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

So Poison SRS Ascendant gear progression is/was harder than expected.

So I "switched" to SC SSF Toxic Rain Ballista Hierophant. For some reason this seems to be an upopular combination despite the obvious power. Progression did go much more smooth. Build is still very much WIP.



Mercenary found a 82 Bladebitter with Grace & Malevolence but unfortunately AI seems to be too pacifist and DPS capacity doesnt look good either. So still using Toxicologist ~78 with only Grace.

Plan is to switch to Widowhail eventually but still havent found a single uni Bow of the right size so cant make one yet.

So I did score a Widowhail off Vorici (directly which is unlikely but it happened) etc:

Elder's Exalt on quiver failed unfortunately.

Merc I got a Grace + Haste Sniper which works. Unfortunately got 1x Brutality in the links. Still best Merc so far though.

And I dropped a DoD, not planning on using unless I cant keep Merc alive otherwise.

This is quite popular for Merc but DEX one cant use:


Edit: Skill Tree:

So I played in Merciless Gauntlet. The humble(?) goal was to level to 100 which I managed. Afterwards tried some Valdo map and RIPped near instantly to offscreen multi-ghosted Elder. Didnt do any bosses other than the Admiral.
Build was Poison BAMA Wildspeaker.
The special boss things in Campaign were much harder than expected - maybe didnt remember properly from last time or sth. Unfortunately I had no Passive plan for campaign so I had to yolo something as build doesnt come online before maps. That was Toxic Rain Ballista which I had planned to use in campaign anyway. However I didnt plan to invest much in passives for it. So later it took some time to respec to BAMA. Most of the rest (non-boss parts) of the campaign was easy due to Ruthless overleveling and such for the bosses.
Progression in maps did go ok. Crafting and such was likely on the lucky side.
Build is okish for xp/h but not as good as some other builds.
The Spell Suppression node on Wildspeaker was the first I took and used it all the way. Only place (other than the Valdo...) I noticed an issue with the missing Suppression power was Delve.



Mercenary was Sniper with Haste & Grace & dual curse (HexImmunes too) Temp Chains/Despair & Chill-on-Poison & Culling & Mask. Unfortunately only ~77 and just 2 supports on the damage skills. Never found a good replacement. I got a ~83 with Haste & Grace and lots supports but unfortunately in both damage links Brutality.

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