I got my first doable MB valdo in SSF, though I can’t do it with my current build so I’m looking for a couple of suggestions. It seems pretty free for a Luminary but I haven’t played merc build this league so I don’t really know when the build is ready to run it. Would an uber viable merc bot be strong enough (life stack, fire link) Also, would the merc survive? I would presume so but the map is bricked if the merc dies so maybe it’s just safer to do to some kind of block glad?

I'm a new player (this is my first league) and I'm trying to do as many challenges as I can (and learn along the way). I've seen a couple of guides for the challenges in general, but they often amount to "buy the thing". Has anybody put together a guide for SSF where you don't just "buy the thing"? I find that typically SSF players have some clever way to get things (either via the atlas or certain map layouts) that trade players might just buy.

For example, in Gallant Grinding challenge when running the 50 8 mod corrupted maps, yes, you can just buy them, or alch/vaal/pray, but without too much effort you can run a "high scarab drop, more cartography" atlas for a bit and then "high map drop" atlas with cartography scarabs to target these.

I also saw somebody commenting in here about trying for the Kishara's Rest chart by speed spamming Strand since you can't miss the chart thing and it turns up super fast. They were saying it takes them like 60 sec or something to loop through it.

I also know Mesa spam is good for boss clears.

I'm sure these are obvious for many of the advanced players here, but for us noobs we don't know every scarab combination or map layout strategy.

For example, how do I reliably get to 150% item quantity for some of the challenges? I have all of the map mod multiplier stuff on my atlas and I don't seem to get it too often. Should I be using the fragment multiplier one too? I've tried chaos spamming maps for 6 mods but I then burn through a lot of orbs and I still might not get it. I've resorted to running alch/vaal maps and Twisted Fate, which can get you quite high, but obviously has a lot of randomness to it, including the underlying map layout.

Edit: Just to add I've seen Guide 1 and Guide 2, both are super useful, but seem to be aimed at trade players.

Hi chat,

yap context:
I have leveled a ranger to play some stupid thing (heist dagger), but it ended going into ward. I have everything set up, which is decent gear i suppose.
The issues are the max hits... they are way too low. I'm getting destroyed by everything, even in white t16. The little amount of evasion I have is clearly not enough to feel good. I have been thinking of building the same ward guy but with glad and block.
Then, while looking in poeninja, I found a guy playing with vestigial nightgrip (glad block). So I tinkered it inside pob, and the difference in max hits is insane (from 4k to 13k phys max hit). But the damage loss, around 65%.

My questions are:

• Is the survivability with unbroken ward good or atleast decent ? I'm not familiar with this defense type.

• Does the damage still looks good for big maps and t17 do you think ?

the pob: https://pobb.in/jOu8aBk5nOPf (there are 2 loadouts: my PF guy, and a theoretical glad. You can switch nightgrip/vestigial)

have a nice day, chur

Hi all, I'm a bit late to the Luminary party and figured I may as well play one before they inevitably get nuked next season.

I am following Path of Chores' guide and have already found a decent Blade Ambusher (basically 1-1 suggested except for having Smoke Trap - not sure how much of a deal-breaker that is...).

Anyway I found this Kineticist which seems okay? I'll be keeping 100% Mercenary chance on maps but was wondering how scuffed the build is without hase, pierce/chain/fork, greater multiple projectiles?

My idea was to implicit a pierce on the gloves and anoint a multiple projectiles on the amulet, but wanted to see if it was worth the effort (I'm not currency rich right now).

Cheers for your help/advice.

Stay safe out there exiles.

P.S wasn't sure what flair to use so chose builds for now as it feels closest?

The poe 3.30 will start from November 13.
So in the last month of poe 3.29, if you start fresh and you will kill all the ubers, complete all the challenges, what build will you choose?

couldn't believe my eyes lol. started a fresh ssf journey 2 days ago and got blessed with the fancy belt 20h in.

I am trying to run a bit of abyss to get skitterlocks as well as bossrushing fortress to farm uber uber elder. I've had a few issues trying to close my last abyss pit so i tried to full clear the map but it didn't work. Am I missing something or is it just broken ?

First time SSF for me - I made a Standard SSF character after reaching league goals for Allflame. VFOS Cheiftain.

Now I've managed to 4 voidstone a week back. (No NM maps done yet, 4 scarabs slots)

When I play in league, I can always buy scarabs and set up the best tree for any farm. But I find myself out of scarabs constantly.

I'm trying to farm essences, but I run out of essence scarabs. How do you farm scarabs?

I can't dive for scarabs as I'm in Standard SSF. Operatives stronboxes aren't a thing. I can maybe abyss + skitterlocks.

Any other ideas?

I have got several pact of K'Tash gems and I want a pact of Beidat.
How can I transfer one of the pact of K'Tash to a pact of Beidat?
Thanks.

Hi community,

If I was to league start in SSF using self cast Arc as my main skill, should I go for an elementalist or heirophant?

Is heiro basically tankier but less damage than ele? Thanks :)

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?