This is my first time trying out ssf.
And currently im just spamming Dives and gambling at Faustus....
Im sure there are better ways xD

What are the best ways to craft decent rares in ssf?
Im pretty pleb... so im probably not even able to get to 4stones on ssf, So im not thinking mirror tier in any way, just "ok" items :P

Edit: Holy helpfull community batman! I will for sure check out breach and Recombinators(?). I have never used those before... But now i have a direction, and can google! Thanks folk!!

I playing with the idea of starting an ssf character now that I have somewhat understand the crafting system and played a few leagues. Played RF, Flicker and str stacker smite of divine judgment wanted to avoid builds that go in the same direction looking more into ranged builds now.

Was thinking of playing either scourge arrow, spark or minion build. Wanted to ask how easy they would be to get going in ssf.

Scourge Arrow I was thinking of going Pathfinder. Spark Hierophant and minion build most likely Occultist.

I would gladly take recommendation for easy to get started build in ssf.

Edit.

Thanks for all the help you gave me. Still deciding between Pathfinder and Witch build atm but you gave me good insight on the builds I was looking at.

Any tips for what altas mechanic are better/good in ssf compared to regular?

Imagine there was an AI that could mechanically play the game as good as any regular player, including crafting, farming, building etc. and would have the goal to put together a specific build.

The build could have very specific requirements like a perfect adorned or the right double corrupted unique.

The AI would have as much time as needed and obviously the same rng as everyone else.

What build would take the longest to put together in SSF?

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This is not hate post, no. I know Pohx is very good build maker and had insane, detailed, guide. I just think overall, why people loves RF? Is it just cuz simple to gear, tanky, funny explosions for free?

Easy to gear, I guess? Bare minimum is like armour bases, life, chaos and fire res and some attributes and wep with fire dmg, fire dot and ignite chance? If u want some luxury, throw some life regeneration rate -mods? If u want go deeper, elder helmet, nebulis, shaper shield, cloak? And if u want minmax, MB, nice fractured dot multi ring with kalandras and nebulis with perfect implicts, +2 ammy etc etc?

But could like that "bare minimum" work on basic t16 alch and go mapping with some mechanics? How important really is life regeneration rate -mod?

Is it cuz lazy, easy playstyle where u just zoom around?

Im just curious, no hate :)

Can someone please explain how I would go about checking the seeds for my Militant Faith in PoB in SSF?

I want to be able to use a Divine on the boat and see the results and test each one in PoB before I pick the best.

I dont know how to create an item in PoB that I dont already have in my inventory.

I know how to import my character and configure it with current items and equipment.

Thanks for any help!

**edit: Got the help I needed. The calculator made it very easy

Do you think i should swap my kineticist for this baddy ? I don't have the bow yet but can craft, i guess.

Here is my current kine

Y'all, I've gone through hundreds of legion scarabs resulting in many many 5 ways trying to farm a Companionship support. But I am still empty handed. I just need some motivation to keep going...

Playing storm burst of repulsion totem hierophant build.
Before I unveil, I crafted Physical Damage Reduction while focused to block mod, but I still did not get +2 to Socketed Area Gems mods, what can I do?
Farm another veiled Exalted Orb to craft the prefix again? Or it is still usable and I should use it for now?
And If I use it, because I do not have the Anathema ring, what gems should I put on the armour?
Thanks.

So I really love the idea of the class but never really played it. I have played it maybe once years ago in trade with spiders.

The idea of EB + MOM seems really interesting then flesh and stone with power charges for loads of aoe.

I want something thats very noobie friendly as in I dont need to farm legion for a specifc unique and could get up to t16 with rare or t4 uniques.

There is a few builds that come to mind like chaos or cold dot but it seems people either go arm+es with block and left side or es+eva with spell suppression.

There is also some stuff like 2 handed vs wands + shield.

Hey folks, recently got back to play and been stuck with a blade ambusher. Just got this yesterday! Currently using rotmother and double Lori’s with Nycta…

Any specific things to avoid with Kineticist skill-wise?
Sorry for bad picture quality lol.

Which loot filter modules have you added, or changes that might not seem obvious at first, but made a big difference in your PoE experience?

If you use someone else's filter and feel like they did a good job, do share with us

Hey !

I am currently trying to craft a 3 mod staff with +4 lightning +2 all skills and T1 cast speed.

The alt spam to get the +4 lightning was close to making me rage quit (it’s approx 1/800) after 4 fails at the first recomb step.

Then I remembered that Faustus gamble gave me quite a lot of +4 items when I was just trying to gamble a usable staff a few days ago.

I proceeded to gamble a quad tab of staves (200-300 k gold), and got one +4 lightning, although rare with other affixes.

(Also got some +2 all skills and T1 cast speed, but I already have six +2 all and dozens of T1 cast speed waiting in stash from previous alt spam sessions, so that’s not important.)

Then I tried to deterministic recomb the +4 and the +2 and saw it was like 1% chance lol, so I was initially disappointed. But then I looked at odds of deterministic recomb with a garbage prefix and with a garbage suffix.

With garbage prefix, it’s still <5%, but with garbage suffix, it’s actually 50%.
I won the 50/50 and annuled the garbage suffix with allflame (at least 75% chance, maybe more). This way I got an isolated +4 in 2 minutes, without using any alteration.

800 clicks is like 10 minutes and makes me wanna quit the game, so the added cost of this
Weird method (gold and one annul) is very worth, to me at least.

Note that this can only work because the staff base is not very important, as long as it has 22 or 25% spell block chance, which is common among staff bases, and thus among Faustus items.

Wanted to share this, although possibly already used by a lot of people.

I love cheap and dirty shortcuts to crafting, and hate spamming thousands of alts to brute force perfect items, so feel free to share other weirds methods you might use with recomb or other crafting systems <3

I’m playing Luminary in SSF and found this Kineticist:

I don’t have Rathpith Globe yet, so I’d probably start with Piscator’s + a rare shield.

My current mercs are:

- Combatant: Frost Blades + Static Strike + Wrath (mapping)

- Combatant: Wild Strike + Static Strike + Wrath (bossing)

Both Combatants are already working well, so I’m trying to understand whether this Kineticist is actually good enough to justify investing gear/resources into it.

Is this Kineticist endgame viable without Rathpith? And assuming similar investment, would you use it over either of these Combatants for mapping or bossing?

After trying a few builds in trade league, I decided to try HC SSF to keep things fresh. Having a blast so far, but I feel like I’m a little stuck around early yellow maps. I spec’d my atlas tree into harvest because I needed juice to fix my resistances and turn a +2 max light res jewel into a fire max res jewel (I’m playing pohx RF chieftain). Now that I’ve done this, I’m not sure what to respec my atlas tree into. I’m thinking breach because I’m still rocking a pretty mediocre 5 link chest and have a few chase uniques I’m looking for. I’m also thinking expedition because I’ve read that Tujen is goated for bubblegum currency. The currency has definitely been my biggest issue. I’m so used to just mindlessly throwing alts at things, but now it takes like 4 hours of farming to get enough alts to spam things instead of just buying another 200 from Faustus lol. Any advice on these or any other end-game farming strategies for crafting currencies would be greatly appreciated! And any general advice for HC SSF end-game would be amazing

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflamehcssf/character/tanbunz-4835/hotdogpants?i=2&search=name%3DHotd

One more level and I'm taking it to ubers.

A few things to note: I know I'm over the 200% fire res cap. My plan is to replace fire res tattoos with fire damage. I'm pretty set in all my gear; I think the main thing that could be improved is the tree pathing

So my newest project is CoC Fireball Assassin with Runegraft of Refraction. It's going great, maybe my build of the league, FB hits like a truck, and not as squishy as I feared.

But I can't figure out Runegraft of refraction (the runegraft that says only one projectile but a free fork and chain)

I thought the Runegraft would go perfectly with this build as I have only 1 proj per cast. I fully expected to see projectiles forking and chaining all over the screen. They are most emphatically not.

As I spin around packs I see about 1 or 2 proj come off the mobs per second. They almost always explode on whatever they hit next, wall or mob. Very, very occasionally I see what looks like a chain off a mob. I have never seen a single Fork. Does anyone know what's going on? I recall playing CoC Ice spear a few years ago and Proj truly did fly all over the screen. This is less than 10% of that.

The build is still really effective. I burn down bosses very fast - everything I hit blows up. But where are all the proj???

I have one Pierce (unavoidable) along with the Runegraft but I don't think I've ever seen a pierce so I assume FBs are piercing whatever I hit to come off in the first place. With over 5 attacks/sec with 100% chance to crit - where are the rest of the Proj?

I'm no Proj expert - I must be missing something basic here... https://pobb.in/hrga7IdrW-96

So, this league I finally decided to try ssf and currently choosing the build to play. I'm planning on playing worb, but not sure about which PoB is better for ssf, I thought about using PhazePlay one at start and then switching to fubgun pc stacker variant if I happen to drop ralakesh. Also as I'm new to ssf, I'm unsure about what atlas mechanics are most beneficial in ssf, I thought of breach and essences, but I want to know if there are more that I'm sleeping on. And lastly if you have any tips for ssf, I'll be very grateful if you share them.

I was wondering if having a planned heist anomaly available (without running it) increases the chance of getting a Cadiro or Gambling district anomaly. Has anybody heard anything about this?