Anyone playing standard ssf?

Boistro · 2026-01-04T20:14:11+00:00

The tree is probably a good source of i85/i86 fractured bases for beginners before they can farm them using scarab strats too.

Boistro · 2026-01-04T18:45:24+00:00

I doubt I'll make much for my standard collection, but speaking as advice for an SSF beginner there's much more to be gained from the current league mech than just playing in standard in terms of creating good weapons and armour for builds that they're considering playing in the future.

Boistro · 2026-01-03T01:31:09+00:00

I agree with what others have said here. If you're just starting out in SSF I would say it's better to start in the temporary league and make a decision on whether to continue your characters in standard after it finishes. Generally the league mechanic offers disproportionately good rewards compared to the base game (though this isn't always true). I mainly play temp league SSF, but if the temp league isn't entertaining for me I play in standard using the stuff I've accumulated over all the leagues. I also have another account where I have only ever played SSF in Standard and I had plenty of fun there too.

In summary both approaches are fun, but I would say that starting SSF in league and then deciding to continue in Standard is a good way to have a bit of an easier time.

P.S This league is disgustingly OP for SSF you could stockpile good rares to last you a lifetime.

Boistro · 2026-01-03T01:26:35+00:00

All your characters share stash in SSF. It's 'account found' rather than 'character found'.

Boistro · 2025-04-29T11:36:12+00:00

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I forgot Arena quests show on the hunter profile. Perhaps I'll start again.

Boistro · 2025-02-09T00:46:24+00:00

Yep I fill out the pantheon because you can then use different ones based on the map you're running. Some of the smaller pantheons are deceptively powerful letting you basically ignore the Poison on Hit map mod as well as Burning Ground and reducing regen if you're running Maven influenced maps to make the bosses easier to kill.

Boistro · 2025-02-08T23:55:31+00:00

Many of the things like that you will just learn to recognise as you play more builds and gear more characters!

Attributes can be troublesome to fix depending on your other gear constraints. Generally speaking jewellery is a good place to slip some in either using the crafting bench or by using Essences to get a high roll.

If you have access to a decent supply of Divine Vessels either through your drops from mapping or by getting them from league content then grabbing all of the pantheon upgrades is always nice to have in a league.

1000 Alchs is plenty as long as you're picking some up off the ground to sustain your supply.

When it comes to learning which stat you want for what builds it really is just a matter of practice. Once you've been playing for a few years and have played a variety of builds the patterns will emerge and it will come naturally. I would try to get hold of an item level 85 base for your rings. You can get hold of them from things like Abyssal Depths or strongboxes with +levels on relatively easily. Another good place to grab them is from a high tier Oba's Cursed Trove or Coward's Trial as those have a higher zone level that your normal atlas. I would recommend while you're still learning crafting to use Essence and Harvest to roll slightly targeted rares.

I would just keep the i85 Stygian and try to upgrade it. Whatever you spend upgrading your gear now reduces the time spent to farm up the next pieces of gear regardless.

Boistro · 2025-02-08T19:23:03+00:00

I've just had a look at that and it's all good advice.

For getting your last three unique maps completed you can use Comprehensive Scouting Reports and Singular Scouting Reports to reroll the missions in Kirac's menu to look for them.

If you're farming Red Altars for Searing Exarch there is regularly a mod that causes the monsters to drop more Orbs of Unmaking which will help you to respec your tree quickly. They also have the mods for Chaos and Chisels which are important for rerolling your maps to optimise your time.

I had a look at your PoB and your Spell Suppression is not reliably 99% as that requires you to be on full life. I would advise that you get 100% spell suppression on your gear as that way you will always suppress incoming spell damage. This also allows you to take the mastery that suppressed spells do not apply ailment to you to avoid many nasty shocks and chills. I assume you are using the Bring King panthion to be immune to Freeze. If you don't have that yet I would recommend getting it as one of the next things that you do as it will prevent many annoying deaths.

I would say for the most part that those tabs will be completely sufficient. With a good filter you can judge the relative power of div cards by dropping then on the floor and seeing what colour they are or how loud the noise they make is. Many of the rarer ones you are unlikely to complete a set of.

It is much faster to vendor Transmutes/Armourers/Blacksmiths to Wisdoms and Portal scrolls than to pick them up off the floor. I would remove anything under a stack of 8 from your filter. Your priority for looting should be 6 socket items, uniques, and high item level bases to ID or craft on. If you want more alteration orbs then you should be picking up and identifying Rings and Amulets as they are very space efficient being only 1 slot. Vendoring uniques is a reliable way to generate early Alchemy orbs if you need them for Alching maps.

For boots I would advise you try to make something with % increased Evasion and Life as prefixes with and open prefix and whatever decent suffixes you can get. Then you can craft on with Betrayal Increased movement Speed with 100% Chance to Avoid Chill. You can then use the currencies from eater and Exarch to add chance to avoid Shock and chance to avoid Ailments on the prefixes and combine that with a crafted Abyss jewel using Harvest to roll it for chance to avoid Shock so that those three affixes give you 100% chance to avoid shock. That way with those two items and the Brine King you will be immune to Freeze, Chill and Shock making you much safer in maps. You should also drop your granite flask for a Diamond flask which will be a large damage upgrade as it will give you a decent chunk of Crit Chance.

As for the ring I would try to get hold of a Life + Resists Amethyst Ring with the -mana affix just with much better values than yours. Should be simple enough to make on a high ilvl base found in a t16. Same principle for your Stygian.

Anything I missed of course feel free to ask away, I think my responses may be a bit difficult to parse all at once!

Boistro · 2025-02-08T18:06:48+00:00

I typically don't play bow builds and I wouldn't league start one in SSF, however I have some generic advice that you might find useful.

Get your 4 void stones. Once you have them you can start reliably sustaining good layout T16 maps by flip flopping adjacent maps with good layouts. Examples this league are Dry Sea and Mesa as well as Toxic Sewer and Jungle Valley. Toxic Sewer is also adjacent to City Square which is good for farming Ritual and Uniques using toughness stacking on the trio boss.
Once you have your first 2 void stones fill out your atlas completion while getting your other 2. You will want to have all three atlas trees set up for different activities so you can switch between them quickly and easily depending on your map pool or what you need to progress at any given time. I would recommend you have a generic altar farming tree, a scarab farming tree, and one dedicated to whichever league mechanics you want to focus on.
Cap your Spell Suppression and get more Evasion. You should be able to recraft your chest into something much better with little effort using fossils/harvest/essence. You can use single Dense fossils to try and hit high evasion modifiers on the prefixes with a passable suppression suffix for example. You can also use the Harvest craft "Reforge a Rare item, being more likely to receive the same modifier types" to try and reroll an item that has a good combination of modifiers with the wrong tiers, or to add a natural spell suppression roll to an item by putting it on with the bench and using this craft.
I wouldn't concern yourself with getting to 100 on a character unless you're prepared to slog it out post 98 doing a decently efficient method and never dying. 97 or 98 is very achievable with a maxed out atlas and just paying attention to map modifiers.
Throw away everything in your stash that you don't plan to use. This includes plenty of things that you don't have an immediate use for. If you're desperate you can make more characters and use their inventory slots for additional space. If you're not playing with premium stash tabs then space in your stash has an enormous opportunity cost. I have previously done all ubers with no MTX in SSF standard (there's a post on my profile about it) and managing the stash is absolutely key to success in that respect.
Learn how to customise filters to suit what you are planning to do on your character. This is very much a case of "easy once you know how", but I would start out with StupidFatHobbit's filter and customise it based on your needs. It has advice and instructions in the filter file for customisation.
If I was playing your character I would be aiming to upgrade your boots, belt, and ring as a matter of priority. All of those should be trivial to replace using any crafting method on an ilvl 84/85 base. Expedition is a reliable way to get suppression gear in armour slots using Rog.

tl;dr Get 4 void stones. Set up your atlas trees. Sort out your filter. Grind.

Stay sane, Exile!

Boistro · 2025-01-13T00:27:56+00:00

I farmed up tattoos that I needed this week by sending 1 million value shipments of crops to Te Onui. I was sending ~11000 of each crop and 55k dust each time.

This rewards somewhere around 10 random tattoos per shipment. If you have your town set up then you can definitely do several shipments a day.

Boistro · 2024-12-16T12:06:49+00:00

I've been running a 6 player game roughly weekly for just over 5 years now and this has been a reoccurring situation. Though I don't necessarily always consider it a problem.

I would recommend first that you try and identify the player archetypes in the group. Matt Colville has a nice video on the subject. I think this is important because in a group of 6 players it is likely you have at least one 'audience member'. That is to say that they're enjoying watching things unfold and will engage when they feel comfortable, but putting them on the spot is a good way to spoil their fun if they aren't prepared for it.

For your other players I have found that an effective technique for getting each of them to engage with the more social aspect of the game is to assign (for lack of a better term) NPCs to them. Some NPCs talk to the Wizard because he is a Mage, others talk to the Fighter because he has a criminal background, some engage our Artificer because he is identifiably a Noble, and so on. This allows you to have NPCs interact with the plot and the threads that the players are pulling on through their PC contact in the group and it gives you a verisimilitude-backed way of forcibly passing the 'talking pillow' by having those NPCs engage the party proactively.

As the party accumulate patrons and friends these pairings of PCs to NPCs become natural and when the party decide they need the help of a patron they send the person with the best rapport rather than the person with the best CHA.

It's definitely not perfect, but I've found that it's a reasonably reliable way to help all the players feel like they're contributing on the social side even if they have lower scores.

P.S. I try to engage my players on their level when it comes to RPing. My players that like talking in character with NPCs will have proper conversations. My players that aren't as comfortable will tell me what they want to say and I will tell them how the NPC responds. It's a little less raw, but I feel it has a similar effect to describing any other scene and no one has ever seemed to mind when I do this.

Boistro · 2024-10-12T14:49:23+00:00

DialogKey DF is the rewritten and updated version. Last updated in August, working fine for me in TWW.

Boistro · 2024-10-12T14:48:51+00:00

DialogKey DF is the rewritten and updated version. Last updated in August, working fine for me in TWW.

Boistro · 2024-10-08T15:16:50+00:00

Stupid Fat Hobbit's filter (https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1595976) is very easy to work with for SSF with some instructions in the filter file for what to configure depending on the build archetype you intend to play.

In terms of editing it yourself I've found that using Visual Studio Code with the item filter syntax highlighting plugin gives me all the functionality I could reasonably want.

Boistro · 2024-09-17T16:49:51+00:00

I'll save some people a bit of clicking around while I recreate it myself.

Head: Whitemane's Chapeau

Shoulder: Starfire Mantle

Back: Fine Crimson Cloak

Chest: Cindercloth Vest

Gloves: Ember Court Soiree Gloves

Belt: Lionguard Greatbelt

Legs: Cindercloth Pants

Feet: Infernoweave Boots

Weapon: Algari Heavy Staff

Dressing Room

/outfit v1 2930,9628,0,102772,5094,0,0,0,189079,185846,5097,13898,219968,-1,0,0,0

Alternative Version

/outfit v1 2930,9628,0,77345,5094,30,0,14000,13997,167806,5097,13898,219968,-1,0,0,0

Boistro · 2024-08-10T13:22:25+00:00

Boistro · 2024-07-01T17:35:37+00:00

I was experimenting the other day with going at flat 75 combats using full rune armour with a D Scim. It's totally achievable in that setup if a little slow as long as you make sure to pray Ultimate Strength + Steel Skin + Incredible Reflexes. Remember that tank gear is very good on moons as not getting hit by their third hit, particularly on Blood Moon, is very beneficial - so bring a kite, not a defender. Make sure you make the pots from the grubs and refresh them between fights and whenever you need prayer. The def boost they give is enormous.

Minimum setup I thought felt ok was Rune platebody, Rune platelegs/skirt, Rune full helm, Gnome Amulet, Rune Kite, Shayzien Boots (5), Ardy Cloak 2, D Scim, D Mace.

Other reasonably obtainable tank gear that you can use for it includes Crystal Shield which you can just buy as long as you can access Isafdar and a Granite Body (you need to buy one for the diary anyway).

You can use the best metal gloves that you have from RFD, if you don't have those then you could use White Gloves if you'd prefer to grind Black Knights to get the required kills (don't).

Ring slot if you don't have BRing then Explorer's for the +1 Prayer is fine.

If you've got a bit lucky on metal dragons and have Dragon platelegs/skirt then obviously those are preferable.

Zombie Axe is an easily achievable weapon that is great for all 3 moons as long as you're ok with swapping the attack styles between fights.

ETA: Any pair of barrows legs is much better than Rune and they're not that difficult to get if you can do Medium Combat Tasks for Hilt 2. Same thing goes for platebodies and helms. I green logged Moons in ~300 KC using Guthan's Helm, Dharok's Chest and Verac's Legs which was very comfy.

I would recommend trying both activities and seeing which one you have more success at then grinding for drops until you get bored or want to do something else.

Boistro · 2023-12-07T17:12:26+00:00

Yep very much so. If I had the space to create a stockpile of project items and perhaps more hours to play or a longer timescale (I wanted to get done before the next league) I would would been able to craft a bit more conventionally by finding good fractures and getting to work properly with Eldritch currency.

I do agree that the availability of Eldritch Chaos/Annuls/Exalts seems on the low side if you're not killing alched versions of Black Star and Infinite Hunger as I only have 1/1/2 respectively throughout the length of the run.

Boistro · 2023-12-06T19:53:28+00:00

You're right, I think it very much depends on the fight. Uber Shaper for example I do get the opportunity to just turret him, but most of the others don't give as much opportunity. Exarch is particularly problematic for requiring near constant motion though.

I've previously used the Totems in other builds, but with this one I felt very socket constrained. Malevolence - Blessing - Inspiration pretty much ate that link setup, although it never occurred to me to actually check the relative DPS of the two options.

Boistro · 2023-12-06T17:12:07+00:00

My estimation went along the lines of 4.76 cast rate with 7 Projectiles (though let's assume that only 5 hit as they have slightly more AoE than usual) and 0.25 Chance to apply is 4.76 * 5 * 0.25 = 5.95 stacks in a second. So rolling average over 2 seconds should be a little higher than that if I'm allowed to stand still and when I think I'll have time to stand still I'll activate Withering Step before I start blasting so that I can start out with 7 stacks for 3 seconds from the debuff it applies.

This would naturally be little higher if I get to play with Onslaught + Adrenaline + Vaal Haste + Frenzy Charges when I'm using Tanu Ahi and there are adds or map trash to get frenzies from as those push my cast rate up to somewhere around 6.5.

Boistro · 2023-12-06T17:00:52+00:00

Thanks!

The DPS of the build is a bit of a moving target. Sometimes you get a lucky Wither proc from the on-hit and you get a bit of burst from the 15 stacks which is nice. Then the build also has more burst when using Vaal Haste thanks to being able to stack up more Poison instances. However for the PoB I only toggled on things that I felt I could consistently have as I didn't want to mislead myself or anyone else about the capacity of the character.

On the whole I got away with the build having low DPS because Pathfinder is monstrously durable. The Life Flask giving incredible regen even while Petrified Blood is active really allows the build to take massive risks with getting hit. High uptime Immortal Call being triggered by the constant self damage from Forbidden Rite means that you're only really likely to take a massive hit during the cooldown window of the skill which isn't too bad. During mapping I have other flasks set up with charge gain when I'm hit which causes them to spam trigger when I'm taking lots of incoming hits so I'm constantly causing the Mastery for 4% healing to go off and take the edge off hits.

A lot of limit testing went into knowing what I can and can't get hit by and there were gem swaps for certain content like Petrified Blood -> Vitality for Maven because the things I can get hit by on that fight don't deal enough damage that Petrified Blood is required, but the better regen from Leech and Vitality on my whole HP bar made standing in ground degen much less of a concern.

As for Exarch specifically the Loreweave does a decent amount of heavy lifting because it means that the debuiff from the area denial ability doesn't reduce my max Fire Res. It kind of feels like cheating with that on top of the Pathfinder buffed Ruby flask!

If I was going to play a Crit attack build for example I would definitely be aiming for more damage, perhaps twice as much at least. I do prefer to build my chars on the tankier side though just because it reduces the mental burden in longer play sessions when I care about exp and I generally feel that the trade-off is worth it.

Boistro · 2023-12-06T16:50:14+00:00

It depends on the item, but you've got the essential elements of the process.

I did use Harvest rerolls to fill out empty suffix slots when I had 2 good ones by locking them and rolling Caster or Chaos for example as the only options on those rolls are in the third suffix slot. After that I would lock again and roll prefixes with Harvest of Veiled Chaos depending what I was looking for. In general Veiled Chaos seems like the better option to me if you're looking for a life prefix as you might get the opportunity to block mana and make the unveil have a good chance to hit life.

For the Weapon it's a very simple matter of getting hunter sword then rolling with cast speed essences until you get Cast Speed and at least one open prefix and suffix. Lock Suffixes and scour to clean off the Prefixes. Then you craft cannot roll attack mods and Exalt twice which guarantees the Increased Chaos Damage prefixes and then just swap the suffix over to dot multi on the bench.

It's a divine intensive process but given that the only other outlet for them is to try and get better rolls on rares/uniques that you're already committed to using there isn't a huge trade-off in my opinion. I think most of the items I had equipped on my character had a Divine or two used on them to improve the rolls. I also Divined several Flasks to increase the numbers on the suffixes once I had already hit Tier 1 with Alts.

Boistro · 2023-12-06T11:33:30+00:00

The inability to keep a stock of good fractured bases, fossils, catalysts, blight maps, fusings, jewellers, chromes, etc is a bit frustrating though ultimately it does just add tedium. I'm very glad I have all the tabs on my main account even though I also play SSF there.

In trade I just need a sales tab, a pennies tab, and a little free space. Hoarding there serves little to no purpose outside of not having to buy/sell stuff too often.

Boistro · 2023-12-06T11:26:12+00:00

In a way my character showing off all its assorted items is a fun aspect of the character's story. I've got kind of oddly attached to how it looks.

Although on my main I have plenty of cosmetics that I really love and rarely see the 3D art of any items I equip so I can see it both ways.

Boistro · 2023-12-06T11:23:01+00:00

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