How is ssf going for u guys/girls? ^^

PS4 console player just hit maps after my character was unplayable after socketing a Creeping Frost gem...anyway Arcanist Brand with Shock Nova feels enjoyable. Crappy gear so far but levelled quite fast.

6linked the axe at 46 quality with around 400 fuses
Need to fix myself 15-20 silver coins to finish the last pale court prophecy chain.... then let hell go loose and pray for good mastercraft percentages so I won't need to farm divinula rasa divination cards

So hard to roll rings, going to keep this one and will wait for the life craft change

Vanguard set looking good on marauders


Kinda feel like I will need some extra beef for uber bosses, not a fan of the brass dome, but this build could actually be very good with it

Doing great, finished 10k map tiers today and got couple of crafts finished




hoping to get some progress on boots tomorrow

OK I thought multimod does not count to be in the 3 modifiers...

Well now I need to really get the add/remove speed crafts... a lot of it and then craft quality on it -.-

At least I learnt something new, the dmg boost should still be worth it for now

I started completely fresh in HC SSF because Harvest is pure trash. It's Synthesis all over again for me, only worse.

I just finished farming to get a

Thought I'd share my strategy and stats, though it wasn't a super optimized approach.

Maps run:

• t9 Shipyard x 117
• t8 Port x 52 (a lot of these just alch-and-go to get more Shipyards)
• t11 Wharf x 18

Took a couple of evenings to complete.

I dropped at least one card in all 3 maps. The final count came to 3 in Wharf, 1 in Port, 5 in Shipyard.

For the majority of the maps I had the following atlas bonus:

Map bonus: 144/154
Awakening bonus: 28/154
Awakenening level 5

I put one watchstone in Lex Ejoris so Shipyard was the only t9. I'm not too familiar with the new favourite system and atlas so I had one favourite slot for both Shipyard and Port though I guess the Shipyard one is redundant if it's the only t9?

I put 3 watchtones in Tirn's End for t11 Wharf and had two favourite slots assigned to it. I was hoping to get enough +2 tier drops of it in Shipyard but as you can see that didn't really happen and it wasn't really sustainable. I ended up running Shipyard for the majority, falling back to Port to get more Shipyards if I ran out.

Where possible I was chiseling to 20% qual, using 1 sacrifice fragment, and sextanting for 8 additional mobs. I was dropping pacts really quickly when fully juiced: I dropped 3 within 30 minutes at one point, and then another 2 dropped in back-to-back maps (literally a minute apart).

1 dropped in a Delirium encoutner, 1 in a Legion, 2 in breaches, and the others from mobs or bosses. So you definitely want to run all the encounters.

I did run out of chisels and even chaos to buy more from Zana, so I wish I had been collecting gavels/rock breakers. When I resorted to alch-and-go there was a long wait for the last card. So you definitely want to fully juice the maps. Map sustain also got more difficult without juicing.

I did try to sustain Shipyard+Port at an earlier map completion (134/154, A4) but it seems the Awakening Level is really important for the favourite map system to kick in. Once I hit A5 and a bit more completion things were more sustainable.

Since I dropped 2 in breaches, it may be worth using scarabs for this. Do this on Wharf if possible though since it is more open, whereas Shipyard has more stuff blocking you.

I dropped a Lucky Connections when I brought the Delirium mobs into my garden, so I guess the Pact can drop there too. So always do the Delirium mobs in your garden!

That's about it. For anyone else trying this, good luck and remember to juice those maps!

EDIT: Forgot to say, I had +27% quan on my gear, so not a huge amount.
EDIT 2: Just realized you can also vendor 3xPort for a Shipyard.

Need to craft a better axe but all in all have had some good rng this league :)

On the subject of running for div cards... how often does the Brine King drop the card for Tidebreaker? Is it feasible to run him for cards with the currency penalty?

@Shags - The div card *should* still drop from the Crab (I believe) but it may be better to farm Reef tileset maps.

Finally got my 6L from a Vaal side area.

and replaced my helm.