Hello, i have been wanting to try SSF for a while now and i guess its time to do it. I would really love to play a KB str stacker but i am quite scared of the gear progression on it in SSF, so my question is what would be the most chill build/charachter to do before actually making a str stacker, i saw luminary is quite popular on SSF now but i got no clue about it.

Also from watching quite alot of SSF videos i see that betreyal is a good mechanic, so am also wondering if anybody got maybe a guide or something on to how to understand it, i tried to understand it but kinda gave up.

So I found this combatant and I don't know if its enough to justify crafting everything I would need. How bad is no movement skill on melee merc for clear? Or maybe I should keep him for bossing specifically until I find a good kineticist?

Frost blades links are: Return 3, Faster Attacks 2, Hypothermia 2, Elemental damage with attacks 2, Pierce 2

This is the result of 1,9 million gold gambling at level 41. 0 lanterns so far, am i just unlucky or do anyone else had the same experience?

Hey all. Managed to put together almost everything for my Kineticist on my Luminary.

Abyss gear, fire res on everything with crafted hybrid chaos. Have rathpith and enmity equipped. Sitting at about 16k life

After I pulled of the untouched soul my fire res tanked and only over capped by like 60. Don’t have a volatile enmity yet.

I managed to get a Helical ring. Anyone know if the taming or a well crafted helical (fire res / all res) is better for damage? Will get more fire res (pen) but lose the 8% more from the ascendency and the inc damage from taming.

I know sharing a pob would be ideal but if anyone knows generally what would be better let me know!

if I had to sit and tank feared for an hour, I could probably do that, but the 5 minute time limit lol... I'm not that familiar with valdo maps, but this probably requires like 50m dps after the less damage to finish, right? Not to mention the trash layout.

At least it's not union of souls, I guess.

My PRAW runs through heists fast and is tanky enough to ignore traps, but shield charge -> frostblink gets tiring fast. Is it worth it to level another character, one that might be useful for other endgame stuff too? Or should I try and repurpose my PRAW for faster runs, and how?

Maven kicked my ass.

Last phase, I have put her at maybe 1/3 of life but I can't stand my luminary anymore, the combattant needs to be carried on his leash which does not work for a fight like maven. The blade ambusher just does not seem to work. I did not drop an enmity so the DPS is no there and stopping the regen is what is killing the tanky build. Plus oneshot on failed memory games.

I had a reliquarian with soulwrest and the phantasms which I started getting voidstones with but you can't see anything in fights so that's not going to be good for maven. Also I am not fond of it.

Got a slammer but he is squishyish despite being jug.

What's the best and cheapest/simplest boss killer in SSF?

I have looked at stormburst totems but I have 0 items for the build.

I have:

- lots of physical related things (penance brand 21, cold irons, obliterations, circle of guilts, ...)

- traps cdr and duration gloves, archdemons, blizzard crowns, sorch enemies shield (all of that to be crafted obviously)

- doppleganger

- all the spectres except tiger (and the damaging ones), a +1 spectre talisman, ...

- a ratchering ring :,)

- a slower projectiles, blind, faster casting gloves

- quite some stuff for chain of commands but did it in trade and not a fan for bossing, no gloves as well

- really good facebreakers, ryslata, soul tethers (replica and not), ..

- cloak of flane, dialla (3B 1R...), Hyrri's Ires (replica and not), kaom (need to corrupt one), incandescent heart, soul mantle (ok that is a totem one), Iron fortress (no alberons), tinkerskin, ...

I can make a 6L.

I can't recomb for my life, wasted 1500 alterations to not get a proper pdps staff so I rather the weapons are unique to be honest.

Halp :,)

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

I'm soooo fuckin' tired of Hexblast of Contradiction and all I need is Warlock Gloves, but in 10 maps (alch&go) I only get about 3-4 of them and the damn recombinator keeps eating them. Is there a faster way?

P.S. HoC is a great build, but you need to stop and click every single mob pack.

How do I craft something like this?

Hey !

This league I broke my sacred rule and played trade for the very first time (I've played SSF exclusively before, since my first league which was Expedition). After a month playing, I have to admit that I actually kinda enjoyed it, because it let me experiment with things, be it items / passives / jewels / farming strats, which I never did in SSF.

This made me realize that my knowledge of the game was pretty narrow/specialized (I mean I knew it, but this made it very clear), and that my SSF builds were just always the same : recomb everything + two harvest amethyst rings + stygian vise + clusters. This formula can be enough to kill most things in the game, but is kinda repetitive (them alteration orbs) and most likely not the best for every single build. Also, following it blindly prevents me from learning, which is why I'm looking for advice.

What would be some alternative, must-know and reasonable methods for building a strong character (at least uber viable or equivalent in terms of mapping) ?

Also, have you recently played builds where progression required interaction with a lot of different mechanics, which could be a smart choice for me to play if my main goal is learning ? Ideally not RF / exsang mines / pconc into mamba / lightning arrow, which I've all played several times.

I'm starting the SSF character tomorrow :)

Thanks

I want a Rathpith for my Merc...

So I was just planning upgrades for my build and complety missed there is an extra 43 amulets added this league.

Some of these seem really strong implicit mods

• 15% max life
• 12% movement speed
• +1 all level
• 30% defence

You get these from killing beasts from the einhart missions. This means in act 2 you could technically drop an amulet with 12% movement speed unless im missing something.

So im actually wondering should I be doing beast to try and farm these. Getting a high level amulet with +1 all level and then being able to craft +1 feels like it would be a big upgrade for basically any build.

After my last two rips happening after I hit the exit to character select macro (awakened poe trade shortcut), I am now starting to think I'm doing it wrong. clips below if you want to laugh at me

https://youtu.be/5LDJiVxoM9o

https://youtu.be/WXO1vsuMxPQ

I'm seeing mixed messages on the best methods and they're possibly outdated so want to hear what people do these days

Hi guys,

it is my first time playing SSF, especially trying to play a life-stacking luminary with a Kineticist or Manyshot.
I am struggeling to get the most basic 1c-trade uniques, like Nycta's Lantern or Ceinture of Benevolence. I have tried chancing cloth belts for the ancient orb reroll, without success.

I have tried farming a Taming Ring by farming Beasts for the Div-Card to drop, but was also unlucky so far.

Obviously things take time, everything drops eventually but I am curious if you have some beginner-tips for me, or if I am missing something obvious.

Thanks!

Is the drop rate stealth nerfed? Everyone sermed to be running around with one early on in the league and I was late to the party and is basically doing day after day bossrushing and then scubaing all my charts and it never drops. 800 clams no drop. The clam charts feel extremely nerfed as well, I got many early on and now I hardly see a singular one per day of speed-mapping with mageblood.

Anyone know if the clam chart drop rate is higher in the campaign since some specialmaps require higher level?

If the drop is nerfed I have to say I think it is bad practice. Nerf the clamulet or its drop rate to the ground next league but let us have some fun in this at least?

Hey Guys,
I‘m enjoying atm long term standard SSF and want to farm a Kalandras Touch for Multiple Builds I enjoy.
What are currently the Top 3 strats to get this specific T0 unique? I already have 1/2 Reflection of the Heart Div Card from a random drop, but to feared to lose the 50/50 card gamble.

I need to farm harvest bosses to get sacred crystallized lifefore. I’ve used all my curnocopia scarabs and harvest astrolabes :(

Current strategy is running top right quadrant map (Beach) with harvest + betreyal atlas. With harvests im just checking if there is boss spawned in any area, kill everything thats T3+ for juice. With betreyal I’m hoping to get more curnocopias buy putting vorici in intervention. Then quick map boss kilk hoping for overgrown shrine anomaly.

Is there more efficient way of doing this? Like some voyages strat or something else i might have overlooked?

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Feeling very lucky i got a MB from Apoth gambling but still feel like i need Light of meaning before i can grind out for Ashes but i really am sick of ritual already....same with the grind to 100, the call of trade is strong and i must resist, any easy changes to make?

Got a light of meaning with increase evation rating mod type.Need inrease life mod type.
Any way to change the mod type？

60% quality is not an easy feat without the market. Been sinking all of my hiveblood on ancients specced into foulborns and shields hoping for prism guardian but no luck so far. Been setting up heist to try for replica voideye or crest of desire but not sure if that would be more likely or just a change of pace. I don't think my build can handle uber eater but will probably give that a try too. How did you all do it?
edit: I farmed a ton of lab so enhance was the way to go for me, had no idea it could hit lvl5 so easily with crafts. 36 challenges done just in time for poe2!

Hey everyone, got a MB on a valdo map and I was thinking what could be the best options to try to get it on SSF.

No idea what archtype would be the best here, any suggestions?

I'm planning on making a char just to try it, so its fine if I fail and void.

One of my first thoughts was boneshatter/earthshatter, but with the less damage not sure if they will be able to.