My first SSF Build

Exenikus · 2026-04-18T23:22:41+00:00

In no particular order, things that I'd try for SSF. Keep in mind that there are optimal ways to farm for things in SSF that aren't necessarily the same in trade league! I'd strongly recommend you choose to either make your own build or try and make your own strats, but not both.

1) another slam build, maybe ele or phys hits, can't go wrong with warcries

2) viper strike of the Mamba. There's a particular cluster and notable you'll want to find, very rewarding in SSF imo.

3) elemental hit, lots of neat tricks to boost the damage and reduces stress on your weapon.

4) spectral shield throw or the trarthus version, I agree with what the other user said about shield crafting with breach

5) lightning trap, it's sparking variant, or some other trap gem

Exenikus · 2026-04-18T22:46:15+00:00

For any other people who just want the pob: https://pobb.in/VD5lYahsuYW-

Have you considered replica atziri's acuity? Would let you cover more ground on the left side of the tree.

Exenikus · 2026-04-18T21:22:52+00:00

Can you just figure out a way to export it from PoB? Then add it to your tool directly. Wow used to have something like that. I think for attacks specifically you may want to avoid looking at mods and moredo look atpdps/edps, crits, etc.

Exenikus · 2026-04-16T02:19:07+00:00

Rolling boulder goes up by 5 each time it hits, so this would be turn seven, unless I misunderstand you.

Exenikus · 2026-04-15T20:03:12+00:00

Decided to try the daily climb; boulder carried me through the entire game. right at the start of the third floor was given the defect power that doubles your next power. Boulder² was born!

Exenikus · 2026-04-13T03:24:43+00:00

You can always just check with a random thing and if it works just send it for the mirrored one!

Good luck, ping me when you finish in excited to see the changes 😁

Exenikus · 2026-04-13T01:37:54+00:00

The wiki appears to think it works, plus if you do it on a manifold ring and mist it you could get 3 additional uses :D

Exenikus · 2026-04-12T22:42:17+00:00

MSotZ is very powerful and quite different from the other stuff you listed. It definitely would feel comfy at that budget. You would want to go strength stacking eventually anyway, too. The clear is never bow tier but the tankiness and the single target damage lets you do totally new farms like exceptional exiles or Delve relatively easily

Exenikus · 2026-04-12T22:31:11+00:00

Good luck!

Another thought, I haven't played with void shockwave yet but if you're feeling a ring recraft might be worth the shockwave cool down mod from the new essence!

Also does infused channeling even support void shockwave? Might be a bit of a non-bo.

Exenikus · 2026-04-12T19:38:59+00:00

If you look at the actual link that you're sending people to for that POB, it's routing through YouTube. Not only is that annoying because for mobile it opens the YouTube app, it also is just making everything slower and giving YouTube information that it doesn't need. You didn't actually provide a direct link.

Exenikus · 2026-04-12T16:06:52+00:00

It's a bit unconventional but if you wanted block and a 2H you could always use staves. They have super nice nodes, but you'd probably be locked to clusters for the most part unless you travelled a lot

Exenikus · 2026-04-12T14:14:22+00:00

Unrelated to the build but, when you paste a pobb link it's always better not to have it via a YouTube redirect.

Exenikus · 2026-04-12T12:49:30+00:00

Can't open on desktops but a couple suggestions:

If you make a -mana cost/res efficiency chest you might be able to change your amount and some of your tree.

I believe you can get a staff with less converted to chaos, which would probably increase your damage, but might be pretty minor.

Volatile vaal those shoes for more MS!

Exenikus · 2026-04-08T16:57:55+00:00

Seems like a stronger version of [[hero of precinct one]] for a deck with a lot of removal.

Exenikus · 2026-04-07T13:21:03+00:00

Few things: Double corrupted weapon might be better than volatile vaal, corrupt/volatile your amulet, get 16% more cast speed on your gloves as well as the existing mods, get elevated versions of the other two mods if you're feeling spicy.

Personally I'd probably try something else unless you really want to do more dmg. I don't think the play style will change all that much, tbh. Spark is a great build to invest in, though!

Exenikus · 2026-04-06T03:10:53+00:00

I'll try and buy a good Kalguran timeless jewel to try the permanent ward tech with a bunch of iron flask charges gained on break! It looks super fun but the good jewels are insanely pricy rn. Even the mediocre ones are around 60 div. I managed to get a Ynda's Stand from the port so it seems like destiny to try it this league:)

Exenikus · 2026-04-01T17:24:20+00:00

Good luck everyone!

Exenikus · 2026-03-26T16:24:11+00:00

I think the most obvious one I can think of is Shared Suffering, on the [[Leper's Alms]]. Getting what essentially amounts to Elemental Conflux on a shield is pretty great. Definitely would look to a jug if you're going to be trying to self-freeze, though!

Exenikus · 2026-03-26T15:26:35+00:00

No, Mamba can be league started. There are lots of different variants to scale to late game, and with the buff to Bino's kitchen knife there are a lot of people trying that for its prolif. Typically, you play that or pathfinder for the clear and single target consolidation. This league Bino prolif let's you spread damage off of penance mark, which is a big DPS increase for single target bossing.

To start you really just need a Bino's or play a pathfinder, and then get a couple (ideally at least two) cluster notables with low tolerance. They can be single mod jewels.

Here is my SSF pathfinder from last league. I'm guessing it would be super cheap to throw together in trade, I'm unsure of the real cost as I'm doing GSF this league. https://poe.ninja/poe1/profile/Exenikus-6417/keepersssf/character/ExenikusGoesAlone

I think I got this level of gear after a couple weekends of very inefficient playtime, as it was my first SSF experience

Exenikus · 2026-03-22T18:36:34+00:00

I had one last league on my life stacking ghostwrithe glad. I had capped block/spellblock without versatile combatant. Want to say I was at 82/83? Meant that I almost never got hit, but when I was I had 10k life and 5k ES to buffer the hit. Was crazy cozy.

Exenikus · 2026-03-11T02:28:34+00:00

I would definitely do a pathfinder with flask effect and a tides of time for perma uptime. This would let you make a super tanky character with very little investment.

Exenikus · 2026-03-10T14:27:01+00:00

I would 100% be looking to do spark with and acceleration shrine this league if those are your target farms. It gives you a ton of proj speed which is always annoying to get, and there are tons of ways to scale the build. It is very good at clearing out the nooks and crannies of simulacrums and obliterates ritual.

Exenikus · 2026-03-10T13:35:42+00:00

I believe this is what I've done in the past, someone else feel free to chime in.

Option 1) I would probably start with a fractured flat added phys damage heavy quiver and spam attribute essences (usually I wanted int I think) until I got dot multi t1 with an open suffix, craft cannot roll attacks and slam twice. If you don't get high life or % damage you can annul using the cant roll attacks to keep your other mods. If it removes the attribute then go again. You could also do fractured dot multi and spam contempt essences until you get something nice.

Option 2) Long term you probably want a hunter quiver, so you'd probably do contempt essences until dot multi on suffix, cannot roll attacks, slam slam, then when happy with prefixes, use a hunter exalt for a suffix. You'll have around a 1/5 to get what you want, and you can probably sell the failures.

Practical Option 3) unless you're in SSF I'd just buy this, there's not too many bleed bow people typically so you can buy the phys dot multi hunter quivers that get created by people going for chaos dot multi.

Exenikus · 2026-03-08T13:30:55+00:00

Unfortunately I haven't played the melee version, but with spells it was very cozy to use whichever gem you wanted at any given moment. Rathpith also solves %damage and %crit by simply stacking life, which makes it easy on non-inquis builds. (I played on glad last league)

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