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

I was wondering how you guys approach your SSF experience? This is my third league in SSF and I am always kinda stuck/getting bored at the same point, once progression slows down and content gets really difficult and I doubt my build/s can handle endgame at all. I haven't seen Shaper, (U)Elder or Sirus in SSF yet.
I admit, I kinda start every league without a clear plan, just jumping in and see what happens from there. Maybe get a decent drop here and there and than start a new character accordingly. While thats all fun and good I feel like it doesn't really lead me towards 'beating' the game.

So I guess my question is do you set yourself a goal and lay out a clear plan on what build to play and what goal to reach? Do you have a certain pattern on how to approach endgame? Like getting all the important crafting recipes, farm certain items, religiously approaching the atlas? Or just having a general method on how to be able to play all content a league and the game has to offer? There is so much stuff to do and I feel like I need to play more target oriented and don't f*** around so much.

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PilotLanguste wrote:

I was wondering how you guys approach your SSF experience? This is my third league in SSF and I am always kinda stuck/getting bored at the same point, once progression slows down and content gets really difficult and I doubt my build/s can handle endgame at all. I haven't seen Shaper, (U)Elder or Sirus in SSF yet.
I admit, I kinda start every league without a clear plan, just jumping in and see what happens from there. Maybe get a decent drop here and there and than start a new character accordingly. While thats all fun and good I feel like it doesn't really lead me towards 'beating' the game.

So I guess my question is do you set yourself a goal and lay out a clear plan on what build to play and what goal to reach? Do you have a certain pattern on how to approach endgame? Like getting all the important crafting recipes, farm certain items, religiously approaching the atlas? Or just having a general method on how to be able to play all content a league and the game has to offer? There is so much stuff to do and I feel like I need to play more target oriented and don't f*** around so much.

My first goal in the league is always to be able to kill end game bosses and obtaining 36 challenges. During this process, I will be able to gather gears for the next build that I want to play.

6L used to be a huge problem in the past but with divination cards, Tabula, and Oni-goroshi, you can easily play a build that can bring you to end game.

Take Delirium league for example, I decided to farm Oni-goroshi and used it to beat Sirus. In the process, I farmed gears for my next build, which is Archmange Stormbrand. With this second build, I continue towards my 36 challenges.

During the process, Saviour and Paradoxica dropped for me, and I re-spec my Oni-goroshi build into Impale Cyclone using warcry cluster jewels. I ping-pong between these 2 builds till I complete 40/40.

In the process of reaching my 40/40 goal, I farmed gears for the herald stacking build (Which I am playing now. I just have to give this build a shot cos it will 100% get hit by the nerf bat in 3.11).

In short, having goals and religiously aim for the goalpost always make the game more fun for me.

Take the exploding chest that I have linked earlier, I got an iLvl 87 Astral Plate dropped. I decided to 6L it. Once I have it 6L, I went on to farm for the split beast. I made 2 copies of the 6L Astral plate with the split beast and used 1 of them to craft the exploding chest above while keeping the other for the next split beast that I find.

Whats next? Farming Simulacrum till I get that 1 passive Voice. I don't know if I will get it, but at least that is something worth looking forward to.

EDIT
Finally found this in Atzoatl.

also:

Killed Sirus on A6 without dying today. It's only my second kill and the first was on A0 (because I'm a chump). It took me several tries on A0 before I finally got him, but when I did I only died once (Fury of the Cosmos, very ignominious), and then deathless on A6 now after making some DPS improvements. I think I should be able to get him on A8 now.

The moral of the story is: If you think Sirus is too hard, just keep trying. Once you figure it out it's actually quite easy.

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nice_guy_threeve wrote:

Killed Sirus on A6 without dying today. It's only my second kill and the first was on A0 (because I'm a chump). It took me several tries on A0 before I finally got him, but when I did I only died once (Fury of the Cosmos, very ignominious), and then deathless on A6 now after making some DPS improvements. I think I should be able to get him on A8 now.

The moral of the story is: If you think Sirus is too hard, just keep trying. Once you figure it out it's actually quite easy.

you can get him at a0? O.o how? first one i saw was a4 xd

you cant spawn him before 20 stones. but once zana has the option to open his portals, you can REMOVE all of your stones and storage tray them. this will spawn him as A0.

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satanttin wrote:

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nice_guy_threeve wrote:

Killed Sirus on A6 without dying today. It's only my second kill and the first was on A0 (because I'm a chump). It took me several tries on A0 before I finally got him, but when I did I only died once (Fury of the Cosmos, very ignominious), and then deathless on A6 now after making some DPS improvements. I think I should be able to get him on A8 now.

The moral of the story is: If you think Sirus is too hard, just keep trying. Once you figure it out it's actually quite easy.

you can get him at a0? O.o how? first one i saw was a4 xd

I assume by unsocketing all the watchstones from the atlas before entering his portal?

I had my very first encounter yesterday on A4 and managed to kill him with two portals left. I also felt he is very doable and his mechanic seemed pretty intuitive too because I literally went in blind (just having read through the complaints thread), so I knew almost nothing. Every death seemed avoidable and taught me a lesson and I ended up beating him somewhat 'comfortably'. I was surprised how much I enjoyed the fight after all the terrible feedback that I have read.

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PilotLanguste wrote:

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satanttin wrote:

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nice_guy_threeve wrote:

Killed Sirus on A6 without dying today. It's only my second kill and the first was on A0 (because I'm a chump). It took me several tries on A0 before I finally got him, but when I did I only died once (Fury of the Cosmos, very ignominious), and then deathless on A6 now after making some DPS improvements. I think I should be able to get him on A8 now.

The moral of the story is: If you think Sirus is too hard, just keep trying. Once you figure it out it's actually quite easy.

you can get him at a0? O.o how? first one i saw was a4 xd

I assume by unsocketing all the watchstones from the atlas before entering his portal?

I had my very first encounter yesterday on A4 and managed to kill him with two portals left. I also felt he is very doable and his mechanic seemed pretty intuitive too because I literally went in blind (just having read through the complaints thread), so I knew almost nothing. Every death seemed avoidable and taught me a lesson and I ended up beating him somewhat 'comfortably'. I was surprised how much I enjoyed the fight after all the terrible feedback that I have read.

wait you can do that? thought it would still spawn at that awakening.
anyways my first awakener was a4 as well all was ez mode till his last phase beat him but i think i died 2 or 3 times to him xd

what build did u him with? used a self made archmage storm brand with it. i know not ssf this league lol 2 colleagues started playing :P so had not much choice :P

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satanttin wrote:

wait you can do that? thought it would still spawn at that awakening.
anyways my first awakener was a4 as well all was ez mode till his last phase beat him but i think i died 2 or 3 times to him xd

what build did u him with? used a self made archmage storm brand with it. i know not ssf this league lol 2 colleagues started playing :P so had not much choice :P

I don't know definetely but I strongly presume. As far as I understand A8 doesn't really make him more dangerous, other than him having a good chunk more life?!

I did him with my Soulrend/Bane Trickster with like 200k dps