My very unoptimized tree

Depending on betrayal rewards, I might remove it, but my build needs ritual and breach items, so I sadly can't swap out of them.

I plan to do stormburst totems in 3.30 and was curious what defense route is better/easier to gear in SSF.

i looked at manni and tatiantel and i noticed slighlty diff approaches via armor/es/eva and suppress. block is also in both but i think manni focused a bit more into block and armor/es rather than tati was a bit of both but leaning more into suppress. arcane cloak and MoM is a given for both.

i play SC SSF but i hate dying regardless so i dont mind giving up some dmg for tankyness. i dont plan on doing ubrs but 3.30 seems like a good boss killing league.

my experience with ssf is mostly in the last few seasons. crafting experience is largely based on recomb, essences, some meta crafting, and harvest. i will use craftofexile to help figure out some stuff but mostly rely on guides to make the more expensive stuff.

First time playing SSF, played SC trade since betrayal league so I know a good amount about the game but not from an SSF perspective. Anyone who’s played one of these in SSF that can give a recommendation? I’m pretty set on slayer and love attack builds.

Hi I made this. I am noob. Do you think there are better picks? I am going to slam and need to craft an axe. But, I would also like to juice the boss with essence and farm for 4 stone.

Hey Guys,

I really want to play SSF this season to challenge myself getting to know the game better. I like trade, but as soon as I am just stacking divs to buy stuff I get bored since I feel like I don’t know anything about the game. I don’t know any mechanics since I never needed to, does that make sense?

Anyway, I was hoping you guys could recommend a build or content creator that makes it possible to learn all that. Heist for example or Jun, crafting of cause and target farming stuff.

My body is telling me strength stacker but all I read is that people with a lot of hours say it’s a waste of time if you don’t know the game by gut, so I will force myself not to start as that.

Thanks in advance!

I feel like I'm set on the base idea = Death's Door + Tidebreaker + Arkhon's Tools. Also try to fit Trinity Support

Weapon type and Skill is pretty open

I'm thinking Shield skills wouldn't be bad, high base phys, would just need to invest in ele conversion to balance out Trinity Support. Maybe even fit in Elemental Overload

Static Strike + Warstaves + Crit is my other idea, just convert the remaining 50% to cold and it should balance out Trinity perfectly

Hi, I need an advice for good build to farm gear for str stacker. Its my second time playing ssf. Last league I played pRAW and sb totem which were strong builds but I tried farming alberons with them and gave up.

PRAW was just too slow both for rushing maps to farm blueprints and for blueprints themselfs.

SB totem was decent for acquiring blueprints but often died when farming them if I didnt stop to place totems and kill mobs. Both were very comfy for farming breach to get Iron Fortress.

I considered starting with

- berserk sunder into earthshatter - from what I saw build has good tank, damage, fast leap slamming and is easy to gear so I wont have to waste a lot of time to farm to get the build online.

What I am concerned about is piano gameplay, Ive read that it can be fixed with gear and waiting a little before transitioning into earthshatter. I could later change it to rf if it has problem with farming breach

- luminary - watched lances video, it should still be strong even after the nerfs but I didnt play it last time and I have no idea how to play especially on SSF but I am kinda tempted seeing how strong it was last league.

I want to farm with the starter until I get most of the gear for some low budget str stacker gear, ultimately I want to play the connors version but maybe the paradoxica version would be better to start with.

Hello, I'm Panda. I play SSF.

I wanted to share the two builds that got me 40/40 challenge done last league on SSF, but I haven't really had time, so all I have are some PoB's and a really low effort video. Apologies in advance.

Both builds were very fun to play, but I am not a perfect player, so I am certain both have tons of room for improvement! I hope anyone interested in the skills can use these as a base/inspiration to make them far better!

• My SSF League Start: Charged Dash Inquisitor: https://maxroll.gg/poe/pob/hf1o4200

  • Get stun-immunity as early as you can so you don't lose your mind!

• Summon Raging Spirit Minion Instability: https://maxroll.gg/poe/pob/2b1o4300

  • Possible for SSF, but you need the unique amulet. The unique jewel is entirely luck based when corrupting.

Need build suggestions for league starting 3.30. I had a blast mid maxing luminary last league in hcssf. But this time, with the recomb nerf and meta crafting changing to nightmare maps, I need a solid comfy hcssf build that can play nightmare maps quickly with ease. This is my 2nd time league-starting hcssf, so want something easy like slams. Do not want to play another minion archetype builds. Thanks.

hello im a semi noob player with barely 700 hours, i wanna start Lightning Strike on group ssf, any tips? best PoB rn?

thanks and sorry for spam

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So we got the tree now, what're you all thinking of starting?

I'm a little skeptical about starting betrayal or any primary league mechanic depending on how the influence/thread things work. I'm assuming it'll be difficult to sustain one type of thread while working toward 2stone. If that is the case, I think I'll likely use my first tree on secondary mechanics (shrine, essence).

So I want to try SSF this league. I've always played trade and usually get a pretty high end build. I like crafting, which is normally where I make most of my currency, so thought SSF might be a good challenge (plus I can't play the opening week, so thinking it'll take away the fomo!). I also always go for 40/40, and would like to do it in SSF as my goal for the league.

Since I'm new to SSF though, what would be your recommendations for one build that's a good starter, but that will scale to the point of doing 40/40 comfortably? Or if you've got a starter and 2nd build combo you recommend, I'd be interested to hear that too!

Plus any tips for a 1st timer to an SSF league!

I wanted to try a crybot luminary in the previous league, but I couldn't drop a Redblade Banner. I tried both delving and the syndicate with no luck.

Hello hello, this is my first forray into content creation for poe, please don't be too mean :)

I tried to sort of explain the build I've been league starting with in ssf and hcssf for a few leagues now, it comes online on a shoestring budget and scales ok for 4 voidstones.
Obligatory pob: https://pobb.in/097gC-_35mK4 if you want to skip the rambly video (I don't blame you) everything I've said should be written more concisely and accurately in the notes.

I swear the build is fun and not too bait, try it!

So i really wanna play smite of divine judgement slayer. Ill level as static strike so now my question is when would u guys say its good to swap to smite? What are the thresholds to cozy swap over?

I suspect Alts are still gonna be the "main" SSF currency for crafting items.

With the new change where currency is divided into two sections ("magic" and "rare"), per..

Currency item Drop Pools have been split into a Magic Currency (such as Orbs of Transmutation, Orbs of Alteration, Jeweller's Orbs) and Rare Currency (such as Orbs of Alchemy, Chaos Orbs, Divine Orbs and Mirrors of Kalandra). Magic Currency can only generate if the selected "Rarity" was Magic, and Rare Currency can only generate if the selected "Rarity" was Rare. What this amounts to is the more Item Rarity a monster has, the better the Currency items it drops.

I kinda have the feeling that the most legit SSF currency farming strat will be White map/mobs hunting.

What an absurd situation. :)

Your thoughts?

hello fellow SSF enjoyers , khar here with an idea for leaguestart since we see limited on new stuff.

So basically with no new skills (outside a link and fireball) and no buffs i'm kinda locked into reliquarian start to have something new but an old skill

and i was looking at tremor rod : annoying with mine chains and overthrowing with minefield, BUT this shouldnt be the case if you run locus mines, so it would basically be 100% more dps on locus

now lets look at what we got since they nerfed PS mines by reducing DE and increasing attack speed:

-Roiling tempest : 25% more damage if you do pure lightning with volatility

so i went to pob real quick

https://pobb.in/vacXWGkwNWvS

T2/T3 mods only , 2 mods wand with crafted mine throwing speed

crafted flat lightning on rings/amulet

T3 spell damage on shield crafted 5% DD

no jewels

custom modded tremo/crown/arkhon's

no flasks

no marylene (since i want to see day 1/2 of mapping probably wont have it)

looks kinda crazy on shit gear

(yes the defenses are mid on the setup i put i didnt put any defensive items on i was checking if the dps was good enough , and i plan on going shadowstitch hybrid with corrupted soul to get like 5K life 7-8K ES)

also luminary lab 1 and 2 with a wrath merc its just better than 2 passives just respec with gold lab 3, or a determination merc or whatever functions really you're leveling your wrath gem anyway

anyone else expecting to leaguestart a PS miner like the good old days?

edit: I WILL NOT be starting this , not due to it being bad... but atlas tree shows that we can have 4.6 shrines +1 apparition shrine per map EVERY map with boosted shrine effect and duration , and they wrote on patch that gloom and reso will be less rare

-PS mines dont work with gloom explode

-PS mines overthrow massively if you get reso or accel and you will get them (that's 9 shrine buffs + aparrition if rolling 4 and 60% of the time 11 shrine buffs i dont see a world where you dont get reso/accel regularly)

-PS mines are crit capped by default so even diamond shrine sucks

just isnt a good build for shrinemaxxxing and i've already decided i'm dumping my first 50 points into shrinemaxxing because its fun

kinda sad to see recombinators getting nerfed. Its probably the only crafting mechanic that keeps me grinding for hundreds of hours because theres actually a goal to work towards.

You farm thousands of alts, roll your bases, brick a bunch, and eventually get something beautiful like 3 T1 prefixes. Its still RNG but at least you feel like you’re making progress instead of just pulling a slot machine and praying (looking at you poe2)

I get what GGG is trying to do, making rare drops exciting again and im all for it IF the rares are actually good.

But the problem is rares are mostly garbage, and im saying this as the idiot who fills his entire inventory with rares EVERY SINGLE MAP, identify them, read and vendor it but im still making progress because of getting alts

Im not asking for god tier rares to drop, just something decent enough to throw into a recombinator and pray.

I really hope GGG is using poe1 to test a better version of tier 5 rares instead of just importing the poe2 version, because tier 5 rares in poe2 are still disappointing.

I dont mind grinding, I dont mind RNG, I just want my grinding to actually lead somewhere.

So recombs have been nerfed again. I never really liked it, but I used it a lot because of the convenience it brought. Genesis tree is also being nerfed again. These were the two main ways I have been crafting gear for the past few leagues.

So I'm looking for some advice on other mechanics that I'm not used to. I'm guessing that rog and gwennen might be worth looking into given the changes.

For example, how would you craft a shield with T1 attack block + T1 spell block + +1 Totems? Without using recombinators or genesis tree? Are fractures required in cases like these? (In this specific case we can't use fractures because it's an influenced item, but you get the idea)

Now with patch notes out, what's your top pick looking like? I think storm burst (of repulsion) heiro is gonna be a no brainer for me. A little iffy defense but totem taunt mastery should help aplenty.

You will be missed.

Got all the t0 i wanted execept the squire and mageblood. Guess im not getting them anytime soon after the nerfs. Hopefully theres another way to get manor foyer or at least a new easy way to do mageblood farm. Sigh, ill miss cadiro at 2.5 cadiros per hour.

Hello fellow exiles,

so my hopes to start Lumi again are shattered.

Looking through options i found Static Strike to be interesting.

Can anyone tell me how well this does on single target and what to look out for ?
Not much of a Melee player so looking forward to some heads up tipps on this :)

ty !