SSF Dawn of the Hunt - advice

After clearing up most content on normal league, I am only missing Arbiter but I am a bit tired of mapping, I decided to star a SSF League... Truth be said, kinda enjoying it...

Now I've reached the boss of 2nd act on Dreadnaught, but I found that my gear doesn't output enough DPS... Given that I have no trade, what would be the best approach to solve this... Farm previous maps in the hope I can get a better weapon or just 'git gud' And keep doing the fight and improve to the point where I can do it flawless? Due to low DPS output (on the boss, since until here I had no issues) seems to be a mind breaking, spirit crushing task...

Any advice for SSF?

You won't get an upgrade from. A drop and it's still very early game so having the materials to craft are not likely as most of your crafting attempts will be bricked. You need about 100 exalts to have a chance at getting an upgrade lol.

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outlander19900#0213 wrote:

You won't get an upgrade from. A drop and it's still very early game so having the materials to craft are not likely as most of your crafting attempts will be bricked. You need about 100 exalts to have a chance at getting an upgrade, and about 50 regal lol.

-Alva.
-traders in town
-if you have good blues, recombi
-in general overlevel in some areas.

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scaeva_#9735 wrote:

Any advice for SSF?

The vendors. Not the gambler, but the vendors. Check them all, every level in campaign. Not just in the act you're in, but previous acts. Nearly all my gear in SSF through the campaign was from vendors. This was before the loot buff though, so maybe choosing some easy for you to kill boss would drop upgrades if you farm it enough now.

I am playing on regular league and have never traded once with 4 toons ranging from 17-45 so far.

Farmed all my own gear, vendors, drops, "crafting" etc. Rolling right on through the campaign just like SSF never having spent a "div" or bought a single thing from another player.

looks like you have many nice advices for upgrading on the gear front.

Here is advice for how to upgrade on the "git-gub" front (but I feel a very tiny portion of the community is actually good at the game in this sense).

VIDEO OF FIGHT (rake only normal items): https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2430731946
VIDEO OF FIGHT (falling thunder) : https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2435802255

Jamanra is really easy to abuse in phase 1.
Stay melee to her and side step her melee attack chain.
Side step in the direction towards her hands as shown in video 1.
Since Jamanra alternates her hands, we simply alternate the direction we rotate around the boss.

But if you have parry/raise shield, honestly that alone is op against her melee attack chain and you don't have to do the cute dance.


In second phase, do the same kind of dance melee to jamanra. Avoid her special sword attacks.
For the swipe one, I look at her wrists.
For her sword fall one, I generally go back and roll perpendicular.

After she summons lightning stuff to ht aground, she''l mark the ground black.
That's the spot where lightning falls so just avoid the black spots of the map.

I like to fight her melee (when not in tornadoes).

Super fun boss fight.

Switch to some skills that deal cold damage for this boss. That was the solution that worked for me with my huntress.

I second the cold use too. I was running minions the 1st weekend of dawn of the hunt, they were not doing much against Jamanra, cold infusion'd them brute forced the fight. Did the same on another char, if you're lacking a little it can help a good bit, doesn't cost too much to try, although on a 1st run in SSF those support gems can be kinda precious.

What worked for me:

Act 2:

Grab falling thunder, use a lesser jewellers orb, stack power charges, support with two fold, something something, Xesht is dead.

that was able to carry me to t15s without relying much on gear.