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

Struggling. Failed my first run through Eternal Lab on the second Izaro fight. Plus, struggling to level up after hitting level 85. Pretty sure I've been level 85 for several levels now.

I definitely could use some advice on leveling in the 80-100 level range.

Should be able to level up to 88-90 just running low tier maps. From those, you should get gear that's almost good enough to finish the game with... but don't put too much investment in. Work on improving on that gear once you get up into red maps.

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Dnarris wrote:

Struggling. Failed my first run through Eternal Lab on the second Izaro fight. Plus, struggling to level up after hitting level 85. Pretty sure I've been level 85 for several levels now.

I definitely could use some advice on leveling in the 80-100 level range.

Belly of the beast is useless without good rares to support it. your rings, boots and other pieces have no life on them. You are probably doing content for gear you don't own yet.

You need to stay in lower tier maps where you don't die and start crafting better items with seeds. Add life seeds, add/remove affixes on gear you don't need.

Also melee is tough as all of your damage comes from how good your weapons are. Yours aren't great. You need to be grabbing good bases and roll with seeds any thing that reforges a rare. Look for strong prefixes. t1 flat phys or hybrid and craft on those bases using seeds further.

Your character is way to squishy for being melee. You also need to do some research on how to properly scale consecrated path. You are doing hybrid damage half phys, half ele (unless i'm missing your conversion). As a result you are screwing yourself out a quite a bit of mapping. (i.e. can't do ele or phys). Ruthless is crap support for that skill as hit hits slow try phys to lightning as it will make all of your damage ele instead of hybrid.

You may want to look at other consecrated path builds on poe.ninja builds to see what others are doing.

Don't forget to visit Einhar to see if he has any useful uniques

This can literally make or break your SSF run for a league, getting an early headstart with a good pair of movespeed shoes, or a ring like Dream Fragments or Kaom's sign (easy enough to upgrade with prophecy and boosts your charges), or easily targetcraft flasks to cover your weak spots.

Don't feel bad if you HAVE to swap in multiple flasks to mitigate phys or bleed going through say, lab or dealing with Malachai.

Bases: if you need higher level bases, try running WHITE maps a couple tiers above where you're perfectly comfortable, skip boss, just hit ALt and search the ground for white bases high enough to give you better tiers of rolls. Set the seeds from these maps aside and prepare your garden to take better advantage of them later. Remember you're not there for atlas completion or bossing you're just there to get access to 75+ bases. You can craft on these with t1 seeds.

Quality up bases you plan to use. If it's a rare, omit scouring it unless it has 3 bad prefixes. (All your life/defences, or phys damage and scaling, will be prefix mods. No use crafting on an item with blanks in the chamber.)

If maps are scarce, run Reliquary to pack up on cheap seeds until you can fill about 4 plots of each colour. These are level 67 and will comfortably craft an ilvl 75 base. Do your masters if you find them in this area. They will suck because monster cap is 67, but a Hillock bench is a Hillock bench and doesn't care what ilvl it's at. Same for a temple bench or an Einhar beast that lets you make a warding or staunching flask.

So ive corrupted one of mine OGs at the Temple.


And some drops and new gear:


And probably crafting opportunities:

Im making a VD ssf hc run and it literally took me 10 minutes to craft this in The Quarry from a 4s Astral Plate. Pretty good.

Getting a 5L is almost automatic now... and since you don't use up fusings to do it, you can spam fusing (before you hit the 5L recipe) to try for 6L. My question is that the "best of 10 linking"... does that save the original as a possiblity? If you start with 5L, do you keep 5L with "best of 10"?

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Getting a 5L is almost automatic now... and since you don't use up fusings to do it, you can spam fusing (before you hit the 5L recipe) to try for 6L. My question is that the "best of 10 linking"... does that save the original as a possiblity? If you start with 5L, do you keep 5L with "best of 10"?

good question! think it won't be saved but not sure haven't tested.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Getting a 5L is almost automatic now... and since you don't use up fusings to do it, you can spam fusing (before you hit the 5L recipe) to try for 6L. My question is that the "best of 10 linking"... does that save the original as a possiblity? If you start with 5L, do you keep 5L with "best of 10"?

No it won't save. It saves the best result out of the 10 new tries, so you mightt end up with a 2l.

Feeling demoralized after doing multiple Catarina and Sirius and not getting Cinderswallow and awakener orb. Also failed in gambling with harvest div card with Shavs card.

A question for you guys. Would you prefer gain of about 1m more dps from 5m to 6m, or about 300 life from 4.8k to 5.1k and chill def utility from skitterbot?