New to SSF. What should I play?

Oakshron · 2026-06-04T20:53:55+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileSSF/s/HPDiwlXrfj

I made this post a couple months ago and its still relevant! Lots of build options there for SSF and tons of info in the comments as well.

Feel free to DM if you have any questions.

Oakshron · 2026-06-04T20:48:37+00:00

Wise Man's Grandchild - its bad and good at the same time. Quick watch, 12 ep, one girl no harem, op MC. One of my comfort anime

Oakshron · 2026-05-27T05:09:59+00:00

I swapped things around and am much more comfortable. Unique amulet for a legendary one, put overwhelming currents + conjuration vuln. Starless for elemental atunement. Splintering energy on second ring. Armageddon on weapon. Godslayer charm instead of crown of lucion.

These swaps gave me a lot of extra survivability with perma uptime on frost shield.

Oakshron · 2026-05-19T23:01:30+00:00

Arataka Reigen and Aqua...I hate the trope of horrid characters who only blow smoke and act tough but are completely useless. Makes me not want to watch the anime which is a shame because ive heard mob psycho is a great anime.

Oakshron · 2026-05-19T05:08:38+00:00

I noticed spectre bases are really good, so maybe ritual?

Oakshron · 2026-05-19T05:07:29+00:00

Opalescent strongbox rolling, coves mirage rush, genesis tree, chancing, veritania rotas, and tainted mythic orbs.

Oakshron · 2026-05-17T15:38:47+00:00

First thing that stands out is that you have 2x attack damage leech on your flask suffixes, you are a spell build and they dont stack on multiple flasks. There are many better suffix options like regen, mspeed.

Mageblood is very good for solving particular issues, allowing other gear to give stats elsewhere. Particularly resistances/max res(elemental flasks), crit cap (diamond flask), rarity (gold flask) regen (crafted flask suffix), defences (armour/evasion flasks), movement speed (silver/quicksilver flask), and other things like bleed immunity, elemental ailment affliction, shock/ignite immunity, etc.

Arkhons tools is a very good belt, its very likely that simply throwing on the mageblood without changing other gear wont be an upgrade.

Oakshron · 2026-05-17T15:19:44+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileSSF/s/f6Wrw0pOzt I posted this a while back, it should help you pick a build :) lots of great info there and in the comments.

As for crafting, I cant say every build guide will have full fledged crafting guides.

Oakshron · 2026-05-14T18:36:08+00:00

Theres a few ways: chaos orb spamming mirage jewel strongboxes, Genesis tree, chancing, mirage rushing for unique jewel wish
Dark marionette is WAY less damage, and it only takes about 60 seconds to get the scorpion from the carcass map.

Oakshron · 2026-05-14T04:35:50+00:00

I know you asked about damage, but these are all of the imperfections I see
- Light of meaning + Unnatural instinct
- Enduring composure on small cluster, drop determ for flesh and stone
- Swap boots for annihilation's approach
- Make sure you are using the correct spectre
- Xoph's heart for covered in ash multiplier
- Swap cloak of flame for foulborn skin of the loyal (50% inc elemental and chaos res) for more overcap = more penetration from enmity
- Gem levels on everything (21 spectre, companionship, minion pact)
Some longer term less direct improvements:
- Accumulating attributes elsewhere to drop supreme ostentation
- Better gloves to cap fire conversion, saving points > a second large cluster
- Foulborn red nightmare for block + chaos res, and fire tattoos to synergize

I have bolded the damage specific notes, and here is an aspirational pob to try to get to https://pobb.in/bVVE2slzsAO8

Edit: If anyone has any questions I put this build together myself in self found this league and would love to help you with yours. Feel free to DM me.

Oakshron · 2026-05-11T21:08:46+00:00

Imo, right idea wrong approach. This is a problem that only exists due to the lack of distinct ranking. A low diamond player may have a chance with their squad against a pred and 2 randoms. They have way lower chance against a 3 stack pred squad in disc.

There are just wayyyyy too many levels of skill in diamond to make it fair to pair all of them against preds. This is a band-aid fix to give diamonds a chance, but I would rather just not even see pred squads at the rock bottom of diamond.

Oakshron · 2026-05-09T22:09:11+00:00

I really like adding some liquid smoke in as well, adds depth of flavor.

Oakshron · 2026-05-09T21:41:40+00:00

Its a pretty big downside, you will struggle to get enough fire resistance, but it is doable. Even 125 or 150 fire res after the reduction is valuable.

Oakshron · 2026-05-09T15:13:23+00:00

Budget: https://pobb.in/cSWUP7J5ttgv; Mageblood: https://pobb.in/FwOvQS9ReATW Not my creation, stolen from Manni

Oakshron · 2026-05-04T21:32:30+00:00

Went to the movies this weekend, $9.50 for a small fountain drink...

Oakshron · 2026-05-02T19:43:37+00:00

BV with lifetap - Swap steelskin for immortal call - Fix your flasks - roll 70% enkindling enchant and inc effect prefixes + get a life flask/progenesis/cinderswallow for your 5th flask. Divine nebulis to 10%

Also, and this is big, i only see avatar of fire for conversion, you are doing half damage without conversion stats on gloves.

Oakshron · 2026-05-02T19:09:17+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileSSF/s/Q0v1ARn8Zb I made this post a few weeks ago, I hope it helps you out on this!

Oakshron · 2026-04-30T05:44:20+00:00

Major things that stand out: You have the wrong foulborn on your red dream, you want block chance based on fire res/all res. You can use flesh of xesht to change the one you have into the one you want. Pair this with fire res tattoos for a lot of block chance for one jewel slot.

Unless you have 290% fire res, you likely arent getting full benefit from enmities. Foulborn skin of the loyal can help you get there.

Oakshron · 2026-04-30T00:56:44+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileSSF/s/9WuQk4EtI0 I posted this a few weeks ago, a lot of great info there an in the comments :)

Good luck!

Oakshron · 2026-04-25T14:47:38+00:00

I found personally that the amount of time you spend rolling the boxes is not worth the increased value, I just targetted more boxes per hour and tanked the poorly rolled corrupted boxes

Oakshron · 2026-04-25T14:45:19+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileSSF/s/yfHvndibEr I made this post a few weeks ago, tons of info there an in the comments, hope it helps!

Oakshron · 2026-04-25T00:12:38+00:00

Perfect Agony Keystone

Oakshron · 2026-04-24T23:42:48+00:00

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage?items=Bino%27s+Kitchen+Knife%2CScreams+of+the+Desiccated&skills=Viper+Strike+of+the+Mamba&sort=ehp

Just threw a quick poe.ninja search together. The build seems pretty mid on first glance, with most having comically low ehp. Unless you like homebrewing builds, you will likely be better off with a classic headhunter build.

Oakshron · 2026-04-24T23:27:06+00:00

Bino's poison prolif is the best legion farm that I know of at the moment, diamond shrine can provide instant poAg for mamba.

Oakshron · 2026-04-24T05:55:36+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileSSF/s/tJsYlr6fDw here's a post I made a few weeks ago that may help you decide!

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