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

Trying to Farm a Kaoms Heart in Shaped Volcano... But sustain is hillarious... was at 11 maps in stock yesterday. 8 maps later.... down to 3 maps, lol.
And Cards not dropping aswell^^


got those aswell, my 2nd ever shavronnes.

but maybe, game is telling me to stop farming kaoms, stop with cleave and go Ngamahu Cyclone...

Found a few things for my new VD Character.


As well as a shield (finally) for my starter. Just when I was about ready to give up on him.

I like this ring for levelling.





This jewel adds 1k to my tooltip.

Do you guys follow specific builds or do you make your own? I'm always looking for new and SSF viable builds and I don't really want to make one of my own; I'll probably fail.

In past leagues, I've usually played both PewPewPew's Firestorm build and Ghazzy's Essence Drain/Contagion build. I'm not as skilled as some of you and thus only play until about level 83, because that's when I run into a "soft" wall, meaning higher maps are way too dangerous and the maps I feel comfortable with don't give enough xp due to the level difference.

This time around I'm using Nedieth's Essence Drain/Blight build https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1717015/page/1 and I'm currently level 84, my highest ever. Now I'm just running daily master missions. A lot of uniques have dropped, but only one of those was good for me (better than nothing though).

Anyway, does anybody have good builds to share?

Thanks!

Personally i do make my own buils. Started with a spectre summoner and upgraded to spectre+skeletons after finding this:



Now i dont have to swap my spectres for bosses anymore.


Some of the cool stuff i've found/vaaled recently:

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Alizarin_Crimson wrote:

Do you guys follow specific builds or do you make your own?

I dont follow specific builds. Sometimes I just start league without much of a plan. Build planning comes later and even if I start with a plan I always change it anyway. Usually I do have some idea of what I want to do though. Later characters are different though. I usually plan it before playing.

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Alizarin_Crimson wrote:

I'm not as skilled as some of you and thus only play until about level 83, because that's when I run into a "soft" wall, meaning higher maps are way too dangerous and the maps I feel comfortable with don't give enough xp due to the level difference.

For yellow maps (apart from some bosses maybe) you dont need to be particularly skilled. Its enough to have a solid build which works for you. My guess (based on your post) is that you may want to play sth with layered defenses. This will make it very unlikely that some random mobs can kill you even if you screw up and get alpha-striked by a group or sth.
A pure block build (Gladiator works, maybe other Ascendancies too) could work too but I dont have experience with that.

In response to the question about working off builds or making our own, I always start with an established build concept that I feel can be realized in SSF. If your patient, you can make most builds work over time. My other considerations are exploring new builds and trying to align the build with the new league mechanics. For example, I went with a FB/MS raider in Abyss to take advantage of all those flat damage gems.

This time around, thanks to the ascendancy rework and how long it had been since I played a summoner, I went with a Crit Totem Hierophant. I tested Dark Pact before the league and liked it ok, but went Frostbolts then, of course, Glacial Cascade. With shaper stat sticks, GC seems a no-brainer. Plus, I got the right drops so far:



I've even managed to corrupt my own Self-Flagellation. However, I've been intrigued with the Gloomfang Magma Orb interaction, so I set out to farm both a Gloomfang and art least one Shimmeron. After 4 Elder runs, I got the amulet, but no wand yet:



Now I'm trying to learn to like the Magma Orb totem experience. GC feels smoother for mapping, but I have high hopes for the bossing on Magma Obs once my gems are leveled.

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Alizarin_Crimson wrote:

Do you guys follow specific builds or do you make your own? I'm always looking for new and SSF viable builds and I don't really want to make one of my own; I'll probably fail.

In past leagues, I've usually played both PewPewPew's Firestorm build and Ghazzy's Essence Drain/Contagion build. I'm not as skilled as some of you and thus only play until about level 83, because that's when I run into a "soft" wall, meaning higher maps are way too dangerous and the maps I feel comfortable with don't give enough xp due to the level difference.

This time around I'm using Nedieth's Essence Drain/Blight build https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1717015/page/1 and I'm currently level 84, my highest ever. Now I'm just running daily master missions. A lot of uniques have dropped, but only one of those was good for me (better than nothing though).

Anyway, does anybody have good builds to share?

Thanks!

I usually just play totems to start. You need nothing specific for totems and can focus on shoring up life and resists while totems do work. 2nd toon is where you can be specific depending what you find. Melee based ancestral warcheif. Spells based I still like flame totems.

Another good build is RF. RF only calls for a 5 link to be OP and you can mitgate degen effects with flasks and occulist or juggs.

The reality is though you can play almost anything with cards and gurantees that come out of them. Have a 6l really early just running blood aqeducts for humility. It just wont be optimal.

I dont really follow others understanding this game pretty okay.

id say its going quite well :D