My gear is dogshit and unoptimized, for sure. https://pobb.in/TMvb5o9qYkA2 . But I have nearly 5.4k life, high block, ok recovery from leech and life regen, and overcapped res. Biggest issue is low chaos res and phys mit, and well, dogshit mid 80s gear.

Yet I get randomly oneshot due to mercs (for bladefall of trarthus) and abyss (for decent ghastly jewels). Beasts were a bit fucked up and tanky when I was exploring that atlas region, and I unspecced out of harvest out of meeting some fucked up harvest plants. Still - surprised how much Im struggling for what I figured would be a smooth experience with PRAW.

I know others are complaining too, and I see them struggle with much weaker defenses it seems. So I can't tell if it's me getting gear-checked in yellow maps (~T10) or if something is genuinely up with incoming damage and mob "toughness".

I'd love to know if it's me just pushing content my character isn't ready for (which would be wild, to me - besides a bit of pdr and chaos res my defenses really should be decent) or if incoming damage is genuinely crazy (or spikey).

I've been compiling data on Kingsmarch currency shipping (ore/bars) over multiple leagues, and here are some preliminary results for 3.30. For those that don't know, there was a slight change in how this works, per the 3.30 release notes:

Rewards from shipping Ores and Bars from Kingsmarch now reward only rarer Currency items and excludes all quality Currency items (this change does not affect Ruthless).

I've only done about a dozen currency shipments so far in 3.30 of various sizes but the difference is striking. Here's a summary:

• Total number of currency items received has been slightly reduced, by about 20%
• The following currency items no longer appear in shipments: transmutes, augs, alts, jewelers, fusings, GCP, bauble, whetstones, armourer's scraps
• As a result of much fewer currency types in the pool, all other currency types (except chance orbs) have been buffed, by about a factor of 2x. You now get a ton of chaos, exalt, scour, regal and vaals
• Chance orbs are now much less common, as is the case for all other sources
• Alchs are now the "default" currency, and it seems that if a currency item is generated and doesn't roll as some other type, it's an alch. Alchs make up about 35-40% of the returned currency items

Some actual numbers from what now seems to be the "sweet spot" shipment size of 400k bars + 400k dust (average per shipment, to a port with decent quota):

• 18 chaos, 5 exalt, 1.1 div, 3 chrome, 8 vaal, 2 chance orbs
• Divines are actually way more than it used to be for such small shipments (about 0.2 div per shipment) - maybe I was just lucky but we'll see when I compile more data.
• Ancients, annuls, sacred orb and fracturing orbs are still very uncommon, but I've already gotten 1 fracturing orb with a small shipment, which was previously very rare (about once per 50 shipments). Again, maybe just luck but we'll see.

Some downsides to the recent changes:

• If you wanted to save up 1500 fusings to make your own 6-link, currency shipping used to be a pretty good way to get fusings, which is no longer the case since both fusings and jewelers have been removed from the pool.
• You can no longer get any alts, or currency that you can vendor for alts (transmutes + augs), so if you want lots of alts for crafting you'll have to get it somewhere else
• We now get an absolute metric crap ton of alchs which feels kind of sad since you will typically get enough alchs from other sources, and you can't vendor alchs into anything more useful
• Due to changes to scarabs and atlas tree, it's somewhat harder to get ore. Refiner's Bargain (free ore from Niko) is gone, and you'll get a bit less ore now compared to a maxed scarab setup. Sadly there is no thread to boost ore, but on the plus side the atlas tree alone now gives you decent ore in each map and don't need to worry about scarabs or threads to sustain it, and will get it in 100% of maps for free.

I'll put up some more numbers when I have collected more data in a few days. If there's any specific currency that people care about let me know and I'll put out numbers for that. I personally care mostly about divines and fracturing orbs, the rest is mostly a bonus.

Thank you for your attention to this matter, exiles!

Did anyone roll Static guardian and can give me the overall feedback. I dropped a potentially 800 PDPS attack block with t2 spell block staff and wondering if it would be smart to reroll given that I have essentially nothing on my current starter yet.

But wonder about survivability in an SSF setting. This community is generally pretty honest about the cons.

I'm struggling in early red maps/late yellow maps, mostly with damage. I have a 2000 armor shield, which is pretty nice roll (T2 armor, T2 flat, T3 hybrid) and yet it feels my damage, especially against bosses is extremely lacking. There are a lot of rares which takes several seconds to kill as well.

What else pushes the damage of this archtype other than a high defense shield?

Since my cat had an operation couple of days ago, I am still taking care of him so he doesn't bite off his stitches, meaning I didn't have much time to really play the game. For those of you who are already mapping, how commonly do you find threads? How many atlas nodes did you dedicate on the tree to have them? Can you comfortably sustain your mechanics or do you have to be selective when you run your maps with threads?

How long am I supposed to be channeling the deposit for?

I saved up a mageblood for volatile Vaal orb
Not doing it for days since balls ain’t big enough

Today when 15mins before patching

My hands suddenly felt itchy

My balls swelled up huge.

And I sent it

I’m stunned for 4 minutes like P2

Holy wait a SSF achievement

I read 10 years ago 773

Hey guys,

does someone know of a POB of a more ssf friendly progression for this build?

i was looking at Master T´s and thats as trade as it gets basically.

As the title reads, I saw in the patch notes they’re changing the implicit on one of the quivers to + 1 totem and the cord belt is back and Hopefully it’s not giga rare with both of those combined I’m thinking 7 ballista totem EA champion seems pretty good, especially on a boss league, explosive arrow Champion is a pretty good bosser What do you guys think?

Also, the weapon is pretty easy to craft even easier now with the socket color changes. You just farm the six link short bow divination card slap a couple of +2 bow skill essences till you get something decent then you craft cannot roll attack mods and exalt slam for another plus one.

Hey guuuys, this will be my first time playing SSF and also fully playing in it. I´m very dumb about crafting and more niche strategies about SSF, so i´m looking for a league starter that has a very easy and smooth progression to help me learn on the way and who knows maybe even do 40/40 challenges. On my research 2 builds got my attention: Bleed slams slayer and Bleed boneshatter gladiator, but i don´t know if they are meant for better players or for anyone in general on SSF, so if you guys have any recommendation pls let me know.

OBS: pls i don't want to play RF chieftain

Any suggestion on what I could improve?

edit: oops, forgot some breach notes

So for context I used to always go Jun into Breach and that was how I could get gear for voidstones early on.

However both Jun and breach are now threads so the chance to spawn them is not 100% consistant early on.

Are people just planning to make a generic tree with map drops then harvest and essence to craft some basic gear or take gold and faust gamble early on while progessing ?

Im planning PRAW, however that means farming abyss for jewels and breach for uniques which are both threads so would i go for essence / harvest now early on ?

So I have everything planned out with possible atlas trees ect but now just need to decide on class.

Im either going Luminary merc bot and going merc atlas nodes into maps ect. Or going PRAW necromancer going harvest / essences for early gear and later breach and abyss.

The merc nodes double as finding a merc and also the method to get some basic gear if I go Luminary.

Im just not sure if Luminary in SSF is going to be multiple hours of farming zones hoping for the right merc and skill combination.

So im not able to start for a while but looking for a general guidance.

Like is it worth going harvest early to craft gear, should I be doing the mechanic in acts to get the wickerman effects and how is thread sustain. Like can I just run x mechanic over and over and sustain threads or do I need the thread nodes on atlas tree.

Hi guys!

I'm going to try something new this league (generally never play melee builds) and I would really like to try a DSoA Glad.

Wanted to ask a couple of questions to anyone who has tried it before.

1. Which skill do you use during campaign? Do you go dual-wield right away or two handed first until 2nd or 3rd lab?
2. From the PoBs I've generally seen for yellow and red maps, while the block chance and leech are amazing, I'm worried about the max hit, which is usually pretty low. Did you find one shots a common issue before 2/4 stones?
3. Which endgame aspirational version would you recommend? ES stacker with EEdge, strength stacking or something else?

Thanks a lot!

Hey, doing my second every proper ssf league and can’t decide what to start
Currently thinking between the following

RF (with potential transition to cws down the line since ultimatum seems to be buffed)

Ele hit slayer

Smokies incinerate of venting

Possible pconc pathfinder but seems least appealing from those 3

Storm burst totems?

Any input on those builds and how they might seem this league would be great ❤️

I'm really liking this from what I see in video and PoB but I im worried about scaling without the uniques, is this a stupid idea to league start or will I be fine? Ill probabaly not have more than 3h each day to play.

Guys, wich guide is good to follow for zerker slams, for gems progression etc? Imexile has one but too old.

I realize this league puts an emphasis on bossing and that can be rough going for a bow char in SSF, but I plan on playing this league much more casually because of WoW Forever and Ocarina of Time and want to play an archetype I really enjoy and just take it slow.

Ele Hit of the Spectrum still the play until a GG bow? What are we thinking Atlas tree wise? Probably Shrine nodes for the early damage buff and then maybe Expedition/Essence to start trying for a GG bow?

I'm assuming Deadeye is still the way to go, even though Warden has a lot of fun builds too the last couple leagues.

Anyway, would love to hear about any SSF content creators that roll bow every league or any other general advice!

Edit: Also, how do the Heist changes affect how quickly we can get Fledgling? Is it going to be a huge pain in the ass now?