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

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Belegur85#5784 wrote:

Wow. Nice one.

Thanks!

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Apostate is pretty good. Probably check your POB to see if it is worth it

I've checked PoB and it's only worth it if I manage to get all red sockets in full INT gear and very high ES mods. Otherwise it's better to keep KH and armour gear. The Apostate version of the build has a much higher ceiling but it's hard to get all the components right.

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The ignoring PDR should work for hit damage from blood sacrament

Thanks! Since it's a self cast AoE I wasn't sure if it counts as hits.

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How did you farm out all your gear?

Mostly Alva + Harvest + Blight + Shipments. Blightheart scarabs are hit or miss,
but when they roll currency chest they have a chance to hit big. I got 9d and 5ex once in a single blight chest. I don't do it for the profit though, it's just the mechanic that I have the most fun with (also Blighted maps are the safest way to level up, and with Blood Sacrament it's very easy to die until you get at least 23k life). Prismatic/gold oils are somewhat easy to sell for divs as well. Or at least they used to.
Most of the profit I've got was from shipments and runners (my first Hinekora Lock came from a runner).
I used Alva to double corrupt KH, which I got pretty lucky with it. Also for the skill gems. I tried to use Alva to double corrupt magic jewels but it's too costly and it rarely gives anything good. It's better to try to duplicate the temple and sell both copies for divs. I also got The Adorned from doing Alva's Temple and Uber Atziri (although I had to buy Cooperation because I didn't know it dropped from Vaal Temple bosses instead).
For Rathpith and RoP I just traded. The rest of the gear I crafted it while doing the achievements.

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Apostate is pretty good. Probably check your POB to see if it is worth it

I've checked PoB and it's only worth it if I manage to get all red sockets in full INT gear and very high ES mods. Otherwise it's better to keep KH and armour gear. The Apostate version of the build has a much higher ceiling but it's hard to get all the components right.

I looked on your POB. It is applying to Blood sacrament. It may not be doing that much. You have 300k phys hit damage against uber bosses. That might be enough to nullify most enemies armour in the game. If you are comming up against mobs with extra PDR, it might be useful, but there might also be other implicit options that could be good.

Currently playing Poison BAMA Pathfinder.

Start was technically bad between game not starting at all and then mass server/instance crashes in apparently all EU server locations.

Mercenaries seem to be to some degree broken for HC also according to various RIP reports. Got hit hard several times myself.

And as RNG works I got this from a shipment in Kingsmarch:

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Zrevnur#2026 wrote:

Currently playing Poison BAMA Pathfinder.

Start was technically bad between game not starting at all and then mass server/instance crashes in apparently all EU server locations.

RIP to dont-know-what. Seemed to be some very fast DoT, flask apparently didnt work. Maybe had to do with the high ping I have now due to no longer routing to dysfunctional EU servers.

So I yoloed Wintertide Brand Ascendant. Build is working fine for mapping but single target is lacking. Unfortunately this seems to be overly limited. Realistically I probably cant get more than ~3M single target. Build also has the issue that it wants two Brand Masteries which is overly expensive on the Passive. So Im likely going to switch to same build as before - Poison BAMA. If I can get the fire->chaos glove mod I may go for Poison SRS maybe but unfortunately didnt see it yet.



Edit: Did a few (Eternal) labs and already got the gems incl quality. This took quite a long time earlier this league...

Switched to Poison BAMA:


And after a long grind some nice honorable Mercenary finally decided to gift the missing piece to my char:

So I will try Poison SRS instead as in this manner its unique for this league only.

Well, thank you Faustus! While levelling I decided I needed a chest upgrade and thought I'd throw some gold at Faustus and see what I'd get. Bang, second item and it dropped (shopped?) with quality and fully linked. That'll do!

Forbidden Rite occultist is pretty good this season in SSF. Need the amulet and then some ok ES gear. Seems like it would be HC viable but either Aegis or Svalinn seem like better options than shaper shields unless you can hit ES recover + block + high ES rolls. The soul eater ring tech isn't necessary to progress but probably sets the build into overdrive (it's clunky to set up due to needed reduced skill duration for consistent uptime)

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: