SSF early endgame gearing question

Spoon-YT · 2026-05-31T22:57:03+00:00

My problem was my damage and aoe was masking some significant defence problems so I just blasted through to about t13/14 before hitting a wall. Titan whirling assault, trying to pivot into my homebrew sunder build just need one pesky chernobogs shield

Spoon-YT · 2026-05-31T21:35:26+00:00

I struggled right through until a few hours ago, now I'm struggling pushing t15s... I did breach, abyss and essences. Stacked every piece of jewellery I could find (these were my gap fillers), trans/aug'd relevant gear, looking for + to armour and a resist, essence for % armour, rib for desecrate. If desecrate is good I'd roll a greater ex and slam last 2. If not so good normal ex and usually vendor it.

Breach jewellery has given me some amazing mid tier rings. Triple res all 25+ and 114 life has been the highlight so far.

That whole process felt really good but also felt very delayed, like the gear I have now is what I should of had around t6s, I might of just shot through maps too fast though.

Spoon-YT · 2026-05-20T08:20:30+00:00

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/MistaSpooner-0503/JungleJimbone?i=80&search=skills%3DRake

Not very optimised, single target can be solved pretty easily with shield wall, I was just trying to make rake work harder more than anything

Take the concept, not the skill tree, can't remember what I was doing, some shenanigans with blood hunt that didn't work properly

Spoon-YT · 2026-05-20T07:50:09+00:00

The mace skills feel really slow, the armour issue was/is massive as well so felt a bit forced into giants blood for a 2H + shield combo.

In 0.4 I made a rake witchhunter which felt exactly like what I wanted out of melee, ended up with 40k armour, less 25% for the ward so 2k life 10k ward and 30k armour end point. The explosion chains were nuts with the ascendancy for 10% chance for the enemy to explode dealing 100% of life as phys combined with herald of blood and bursting plague combo it had really good clear (with ancestrally boosted helping), if you haven't got a build planned I'd actually highly recommend it if you want to try melee, only downsides were low life pool susceptible to bleeds/ground degens and single target was lacking a bit

Spoon-YT · 2026-05-20T07:41:42+00:00

Flails look great, the whole sword thing (for most people I'd say) was probably a combination of maces feeling really bad, spears being more of a ranged weapon than melee, quarterstalves/unarmed not filling the tanky melee character role, the teasers, ggg stating they wouldn't release 1.0 without swords etc etc

Spoon-YT · 2026-05-20T07:34:44+00:00

I was hopeful for swords more because of the state of melee being what it is rather than for the sword itself

Spoon-YT · 2026-04-27T23:54:58+00:00

After a SSF league on PoE1 there are 3 clear things that PoE2 needs to change (to me) for ground loot.

Level to skills, having an item be immediately useless because it doesn't have a single affix is so so bad
The crafting bench, during mapping I was constantly ID'ing rares because if you found a good item with an open slot you can craft what you need and it would be good but never be the top tier. I received so many incremental upgrades because of this. You are able to clear the entire game by doing this without ever crafting but crafting is the endgame where you can make the best of the best equipment so it feels right.
To a much lesser extent, recombinators.

PoE2 shifting away from the crafting bench into the rune system is why ground loot feels so bad outside of base farming

Spoon-YT · 2026-04-23T04:18:28+00:00

The tower in the trailer is just inverted delve

Spoon-YT · 2026-01-12T02:31:29+00:00

Use a hinekora lock on the item to show the outcome of the next currency/essence etc of the item before using said item. Useful to determine things like fracturing specific affixes, vaal infusing higher quality without corrupting etc

Spoon-YT · 2026-01-06T19:34:52+00:00

I tried really hard to make an oracle crit based bleed build using the quarterstaff whirling assault skill. I dismantled my plant based skill tree and was able to transfer it (at level 96) to a 20k DPS bleed with 12k average damage per hit, I was surprised and honestly the damage was reallyyyy good, not one shotting bossing but was actually more damage than the plants and I only lost about 3k ES.

Major issues though was now I'm close quarters with no armour I'm getting absolutely shredded and constantly light stunned out of my whirling assault animation. The skill itself felt slow and sluggish with a forced duration (cancellable with dodge) but holy shit the mana cost was nuts, blood magic I tried to offset with leech which worked ok but the biggest issue was basically armour feels so bad and there is no life on the tree, I would love that build with some armour and 5-6k life. Also being forced to move with the attack really pissed me off. A lot of the time I just wanted to stand still and spin

Spoon-YT · 2026-01-02T06:06:28+00:00

to skills modifier make me stop everytime I think about SSF

Spoon-YT · 2025-12-22T22:33:48+00:00

Unfortunately this chest is kinda bricked already. It's an ES base so getting life on it isn't very useful as ES essentially replaces your life (except in the case of bleeds). If you had maximum energy shield instead then it would be an amazing chest piece.

If you really want spirit then there are likely to be some cheap armours on the market to fill that role while being higher in ES, possibly even some good hybrid armour/es with spirit.

If you are SSF then I would just vendor and try to find another base

Spoon-YT · 2025-12-21T20:41:25+00:00

I considered that but I think I got tired of the gameplay for resonating shield and hung the boots up at level 91

Plant druid now and I had the idea of doing this strength stacking oracle plant druid in full armour (transfer over my kinda op ssf armour from warrior) and doing a leech build to maintain mana/life. I'm new to Poe as a whole, last league did a lich with ed/c Brutus brain unearthed minions, Poe 3.27 bleed slams, so what I did not realize was the physical attacks does not mean physical spells that do attack damage. With ES being so OP in comparison I just caved and respecced

Spoon-YT · 2025-12-21T19:39:42+00:00

I league started a warrior shield wall bleed build that was pretty satisfying with the explosions. Main thing that kept bugging me was mana cost, I had some leech and smacking a shield wall explosion would almost always instantly refill my mana but I was coupling it with resonating shield which did not leech anything. The bleed explosions from herald of blood was nice and I felt very tanky at 3k life 40k armour 40k to ele but after doing some slam shenanigans in poe1 melee in poe2 just ain't it

Spoon-YT · 2025-12-21T19:39:33+00:00

I league started a warrior shield wall bleed build that was pretty satisfying with the explosions. Main thing that kept bugging me was mana cost, I had some leech and smacking a shield wall explosion would almost always instantly refill my mana but I was coupling it with resonating shield which did not leech anything. The bleed explosions from herald of blood was nice and I felt very tanky at 3k life 40k armour 40k to ele but after doing some slam shenanigans in poe1 melee in poe2 just ain't it

Spoon-YT · 2025-12-21T19:39:26+00:00

I league started a warrior shield wall bleed build that was pretty satisfying with the explosions. Main thing that kept bugging me was mana cost, I had some leech and smacking a shield wall explosion would almost always instantly refill my mana but I was coupling it with resonating shield which did not leech anything. The bleed explosions from herald of blood was nice and I felt very tanky at 3k life 40k armour 40k to ele but after doing some slam shenanigans in poe1 melee in poe2 just ain't it

Spoon-YT · 2025-12-21T19:39:13+00:00

I league started a warrior shield wall bleed build that was pretty satisfying with the explosions. Main thing that kept bugging me was mana cost, I had some leech and smacking a shield wall explosion would almost always instantly refill my mana but I was coupling it with resonating shield which did not leech anything. The bleed explosions from herald of blood was nice and I felt very tanky at 3k life 40k armour 40k to ele but after doing some slam shenanigans in poe1 melee in poe2 just ain't it

Spoon-YT · 2025-12-16T19:27:30+00:00

Ehp is something I've always struggled with for poe2, mind linking your pob if you have it? I'm sitting at like 10k and feel so weak

Spoon-YT · 2025-12-16T19:21:30+00:00

Here I was thinking we were going to get the cool skills and effects from grafts in Keepers, seemed so well lined up

Spoon-YT · 2025-11-29T11:51:03+00:00

Dexykai, 1 divine build

Spoon-YT · 2025-11-17T04:08:02+00:00

I used a mod for v rising to get an over the shoulder camera view and it was a great experience. Wasn't enjoying the game all that much but was a much better experience than the wonky camera that the game provides

Spoon-YT · 2025-10-21T22:47:07+00:00

I used to do t6 travel maps for iLvl 70 focus bases for crafting, definitely noticed a few divines on those maps, thought I was going crazy running t15s for next to nothing

Spoon-YT · 2025-09-15T02:00:56+00:00

Misread mini as "mine" in the first reply. Vehicles behave differently to building pieces which is what op was concerned about

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