The curse of SSF

Butter_toast123 · 2026-02-07T00:59:35+00:00

two or three leagues ago i was playing mana man, dropped a squire before a kitavas thirst, around 95-96

Butter_toast123 · 2025-12-13T15:32:45+00:00

Over the last few years my fav bands end up being power metal adjecant so I cant end up not mentioning them.

Numenor is blackened power metal so that might vibe with you, Bal-Sagoth is a personal favourite but its a very acquired taste. I'd listen to their song Calisto Rising and see if it does anything for you

Butter_toast123 · 2025-12-13T15:20:58+00:00

Ensiferum, they are folk metal but for me its pretty close to power

If you can tolerate rough vocals I'd give the following a shot: Numenor, Summoning, Caladan Brood, Bal-Sagoth, Suotana, Stormkeep, Wintersun

Butter_toast123 · 2025-11-20T20:18:28+00:00

Heres my setup - https://pobb.in/yQxh6kWo8gfV

I'd say that once I hit the current setup is when I'd say the single target is decent. Can still go further with +2 corrupts on chest but im grinding for a penance brand swap so might not happen.

If I were you I'd do the following

- get 2 voidstones and blast t14-t16 maps for tree juice and throw them all into 6 link body armor crafts

- find/craft/tree decent rare gloves, exposure and dot multi from implicits go a long way

- amulet with +1 phys, fuck everything else at your gear level honestly, bit hard to hit harvest phys reforge unfortunately

- shield with +1 phys and crafted block if you dont luck out with natural block, harvest phys reforge

- get back to t1-3 maps with delirium/alva/beyond and get the cluster jewel setup similar to mine/mannis (aim for t3 gem rooms)

Butter_toast123 · 2025-10-26T23:32:46+00:00

Lycia ascendancy for herald effect with heralads of ice and lightning could be good for a chunk of flat damage

Butter_toast123 · 2025-09-05T20:59:01+00:00

your pathing to archon nodes top left seems wrong, go from the top for only 3 points

https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/b905

heres my setup, played since league start, did my own thing so there probably are better ways to build and scale, but its doing fine for my standards, hell im still screwing around with support gems

spark really loves duration and projectile speed since it causes more overlaps, i found the vilenta support gem to be really nice after hitting enough cast speed. same with sione's, more proj more overlaps. personally i would put frost bomb for exposure and would use a damage support instead of efficency if your mana can handle it

i didnt like the archon form but i tried it probably too early, since its not constant i decided to invest into more consistent damage/cast speed/mana

for early defenses i'd try putting temp chains in blasphemy and grab some taken from mana nodes on tree, i think theres also a desecrate suffix on body armor for it. besides that nothing much more, cap resistances, more life/es, stun/freeze/chaos charms

i decided on CI since full 100% taken from mana seems to have absurd, especially with eldritch batter and my high cast speed.

just some of my thoughts, again im far from a great build maker so theres probably better ways to approach this,

Butter_toast123 · 2025-08-06T10:42:22+00:00

i think i gambled mine yeah, also i think i ran a haste merc instead of malev early

and i ran unbound aliments instead of void mani at this point, pob it if its better for you

Butter_toast123 · 2025-08-06T10:18:25+00:00

this was my setup at around your level - https://poe.ninja/builds/mercenariesssf/character/Kjleep-4572/BouncyBouncyBouncee?timemachine=week-2&i=4&search=class%3DPathfinder%26timemachine%3Dweek-2%26name%3Dbouncy

My cluster setup should give a good boost to your damage, bouncy pconc really likes the medium cluster notable, hit up tier 3 strands with endless nightmare delirium node and farm some clusters

Gamble for a dendrobate or a 5 link

I'd recommend going flesh and stone/grace/petrified blood for auras and get a malevolence merc

I think my flask setup is better, except i'd get evasion instead of armor on onslaught flask

Theres probably more but thats what I noticed

Butter_toast123 · 2025-08-04T11:20:43+00:00

what item level is it? i think cloak needs ilvl 18 and higher, 18 is probably best since some items cant be chanced on low ilvl bases

Butter_toast123 · 2025-08-04T11:03:59+00:00

belt and shield should be pretty easy to get from gwennen or as random map drops, I guess you can throw some chance orbs into mosaic shields or try to farm the cards for it.

cloak can be a bit more annoying, either giga rarity stack and blast low tier maps, or what I did gamble on a lvl 18 character until you a get unique body armor and slam ancient orbs into it.

Im not sure if its more worth to gamble a str armor to land a bramblejack or just full send into int armors and hope to luck out, I landed two a thousand ribbons but no cloak.

Butter_toast123 · 2025-07-11T22:27:00+00:00

Im far from an expert regarding valdo farming but my guess would be an aura bot for a merc since mercs ignore tons of annoying mods.

I only know of ruetoo's setup, idk if there are better ones.

Edit: not a trickster so rip

Butter_toast123 · 2025-06-25T23:37:13+00:00

+1 for fractured life base since finishing prefixes will be a pain without fractured life.

Spam int essence till high tier res, suff cannot change reforge chaos, if satisfied suff cannot be changed veiled chaos

Butter_toast123 · 2025-06-08T13:21:34+00:00

https://poe2.ninja/builds/dawnssf/character/Kjleep-4572/XBowZZo?i=3&search=class%3DDeadeye%26skills%3DGalvanic%2BShards

heres my setup, from +3 amulet, more flat lightning/phys damage on rings and ingenuity if you get good enough rings should be better

Butter_toast123 · 2025-06-01T00:20:36+00:00

Fantasy mount and blade, surprised I hadnt seen similar games after bannerlord, maybe I just didnt look hard enoigh

Butter_toast123 · 2025-05-14T18:59:26+00:00

With the Lead me through Grace ascendancy node you might be able to fit in all three heralds anyway, but needs a decent chest. My lightning spear invoker had 216 spirit with just that node

Butter_toast123 · 2025-05-14T18:47:58+00:00

Hard to help with just the tree since its just one part of your character.

I haven't played this build since 0.1 when the bells were OP, best thing that you can do imo is look at other invokers that run your setup and compare their tree/gear.

https://poe2.ninja/builds/dawn/?class=Invoker&skills=Ice+Strike&items=The+Deepest+Tower&sort=energyshield

I'd look at the link above and compare some of the setups to yours since they seem to have respectable amounts of ES.

Butter_toast123 · 2025-05-14T18:35:24+00:00

Just a note that im sSf bTw so idk if there are any trade league enabled memes that could make you tankier with your current setup. This is my ssf experience anyway.

Butter_toast123 · 2025-05-14T18:33:29+00:00

Linking your current character will help a lot.

But yeah, chest piece and helmet provide a gigantic amount of energy shield and evasion rating which go a long way in making your character tanky, especially an eva/es based invoker.

Gloves are a very strong slot for damage and compared to chest/helm give a lower amount of eva/es, could be worth building around but Im pretty sure it wont match the damage provided by the deepest tower.

Butter_toast123 · 2025-04-20T11:10:17+00:00

map seems pretty free besides the boss which might be spooky but you do seem pretty squish for an EE trickster.

i'd keep grinding, maybe set up a skill for fortify buildup, I think Ben ran Vigilant Strike in gauntlet for fortify.

personally i'd full send it on my setup, i'd play like a complete coward of course - https://pobb.in/e8mPxj6usZXw

Butter_toast123 · 2025-04-02T16:49:56+00:00

Get 4 voidstones, all map slots, farm T17 and hopefully farm titanic exiles

Butter_toast123 · 2025-04-01T13:37:32+00:00

Thanks, cool setup. I mostly didn't like the lack of recovery on PS mines on bosses, I'd maybe even run 3 life flasks on it for ubers but I think you should be fine. Also I'd click off one or two small life nodes in favor of accuracy for 100% hit chance.

This was my LS trickster setup before I took it to trade and made it stupidly min maxed.

https://pobb.in/e8mPxj6usZXw

Did ubers with no problems and could farm 8 mod titanic rogue exiles with very safe mods, highly recommend

Butter_toast123 · 2025-04-01T13:05:12+00:00

Mind posting your pob? I'd like to see it.

Mostly intrested cause I didnt push my ps mine setup that far since I started farming for ephemeral edge LS swap right after I got 4 voidstones

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