SSF(Solo Self Found) Guide Pros/Cons ! From lvl 93/28

First we will talk why you should play SSF at last once, or why you should not play SSF. I will not talk about builids here becouse im a noob if it goes to builids.

When/Why should you play SSF.

If your like new to PoE but you like to lern.
If you have a lot of free time.
If your casualplayer and your poor every league.
If you dont like trading.
If you dont getting frustrated easy and you like chellenges.
if you like to feel progress as your character geting stronger.

Why not to play SSF.

If you dont have much free time, becouse evrything takes looonger here.
If your new to PoE but you dont like to lern, becouse you wont walk far whit no crafting,shaping,maitaining currency, creating currency, creating opportunities.
If you like to play in party( i like... why there is no partys in SSF GGG Whyyyy...)
If frustration owns you... there is some in Softcore SSF i think in HC SSF its like a lot more.

Ok now Pros of SSF.

SSF its like a Adventure in to the wild ,more you will prepere for it easier, it will be. Becouse you can run as you stand but one day in a way the food will end ( currency ) or you will need better clothes to hide you from cold ( armor ) or You will need to find a shelter ( Hideout ).

First step: pick a skill you want to use , builid its a better word but for builid you need gear and you never know what you find there. But if you got whole builid planed , plan it whitout uniques. You want to do like t 15 maps whit your builid and you want to do breches whit it. And you want to change some gear in your builid for a magic find gear at the end game.

You need Item Filter, if your new to the game use some item filters created by players. Then you can make your own that fits your class. It is not hard to make item filter it takes like 2 - 3 hours from like 0 whit reading how it all works when you have no programing skills at all.

You need to lern how to craft, watch some Youtube videos about it , and read wiki for masters on what level they can craft max/new mods how to remove them etc.

You want to know what drop where, and you want max level gear for crafting.



Like those items there ar many more items like those that can drop only on certain maps.The same whit divination cards just check poe wiki.

You want to pick up white items and chance them for a unique you need, you might never get it but if you will it will help you a lot. Thats why item filter might help here becouse you can set what item types to show on a rarity you want. ( I have set on mine that it show magic 2h axe drop of some class types so i can pick them up use identify scroll to check for good dmg mod) and You want to pick up every and stone hammer. And store them till maps for chisels.

The same whit all quality gems you pick them all up and sell for Gemcutter prisms.

You dont do any riceptes for chaos, you dont need so much chaos it will drop for you, you need a lot of alchemy orbs , alternation orbs. So like a robot you pick up all yellow items identify them and sell them for alternation scraps and alchemy pieces. Only craft chaos/regal orbs when you need them.

You can strore rings/amulets/jewels but only when you start maping becouse if you sell 5 rare items of the same type you will get one new for that. If its worth it ? Might be whit amulets but if you sell 5 items and get like 1 alchemy orb use it on map and get 40 more rares from that map it worth more i think.

Ok about ATLAS now you need to have as much bonus % from maps as you can. Now its my theory idk if its true but it worked for me now im 105/126.Dont shape maps till like very end game. Becouse if you shape a map its one more map on the tier you shaped so its harder to get other maps from that tier. Like when you have 2 maps away from very direction from a map you want shape then you can do it. I did it wrong whit one map shaped t9 for t14 now i only can get that t 10 i need from a random drop. If you cant get one map drop drop for you from another map try to get 3 maps of the same type and sell them for a map you need. But after that you chisel that map for 20 % ( can be yellow ) you roll it high on quantity and map pack and you even vall it for more quanity then you can even add sacrafice fragment for 5 % more only to get a next map tier from it. As you will sell many rare gear and you will have many alchemy orbs you can run even some t1-t5 maps as rare to make progress in atlas faster.

Magic find gear, look for it. Best if it have quantity mod on it you want to use magic find gear as soon as you hit maps ,more you can can put on yourself whit quantity, its better. for me this is the king i have found one before maps and it was a blast. I will try to chance it in next league for sure.

Craft your first 5 link whit vorici. 150 its not much , but first 5 link will skyrocket your dps or will make your life easier.

Dont waste vall orbs those ar hard to get and you will need it for maps.

Think twice before using something valuable. You might work hard for it. But dont be afraid to slam exalted on a item that is like exalted worth if its a big upgrade for you in the end game.

Ah and Cons of SSF.

Vall orbs ar hard to get and it sucks . Maybe a recepte like 2 alchemy orb 1 chaos orb 3 corputed items 3 breach rings give us a vall orb GGG ? hmmm ?:)

Essences ar hard to get... well if it will be even harder to get them in next league it will suck. Why no recepte for 3 different esences of the same level give 1 essence of the same level but different type a random type ? ( other then those 3 we put in )

Robotic gameplay you pick up every rare identify it sell it you ar rich you start to crafting your poor you start to pick up every rare again.

Time consuming, you found 5 exalted orbs gj...

And i think thats all for now :)