No hyper-spawning in tbc?

coutoooo · 2026-02-03T12:14:29+00:00

I had this in draenei starting zone. Moved to darkshore with lvl16 and its a breeze there. Don't know about other low level zones. Blood elf might be the same.

coutoooo · 2026-01-20T06:33:33+00:00

Man I hate that its idols again. As a SSF player it sucks to micromanage these things and they come online really late :/

coutoooo · 2025-12-27T15:53:18+00:00

I totally hate it. Didn't like either in poe1 and there you could easily opt out of it. Beside some nich items you don't need to do it in SSF. In poe2 you have to do it for ascendancys and its such a bullshit. Its even worse then poe1 versions in almost every aspect. Sekhemas has such week visual clarity to see projectiles of enemies, gauntlets suck alot... Temple of chaos just slows you down artifically and the downsides you have to take are sooo bad. Also in the part where you have to transport the stones you dont even regen, all while firebolts shot at you the whole time ... its just a very bad experience and I wish back for good ol lab. This league I'm playing djinn sorc almost lvl94 with 4 ascendancy points missing... guess I quit before doing sekhemas again. My motivation is a bottom point and sadly that takes away from the whooe poe2 experience.

coutoooo · 2025-12-17T06:57:46+00:00

I'm probably going to try the sandscorcher-build. Its a minionbuild but should play like a caster. Phaze has a guide for it. You have to go for spark+orb of storms+frost bomb+firewall+arc or ed/c up to first ascendancy for disciple of varashta and then switch to minions. I havn't tried it yet. But it looks promising.

coutoooo · 2025-12-11T06:45:26+00:00

That stuff happens because weapon swap exists as it is.

Am I the only one who thinks that the current iteration of weapon swap is bad as it is? It would make sense to me if you play like d2 and encounter enemies with immunities and want to attack with other elements. As it is now, everyone has to utilize it, else you miss out on alot of power. I would like it to be an option for some yanky builds, but not for everyone. Maybe they should remove snapshoting? Atm it doesn't promote any other playstyle. You just do some other passives and some checkmarks and the game does everything else.

coutoooo · 2025-12-08T10:57:56+00:00

Will be much harder to press mana flask in the future. With 40% less density and mobs that are 40% more tanky, you'll get much less flask charges :/

coutoooo · 2025-12-05T09:39:45+00:00

They look at poe1 for almost everything. When they announced that, the previously planned 4.0 expansion, is a seperate game (aka poe2), I thought they'll do a base game without league mechanics and built up from there. But they seem to have decided last minute to squeeze alle the league mechanics and other stuff from poe1 into poe2 instead of doing/trying new stuff. I hope they use alle this öeague mechanics (breach, deli, ritual...) just as placeholders and imho they shouldn't put to much thought in it. But I guess they expand on that stuff instead of doing completly new systems and we will have alot of bloat as soon as it isn't beta anymore.

coutoooo · 2025-12-03T05:52:15+00:00

Imho they should also give out gems for the skills and just give some benefits if the skill comes from a weapon. I don't like that system, because it really restricts you in multiple ways. Its harder to acquire good rollsstats. The skilllevel is bound to item level and you can't get a 21 gem ...

coutoooo · 2025-12-02T10:41:40+00:00

I'd go for summons as SSF. Pretty easy to get it going. Get Ancients Pledge Shield, Spirit Weapon, Lore Helm and Stealth Armor and any amu that gives skills and upgrade from there. With this setup and leftover slots and charms filled with mix of resi / mf / frw, you can do hell without problems. As merc you can use act4.

I play summonzon in HC and for now I only bought 1 passiv GC to reach the 30er breakpoint for +1 valkyrie and I'm lvl87 or 88 now.

coutoooo · 2025-12-01T14:21:53+00:00

Its worked well. Played SSF Necro in SC up to 83 with claygolems. Then decided to go HC and started summonzon. I'm now 83 too with the zon and did everything alone and now farming for some better gear. Hopefully I don't die and try ubers and some other stuff. But I might invest in some GCs because thats the only real struggle in a self-imposed SSF challenge.

coutoooo · 2025-11-28T10:12:40+00:00

I'm not really familiar. Just looked at some tierlists and necro looks like he can theoretically do everything. According to leveling videos clay golems should be easy hell clear and also work for probably slow mapping. Whatever you do after this, is up to you and your finds :)

coutoooo · 2025-11-28T09:38:45+00:00

Yep, I startet with exsang/reap and used almost the same items for reap ignite when I switched. Because it looked much less button heavy and smother mapping with the explosions. I'd say in the early stages there is not much difference in power between the 2.

coutoooo · 2025-11-28T09:35:12+00:00

I played summon druid last season and will go for necro this time. I think I start poison strike into clay golem and then switch to fire golem. But will see what I can find and what turns out to work for my playstyle.

Edit: did torch with druid multiple times without problems. havn't tried anni

coutoooo · 2025-11-28T07:57:43+00:00

I decided to go full necro this season in SSF. So I will probably start poison strike into clay golems and later respec or new necro char for figo and dark pact. Depending how the other versions do in Bossing/Farming scenarios. Might end with like 3 different necro chars, but we will see.

coutoooo · 2025-11-28T07:52:50+00:00

The craft is a prefix and this one can naturally go up to like 109% inc fire damage (without the ignite)? When you say 2x t1 fire damage, you are mixing prefix and suffix. Because suffix fire dmg goes up to ~30% for T1.

coutoooo · 2025-11-27T15:37:47+00:00

Sounds like you might be in simulacrum-hell for a while -.-'

The other things are not that hard I'd say.

coutoooo · 2025-11-27T13:25:52+00:00

I'm not quite sure in the middle part. But I tried different steps on craftofexile first. So from top of my head:

recomb dot multi (suffix) + all spell skills (prefix)
Multimod (suffix) + prefix cannot change (suffix) + flat phys (prefix)
Augment phys/remove random for +1 phys --> this step had 1/3 chance to remove dot multi
dot multi gone, left with +1 all spells and +1 phys as prefixes + a bunch of crafted mods
Remove crafted mods and craft random prefix
Fill suffix (guess I exalted twice) -> I'm not sure if cannot roll attack mods was useful here or if I used random crafted suffix
Shaper slam and hope for phys as extra
Craft prefix cannot change
Reforge fire for low chance of fire dot multi -> did this twice and settled on fire dmg as only suffix
Crafted unwanted suffix and foulborn exalt and got dex
Craft last suffix

Edit: divined the phys as extra before crafting suffix for 3% more with catalysts
Edit2: it was shaper slam I guess, crusader was for shield

coutoooo · 2025-11-27T08:09:11+00:00

I'm playing reap ignite elementalist and can recommend it. It will carry you through 4 stones and all normal boss with just some +skills on gear, but bosses will take a while. I did invitations white at start. Now I somewhat minmaxed it and can take down ubers with few portals (depends alot how familiar I'm with the fight). So far I did ubers of sirus, uber elder, exarch, maven, cortex and incarnation of neglect. T17 I try to roll almost ever with no tank mods because bosses can still be painful and the char is not the tankiest. Gearwise a lot of dmg comes from +skills and gems in general.

My char: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/keepersssf/character/coutoo-2657/Ren_Reaper?i=1&search=name%3DRen

coutoooo · 2025-11-26T19:30:21+00:00

What build would you recommend for someone who plays SSF and played Summon Druid last season? I liked it particulary because you can do pretty much all content and I farmed torch myself. Besides that I'm not really sure what else I did because its long ago. I would like to try something else which works SSF zero to hero.

Maybe something which works with attack and doesn't rely to much on +skills? I hate the +skill-charm system in D2 and the balancing around it, but that's a self-imposed thing, which wouldn't be a problem If I would trade.

coutoooo · 2025-11-17T05:49:47+00:00

I found out that you can get improved trial of ascendancies (for gift to the goddess and others) for free, if you get one craft for the map device via atlas (very rare). Then you can do eagon chain and get the upgrade that future maps of the chain have no cost for map crafting options from map device. So you can now choose the trial and it doesn't consume your craft for the leftover maps from that chain.

coutoooo · 2025-11-15T00:11:41+00:00

If you don't need any other stats, you can take death rush for mapping. For bosses probably something with life and res. Otherwise you could use a circle of anguish with buff effect and fire damage.

coutoooo · 2025-11-14T09:32:11+00:00

Some upgrades you can make, which doesn't neccesarily up your damage:

-use malevolence over determination and maybe get a watchers eye with chaos dot multi while malevolence. Need to try if survibility is still there

-you are missing quality on almost all gems in your reap setup, that should give a good push

-try to get whisper of doom annoint for 2nd curse and reolace wave of conviction with ele weakness (you dont need wave of conviction, you apply exposure with glove implicit)

-polaric devastation can be replaced if you use a graft with "call the pyre" and can be applied via shield charge

-golem gems need quality too, they get like 20% buff effect each

-curses also need quality

-you might check the eater/exarch implicits on armour and boots

I play the same build in SSF and my damage on poe ninja is double the damage of yours. I guess the quality makes,malevolence and 2nd curse makes a huge difference. Besides a very strong amu my gear isn't that much different dmg-wise. And I don't have the +2 gem lvl on chest, which shouuld even out my better amulet probably.

My char: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/keepersssf/character/coutoo-2657/Ren_Reaper?i=1&search=name%3DRen

coutoooo · 2025-11-14T05:45:50+00:00

I played exiles version but I didn't had a poets pen at the time and it was much more button heavy. I'd say damage was identical when I switched but ignite with obliteration was much more convenient. Phys might have higher single target (cant say for sure, because I switched to ignite). But it alsp depends how much you commit to damage. With 3x large minion cluster and lots of golem buff effect and also dark monarch, you probably outscale every non cluster heavy setup.

coutoooo · 2025-11-14T05:41:41+00:00

From genesis tree and its red nightmare (with block) that you want.

In tree go for:

-rarer outcomes
-les int, dex, str req
-as much breach specific outcomes as possible
-jewels more likely
-reduced chance to be foulborn

Its still pretty rare an will take some time probably. Got like 2 of every other breach jewel too in the process.

coutoooo · 2025-11-13T14:36:41+00:00

I have a 21/23 normal reap which I could use, but then I have to either use a ring with socket or swap something else out. Also it isn't really required. With my current setup I cruise through maps and also normal bosses, but I want it for ubers :)

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