how easy is it to get the timeless jewel for this?

Thanks alot this was really helpful. I'm going to play my first ssf next leage and this guide gave me a basic understanding what to focus on and how to progress. Well done!

Good review. GGG is under the impression that people play SSF as a challenge or hard mode which might be true for a small portion but not for the vast majority. And so the game is especially penal against SSF players. Killing prophecies and metamorph and bring back Ultimatum of all things hammers that point home. Also GGG wants the top content to really only be done by streamers and a very select few. Sad thing is that could make some elements far simpler like getting rid of the nested color/#/linked system for jewels and really have no impact on high end content but make the game much more fun. They are doing some of that in POE2. Also having to rely on web content to even understand the content is a bad mistake IMO. GGG seem to confound obscurity and unwieldiness with depth all the time. I still love the game but it could be so much more for SSF without affecting anyone else's experience or trivializing content. What makes matters worse is that their preferred league of trade DOES trivialize content. I needed to run literally hundreds of maps to get the unique moon temple and 115/115. Yet a trade player can spend 6C buy the map and be done in 5 mins.

This poops Uniques.... I have tried alot of methods and came back to this... best by far.

Thanks for the guide, awesome video!

Ello Smokie, hope you've been well. Miss your Twitch streams but I know everyone needs a break sometimes. Didn't wanna bug you but just thought I'd check in, let you know you're appreciated and missed. ✌️

Been playing this for a month and just twigged from this video to cast on the balls :)

Die klingt so richtig genervt…..unangenehm berührt…….grauslig der zuzuhören….schade

hi! i wanna say Thank You for this strat in 2 hours of farming i almost complite my build and something big happen. now i have magebloode on SSF its insane

can I get that loot filter:)

Haven't got a single t17 map in over 500 t16 maps. Went on standard and got one in about a hour. Either something is bugged or the drop rate on Necro is crazy.

im still having fun, but compared to other leagues i have to say this one is whack af. i got bored of the div per hour rat race in trade league so i decided to do ssf and of course the first time i want to try SSF they nerf crafting. idk hopefully i make it work but i legit have no idea how im going to get the gear i want.

I know this was two weeks ago, so things might have changed in more recent patches. But I was watching Ventura's SSF (all I'm interested in) run and he managed to farm a number of uber bosses. I wonder if things got easier?

Hey it's been a year, wouldn't it be cool for this to be a yearly series, you got the format down but could add the additional crafting options that came core and updated core game.

Agree 100%. I played coc inq. One of the most fun and tanky and strong builds I’ve played in a long time. Crafted my weapon with the league mechanic even made a few to sell for profit. But I stopped playing at almost level 99 out of shear boredom. Path has been my main since 2013 and I’m actually having more fun playing Diablo 3 lately. I’m still playing this most recent season of d3 lol. I’m concerned about the future of path and I’m not really looking forward to poe2. I love souls games and bloodborne and Eldenring but I don’t play arpgs for the difficulty or slow gameplay. Wonder what your thoughts are for poe2…

is most of this still applicable? it was amazing back in crucible but ive taken a break since then and want to know how much would apply to necropolis

Was going to skip this league because I was away for league start and that's a lot of the fun hype. Also same old builds it seemed, but then I thought SSF haven't done that but then didn't want to be blocked from content because I'm bad but then I saw your videos and got me excited to try things out. Thank you for the work making these.

Thank you for the awesome content !! I'm playing ssf and just levelled a hierophant, I have a 140% adorned i farmed in ssf. Do you think the tree is flexible enough to use adorned? How would you suggest i go about it?

This league was a cobbled together test for some Last Epoch style itemization of affixes. They foresee us killing specific bosses or running specific content to chase rare affixes, some finding affixes to craft treasure maps, farming for affixes to make uber maps or gg gear, etc.

Been looking for a Proxy for a week, got dozens of every other unset ring. Switched to this strat, got it on the 3rd map. Unreal.

Do you have any regex for level 17 maps? What mods should be avoided?

Just wanted to say thank you for this, I ran the tree for a couple of hours and got a few build enabling uniques, nothing crazy but yeah it's amazing for ssf! Subbed

this is so useful

this is really helpful, thanks

Bro how i can make armour 6 links?

me and a friend of mine are both thinking of trying ssf nxt league cuz trade league is getting boring, is there any specific tips or knowledge you have, i have around 1200 hours in poe but im super casual never made it to shaper or elder, usually a melee person

My strat for unique for SSF so far has been x2 rouge giants, x1 exiles, x1 unique monsters drop an additional unique. Pros u get a lot of uniques with 0 mf at all, but the downside is that you cant really sustain scarabs that well. In addition since you spawn a lot of unique monsters you can get the atlas passive that gives "200% increased chance of scarabs drop from unique monsters" to help with scarabs. On top of this you can get delirium with the node that unique monsters have chance to drop a cluster jewel which can be ilvl 85 when farming in t16s maps.

fellow maven filter enjoyer

rogue giants are literally matryoshkas, when it dies it splits into two exiles, and those exiles split again for a total of 7 exiles per giant. And yes, they all count as rogue exile so they all will be possessed.

I keep finding veiled scarabs in Delve, so they've definitely thought of stacked scarabs.

Do you have a league starter SSF atlas tree anywhere or recommendation?

Any chance of a PoB for the MF switch for inspiration?

Yes this is really helpfull thanks alot love these ssf tips videos, can you do one for late game crafting mats like annuls fractures exalts divines, would help me alot. Thanks either way ❤

TW3 streams!

Is this strat affected by the recent nerf to rogue exiles?

I played this league for 2 weeks. Got to 95, got bored and quit. I didn't find the mechanic to be good at all for SSF.

The most non-fun thing is - less than a month you already asking question what "was" fun... I havnt even touched t17 yet. And that makes me think - on one side Im totally with you on not happy with league mechanics, decreasing crafting options and for overall issue with "hardness of the game. Yet its less than month and you are at 38/40. Personally I probably wouldnt even be there by the end of the league. So if the game will be less challenging, It might get us to that situation where youll be posting "league done" vids on week 2.

Thanks very much for this smokie. Any help with SSF is appreciated.

banger video. your content have been help me, as a noob in poe, to understand the game better. thank you.

am i missing something with the gloves? or are you simulating useless gloves like wool gloves?

Rogue giants makes 2 more rogue exiles pop out after you kill them. very good

ambush gives a nice amount of t17 with the map dupe node and carto scarabs

First of all ,those filter sound effects are wild 😂😂 Doing something similar using the strat from another ssf poe player Lighty. His approach is different , doing this strat on the highest tier map you can clear and taking the 'bosses are whisped if less then 50 mons are alive' notable . The results are similar and its alot of fun.

pls more random videos 0..0

Hello smokie ily

Yea you make a lot of good points in the video, I have roughly 10k hours I have played HCSSF on and off for the last two years, I enjoy the t17 maps but I do think that having ubers hard locked behind them is insane, even on HC trade which is deadage when there is not a ton of streamers playing it getting a lot of boss fragments takes time. I got my friend to start playing PoE two leagues ago in a SC duo found private league and he has been enjoying it but the new change addition of t17 adds like an odd progression path because you farm on average harder content to then do the easier uber boss. I enjoy that they split the loot because it gives you a reason to farm either one, but it seems almost like it should be like one Uber fight per map or two but no bias from one uber to the next. I get that the game is not balanced around SSF but it can be set up more clearly to get ubers and especially since t17 is a new endgame it feels bad to have most of the average builds be now effectively stonewalled into buying the fragments for ubers or struggle bus to clear one t17 map at a time, but its a new system so I have some hopium that things will get fixed upon 3.25b.

I get the feeling this difficulty spike is intended to ease people into poe 2 which is supposed to be super hard. By the time it comes out it won't feel as big of a jump between the two. Tin foil hat take, i know.

Wow! I just got my 2nd Voidstone! Smokie is a machine! The best SSF player in the world!

the issue is the GGG team is watching the high rollers like empy and jung etc blast through content and no lifing trade league. That is less than 1% of players and theyre trying to give THOSE <1% of players more content so they make more videos so their game gets put on highlights and shorts. Most of us just want to grind and see explosions, get that jackpot gear, and kick our feet back. Were not looking for Diablo3 style silverspoon meta. We just want to alchandgo, do a boss a few times a day, get the meta shift gear so we can re roll, and rinse repeat. They really just need to stop watching the high rollers. Empy and those guys will always have TEAMS of people waiting around to break the game, that doesnt mean GGG needs to balance as such. Even with the exploding totems build that broke the game, in SSF i didint even care about going for it.

I would like a guide geared to farming uniques for SSF, like Kitava's Thirst. There aren't enough SSF guides.