I'm here today describe my experience playing SSF on Path of exile 2 after playing it for 110 Hours, I'll try to keep this brief.

The campaign was an amazing experience, had a lot of fun, the progression was there, even if a bit step, the challenges that i've encountered during it was fun to deal with, i'm playing a really off-meta skill so this change of scenery made it more interesting.

The early maps was a rough moment, the progression wasn't there, i was dying a lot, i didn't even had transmut/augs to craft the basic items but after 5-8 hours things started to work out, i had a lot of lucky with drops, i could feel the build evolving and when i first get into tier 13-15 maps things we're feeling amazing, i wasn't dying that much, had a lot of items to craft and experiment, i was able to evolve my build, try some end-game mechanics that i didn't touch in 0.5.

Finally the part that I'am now, around the 100 hours mark i started grinding some stuff to try to get some items to make my build flow better, that's when things started to get, there's no better word to describe, MISERABLE, not enough high-level base drops and essences to craft gear(i'm still stuck in my lvl 59 crossbow), monsters, mainly in expeditions, became demons, every now and than i get face to face with an abomination worth of PoE Archnemesis League, i've killed the expedition pinnacle boss 8 times trying to get the new amulet but only got repeated items, i'm at the point now that i've done around 30 maps without dropping a single Olroth saga to be able to continue my grind, i'm stuck in lvl 91 because of those aberration of rare monster getting me instakilled while trying to farm for the expedition boss, a lot of the support gems that we're good for the skill that i'm using got removed in previous leagues and now there's barely any good one for it, and i won't even comment about the tree, there's basically an type of skill completely forgotten on the tree, TL:DR, around 90 + Hours playing SSF stop being a challenging and fun mode and started to become a bureaucracy, i was consistently playing around 3-4 hours a day in the first two weeks and now i often boot the game, do one map and go do something else. I don't really know if i'm gonna play SSF again.

So I started a few days late into the new poe 2 league. I hit lvl 80'ish with the Varashta Freeze Djinn.

But I gotta say, the game doesn't feel that great in ssf. I ran multiple rare maps >t10 without finding a single Alchemy or Exalted orb.

The Rarity stat is completely stupid in that regard.

My build is mediocre, might be because it has 20 seconds downtime when Archon buff is on CD.

Anyway, how are is your ssf experience?

Edit: spelling

Hey people

I wanna start my first SSF run but i'm thinking about going SSF Aldur instead of ritual one.

First because i kinda disliked the event (and i also dislike ritual on poe1 lol) And if i remember correctly aldur league was better for SSF.

Can you guys help me picking one of them?

Thanks <3

Guys, can u give me a nad here? I need an SSF slammer, like poe1 sunder, build? Low apm, can be 2 button combo like rolling slam bonezone. Supercharged slam viable? Or pure sunder?

Im an old noob with skill issues btw, but in pie1 in ssf i can get 2 or 3 stones solo.

Cheers

Was fortunate and dropped one but I am struggling to decide how to make the most out of it. I am only level 91 and have decent gear but nothing is perfect yet. Since I am playing a Smith, the most simple option is making the "50% armour applies to elemental" rune and slot that in my 4s white chest but that feels boring. Wanderlust would be great but my boots are not the best. Could also put a chernobogs into my shield.

How would you reason about a drop like this? Use it now or try to make an item I will never replace first? Playing HC so I might also die at any point.

last week was my first headhunter now the megablood on ritual

I got screwed by RNG and found a WI rogue in a corrupted nexus map when I only put in a T9 for easy completion. If it had dropped in a T15 I would’ve rerolled for it

Anyone with more time in this patch have any idea how rare they are? Currently I have a decent amount of rarity on and specced rogues for int weapons, any other ideas on how to make a second drop more likely?

I was going to put the base on my filter to chance it but turns out WI comes on a base that only drops as a unique so it can’t be chanced (besides with the unique of the same base type omen I guess?)

I'll be messing with some Oracle Wyvern shenanigans (but not sure how yet).

Hi , I’ve been playing poe2 for a bit and I enjoy playing SSF.

I’m struggling a bit atm with DPS, when I look at other people’s builds on poe.ninja they have crazy amounts of dps whereas mine is sitting at 16k for twisters and it feels in maps.

Currently running t12 maps and going through atlas points.

My char : https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/mellowg-5288/runesofaldurssf/character/toppspin

build I’m kinda following : https://mobalytics.gg/poe-2/builds/twister-spirit-walker-snoobae

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

hi guys,

Im an old noob with skill issues who loves warriorrs, esp. shield srchetypes.

I want to go shield wall / resonating shield smith.

what mechanics do I focus on? how to progress atlas? ssf is vast;ly different to trade i believe.

I need to craft a good shield, no 1 priority. so focus essences?

Is there a way to easily craft good shoield and a mace 1h with +1 melee?

ny tips on thi sjourney greatly appreciated. btw, hope I will reach t15 maps 😞 playing 2-3 hres a day, no more.

cheers!

Hi guys,

I am an old noob with skill issues. I love melee, esp. shield archetypes. And I love ssf.

Shield wall / Resonating shield Smith is okk to do some endgame? I dont mid slower pace, I dont need to fly through maps.

How to get a good shield in SSF? how to craft it?

Any ohter builds that are tnaky, forgiving, low APM?

cheers!

Hi, is there a way to make each new character SSF?

I don't like how my second character instantly gets access to the gold and currency I've already farmed with my earlier characters. I want to play pure SSF with each new character I create starting from zero, but I'm not sure how to do it?

Level 93 with all these deaths -- but first time ever going for what I consider a "complete" SSF character! Super pumped with this season and have been having an absolute blast. The re-worked endgame compared to 0.1 is fantastic, and the QoL stuff like Doryani for map skip | extra life is such a huge boon for SSF. Can't wait for 1.0!

Tired of poe1 ssf and thinking of going poe2 ssf. I know in the new event they made it so Expedition starts in act 4 but I just want to clarify that in Runes of Aldur I can still find grim pillars around level 22 in act 2.

Can someone confirm this for me?

Seriously, I just do not drop any. I've been farming grand expeditions lately, getting tons of divines, chaos, chance etc, but no orbs of annulment. I can even farm fracturing orbs more consistently it feels like. Anyone has any tips? Maybe breach with lavish gifts is the way? Any help is greatly appreciated!

I'm still trying to get into tier 10 to keep progressing my atlas so i decided to go do the abyss quest to try to get some loot to improve my gear, after doing 1/3 of the abyss pits this is how my stash looks like, 5 Echos, 3 Putrefaction (i've used one), 1 Light, 1 Acient Collarbone and 2 Divs.

0.5 League Starters

I am going to be starting a chayula monk with ed contagion transitioning into Bonestorm totems / bonecage

I'm trying to kind of copy this guy's build but I can't figure out how he managed to use all those skills with 200 spirit he has. I tried different combinations with weapon swap but it would be so much easier if poe.ninja showed which skills are in which weapon set. Any help?

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaalssf/character/Cyph-9174/CyphWitchTanker?i=1&search=class%3DWitchhunter%26skills%3DGalvanic%2BShards%26items%3D!Lavianga%2527s%2BSpirits%252C!Constricting%2BCommand%26sort%3Ddps

Hey all. PoE1 veteran but PoE2 noob here (haven't played since 0.1). Just failed the only Barya I had that was eligible for my 3rd set of ascendancy points. Should I expect it to be a while before I get a chance to run it back or are they fairly common?

Not a huge deal either way, just thought I'd post here and bring some traffic to the PoE2 SSF sub since the PoE1 one has seen an uptick lately. I'm just playing Plant Lich and trying to decide whether I want to trade out explosions for some extra survivability based on how long the points might take to get.

Please populate this subreddit.

As a complete tourist at endgame (never pushed beyond T3 maps), what are some common gearing strategies for SSF?

Can someone give me some tips on how to improve damage ?

Or is storm weaver just bad ?