[Ruthless] Beat campaign on most harsh environment.

Hey GGG... I just want to thank you for making a Ruthless a real thing. It is my biggest achievement in poe and I want to share with you. Not even beating Feared (on SSF) or uber bosses (also on SSF) felt so satisfying as beating a10 Kitava on this mode. Love you guys!

Private league settings:

- no magic and rare items drop
- reduced player resistances II (-40%)
- increased monsters area of effect II (+70%)
- increased monsters elemental damage II (30% physical as extra fire, cold and lightning)
- increased monster speed II (20% attack speed, cast speed and movement speed)
- increased monsters life II (+40%)
- increased monsters damage II (+20%)
- SSF Ruthless as I mentioned before
- link to the league for more details: https://www.pathofexile.com/private-leagues/league/Stuck+in+Campaign

Here is a screenshot after I beat a10 Kitava: https://imgur.com/a/vaeKSFA . It was my first playthrough on Ruthless. I know what to expect so it wasn't bling run, even tho I had no experience in this mode. My build choice was a Cold Dot Occultist. Here is a link after I beat Kitava: https://pobb.in/CKcJXJUfnIPa . Could have respec some passives just to be barely res cap but I have in plans to continue going as far as I can. Unfortunately have only few days left as league ends soon :( .

Some statistics:
- played 1 day, 5 hours and 39 mins
- died 729 times (roughly 80%-90% while bossing)
- killed 64k monsters
- dropped 13 support gems and only relevant gem for my build was an Increased Duration Support which sadly is not a damage support.
-dropped 5 uniques, all garbage. Only one is kinda useful was Malachai's Artifice

Most difficult bosses (random order):
- General Adus: unavoidable sparks made my movement speed close to nothing. Hard to dodge mechanics when you cannot move
- Depraved Trinity - Last phase with increased area of effect made a arena very tiny as he summons red balls. Also Chaos damage hurts so much as we have -70% penalty (40 from league, 30 from beating Kitava a5)
- Kitava a10 - just so much stuff going on at the same time, hard to keep up.
- Weaver - just because having only white items sucks.

Btw. A10 Kitava took me whole hour. Yes, 60 mins and a MANY deaths.

Thank you GGG and have a nice day!

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A cold DoT build? The perfect Ruthless build choice, not that there are many options. Trying something else, not Spark, would increase the challenge tenfold.

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manieeeeek wrote:

- died 729 times (roughly 80%-90% while bossing)

Sounds like someone could use some practice for the basic act boss fights.
But sounds like you had a fun time which is the most important part

Ruthless Mode keeps free to play ethos alive. Since the game has evolved so much because of non-stop content updates, free stash tabs is no longer as free as when it first came out. Ruthless keeps F2P spirit of POE alive. You're not the only one who loves Ruthless, one of the pioneers of ARPGs Kripparian extols it too.

Okay and now do it in HCSSF Ruthless. I assume some people already did it without posting here in GD.

From what i remember Karv did an all max mods HC SSF league back then with all mods you mentioned here. Only difference is no crafting bench and less & shittier movement skills.

729 times? lol
Deathless on my first run of HCSSF Ruthless
If you want to make it harder - go for HC. You can't add more difficulty if your death count is surely saying you're not handling it lol

Wow 729 deaths just for the campaign? That's insane. Cold DoT is literally already easy mode for Ruthless. Ran one myself when they did those Ruthless only events and got to 70 before getting bored. Cold DoT doesn't get hard even with no supports until you start fighting things that are MUCH hardier and that's content WAY past the campaign.