How is ssf going for u guys/girls? ^^

Wow you're pretty lucky with 6 linking. Gg for your shaving, what build are you planning to make ?

I'm only at 1 6L on this league.
But I can't really complain since I've got good drops and a used only roughly 1300 fuse on differents armors.

@PelicanOfWar

I'm a little bit jealous about your lvl 21 Phantasm gem. Didn't managed to get one myself so far, but I really love Soulwrest. Ialso like that I could fit in Charged Dash and Storm Barrier into the build because I always wanted to play both. I play it as Occultist and wanted to go CI but then I 6l this in 80 fuses and now I'm fine playing hybrid^^

nice drop today...ias missing, annulement risky shit...

these are my rewards for my f... patience

I found Aul at depth 416, with only endurance charge oh hit mod. Probably the easiest I could have hoped for.. and Man was that hard still.

took me around 10ish attempts to kill him. For reference, it took me 6 attempts to do a deathless Uber elder on the same character.
I got him down to what seems like 1 hp at one point and he killed me^^

At the end, my kill was due to dumb luck. I dont want to spoil the fight, but Aul has one extremely dealy move that will kill you super quickly and is kinda hard to dodge. Vast majority of my deaths were to that move, and in my last attempt he decided to not use it for some reason.

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Firestorm666 wrote:

@PelicanOfWar

I'm a little bit jealous about your lvl 21 Phantasm gem. Didn't managed to get one myself so far, but I really love Soulwrest. Ialso like that I could fit in Charged Dash and Storm Barrier into the build because I always wanted to play both. I play it as Occultist and wanted to go CI but then I 6l this in 80 fuses and now I'm fine playing hybrid^^

You don't need the quality on the gem so it is pretty easy to get a lvl 21. Just put 6 in your weapon swap while lvling.

I actually found these

Tried them out for a bit and seem totally nuts. Unfortunately I don't have any good hybrid gear. My life gear is also pretty bananas so just couldn't justify swapping over.

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dlabersd wrote:

Ive only tried SSF for a very short period of time, but man this is way beyond me, I can't really understand how people choose to play an online game but decide to play it alone for a long time:P

I did feel quite lucky there, kind of like it was dropping way more currency there but I guess that was nothing more but rng:D
I'm thinking about maybe giving it one more shot after reading all your guys' comments, but first I gotta find the right build that's great for playing solo and provides enough fun

Many of us grew up playing ARPGs offline, if POE was available as a offline single player experience it would compare. No such thing exists so SSF is the closest thing we have.

There are many other reasons to play SSF. Trade league can get tiresome and monotonous once you learn the intricacies of the game. I personally burned out on trade league since I got roped into the meta currency grind. SSF allows me to forget all that and actually enjoy a unique dropping or crafting cool items with my currency instead of worrying about being the most efficient to make money.

Not knocking anyone's opinion of fun, PoE is great in that it allows multiple styles of play.

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_SleeZy_ wrote:

Everyone linking soulwrest making me abit jelly, i've been chancing them entire league.

Take comfort, i've just lost one after playing with it for about 1.5 hours. Right when i started to like it.

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LaiTash wrote:

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_SleeZy_ wrote:

Everyone linking soulwrest making me abit jelly, i've been chancing them entire league.

Take comfort, i've just lost one after playing with it for about 1.5 hours. Right when i started to like it.

Damn that sucks :(

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Domah wrote:

Wow you're pretty lucky with 6 linking. Gg for your shaving, what build are you planning to make ?

I'm only at 1 6L on this league.
But I can't really complain since I've got good drops and a used only roughly 1300 fuse on differents armors.

Yea this league has been quite insane in terms of good linking rng.
I'm planning to play a LL RF mana guardian. And if i don't enjoy that as much as i think i would i'm planning a ll gc miner also. Got pretty good weapons for that, sadly i ex slammed that flat lightning dmg :(


Funny story today, i was telling my friend i was surprised i hadn't found healthy mind yet which i usualy find 4-5 of every league. I've almost a full tab of unique jewels but not that.
So he told me to try chance it.
Since there's a ton of cobalts i didn't think that would work out. But oh boy it did...
60 chance scour and it hit a healthy mind.

But the most funny part is, 20 minutes later in a delve i dropped one.

So bisarre, although i think the build can utilise 2 of them so it's all good. :)

Currently waiting for my last auras to hit 20 so i can try vaal for lvl 21s, then reroll time.
I've already got 21 PoF and 21 Discipline.

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dlabersd wrote:

Ive only tried SSF for a very short period of time, but man this is way beyond me, I can't really understand how people choose to play an online game but decide to play it alone for a long time:P

I did feel quite lucky there, kind of like it was dropping way more currency there but I guess that was nothing more but rng:D
I'm thinking about maybe giving it one more shot after reading all your guys' comments, but first I gotta find the right build that's great for playing solo and provides enough fun

As someone who has played since beta and recently swapped to SSF for this season, here is my take:

SSF is the only way to continue having fun in this game for me. Normal league play just devolves into picking up only currency and hording it all to trade for items I can use. The crafting part of the game might as well not exist.. I am never going to be the hard-core player that ends up with 20 mirrors every season.. therefore if I find an exalt, I will sell it immediately. Chaos are for buying items, never would I use them for the intended purpose. The game turns into just picking up currency to buy better items to pick up currency faster. I will never be the guy who is level 100 the first week of a season, therfore in a trade league 99% of the items I find are already worthless. Oh a unique drops? Who cares it's 1 Alt on poe.trade.

SSF on the other hand.. I have found multiple exalts this league and I have used them on my own gear. I use Chaos constantly, for Xana mods and for rerolling rares trying to find upgrades. This is how they were intended to be used after all. Every unique I find I stash, or sell for alchs. Every item means more.

This is how I played Diablo 2 as well, because the online trade was ruined by duping early on and never recovered. I played SP /players 8 D2, and SSF POE is the same thing to me. After this season I will never play trade leagues again.

Also:

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dieh wrote:

Char: SilenceDoesDelve

Can someone look at my gear and give me some pointers in which direction to head with my gear.. how to get upgrades? This is my first season playing SSF, and my goal is to kill Shaper, which I have never done since he came out.

I feel like my dmg is still good with my gear/build, but I feel really squishy even with charges up, fortify, and flasks. I am at delve 160 or so, and just breaking into red maps. I am having problems sustaining them right now but i'm working on that. I have a large stockpile of yellow but everytime I get a few red maps and run them nothing drops. My atlas bonus is about 110%.

I also haven't been leveling for a bit because now I die enough that with the level of maps i'm running I don't get enough xp to counter-act the deaths.

I feel like my gear flatout doesn't have enough life on it, but i've burned a ton of currency trying to craft better and with very marginal luck. I still do the chaos recipe, to use for zana and to reroll gear.

I've had 4 exalts drop so far on this char and used them all, with shit results on all of them.

Any advice is appreciated

Your build seems OK.
The only things I think you can upgrade is :
- moar life, many pieces of your gear are at 40-50 life or even less, for a melee char it's a bit low.
- use enfeeble with your immortal call setup. And you can up your increased duration, it does not enter in the IC level cap
- upgrade your gems to 20/20 and try to get 21/20
- get a frost immune flask
- improve your gameplay, many deaths are due to a lack of good positioning or just dumbs error.

Thief torment is god-like for survivability with molten strike ! Try to find one.

Thanks so much for taking the time to give advice. :)

I may or may not end up following any of it.. because at this point i've realized I am not going to reach my goal of killing Shaper without more massive time investment, and i'm probably just going to write this season off now, take a break and come back fresh with a new build next season. This was my first SSF season after all I I feel like I learned a LOT.

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PelicanOfWar wrote:

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dlabersd wrote:

Ive only tried SSF for a very short period of time, but man this is way beyond me, I can't really understand how people choose to play an online game but decide to play it alone for a long time:P

I did feel quite lucky there, kind of like it was dropping way more currency there but I guess that was nothing more but rng:D
I'm thinking about maybe giving it one more shot after reading all your guys' comments, but first I gotta find the right build that's great for playing solo and provides enough fun

Many of us grew up playing ARPGs offline, if POE was available as a offline single player experience it would compare. No such thing exists so SSF is the closest thing we have.

This. I also made a therad about PoE as offline game. I suggested that it would be nice and etc.

Also trading is lest say shit here and very time consuming. I want PLAY a game not sit on trade.