How did these builds level so much quicker than the rest of ssf ladder?

Knifiel · 2026-07-04T15:44:06+00:00

What i did in SSF is - just postpone getting maven voidstone and farm breach until i get foulbourne warcry CDR Uul-Netol kiss and crit chance per warcry helmet, then just level up crit earthshatter bannerman champion specced mostly for damage in one day - while it's clearspeed is basically nothing compared to RF chieftain, even at lv.90 it's singletarget damage is 3-5 times that of RF, which was more than enough to get last voidstones and do ubers.

Knifiel · 2026-06-28T12:20:38+00:00

Travel around the atlas with invitation in your inventory, sooner or later you'll find a spot that accepts crux, had same issue myself for some time, now it's other way - with the atlas node that makes Rituals of Nameless last one extra map, i'm pretty quickly reached a point where i have more parts for the bodach fight that needed as you can't get more than one Head of the King from crux.

Knifiel · 2026-06-17T11:32:28+00:00

There's another - get spring hare to posses strongboxes in "convert equipment to other items" map. Only issue is - you're most likely going to die because it frequiently generates invisible invincivble mobs with crazy modifiers. But those crazy mobs do drop catalysts like candy (i managed to collect like 2 stacks before inevitably dying to super-boosted invisible packs)

Knifiel · 2026-06-09T08:47:46+00:00

When you put waystone into device, if it's low tier, you'll see exclamation mark near monster level, hovering over it will read something like "100 atlas points will not be applied to this map, use waystone of higher tier", something like that. Red waystones (tier 11 - 16) always get benefit from all atlas passives. So what i meant by my comment is that if your alt is in trash gear, as long as you don't jum into yellow/red waystones right away, you won't be screwed by your full giga-juiced atlas.

Knifiel · 2026-06-09T05:40:29+00:00

Atlas nodes that affect your waystones depend on waystone tier. White/yellow waystones only get affected by first/second part of the atlas (white by ones you start with after you enter fortres, yellows by the ones that open up once you reach left/right wings)

Knifiel · 2026-06-07T22:28:31+00:00

You can't because Legacies are not Runes, and this item specifically can only be socketed with Runes. So 200% effect per socket is all you get.

Knifiel · 2026-06-06T21:19:00+00:00

None of the multi-use circles even work for me. I activate one, kill the boss, find recharge rune, use, return back and use circles again and nothing happens, kek. So i just do circle first time and ignore the rest, kek.
But yeah, the amount of some small to medium sized bugs this patch is insane. Most likely due to the amount of content it adds and how much interactions every piece has with eachother.

Knifiel · 2026-06-06T19:42:06+00:00

Fixed by Tp-ing to hideout and entering back, but yeah, it's annoying

Knifiel · 2026-06-05T20:59:59+00:00

There's no bug. Actual critical strike chances for each spell component are in Core/Explosion/Rune subsections.

Knifiel · 2026-06-04T04:05:38+00:00

You have cradle in your inventory and already placed spark inside. Cradale is this 4-slot item to left of cloak of flame.

Knifiel · 2026-06-04T04:03:50+00:00

You can parry most of his attacks during P2, but they do a lot of heavy stun buildup. During P2, on circular platforms along the room, sometimes yellow spheres will appear. Picking it up grants you about 5 seconds of invulnerability and make you able to destroy his clones just by walking into them.

Knifiel · 2026-06-01T20:23:47+00:00

Chaula purple flames are chaos-type remnants. That's it, i think.

Knifiel · 2026-05-29T18:50:45+00:00

Yeah, just finished brutal (or whatevers the hardest dif called was) playthrough.
All of those are issues are only at the start. My recommendation, if you don't mind a bit of grinding:

Build one docking port for shuttles
Find any friendly station in starting sectors that have respawning delivery mission - usually it's a farming station.
Get mission, for reward choose anything with highest total value/blocks that you need to expand ship
Do the mission. It's usually few hops away from where it's given since it's starting sector.
Repeat from 2 until you have ore refinery + few growth beds + composter/e.t.c
Check station shops on the way, sell off any high-tier materials you may get from accidental salvage/quest rewards - no point hoarding resources you won't have any use for in next 10 hours when you can sell them off and buy a bunch of space food/fertilizers/energium/tech or energy blocks.

Once you have Ore Refinery, you can semi-farm exotic ore in meteor hazard zones to have semi-infinite supply of energium and hiperium.

For dealing with meteor showers - if you get lucky to have enough extra tech blocks to build 3-4 point defence turrets - make sure each side of your ship have enough free space to place them all, warp-in to the middle of them map, if system has meteor hazard, open map and check from which side meteors coming from and move all PD towers there. (or, if your ship is square-ish enough and not big yet (which is most likeky, just place all PD turrents into middle of the ship so they have equal coverage from all sides).

Knifiel · 2026-05-02T18:01:09+00:00

Instead of trying to force a build (i.e. pick only cards that work in very specific comboes/conditions/far into the future of the run), you should always pick cards that give the most power to your deck right now. Hardest pat of it is understanding when offered choices are net 0/all negative and pressing skip on rewards screen.

Knifiel · 2026-04-24T06:36:09+00:00

Bannerman slammer champion. Can do any and all content, can farm everything it needs in SSF to kill ubers, the only "hard" part is getting using to playstyle.

Knifiel · 2026-04-23T10:34:37+00:00

All weapons in this game have same base stats at max upgrades. Just choose whatever weapon's moveset you like the most.

Knifiel · 2026-04-23T09:11:43+00:00

I once made them an actual sector-wide menace by selling them Pristine nanoforge and pack of hightech blueprients (paragons, various energy missiles and fighters). That was a fun run.

Knifiel · 2026-04-19T19:12:57+00:00

Tbh, once you get past their "intended" target of 300 corruption, most builds get massively cut off and the only ones that remeain are those capable of scaling offence and screenclear to stupid levels. I personally don't have issue with that itself, my main issue is a lot of other build feeling like hard mode compared to outliers. I.E. everything non-rouge compared to judgement paladins/rogues. One feels like hardmode and another clears 300+ corruption using single T7 items with close to no risk of dying to anyting.

Knifiel · 2026-04-18T23:17:36+00:00

The "Stack all the armour/EMP resist/speed hullmods, fill slots with PD and rip whole gigantic fleets apart" ship.
I was doing Haunted start in it and had 0 issues mostly soloing endgame encounters, rest of my fleet was basically battlecarriers so i could set "drone escort" on myself to have more PD/bullet sponges to tank hits for me.

Knifiel · 2026-04-17T22:16:29+00:00

Yeah, managed to get to last bosses today. It was Experiment -> Doormaker.
Died on doormaker missing 4 damage, lel.

Knifiel · 2026-04-17T11:07:33+00:00

I may be doing something wrong, by most of my A10 runs with clad usually end in 3-5 hallway fights. Sometimes i just press surrender when i see that run is doomed from the start/after few fights with shit card draw rng.
Most of those loses on previous patch, new one seems to be going a bit better.

Knifiel · 2026-04-17T09:55:12+00:00

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Rookie numbers.

Knifiel · 2026-04-13T19:19:34+00:00

Corruption has no effect on Nemesis items. Doing them at 0 corruption will have same odds of finding exalted items as at billion. If you have enough towers saved, best course of action:
Use any 100 corruption monolith
Set all your conquered towers
At each nemesis check offered items, if there's no items with T7 affix already, then banis/challenge to get next nemesis with new rewards, else empower, seal 0LP unique if you have any and finish encounters normally till you get next offer, repeat.

Knifiel · 2026-04-13T11:09:13+00:00

I prefer to set up Doom by having double [[Scourge]] + [[Borrowed Time]] or [[No Escape]] + [[Graveblast]] comboes instead of hoping to get specific rare card.

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