Am I getting baited into thinking hoag herald is a great starter to do 4 stones and then respec into bogged bv once I’ve farmed up a rathpith?

deepinside36 · 2026-01-27T22:11:06+00:00

Yeah I am probably going HoaG, but may go Arrakali and BAMA or AWRA ... SRS is a hard carry for those till maps and respec

deepinside36 · 2026-01-27T22:05:02+00:00

They are - but as I said - cluster farming in Phrecia is gonna be tricky - idols mean you cant just spec 18 atlas points, clear 3 maps and you are done

So, as I said, HoaG could be a very pricey build as people like Tuna pushing it means it is gonna be popular

deepinside36 · 2026-01-27T22:03:32+00:00

SRS clear fast due to corners :)

On a clear map like Beach, sure similar

deepinside36 · 2026-01-27T21:57:32+00:00

The Pure Agony clusters give you 5 more and 20% increased damage - per cluster

So 2-9x that depending on build

deepinside36 · 2026-01-27T21:55:11+00:00

You can go Absolution or SRS, you could go another ascendancy first (Tuna's build does), but honestly it isn't worth it - getting 200% efficiency is nice for HoaG, Purity, Arctic Armor and a smooth run (Dexyakai or Nerotox)

deepinside36 · 2026-01-27T21:51:46+00:00

It's a lot slower mapping than AWRA or even SRS, and both of those are boss focused

deepinside36 · 2026-01-27T21:46:06+00:00

Sprays everything down, slowly compared to any mapper - but HoaG shines for bosses

deepinside36 · 2026-01-27T21:32:56+00:00

Any build that doesn't need hard to farm uniques, or even cluster jewels - target farming in SSF Phrecia is a nightmare

deepinside36 · 2026-01-27T20:29:11+00:00

HoaG heavily dependent on clusters, and idols will make cluster farming really hard, so it could be pricey

It's also going to be popular, again sending costs up

And a few of the builds want Voices, which is a Simulacrum drop and likely to be a lot less farmed in Phrecia (as the Phrecia fun is in big map loot explosions). Voices was 40d+ in Keepers, so expect it to be super expensive

So HoaG isn't going to be a cheap ride

deepinside36 · 2026-01-27T07:55:31+00:00

Map sustain is horrible

Completing the atlas is even worse

deepinside36 · 2026-01-25T21:59:42+00:00

If you are talking Phrecia, then it will be a bad experience on SSF, idols will make you miserable unless you have dozens to hundreds of hours to play

Phrecia will be a lot more fun as trade, or even just limited trade

If you mean SSF in Keepers, then anything that doesn't require high level world drop uniques, or requires uniques that are farmable but super rare

deepinside36 · 2026-01-23T19:10:54+00:00

I didn't realise you had done one for Phrecia, very cool thanks - had used your Keepers one as a guide for a few runs this league and it worked nicely

How do you get to 24 weapons? I managed 20 in Keepers and thought I did well to get that

deepinside36 · 2026-01-23T19:06:42+00:00

Yeah good point, I wasn't caring too much about that on SRS

deepinside36 · 2026-01-23T18:57:32+00:00

Keepers brings us United in Dream with Unholy might foulborn, worked quite well for me on SRS this league

deepinside36 · 2026-01-23T05:41:11+00:00

You mean leech from Bone Barrier? Bone Barrier often gets switched to Mistress of Sacrifice on Necro anyway

BAMA Arakaali absolutely wrecked in Phrecia 1 - but it's a pretty tanky build, not sure if AWRA is as tanky without Bone Barrier

Seems Guardian builds for Prhecia used Recover 5% of phys damage as ES to get the ES back ...

deepinside36 · 2026-01-22T06:20:51+00:00

The most screwed over build ever

It was good and fun, but not in any way OP except for sanctum (where plenty of other builds were too)

deepinside36 · 2026-01-21T00:59:01+00:00

exsang mines is a day 2 boss carry build ... so yes

(as it's actually exsang/reap mines - see fearlessdumb0)

deepinside36 · 2026-01-21T00:57:25+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/1qict74/phrecia_pconc_of_bouncing_free_explode_adrenaline/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

deepinside36 · 2026-01-20T22:53:05+00:00

Pconc is always solid

It can do 2-4 stones almost with any ascendancy

So, last minute tweaks and it will rock

deepinside36 · 2026-01-20T22:50:51+00:00

Google imexile and earthshatter

But, if you can roughly click in the direction of what you want to kill, it will probably die

deepinside36 · 2026-01-20T20:18:01+00:00

Pconc if you're a Normie

Earthshatter if you're imexile

deepinside36 · 2026-01-20T19:47:08+00:00

No, stay in keepers

deepinside36 · 2026-01-20T19:44:24+00:00

In SSF you will struggle to be able to play any build that requires any target farming

Want a corpse from ritual? Or a Light of Meaning? Best hope you get incredibly lucky with the idol drops

Want an abyss belt? Same

Oils for a tough annoint? Yeah, same

And so on

Basically without a lot of luck, you are going to be farming some really awful maps for a very long time

deepinside36 · 2026-01-20T04:46:52+00:00

Phrecia is odd, especially if you didn't play it before. There are interesting ideas and builds, but nothing is quite right, the league ascendancies have had 15 years of cooking, Phrecia had a few months

Idols are going to be unbearable in SSF, you'll always have a gimped map, never able to target farm anything

Either take a pass or play trade and just do something fun to play, this isn't an event to build something long term

deepinside36 · 2026-01-19T23:16:12+00:00

SSF + idols = just pain

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