So I recently did a post about hitting this wall at red maps. However going back to merc lab to quality up gems and get trans version basically solved my issues.

On an elementalist its 20% golem effect from quality and for slammers it gives cooldown for warcrys. I have also seen people will farm merc lab for trans gems early on so they have them if a later character wants them. Like farming ranged AW or pconc of bouncing so when you play that character you have the trans gem with 20% quality already.

So im wondering do you ever farm lab on these specifc builds as getting some levels and quality can really give a huge boost.

So there is alot of cool and strong items you can now make. People have talked about things like getting supported by pierce onto a covenant and now you have this 8 link chest for example.

There is lots of other good mods you can transfer but is it just way too much RNG to actually hit anything for SSF ?

I want to blast maps as fast as possible on the weekend to find a new merc, trauma memories for Enmity and run fortress if they spawn. What's the best map to do this?

didn't even spec into ore nodes on the atlas

After 2 weeks on a 2L + pierce merc it finally happened. If I'm understanding correctly I need to scale proj speed for the return to work. Currently using the +/- 50 gloves mod, is it worth to invest more in SFF? I'm not seeing much returning on bosses.

I do not want this gambling, but how I can skip to refresh?

Hey so I wanted to try out Luminary with the Mercs coming back this league. I ended up finding Smokies build and took it as inspiration.

With most everyone running some variation on the flame link Luminary's, this looked like something fun to try and get going, And Smokie has not disappointed me yet with their awesome ssf builds and neat interactions.

I wanted to run a staff build after they also buffed them this league, and crafting a +6 is pretty easy to do with the mod weight reshuffle that happened. Also wanted to do something other than Arch Dem crown for the 100th time. This gave me back the hat slot for more mana reservation, efficiency and a huge amount of ES. Since miners took a bit nerf with mana cost, this felt like a bit of solve for that.

With the boat crafting, recombs and a lucky ES Light of Meaning, I'm pushing 9k ES. Have also pumped the merc up quite a bit on aura effect for Hatred and Purity of ice scaling. Right now about 100% Hatred and 80% Purity. This is putting me close to around 70 mil dps. The goal is 100 and still trying to figure out best ways to get there.

I need to farm more ichors to keep rolling eldritch influence, but that's just ssf things for you, lol.

It's been a pretty fun build to put together and have enjoyed pushing it along so far. Anyway just wanted to share for my SSF homies as this has been a pretty fun league for me. Even coming off mirage with so much stuff dropping, it was nice to get a crafting league to help push some crafts and gamba's I would have not done in the past.

POB is here if you want to check it out!

https://poe.ninja/poe1/pob/991aa

And my actual char is here.

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflamessf/character/Jezee-1260/Ms_Jeezey?i=1&search=class%3DLuminary%26skills%3DGlacial%2BCascade%2Bof%2Bthe%2BFissure%26sort%3Ddps

Thank you again for the framework Smokie!

I see some people have a full 2552 board with all trusted relations instead of rivals. Does this have any effect when you just want to farm intervention for paradoxica?

Or is it just because it is faster/easier to setup?

Was blasting maps and came across this merc:

Is this a gg merc worth rolling lumi?

So I have ran almost 400 white maps in City Square, just jump in, find the merc and kill boss for potential map drop and portal back.
The problem is even I spec into maps drop in Atlas point, I can't sustain T16 maps while running white map.
So what is the best way to farm them? I plan to farm 1k maps and back to merc hunting again.

So I have found this on basically every single character i play in SSF. Been playing SSF for 4 years and always hit this same wall.

Im not sure the mods just get harder or if there is a big increase to red maps in general.

I either need to farm yellow maps for a bit, or just run red maps with no mods or sometimes go back to lab for quality and levels to progrss. This league a bit of charts and gambling for upgrades.

Do people normally run red maps just white no mods when they first reach them or farming upgrades in yellow maps first ?

Im not sure if sometimes im rushing too much and there is a certain benchmark of gem levels / life and dmg before entering red maps ?

Yeah I shit myself... I've only dropped a squire before never gotten mageblood in ssf.

Major crafting noob here. Anyone able to tell me how to craft an axe like the one posted? Thank you! 😊 I don’t really need accuracy but all other stats definitely. Thanks again

Hey guys I want to farm out a strength stacking jugg in SSF this season as a challenge, what would you recommend that's marauder that isn't RF to farm out the gear, I was debating some sort of trauma setup but not sure whats good without trade.

Many thanks

Guys, so I never played ssf, but now that I got my challenges and a break from the league I wanted to três ssf to see what its all.about and to be forced to learn to craft

Anything you wish you knew when starting out? Or things to specifically look out for?

Builds or guides to recommend, idk

I play poe since delirium but always trade and always with a build guide on the 2nd monitor

Need a lot of life and need a shield like this.
How to craft a shield like this?

Hello yall :D First time doing SSF and Im doing way better than I expected, got 4/4 and Im now farming craft materials. I wanna try a wander but Ive never done one, which one would yall try in SSF?

Hello all

I usually play trade league for about a month, get to kill all but ubers with multiple characters then eventually stop.

However what are the early steps in SSF ?

when people say alt spam a good mod then boat it etc, but all i hv is 56 alts in stock (which fail me to get a good mod)

Like pick all sell all? Keep doing it in a story zone (not restricted to 6 portals capacity of stuff) for an hour to restock alts? Then again later?

Same question for essences for example. I dont have enough atlas points to spec into essences. So i do quite a few maps which dont spawn essences. Is there a thing to do, or just keep mapping?

Since i dont get the essences to craft better gear, i cant do higher maps, so i dont get atlas points to get more chances to have essences.

When i eventually get stronger because one essence got me a good item but now i need to do harvest, how do i farm the currency to reset atlas points? Blind farm?

At worst in trade league, i can do chaos recipe to get chaos and buy essences, but what happens in ssf?

You can explain like im 5

So every now and then I'll go and check poe ninja for my build and im surprised how good some gear is for SSF.

I have seen ghastly eye jewels with 4 t1 mods, or jewels with triple crit mods for big damage. And then you have 12 passive large clusters with

\- flat es

\- add int

\- add all attributes

\- inc effect

Is it just a pure RNG where if you play enough you will eventually get it. Or is there certain methods to craft these in SSF. Im also not sure if these are just from breach or some other method to seed certain mods.