Stress-Free PoE w/ RIGHTEOUS INCINERATOR! Relax, SSF League Start-End w/ “Any” Items & 1-Button|3.16

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

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PoitelMarto wrote:

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Dicekid wrote:

However, I got into yellow maps with my current build which I like very much, but like some other here I think I'm hitting a wall and now I don't know what to do. Grind more? Or is there anything I'm doing wrong in my passive skill tree?
I already tried to switch some crafting mods and could already push my damage but I think I'm heavily lacking defense because sometimes I get one-shot without any sign (mainly happens when I switched into nightmare, maybe I shouldn't do that in the higher maps). Besides that I'm wondering how to get to 10k or higher armor? Is there something I'm overlooking? In-game defense says it's about 2993 giving 33% phys. damage reduction. I'm not sure if this is good or not.

I hope my questions are not crazy dumb and maybe someone could find the time to check my build. I'd very much appreciate that.

Hi !

It's not easy to add defensive layers when playing SSF, as many of them require uniques, cluster jewels and such.

If you feel you have more than enough damage and lack defense, especially regarding to one shots and damage bursts, maybe you could respec some points. For example, you could drop the whole "Explosive impact" cluster and respec the 4 passives into Sovereignity (and find 1 more to allocate the 15% mana efficiency mastery). Doing so should allow you to run another defensive aura, such as Tempest Shield (for shock immunity and some spell block) or even Determination, which is the easiest way to hugely increase your armor.

Pure optimization: you should connect your starting zone with upper part of the tree by pathing through Born to Fight; then connect your Hearty/Barbarism clusters with Stamina and Juggernaut with the leftmost str nodes, and go down to Call to Arms this way. It uses 6 passives, but then you can unspec the endurance charge duration and 5 str passives from there to the Bloodless cluster. That's a net +10 str, +5%hp.

If you're not against some grinding, I'd advise you to run as many Haewark Hamlet maps as possible, and allocate the Essence passives in your atlas tree. Essence crafting is the easiest, and one of the most efficient, SSF crafting method for regular play; and if you use well remnants of corruption on trapped monsters, you can hope for Essence of Delirium/Horror that give outstanding mods for helmet and rings. Here for some detail

Last, your annointment isn't really beneficial, and you should replace it as soon as you can (ie when you get oils). Vigour is cheap, reltively easy to get; Growth and Decay a bit pricy but really strong. There are other options depending on the oils you dropped, that should be better than raw STR.

Hey, Dicekid! Glad you got a response. I took a quick look at your setup and it looks great! You've followed the guide well. Even using Determination like I've been playing with. I'm liking it so far.

I took a quick look at your set up and everything seems great. Some of your items could use more life (it's always hard to replace +1 level mods) but you know more life is better so you're obviously already on the look for more. Sometimes, map mods can have some crazy combos that we just didn't foresee as a lethal combo. But if you're finding that it seems like every map has a legthal combo of mods, try phasing. Either with an unset ring and a level 1
Withering Step, or a Quartz Flask. Being able to phase through a group so a safe location is a constant lifesaver for me. It keeps me from getting stuck in doorways or even just to the other side of a Delve battle. It's huge.

I like your setup. I'm sorry I don't have more to offer you. It seems like you should be flying through content.

EDIT: Oils are hard to find.

Let us know how things go.

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Dicekid wrote:

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Thanks Wrecker_of_Days for the reply.
I think you checked my char after I already made some adjustments. At the moment I can run early red maps which is awesome! So, I can progress a bit. I also could fight some more Crusaders, so I get more of the watchstones which is nice.

I think the phasing is a good idea. It sometimes happens that I'm stuck between enemies and can't get away.

Determination was a huge buff. I didn't had this on my mind, so thanks again to PoitelMarto. I think this was the biggest change for now.

I'll see how far I can get with the setup now. At least I got my level 90 and I'm slowly on the way to 91 (not dieing so much, so exp goes up, YEAH!).

I also think there might be some potential in my resists because at the moment they are much over-capped but I couldn't find a better benefit at the crafting bench, so I keep everything like it is until I find some better equip.

Thanks again to you, Wrecker_of_Days and PoitelMarto.

Awesome, Dicekid!

Glad you got some help. Let us know how it goes. I'm glad things have improved for you. Ask whatever you want, whenever you want. Sorry my replies are slow this league.

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vochomurka wrote:

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Heya, thx for this great build. I have troubles with Drox even on the lowest level (=no gemstone). Any trick or strategy how to deal with him?

Hey, vochomurka!

Thanks for the thanks! Sorry, you're having a rough time with Drox.

What's the trouble you're having? Is it damage or survivability?

I'm assuming you know, but just in case you don't, fight him in an area where the fewest number of banners can impact him, unless you're killing his banners quickly. I go to the end of the top-right path. Then Drox has only one or two banners helping him out instead of a bunch. It's fewer banners to kill and manage at once.

If you want, I can take a look at your setup and see where you're at. You'll just have to make your character tab public (on the PoE website).

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Wrecker_of_Days wrote:

Awesome work, Dicekid!

Vaal'd maps are no joke! And 92 is a big feat! Nice work!

Sirus is a jerk ;). I too haven't been able to do the fight yet. It's just one of those fights that I'll never be able to do. Uber Elder was the same, and for the same reason...the entire fight is the same colour. I can't tell danger from safety. I'm also quite a slow player so my ability to see the obvious "tells" and avoid them are pretty slow. So I know what you mean. I'm excited for the 3.17 "reboot" of the endgame. I hope they replace Sirus and Maven with better bosses.

Thanks for the update! (I too prefer defence over offence.)