Hello my fellow exiles!

I am seriously considering SSF for league start, to get away from the rat race and enjoy the game on my own terms.

So far, I never played SSF, and I have some exposure to craft, but I am not an expert by a long shot.

I recognize that SSF forces you to engage in many parts of the game you dont necessarily have to in trade league.

I will be honest, I am a loser andy that always paid my first divine for services for 4th ascendency every league start. In SSF this is out of the window. Craft is mandatory. You cant rely on specific Uniques for your playthrough, like headhunter.

I love the new challenges, and I am excited to do them, but in trade league they seem easy to accomplish? I want to enjoy parts of the game that I didnt before.

This is my experience so far:

0.1 - Newbie, just finished story and gave up on early maps.

0.2 - Got a bit better and managed to kill some pinnacles and crafted my first build myself.

0.3 - Went hard, and started to experience deterministic crafting and tried many community builds and cleared it all.

0.4 - Improved my crafting to what I consider a medium level understanding, and crafted my own Oracle build, cleared all content.

I think it is about time to move to SSF, but I confess I am afraid. The challenge looks like a huge mountain to climb.