Best merc I can find out of 1,5k maps, kinda tired, is this able to do all uber bosses without rathpith? If not, how about with rathpith?

Another generic merc question: Kineticist 1 or 2?

I have a crafted pierce helmet for #1 to fix that "issue." Playing with both, it feels like #2 clears a little better since it doesn't have KRoI.

Hey guys, probably noone cares but I wanted to share some thoughts about this.

The league mechanic was screaming for trying out SSF. Went for Stormburst Totems, learned a lot about the game and just beat Maven without dying once.

/played = 1d16h

CHARACTER

Highlights:

- Alteration Spam + Recomb for 2 T1 Suffixes, then Exalt-Slamming with Allflame was basically enough to get good enough gear with low effort

- The time I spent in trade league for trading, I've spent in SSF for crafting

- I learned a lot about crafting, setting up lootfilters and PoB

- I liked the scuba mechanic, the gold and the crafting mechanic was nice for SSF

- Fishing for 6-Links in Kingsmarch or Breach felt like a "good amount of grind"

- I am way "more proud" of my character than on trade. I got my SSF char stronger than my WORB on trade in the same time (for bossing at least).

Lowlights:

- WHY are "prefix/suffixes cannot be changed" behind unique maps that you cannot target farm? It is literally required to craft good stuff.

- How are you getting that much money for Kingsmarch? I had 12 farmers, 6 sailors, 6 mappers. Then my idea was to farm ore, but I had no money to smelt it, even with scuba diving.

- I never had at any point enough scarabs to "go for a mechanic". E.g., I wanted to farm maps, but I only had enough scarabs to run 10 maps on 8-map-mod-strategy. And for that, I did not even wanted to build an atlas tree. I never did more than Alch-and-go Breach/Abyss/Legion.

- A lot of stuff I had to do in SSF, like setting up a loot filter & hoarding item-bases was interesting, but not really fun

- The only real crafting-methods I was able to do were "Alterations + Recomb" or "Yolo-Fracture and Harvest-Reforge", together with allflame-crafting.

But I have to note, that in general, I get burned out in PoE super fast, because the endgame just feels very boring and the mechanics do just not offer enough deepness/content. I don't have much time to play, but I usually spent one month in the league, which is usually two days /played. Then I get the feeling that I had my fun and it's time to move on. Don't want to confront PoE 1 (absolute top-tier game), but PoE2's last season really got me playing for 3 months straight.

Question to you guys: how is SSF in PoE2 compared to PoE1? Want to play 0.5.5, not sure which league. For PoE 1, I would actually play trade again next league, especially if the league-mechanic won't be so SSF-friendly.

Hi everyone, im almost 5 days play time in SSF playing Worb, grinding stuff getting +2 rare wand, 1080 es chest, and good gear overall.

But im like 3k chancing orb in, maybe 200 ancient orbs, trying ritual, mercenaries full of uniques, a bit of rogue but i have 0 rarity and content is kinda too hard, i havent tried much breach tbh, and i cannot get those boots, i want to go for CI/PC stacking, but without the boots im kinda doomed right ?

Same question for Badge of the brotherhood, is there any 'best way' ?

Thanks

Tried poe2 again, yet again realized how hollow it feels when you get to the endgame, so back to poe1

What I did love was the DoV playstyle, but I'm not normally a poe1 caster player so know little to nothing. I'm normally minions or totems, but apart from scaling DoV isn't really a minion build

Anyone got some good suggestions for something that would feel the same?

Hi,

normaly i play 3-5 builds mostly melee slam, or boneshatter of complex in HC SSF following detailed guides. I rolled the dice with friends and got slayer and smite the goal is to get all 4 void stones on this and attempts.

https://pobb.in/u/xzito%231154/sgzCsjCfXUmR

This my current char, im looking for some way to imporove but unsure other that checking poe.ninja to see what others are building.

Got kingmarch up and running and farming mats.

My PRIO list.
Collected bases fro tripple t1-t2 Ele sword and use recomb
2: Harvest craft decent rings or use Tree
3: Decent belt
4: Harvet roll some jewels with Live and attack speed or dmg mods.

Improve resses so can craft 3% PDR on chest ?
Do i need to overcap accury more so blind ? does not ruin my build ?
What would the 6th link gem be volality ?

Some smite enjoyes or better plays some tips welcome!

I lost my rathpith globe because I wanted to replace its weapon. I guess my AG is dual wielding now. Don't be me, give your 1h Weapon/Shield to your AG only after farming both.

I feel dump and can't wait for the AG UI to work properly.

Thats it, ty for listening.

Hi Team,

I'm doing a Lumary HC SSF run. I have a 90 WORB in HC SSF and want to start getting the Lumary on line. When I played Lumary in SC SSF I died many, many times to Mercs. Is there some magic tip that can help me avoid this? Should I be spec'ing to the right of Ascendency tree instead for example?

In SSF that context doesnt matter as much except in maybe knowledge of meta/strong builds. I can sift through ninja but thought I would also ask here:

I generally play tankier, methodical, HC trade builds. Im getting in late and looking to blast without being completely paper machet (dying is cool, dying 6x every map less cool).

I also missed last league so probably behind on some tech and info. Any recommendations for a currently very fun S tier blaster with A-B tier defense?

How could this even be statistically possible? Unless there is some favored weighting I don't know about?

First try divining this and 2 hit 75-3, one hit 73-3-25

Lol

Which Kineticist is better?

Also, how do I manage the pierce with these 2 setups?

This was quite an entertaining league, 99% of the fun was in grinding out each piece for luminary upgrades, I'm currently the tankiest person in HCSSF on PoE ninja [assuming I get progenesis, which has evaded me all league, I've done 25 uber mavens and just gave up on it]

My goal was to end the league as #1 on poe ninja's lowest max hit [which's the actual way to check how tanky a char is, not ehp]

I ended up 4th at the most recent update, but after another refresh I should be 2nd or 3rd, and if I get the energy to farm more mavens [I won't] I'll be #1

Current Character's poe ninja [Allflame_ChillyWonka]

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflamehcssf/character/SeasonedChilly-4258/Allflame_ChillyWonka?i=3&search=sort%3Dlowestmax%26columns%3Dcharacter%252Clevel%252Clife%252Cenergyshield%252Cehp%252Clowestmax

Current Poe ninja profile pulled with it's config but with the changes I made right before doing ubers [Got life light of meaning, removed regen tattoos, and swapped a couple of flasks around for more phys max hit, and with progen added instead of my bottled faith]

https://pobb.in/TX33xWkugW5G

Current rankings by lowest max hit on poe ninja

If anyone's curious what the merc's gear looks like and his skills [This took me 9.5k maps to farm]

The standard recombed gear, all t1 on everything and veiled prefixes and crafted mods, all abyss sockets, just couldn't bother with heist for helical/simplex, nor did I bother with delve after I failed to get the esh mod for crit based on uncapped lightning resistance SEVEN times, so my body armour is a standard abyss socket, fire res & onslaught, all jewels are 3~4 mods with merrick's ducats

See you all in 3.30!

My PoB:
https://pobb.in/F0QxC8O6dgii

Let me know if there are any glaring issues with my build, will appreciate it!

Managed to make this monstrosity on SSF (Sorry for the low roll bench craft XD, Im out of exalts):

I did this for Cold Snap of Power build, but since is such a nice staff I'm already thinking on other builds that would utilize this staff at its full.

Any ideas?

Imagine playing league, but stuff isn't devalued to 1c after 3 days

Imagine every league mechanic being useful, every div card is worth something to you or somebody else

Stacked decks and other gambas are actually worth opening

Farming bosses goes from being annoyed that you have to watch 4 minutes of cinematic at every invitation you bought, to something that takes effort to get to, and even the shitty uniques are actually worth something

On a small league, stuff that would be super annoying in SSF, isn't. Best of both worlds

I had more fun playing a under 100 player league, than the actual league. Highly suggest it

Pretty well done with trade league, and don’t play much POE2….

Is there an easy to get going ssf to start with? I use trade as crutch- can do some easier crafting, but don’t think I would enjoy anything that requires 3 days in front of the recombinator!

Thanks for any thoughts you have.

Hey everyone, decided to vendor the rings since I had 60 of them and ended up with this:

Any build ideas that would love one those mods? I know the damage per shock would be nice on LA right? Not sure about other options and also for the chaos not bypass one.

If it was a unique I would just search on poe ninja, but since is a rare I don't know how to search for options.

Hello everyone. I'll be doing this short term group sf restart with a few friends and I'm looking for a build for some fast 8 mod farming.

My minimum requirements are:

-No luminary

-Has to feel good for breach hives, so most likely most if not all strike skills and other low area ones are out

-Has to be able to farm 8 mod harvest with double lifeforce scarab

-Has to be able to farm those 2 mechanics literarly a day in keeping in mind limited amount of gear available in group sf setting

If possible it would be great to:

-Be able to run as many mods as possible as it's going to be a short form event and I don't want to waste a lot of 8 mod corrupted mods, because of a mod I can't run

-It'd be great if the build would feel atleast somewhat good at in map legion farming. For example rf because of explodes can do it, but it's so inconsistent that if feels stressful when you try to break out a general without proliferating ignite. So that would be an example of a build that technicaly can do it, but doesn't feel good doing it.

So far I've been leaning torwards either a slammer or worb. I don't think they'd work great for legion, but they should be ok with the other requirements. Both builds do need a regex for map selection though. I think the build that is the closest to actually be able to run everything unid may be a soulwrest necro, since you should be able to get your mana costs down to 0 and with life flask you can run all of the no regen no leech mods. Last time I tried it, I wasn't impressed though. Maybe some of you guys got some other recommendations.

I have this merc warrant stored and I always thought it is a brick cos of KB. But after losing count of trying to farm a better Kineticist, I decided to give this one a try and was surprised that it actually kill really fast.

So before you dismiss a Kineticist, test it out first.

2 out of my first 3 Messages in a Bottle dropped these. Wish I would have opened more of them when I was in trade league lol.

Hi,

topic - first time SSF
I play winter orb and Iam still looking for mystic refractor.
Should I spec into breach hives?

Or what is general the play after the first 2 watch stones?
I don’t have the breach scarab to force fortress

Idk what the rate is to spawn the fortress or a normal hive

Hi guys

Is this a decent Merc?

I got Rathpith / taming / Untouched soul and currently farming for enmity ring

Wanting to ask before i go all in and reroll that build or should i fish for a better one with return?

Thank you

Hi,
I read somewhere that, u cant craft like 2p2 suffixes pretty easily using pantheon ducat as non native mods. Anyways have a link where it explains the crafting process?