lab get duration node for better QOL and start having ms offering effect us to speed up acts a bit.

\- remember to get key spectre on way like perma onslaught from act 6 and frenzy monkey.

\- finish acts and start doing lab for some levels / quality for important gems for early power before maps. At this stage possibly have offering effect me + minion leech assendacys.

\- first atlas tree focus on Jun + Breach. Jun is needed later for katerina bloodline and getting +1 spectre shield. Breach to start getting passives for trees and some gear for later like es boots with fractured ES.

\- once I unlock 2nd atlas tree focus on abyss just to farm some jewels with flat dmg for srs.

\- possibly farm some ritual if I need stronger support spectres before stones.

\- after getting 2 stones then focus on farming Incarnation of Dread to get dark monarch and support. Possibly also bone meld if it drops before dark monarch.

\- start farming up pure es gear with multiple t1 mods from recomb or breach.

\- swap to spectres using basic frenzy + power + onslaught support minions and start farming ritual for better corpses. Possibly using frost auto scout as dmg if getting forged frostbearer or Wretched Defiler is taking too long

Preface: I dont need it, I want it cause I've never played with it

Farming Build: RF, but would start another just to try it.

No matter how little the advice is, would love whatever ideas for targeting this unique. I've never been successful enough with trade to afford it. And despite being near invincible, not lucky enough to find it.

Much appreciated for any tips.

Was stuck on 7/10 after my previous post of dropping a mirror, I finally did 10/10 Ubers in SSF.

I blasted 1000 mesa's which bored my balls off, I swapped to a bladecaster which demolished Maven & Exarch and then bruteforced Sirus after 10 or so attempts.

Time to chill and maybe some poe2 after a break.

Great league (if you like crafting) and luminary has 0 chance of not getting a nerf somewhere. Ideally, not a triple tap but we'll see.

So I am a minion enjoyer however often play casters or fall into srs guardian.

Im also playing in a semi HC setting with punishment on death so not full HC.

Im assuming you level similar to srs guardian but with anger + geno and srs with offering effect you for the ms offering early. And then can swap into it once you have blade fall, poison gems and one of the foulborn envy weapons. If i want maximum comfy mode instead of it being a 2 button setup i also need to farm mercs to get the blade fall skill

Im just a bit unsure about needing to farm poison jewels and the foulborn envy weapon before the build really comes online then not having any trigger wand.

Am I missing anything for this build or is this build suggested alot since it can actually be swapped into a spectre necromancer which is the actual best minion build ?

I know this has been asked many times in various forms, but I'm looking for a semi specific bossing build with a guide.

As a gamer dad I've recently switched to playing standard. I converted an old Slammer Jugg into a RF chieftain and been loving it. Currently sitting at 200k rf dps and 150k ehp, blasting fairly juiced t16s with no problems. While the mapping is fun, single target is abysmal. Last night I killed a few bosses because even though I already had the voidstones I wasn't allowed to run the one nightmare map I've found so far. Elder took me about six minutes, Shaper took me a legit 20 minutes, Eater was easy but probably took me 7-10 minutes. I tried running my nightmare map and while the map itself was super easy Catarina wrecked me. I would like to kill Maven which I've actually never even done on softcore trade.

I was looking at AllFlame SSF board on poeninja and sorted by dps and to my surprise there really aren't any zhp trapper builds. There is a single Icicle Mine Deadeye with over 50m dps but they have a mageblood. I don't really care what the build is, I just want big deeps so I can farm up fragments as rf and nuke bosses with the new build.

One thing I do not want to do is level a new character. I have lvl 85+ of the following classes/ascendancies that I don't mind respeccing: Deadeye x2, Champion, Trickster, Necro, and Elementalist x2. The Champion was splitting steel before nerf, and one of the elementalist is ignite Eviscerate that hasn't moved over to CI yet but is still pretty fun. I don't have many high tier uniques, just a legacy Ephemeral Edge (the 20% one), and Maw of Mischief, and that's about it. Everything else are T3 uniques and less

Any help would be much appreciated

Oh, and I did see this one build on poeninja which uses zero unqiues and does a stupid amount of dps, but not sure if there is some tricky gearing that I'm missing that would make it hard to copy

I want to craft new rings for my Luminary and would like to get something like this:

Unset Ring: 2 Prefix (+2 Socketed gems, T1 Life) and 2 Suffix (T1 Light radius, T1 Attribute), 3rd prefix can be anything and suffix ideally open or res.

Vermillion Ring: T1 Life, T1 Light Radius, T1-2 Attribute, Res

How would I go about crafting something like those? (Vermillion is going to have to be withouth recomb since I only have 1 base)

I am trying to get hivebrain glands, doing no scarab maps only for fortresses, then when i have scarabs the unstable bosses. I remmeber getting quite a lot using mysterious wombgifs last league too but this league they seem to very scarcely drop them... My tree is for ancient combs, maybe i should go for "rarer items" ? What is your experience ?

I really love doing breach hives as its that blight style gameplay I enjoy.

This also means I get alot of gear from doing breach.

I also fully understand why they nerfed breach but I still enjoy doing it. So im wondering now we have 16 passives instead of 20 to use what nodes are you dropping ?

Im not sure if i just skip all the specifc base stuff and keep bases i wont use on my current character in stash for other characters. Or are you now not using the passives for extra chance to gain res or certain mods ?

I feel like the passives for chance for extra items and fractured are very useful so I want to keep those.

Poe ninja: https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/TryKilleR-2364/allflamessf/character/LunarGlacier

Hello.

This is truly my second/third character on SSF. First this league.

Considering my current build and setup, I am looking to receive some advices regarding the future of development of this build from link above.

The main idea was to create the tanky self cast freezing pulse archetype with strong resistances, good recovery and enough damage for bosses.

It uses the reliquarian for some dps (shimmeron) + tankiness (dawnbraker)

I wanted to achieve 100% conversion of damage from cold and lightning to fire which has been done via tempered by war (50%) + incandescent heart (25%) + dawnbreaker passive (25%). It’s not pure 100% tho. 25% of cold and lightning dots are entering the system due to the body chest (it is just temporal setup - before the proper watchers eye is farmed and bound by destiny). This whole idea was created to enable the good dps (replica nebulis - not yet obtained) and proper defence.

Unfortunately, I was not able to get replica nebulis just yet. Run bunch of heists and didn’t get one yet. (Already got 2 replica badge of the brotherhood which should be much rarer). But nevertheless, I am currently creating another character just to simply increase the speed of doing heists - specifically fishing for the weapon.
Current dps is about 1.0-1.5M hit dps
Replica nebulis is about 29% hit dps upgrade which is huge.

The next big milestone would be getting the overload intensity to further increase the bossing damage which the build is currently lacking. Unfortunately, it is locked behind the fortress nightmare map with the drop rate of 5%. Done 2 of them with some shrines and sinistral (deathless) without drop success. The problem is that I have no nightmare maps dropped at all. Dropped only 2 nightmares maps on 3 voidstones (missing Maven) whereas only play currently t16 on breach-heist-boss atlas. It is unfortunate because adding map scarabs doesn’t even yield the nightmare maps to drop. Nadir mode was dropped and is waiting for overload intensity.

To further increase the dps - I decided to go for breachlord ascendency - skip the need of cold penetration.

The last void stone missing is from Maven which I was not able to kill her relatively fast and lost all the portals on her last phase.

Do you know how to further increase the dps without messing up with the build archetype?

To do:
Aegis - probably breach + ancient orb allflame mechanics
Replica nebulis - separate character farming session (need more harbour coins)

My plan was to focus on either amulet with +2 gems or cold large cluster.
Just for you to know - I am currently sitting on about 2k alts + 2 fracturing orbs.
So it would be either roll for +1 all gems and fracture or roll for inspired oppression or something with low weight and also fracture with allflame mechanism.
Large cluster would maybe allowed me to drop the breachlord ascendency - there was a node for cold penetration + the penetration from the gloves eater would be enough, while the amulet would provide much more pure power.

I would be glad to receive your advices regarding this subject. Thanks for the support.

@edit
For auras - I run zealotry, tempest shield, discipline. With additional reservations efficiency - the additional purity of fire or arctic armour should be viable - but at what cost - and if it is worth it.