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

3rd Blight (Ledge I think?):

Finally achieved 40/40 in SSF Blight.

Started off the league with Necro Spectre + Zombie. The power creep is ridiculous on this one as I was able to kill Uber Elder on day 5 of the league using Tabula.

Made a Pyro miner and was able to kill Uber Elder with 5L at level 89. That shows how ridiculous GGG has gotten on power creep.

Cyclone in Legion league was in no way comparable with Necro and Miner in Blight league so I am expecting some power balance on these 2 meta builds.






P.S.: Blight could have been a better league if meta builds were not so insanely OP. They made the usual difficult and challenging content too easy.

Blight encounter in maps was a pain to clear (slow). I ended up skipping Blight encounters on the last 40% of my exp bar so that I can hit level 100 faster.

Blighted maps are too overwhelming at times.

well you didn't need to play either a necro or miner, but i understand why so many people do outside of it obviously being OP. they were reworked and hyped up. obviously people want to play because of that.
GGG just overtuned them in order to sell MTX, but i agree that would take the fun away a ton. at that point it almost feels like RMT. its like you're throwing GGG some money for an MTX and they're like ya we got your back - buff your power by 50x.

i know it isn't like that at all, but it feels like that at least to me. thats why i don't play builds that are drastically overtuned, seemingly, purposefully

either way 40/40 SSF is an insane achievement, and getting uber elder down in SSF on day 5 boggles my fucking mind. you must have been blowing through content and pumping those hours hard.

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xMustard wrote:

well you didn't need to play either a necro or miner, but i understand why so many people do outside of it obviously being OP. they were reworked and hyped up. obviously people want to play because of that.
GGG just overtuned them in order to sell MTX, but i agree that would take the fun away a ton. at that point it almost feels like RMT. its like you're throwing GGG some money for an MTX and they're like ya we got your back - buff your power by 50x.

i know it isn't like that at all, but it feels like that at least to me. thats why i don't play builds that are drastically overtuned, seemingly, purposefully

either way 40/40 SSF is an insane achievement, and getting uber elder down in SSF on day 5 boggles my fucking mind. you must have been blowing through content and pumping those hours hard.

Well I am a meta slave :P and has been playing SSF since it was first introduced. I have never once felt that this meta thing is over tuned. Till now.

In previous leagues, it will normally take me a few weeks before I am confident enough that I can beat Uber Elder. This time round, I knew I can easily take him down when I beat Shaper.

As for meta MTX, I did not buy any minions MTX because besides Celestial Cat, the Celestial theme don't really appeal to me. But I know what you mean, for recent leagues, GGG has been tying MTX to meta shifts when they start a new league.

My main gripe here is that meta builds shouldn't have such a huge gap from non-meta builds. 10% to 20% better is probably fine. But 100% better? That will only push players to take the easiest way out. At least for myself, it will make me feel stupid if I do not pick meta builds to play in temp leagues.

have you ever got 40/40 in SSF before?
seems like if you really want to push that hard that you would really need to take every advantage you can, and thus meta is obviously best - and this league would be even better than others cause i also believe this league was way more of a boost than others.

seriously theres a video showcasing a necro build where you just use bitterdream. that is all thats required. takes down uber elder. easily clears t16 maps effortlessly.

i gotta get back into the game!

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xMustard wrote:

seriously theres a video showcasing a necro build where you just use bitterdream. that is all thats required. takes down uber elder. easily clears t16 maps effortlessly.

I think Bitterdream gets way less love than it deserves. It lost some of its allure with the Mana Leech Support changes, but now with Inspiration Support it is once again a pretty decent and super common pseudo 8-link for cold spells. Definitely an underrated weapon, particularly for SSF.

first one dropped :D
dropped today full set of mortals now and 1 left to shaper :') need more of em horizons xd

My account is bugged. Every league I hope to get a cool T1/T0 drop and every league its a mjolner.

So this league was extra memes... I dropped 2 mjolners.... so as such I decided to meme back.

Ascendant - CWC Spark, Arc, Wave of Conviction

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xMustard wrote:

have you ever got 40/40 in SSF before?
seems like if you really want to push that hard that you would really need to take every advantage you can, and thus meta is obviously best - and this league would be even better than others cause i also believe this league was way more of a boost than others.

seriously theres a video showcasing a necro build where you just use bitterdream. that is all thats required. takes down uber elder. easily clears t16 maps effortlessly.

This is probably the 5th or 6th time I reach 40/40 in SSF. Among them, 2 of the 40/40 I had to migrate a character to trading league and buy the last challenge due to RNG Goddess refusing to shine her light on me.

Didn't know there is a build that uses Bitterdream and able to clear Uber Elder with ease. Again, that shows how much power creep POE has become.

EDIT: Lucky to be able to complete this set of cards:

EDIT2: Finally 6L my Shaveronne. Tried out poison BV assassin and the clear speed was meh. Damage is good though.

Switched to LL Winter Orb assassin and it is not shabby at all. Only gripe I have is that the requirement to cast Winter Orb every so often.