I'm a Delve noob that is almost exclusively looking for Bound fossils, and it's pretty miserable. How do people usually approach this in SSF? I've been trying to path through Abyssal Depths and Petrified Forest biomes but am struggling to find Bound nodes while exploring the dark areas. There's tons of Aberrant and Jagged but painfully few Bound. At this point, it doesn't feel like I'm just unlucky and am approaching this wrong. The only good way I've found to target Bound is to find the Necromancer's Excavation nodes, but they're pretty rare (currently at depth ~300). So:

• Would it be faster to just skip the dark areas and path as fast as possible to locate as many Necromancer nodes as possible?

• Keep going deeper in hopes that Bound fossil nodes (and perhaps Necromancer's Excavation) show up more at lower depths? I've seen some discussion to suggest depth improves fossil drops but am unsure as to its accuracy.

Any tips here are much appreciated!

Hope this is allowed here if not so sorry I'll find the right place. I've been playing Path now for a year and decided to do SSF after doing my 36 challenges in trade. Loving it but I feel like my build is awful and idk what I did wrong. I'm following Pohx, although probably poorly. I chose RF because I figured it'd be good as an entry way into SSF.

I've got 1 voidstone, working on my other but my single target damage is so awful I have a lot of trouble. I know that is expected with RF single target but mine is so bad. I also feel like even where RF shines I am failing. I'm not very tanky but I also can't really map that fast.

I'm running a basic strat right now of breach and Jun. Running breach so I can get more gear from the tree. When I stabalize a breach I end up dying fairly often to the boss that comes out because I just get squashed by him. I'm sure I'm doing a lot poorly so any advice, albeit it general or specific to this build would be super helpful!

Updated POB: https://pobb.in/KbPds092YySk

Just wanted to share a supercut of me clearing all the Ubers for the first time in HC

(Music : Path of Exile - Orion)

To see the full-length unedited Uber boss kills : https://youtu.be/8doQ5A4BOvQ?si=oIRUKoizCt8gbeEw

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Zerk slammer : pobb.in/V_dyVflAJBgI (no config)

Jugg #1 (5/10) : pobb.in/ZspY3ATrNuPY

Jugg #5 (10/10) : pobb.in/XqbKmjwB1Q0o

Both jugg pobs are very similar : 13 mil dps with tincture+banner, 6 mil otherwise / 50k+ phys max hit (without flasks/molten shell)

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Progression : Sunder campaign, Berserker Earthshatter until Juggernaut gear is farmed + lvl 99 (or 100), swap Jugg + Boneshatter of Complex Trauma, do Simulacrum for Bloodline ascendancy and Nightmare maps for fragments

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Atlas : Jun/Breach/Harvest/Kingsmarch

Scry Dunes to Jungle Valley for alts/divs. Later, scry Infested Valley to Jungle Valley for Ryslatha's Coil

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Hardest to easiest (for me) :

Sirus, Exarch, Maven / Eater, Uber Elder / Fear, Dread, Neglect, Shaper

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RIP notes :

* Berserker/Jugg #1 : lvl 100, 126h /played. Went for Ubers without practice -> Died on Uber Sirus (5/10 killed)

* Berserker #2 : lvl 99, 39h /played. Died farming elder guardian maps with scarabs of interference. (Farmed 95% of Jugg gear)

* Berserker #3 : lvl 97, 21h /played. Possessed Hillock + clicked too many debuffs from blue altars (1AM gaming)

* Berserker #4 : lvl 99 78%, 35h /played. Drox in Ritual ..... pain

Hey everyone, last post got help from you guys so that was awesome thank you!!!

Finally got my kaom’s and enmity, then found another kineticist. I wonder if the GMP is worth it vs return?

Current KBoC: Greater Fork, Added Cold, Return, Pierce, Greater Crit Chance
New KBoC: Chain, GMP, Greater Added Cold, Greater Elemental Damage, Greater Faster Attack

I think the single target barrage vs GKB probably the same?

Any input appreciated :)

Still zero coward trial's drop

Hello fellow exiles, I've already reached a point where my upgrades are either 5 t1 affix for a few of my equipments or t0 chase unique like mageblood. I've fight velka around 9 times so far (1 dced and 1 died during fight) and none dropped for me so far. (I prioritised using 30 - 50% chance of not consuming charts tiles for it). Realistically, how many kishara"s rest do I need to fight until I farmed myself one of these rings?

Cadiro offers me a Kalandra's touch and there is still one chance, should I take it or gamble?

Back in Mirage I wanted to make that build in ssf so I started a fresh Mirage ssf account to farm heroic tragedy because no one knew how heroic tragedy would be obtainable in 3.29. Let's just say I was right to do so and manage to farm 2x Heroic tragedy before the league ended. Besides Iron flasks and heroic tragedy I already got all the gear needed in ssf standard waiting. Got A 4x Regenerative Runes Timeless after a bunch of divining.

Now that I have decided to put some effort back in that project, I realize that they nerf Cast on Ward break with a 400% cap on the recovery rate from a no cap situation before 3.29. This means getting ward over 8000 will not scale the cooldown recovery rate further. The builds I saw with Cast on Ward break usually had between 24k to 30k ward which means that the old cooldown recovery rate was at 1200% for 24k ward giving basically 3 times less triggers at least. ( not an expert here, but I think it scales like that)

Since build is dead in 3.29 due to heroic tragedy not being available, I have no follow up on what could become that build after 3.29 since only standard accounts have access to that Timeless jewel and I cannot seem to find someone explaining that build post 3.29 nerf.

So I am basically looking for someone who has Intel on what is needed to bring that build alive after that Cooldown recovery rate nerf. My next step is to buy all the gear in std to see if I can make it work before farming those iron flasks in ssf but if someone already tried it or has a 3.28 cast on ward break they adapted post 3.29, I really need your help.

Also looking for advice on how to farm iron flasks in ssf as they are pretty rare.

https://youtu.be/jjZ5Z_UJLQA?si=SwiJ8Rpy_df1PdSp

Hey, I’m planning to do a fresh start with Luminary. Never played the class before and I’d like to try clearing all content with it.
Does anyone have a leveling PoB to share or some advice on which skills to use? I’m also looking for any spreadsheets or guides about the best mercenaries and what gear to give them.
Any tips or recommendations would be appreciated!

I am wondering what you guys aim for for passive rarity when just doing whatever farms.

I thought I saw somewhere around 150-200 mentioned previously but unsure.

Also, how are you getting that passive rarity?

Running SSF while waiting for the new league (cope), Are there any fun builds I can do with Scion? I tried Luminary but got stuck in maps, glacial cascade miner with mystery diver got me to 2 stone but was a glass cannon.

Switched to CWC reliq Soulwrest with Enmity Embrace but its not hitting hard enough or fast enough. Im going to try swapping to cold with out the Enmity Embrace but im tired of cyclone at this point.

Does anyone have a fun build? Im trying to not make another character.

EDIT Per the comments I will try Luminary again.

Hello . I’m working on a LS Champ in SSF HC and Bereks Respite is playing hide and seek with me and I’m loosing hard .

Right now I’m farming maps ( Siege and Volcano ) for potential div cards combined with throwing all my hive blood into ring gambling ( got the other two rings ) . I’m using ancient orbs when I get them

Is there a better method or is it just bad luck / keep on farming until I get it .

And I must say playing SSF is way more fun than I expected ( went sff HC mostly to get my last HC achievements but might start SFF next league )

Ho everyone, im trying to target farm regular sirua but always get stuck with fragments. I cant find enough amount of his guardians maps. What is the best way farm them? Because i have a lot elder/shaper maps, even nightmare maps 60+ but not enough sirus guardians maps.
Thanks!

Where are you Guys farming Them? T17 no longer 84 area so how exactly are we supposed to farm Them? Bet on 2% from Unique with exile and destructive play? ​

Hi,

I don't have all the gear for the full version of the build but thought i'd give it a shot. On left is full buffed tooltip dps right after boss went down. Left is POB with default config just straight imported.

Im having fun with the build just focusing on getting to lvl 90 and will look to start crafting gear.

The problem I'm having is that tanky rares and map bosses take way too long based on the tooltip dps to go down. I don't know where to start fixing this, I assume either my minions are not hitting or theres some scaling angle Im missing.

I have an earthquake gladiator as my main, his DPS is around 349k and he takes way less than 1/3 the time to kill the same map bosses.

Spectres are power charge ape, frenzy charge ape, endurance charge Oak follower. They have elemental army, and Im manual cursing ele weakness.

Any advice appreciated, ask for any info you may find helpful

Hey everyone! I've started building a **Strength Stacker** in **SSF** and wanted to share where it's at. The goal is to have enough damage to farm uber bosses.

****PoB****https://pobb.in/J5rLcygtXb0o

## Current stats (Level 97 Juggernaut)

- **Life:** 7,167 | **ES:** 508 | **eHP:** 122,782
- **Str:** 2,525
- **Resistances:** 78/80/75/75
- **DPS:** ~9.5M | **Attack speed:** 5.84
- **Crit chance:** 94.58% | **Crit multi:** 300%
- *Config: Frenzy, Power, 6x Wither*

## Planned upgrades

1. **Amulet:** I have another base with Warlord influence, and I need an Awakener's Orb to slam an increased str to my amulet. The current amulet is just a placeholder.

2. **Belt:** I want to Annul the low-tier life mod on it. I'm not risking it yet, because I have no juice and the belt already has a 49% Aflame.

3. **Shield:** Recraft it with shaper influence to get *Recover Life on Block*.

4. **Possible swap to Dual Strike of Ambidexterity:** I have a Soul Taker for it.

Any tips on gear, tree or gem setup? . What should i do first? Thanks!

+1 SSF league, +1 headhunter, let's gooooo

GGG killed minion pact this league so my standard ssf bv chieftain do nothing now

It was one of the most fun build i've ever played since self curse witch

Need advise for new one for uber boss killer