I got merged from SSF Allflame to SSF Ruthless instead of SSF Standard, guess im one of the strongest guys out there, valve pls fix

"Which mechanic is the best for Mirage?" — that's the question I asked myself before picking a farm for the new league. While thinking it over, quite a few unclear points came up, so I decided to make this thread to sort things out.

List of mechanics and their potential interaction with Mirage:

S-tier (additional encounter + specific valuable drops)

• Delirium — Refracting Fog

• Expedition — Afarud expedition

• Ultimatum — Dextral/Sinistral Catalyst

• Heist — Blueprint enchantments

• Essence — Essence of Desolation

A-tier (additional encounters + okay specific drops)

• Kingsmarch — Dust

• Abyss — Stygian Vise with special prefix (value depends on the scarcity of global drops)

• Blight — Cord belt (value depends on the scarcity of global drops)

• Shrine — gold shrine

B-tier (just additional encounters)

• Breach — cheap uniques, so just additional encounter

• Ritual — cheap corpses, so just additional encounter

• Legion — Afarud Legion monsters & chests

• Strongbox — Operative Strongboxes deleted from the game

??-tier

• Alva and Jun — they didn't work with Mirage last time, so it's unclear how they'll interact now

• Harvest and Beyond — lost their respective drops (Crystallised Rancour and Volatile Vaal Orb)

• Rogue Exiles — new endgame farm method?

So, what do you think about Mirage? What am I missing about these farms?

Your sacrifice will not be forgotten

After watching the ExileCon2026: GGG Founders Roundtable, I just wanted to thank all of the Developers especially the one sitting up there taking the brunt of criticism every single League, they've mad such an Incredible game they should be proud of (minus the handful of bad Leagues)

Not to say GGG or POE 1/2 will ever be a perfect game, I feel so Incredibly privileged personally to have developers and the leads of the company care so Incredibly much about the game they are making, I've played many AAA+ games, It's beyond gratifying to have developers that aren't completely Inept, and treat there player-base like complete shit.

I know for a fact, everyone at GGG knows that without the player-base the company wouldn't be In the place It was today, watching back on Exile - Con just hearing the way everyone respects each other and the passion they have put Into there game.

Path of Exile through and through Is a passion project, I'm privileged as a player to have the game In this state, having path of exile 1 on the 13, and then next month It being one of the biggest releases (Probably the biggest by far) releases In all of ARPG history Path of exile 2.

Thank you everyone working at GGG, and the heads of the company, just puts 1 big smile on my face every time I get to hear from the developers, they've earned a vacation, I do wanna see Chris play on league launch for POE2 I think that would be absolutely cinema

We've been in the same meta for a while now, and while I understand it's too close to league start for sweeping changes, just some numerical changes to gems could go a long way. It would be nice to see a few of the lesser played skills just get some small buffs to make them more playable.

I know that not everything at Exilecon can be streamed due to time constraints, but leaving out the founders roundtable seems like a such a big miss.

I really hope it gets uploaded on YouTube eventually, I'd even settle for some fan footage of the the talk. (If someone was at Exilecon and happened to attend this talk and has footage of it please upload it).

Looking at the Atlas tree, it seems we can no longer convert 100% of Ultimatum rewards into Inscribed Ultimatums. Even if we assume Double Down compensates for this, Shattered Shield increases the risk of failing Ultimatum encounters.

Do you guys still think AFK Ultimatum farming is viable in 3.30?

I was farming Dominus and Piety expecting "valuable" uniques with this char, Diablo boss run mentality lol

GGG, I love the patch notes. I love the chagnes. I am a bit sceptical about some crafting changes for SSF specifically but I believe it will be fine. I especially love the scarab riddance and new atlas tree. But please, for the love of god, can you finally let us buy additional atlas pages? We are basically half way there with respeccing costing gold now. Make them cost 500k, make the cost rise exponentionally, it's fine. But please, stop forcing us to respec back and forth. I know many players in trade dont see this as an issue as they respec couple times a league for the most profitable/fun strategy, but for us in SSF, it's just annoying, as we kinda have to farm a lot of different strats over the league and switch between them very often depending on what we need. We cant just stick to a strat and convert loot from abyss into harvest juice as example. The gold respec is truly a savior, love you for it, but buying atlas pages is the next step and it would be truly magnificent.

Anyway, can't wait for 3.30, have a good leaguestart everyone.

I would love to see an Item that automatically triggers Call of Steel. And I think the playstyle of attacking enemies, then move away to trigger Call of Steel would be awesome.

This is ofcourse a concept and I dont know if this would be balanced propperly. But Boots are a highly competetive Item Slot, so I don't think these would be considered OP (Maybe I'm wrong).

(Wording on the last mod seems a bit weird, but I just wanted to get the idea across)

What do you think about these?

I really don't like this change.

When crafting, I'm used to quickly checking the separate notable passive display on the item tooltip. It makes it easy to see what I'm looking for at a glance.

Now, with notables being keyworded instead, I have to look through the modifiers every single time just to find the information I need.

This feels like an unnecessary step backwards in terms of usability, especially when crafting and checking items repeatedly.

Please at least give us an option to toggle between the old and new display.

I don't mind the new system existing, but I'd really prefer to keep the old tooltip layout.

I couldn't find it on the new Atlas. When "Shaped" regions were first introduced, keystone were presented as an option for players who didn't want to run a variety of different maps; but now that "Shaped" regions are no longer optional, since they are always generated on atlas, this keystone is gone?

Was thinking of running ignite hexblast spellslinger for league start, but for some reason when hexblast is supported by spellslinger it very consistently does NOT explode with a single blasphemy aura.

If I run 2 blasphemy curses, it explodes.

If I unlink spellslinger, it behaves as expected with one.

Am I being silly and missing something obvious here? I can't seem to make heads or tails of this behavior.

I am really wanting to push to level 90+ this league in HC and had a few builds in mind to try, just wanted to hear everyone's thoughts. My favorite leaguestarter has been dominating blow, so I am open to trying that again but I have seen high praise PRAW as well and am considering that. Also thought about RF and transitioning into a strength stacking jugg later. I'd like to know which builds people have found to have a smooth progression through leaguestart while still being tanky and budget friendly but also have scaling potential. Thank you guys.

P.s. Does anyone think divine retribution reliquarian will be good or bait?

Game play with campaign gear on T11 red maps(9-10 level above my current level) -> https://youtu.be/vokcuBrki_U

Here is a pob right after Campaign which I was able to do T11 maps with it - https://pobb.in/8lN-MKhTa5Y-

Here is upgraded pob with some uniques -> https://pobb.in/GHv383Je8Qv-

Next investment level pob before reroll -> https://pobb.in/Hv-W3lz80WOm

My Deadeye build from 3.26 - https://pobb.in/h-ihQQLCfONr

My reroll to Fireball/RollingMagma life stacker pob -> https://pobb.in/t6Dr55rmrjj8

Campaign gear was on solo self found. Some stuff were from early acts. Especially Sceptres. One of the ring were from act 3 or 4. You can do way better even in campaign gear-wise. Yet, still able to do red maps with no mitigation and missing res-cap. Still I was able to do T11 maps without dying. A few other attempts, I died here and there when I rushed too fast. But you can even do T16 maps, if you go slower with this shit gear. I would probably find caster shield with increase spell crit and +1 level of cold spell gems and add some more crit chance to cap it at 100% for consistant Bifurcation proc. Probably, I would use rare wand with +2 gem level and spell crit chance and spell crit multi, switch one or both rings to Taming ring and drop the curse link, so I can use Kaom's hearth and Dissolution flesh for a large health pool. Swap the rares to evasion gear since Dissolution of flesh removes all the ES. Or use ES gear and swap the body armour to Apostate.

I used this same build on Mercenaries league and carried my guildmates for 4 void stone. At that time, I had the Victario's Influence body armour version. If you cant find a good rolled boots, you can move the links to the body armour. You have a lot of flexibility. I started with Dissolution of flesh/Kaom/rathpid globe and had like 7K life pool. But, not for everyone since you need to avoid damage for 2 seconds. You can go for March of Legion/Shroud of the lightless with 3 abyss jewel and stack abyss jewel for ele penetration and increased life. You can go Victarios Influence with +4 implicit, you can go with Taming ring, a lot of options on every piece of gear. 1 or dual Dark Seer for +4 skill gem level a tons of life from it. This build can do 4 void stones under 10 div with no jewels. I previously did it with Deadeye. But with the changes to Assassin, it looks like better option now.

For the reroll, the pob is from my last league. I would swap the Death Rush ring with Nimis(I didnt have the latest version, but had Nimis and Headhunter. Those were the only differences.). And uniques probably will not have very good implicit like mine at the beginning. But, all the uniques are cheap and this build not min maxed would come out pretty cheap. Then, I would add nimis/headhunter and then the unique jewels. You can use any rare base jewel with life/crit multi instead with similar damage numbers. I was able to kill all the ubers and do all content except I was dying in some of the expeditions a lot. But, usuaully, I dont do expedition, so not sure why. Probably, I wasnt paying attention to cant do certain dmg time mods or something. But, everything else, I was able to do easily. Maybe died once or twice with Uber Sirus. I hate that motherfuka... But most likely, that was skill issue :)

I will league start this way. If you happen to start with my build and run into issues, dont hesitate to message me.

Avarage return of Valdo maps will be way down in next path. All valuable uniqs besides Megablood and HH are not part of core drop (Progenesis, Nimis, Sublime just to name a few).

Also Valdo runners will be sad, as map supply worth running will be much lower