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

Melee inbound:

Crafted some new bows for Poison Artillery Ballista: This despite the bugged(?) Fossils - see https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3344433



May have an issue with getting enough poison chance on the first bow. Not sure yet if I want to switch from elemental though.

And CA/TR is also an option.

And dropped another 'Determination':

Other things dont go so well:
Have troubles upgrading my gear. Due to the resist problem its rather difficult to exchange pieces. So it goes in 'quantum leaps'. Means the time distance between character upgrades is too large. IMO a flaw of the realization of 'Ruthless'.
Sanctified Relics. I got one drop so far but its unfortunately currently completely useless for my build.
And somehow cant get a decent body amour despite spamming fossils and alchs.
And with the Fossil bug(?) the plan for crafting clusters for the Hierophant goes 'poof' too.

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And somehow cant get a decent body amour despite spamming fossils and alchs.

Just spent 2 more scours (etc) on my ilvl 86 and lucked into something:

And Sanctum floor 2 boss dropped a Devoto:Math says its hard to beat - only good rare with good implicits would be better.

New gear setup for Artillery Ballista Raider. Changed tree a bit to get the Duelist for more Int on passive.


Tree:


Still trying to 6link my new bow for Poison version though. And need some more/better enchants. Havent done Eternal Lab yet - didnt want to waste Offerings and build much stronger defensively now - but plan to try on a good day now.

And Eldritch Implicits should also be relatively easy to get an upgrade with.

I just started a few days ago and it's not as barren as I expected, but still a nice change of pace.

I still don't understand the complete removal of movement skills though. I'm playing melee and that part feels kind of bad, but I guess playing melee is my own self-inflicted pain.

Trudging along and trying to make a 2 hand melee Champion build work. DPS was becoming an issue until I dropped

It’s going alright. I’m hitting a plateau with map sustain at T10.. probably because I don’t have enough alchs to run them rare. And I have only gotten 1 kirac mission for yellows. It’s hit the point where seeding map runs and trailing off around T8 has lost its fun, so I rerolled regular SSF league to continue playing casually & for fun.

Got now all 3 big defensive Auras:
Attempting to 6link my new bow is close to failure. Spent maybe 80-90 (didnt count) Jun missions on Vorici but no luck so far. Got ~4 5links on the bow. So I am likely stuck with the elemental Artillery Ballista.

And the EU server/lag/spike problems are catching up to me too. Have had issues on many days for a some hours but these were so far sort of predictable. Today one nasty lag spike out of nowhere at some other time. Ruthless HC with the lacking defenses isnt made for that.


Edit: And Sanctified Relics - still none useful for Raider. Almost total failure despite many Sanctum runs. (Minus Lycia 2nd form.)

3 deaths in a row on an exploding crystals rare. Sad.

Hard to notice in swarms of mobs and especially when this rare had low hp

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