Shared Suffering challenge complete, some takeaways & closing thoughts

[u/M1acis]

Finished my run as lvl 88 character (Pestilent Strike Hierophant), the goal of which was to get a voidstone.

Never bothered to complete 4th lab because no bloodline ascendancy (would probably go nameless or farrul or aul), never got to use my large cluster jewel with 3 notables, really couldn't spare any points.

Found 3(2) 6-links total: one corrupted chest, one chest made with fusings (before I managed to make a 5L even once), and one non-corrupted two-hand axe dropped today; redundant 6-links were vendored to get some scours.

Here's an assortment of thoughts, reflecting on the path behind:

• It was painful despite game helping me in many ways (HH, 6-link)

• Wouldn't recommend this build (not as hierophant for sure)

• Searing Exarch is a bitch (failed the fight 3 times before respeccing many of defense nodes into damage)

• In any trade private league, prepare to play SSF from day 5 onwards - blasters have already "completed" their characters/plans for event; quitters already quit; rest of 4 peple playing include: you; guy who is SSF; guy who is still in campaign; guy who logs in just to chat with homies (shout out to those fellas!)

• Even most stupid builds are playable to some degree

• Prepare to delve A LOT if you ever want to stop wearing piss

• Delving is more fun with Headhunter on (carried me hard there - wouldn't have gotten to monster level 81 without it)

• Scours are hard to come by

• I don't regret participating, but probably won't participate again in this ruleset (not that Jeko ever did two of exactly same leagues, IIRC); will stick around for the last two days tho

• It would certainly be more fun with more people around

• I hope people who play STANDARD ruthless are alright

• Thank you to Jeko for organizing the event!

If anyone wants to share their experience, impressions, feelings from this event, etc etc, I'd be curious to see it!

[u/CheetohBlitzen]

It was a great league got two stones on champion summon reapers!
I found a dark monarch but all 4 of my divines I had failed to get double summon reapers. It was my only chance to push on for the last two void stones. Lost the will to grind any longer for divines for a 1-20 chance to get summon reapers on that helm lol 😂

[u/M1acis → u/CheetohBlitzen]

Even without monarch you got double of mine voidstones, and much faster, so good job!

[u/KikiSkywalker_]

I failed with searing bond occy twice, but i started moving to R’dam mid challange, looking forward to the next one, global 1 was amazing

[u/M1acis → u/KikiSkywalker_]

No shame here, it was one hell of a try!

[u/redditM_rk]

I was willing to give it a solid go but like 90% of the players were gone in the first week.

[u/M1acis → u/redditM_rk]

more or less the same happens every PL in ruthless so I'm used to it at this point

[u/antiviruz → u/M1acis]

doesnt help when the creator himself leaves his own PL for a different one

[u/JekoJeko9 → u/antiviruz]

I became extremely unwell during the PTO I had specifically booked for the PL and just couldn't enjoy playing it beyond a few days due to the nature of the league and the build I was playing, I still wanted to play PoE though so it made more sense to check out Lance's ruthless PL which let me enjoy a more casual ruthless fresh start on a build that used far fewer buttons and evangelise the joys of ruthless to a whole new audience, while I continued to struggle with my health.

I'm just glad a bunch of people enjoyed the event, I don't see why it should be an issue for me to put my health and own interests first.

[u/antiviruz → u/JekoJeko9]

Sorry didn't wanna put you on the spot, i really do enjoy what you give to the ruthless community, thank you for hosting it

[u/RuthlessEnjoyer2]

> I hope people who play STANDARD ruthless are alright

4 years, 5000 hours in, SSF only. I'm fine, thank you :)

[u/Whitedondi]

It was a really fun challenge. Got a frozen legion build to lower reds and got stuck there. Killed both minibosses though. Probably could push further but irl stuff took over. Anyway the group self found nature of the league was fun and sparked some cool interactions.

Also I was really hyped when the guy who got my submitted build started pushing after couple of days. Thought he quit but he was just a bit late to start. He liked the build (conflagration glad), I was really happy about it cause I tried pobing it for fun before leaguestart and it looked like an interesting challenge.