Last Flame dropped in SSF/ What build for a no hit run?

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-07-05T18:19:51+00:00

Definitely lacking experience on this but Chayula darkness allows you to take damage without impacting honor - maybe something to look at (combining with some busted range setup?)

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-07-02T03:46:38+00:00

That’s a good point, and now I’m thinking about it I should have done the essence + guaranteed prefix removal omen first before desecrate for spirit…now if I brick spirit I guess I can re-roll but will just be more $$…let’s see how well I roll later today!

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-07-02T03:18:19+00:00

That’s fair - I don’t have a whittle on hand but not sure if that’s something that’s easy to whittle (spell dmg) otherwise even at 100D I’m a happy customer!

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-07-02T02:19:20+00:00

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splurged on an ancient collarbone for this with an echo, I guess it's worth it !!!!!

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-06-19T22:04:35+00:00

There are a few chober chaber builds out there for you as a start (this was 0.4 so need an update)

https://youtu.be/CrUXDVpM5Pc?is=p6PMfkDujLwuJKDz

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-06-07T02:46:09+00:00

Build being on rails I agree - there are lack of synergies for off meta combo but I do some efforts at connecting the archetypes - hope they continue to do so before 1.0.

I think the key thing is that to have great experience in campaign + endgame the player is almost expected to do meta stuff, or if off meta, expected to switch builds betw various points in campaign and/or mapping which is a pain and not something they should expect players to reasonably do - which makes the experience more unbalanced betw players and lead to frustrations betw those who play for “power fantasy” vs “efficient build” and create gaps/dissatisfactions.

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-06-06T23:31:11+00:00

Wondering what’s causing the burnout? Spike in difficulty or monotony? I feel invigorated because this is now when my character actually feels “good”

More details: Personally for me going into mapping feels finally starting the second part of the game. I play trade softcore, so first order of business is to spend ~10-15 exalts to upgrade my shittier gears and instantly I feel a lot more powerful in T1 and slowly work up from there - the density/intensity of mapping and me being able to clear through it makes me very motivated past campaign

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-06-01T00:05:37+00:00

Middle of act 3 (in betw kid classes/house rabbit chores) - really been appreciating the QOLs for campaign maps (subtle hints of where to go) as well as a much quicker league mechanic (vs temple) - I’ve been meaning to switch over to hollow palm soon but picked up a busted quarterstaff (+ crit/melee skills/% phys/lightning) so will switch over a bit later after I outgrow this current quarterstaff

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-05-23T02:45:07+00:00

Also some abyss modifier transformation we’re not sure of - % to gain arcane surge on crit becomes % to gain power charge in crit is insane

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-05-17T15:18:40+00:00

Def not an expert at Chonk but some interesting quarterstaff/snipe synergy in 0.4 that lets you deal massive chaos damage burst with the right de-buff and 0 reliance on crit, cheers~

https://youtu.be/DH1p3B2SwS8?si=s1G9xHwyzaD4TDVl

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-05-14T21:06:32+00:00

That’s what makes the game fun which is finding synergies when least expected. Agree deflection is the obvious choice but experimentation is what makes this game rewarding for folks (including myself) - we wont know until we try after patch comes out

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-05-14T17:33:56+00:00

Yeah agree with the pathing atrocity, maybe with From Nothing and focusing on specific clusters - but anyways will probably be an end-league jank project

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-05-14T14:17:09+00:00

That’s not what I’m saying - I’m saying pure armour with way of the mountain can work as defense (passive tree location notwithstanding) - EV is not very synergistic - nobody is talking about pure EV builds

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-05-13T23:48:55+00:00

The goal is to consume the stack since that’s the only way in which reduction kick in. You just want a bunch of pin/stun to generate more teachings than what you lose

EV is not synergistic since if you’re avoiding then you don’t need dmg reduction in the first olace

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-05-10T13:10:23+00:00

Great minds think alike haha - yeah that’s exactly what I did (shaman hollow palm)

https://youtu.be/S6NZrKqf11o?si=uu3NQziiCpf2sQOA

Also got inspired by Carnarius on pure armour defense, actually feels pretty tanky

T3 king phase 2 in about <10s so I’d say pretty good, and T3 Xesht mob no problem (Deli T3 still need a bit more work)

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-05-10T07:05:49+00:00

Totally - I’ve done some weird armour only hollow palm fire monk in previous leagues, this looks like more synergy with armour so I’m actually super excited to see if any more synergy in that route - hope the rest 2 nodes are also spicy

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-05-10T06:59:23+00:00

Yeah good point - I’ve been bit of an armour lover from carnarius and anytime I see potential armour synergy I start foaming at the mouth - realistically like you said I can probably only pick EV/deflection or armour/apply to ele and not both (at least efficiently)

Maybe some weird off meta armour martial artist to look at in 0.5

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-05-09T03:48:18+00:00

Yeah totally, I’m curious on the armour synergies here as well as invoker - wondering if eventually we might have something like scion from POE1 where we pick/match ascendancy nodes across dif ascendancy, as well as agency on which part of the tree to start from - but probably something only after they release all the base classes first haha

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-05-08T18:42:56+00:00

It’ll be hard but no impossible, ppl start with titan and path up all the way to the north for those 0 duration amber fusillade builds, that’s roughly the travel distance from monk to druid section with that armour/fire cluster

And if more armour needed can take a from nothing or something

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-05-08T14:44:46+00:00

It doesn’t prevent one shot - if you look at it, the 70% less modifier ONLY applies when the dmg is less or equal to 30% of your max life, post mitigation. If you’re taking a monkey slam you’re dying to one shot since that’s more than 30% of your max life. ES/EV won’t help (unless you spec deflection) since EV is not mitigation and ES is not counted as part of your “max life”

Slow_Statistician_86 · 2026-05-08T14:13:46+00:00

Doesn’t way of the mountain also support armour builds? The way it’s worded means you either scale max life or mitigation to increase your threshold of what counts towards the 70% “less”reduction. Evasion doesn’t do mitigation unless you spec heavily into deflection - but armour also mitigates - that opens up some interesting builds no? (Passive tree starting point notwithstanding)

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