I was just thinking this today, every currency has an individual purpose, but in trade league they're just money, you don't actually use them for their intended use. And it's also a lot more immersive and rewarding to work for everything and build yourself up instead of just buying everything you need, there's such a disconnect that way for me.

I hope to reach that exact mindset this league. Also been playing on and off for years - but all in trade. This time started as a seismic trapper in Sentinel and struggle to find major upgrades while having 1ex and dozens of chaos in my stash. I wanted to challenge myself this time and see if I will give up and migrate to trade. So far I stayed strong :)

A year later, but I've just came back to Poe (had about 200 hours like 5 years ago but didn't accomplish much) now I have made 3 characters up to mapping to tier 10-15 maps (on 15s I get some problems) and I don't see any reason to play really. Haven't used any currency above chaos and even didn't use much alchemy orbs I really want to go and try SSF but my problem is that I don't know how to make a working build, and I don't really want to use already made build

well yeah you are right but SSF also limits down rly rly hard how many builds are viable

this!! its helped me learn how to SCALE builds, not buy builds.

I learned so much about crafting from SSF

This. And collecting uniques when they drop is hype because i dont know what items there are lol

Well said!

Yup this is exactly why I’m considering SSF, I currently don’t heist or delve. Which seems to go against the point of the game.

It feels like an actual arpg instead of arpg-trader lite. The whole point of these games is grinding out increasingly rarer gear to push that little bit further into the end game. You use what you have to create an effective build to farm what you need for the build you want. I remember farming for days trying to get my sentinel set in Grim Dawn, the class itself wasn't incredible, but the armor looked sweet and it enabled a certain build. I liked finding that set myself, it felt like an accomplishment. I haven't really ever got into PoE as much as other ARPGs like GD, Diablo, or TQ (etc), but everytime I did start a new league I could never bring myself to trade for anything, I want to play the game myself. I'm also a loot goblin, and I hoard every unique I can if possible, to the point half my characters in some games are mules. It makes me sad everytime I see a POE player just abandon all that juicy loot. SSF seems a great way to make those drops way more enticing. I've found a few uniques even early on in the game, and it's always such a blast to equip one and see what impact it has. Hell, finding a unique bow made me try out a bleed bow gladiator build when I was messing about with lacerate beforehand.

My problem with ssf is the accessability of certain build enabling items. I don't have a problem with simply playing builds which don't require specific stuff but I'd love an option to target farm some stuff instead of hoping to get it from random Jack in the Box turn ins, it's really a flaw in poe's current state that (what feels like) half the uniques are simply so incredibly unrealistic to EVER obtain in an ssf envoirement. Just dulls the ssf aspect of the game a little in my opinion.

@@ShyDream_ that's bullshit unless you can't play a build without headhunter (which you could target farm) I've been playing ssf since 3.2 and I'm sure I got 99% of the uniques except ultra rare ones that aren't even used like Ylfebans trickery, shavs Revelations or the uniques from lab (bc fuck lab) Give it a shot with a good map farmer, focus on juicing that and you'll get far!

@@Anesthesia90 I want to add that the stuff that is actually super rare AND build-enabling is usually also broken bullshit that probably shouldn't be in the game in the first place.

@@Anesthesia90 nah its not bullshit unless you dedicate hours upon hours everyday you cant guarantee specific uniques every league, i dont want to play for 2 months in ssf to maybe get a build enabling item that ive wanted since league start when i could just play trade and get it when i have the currency. Ssf has alot i want i dont want to be trading but i enjoy playing cool builds more than i dislike trading therefore untill more things become targatable without having to do 2000 maps to maybe get it then ssf will always be boring to me

unless u r racing, playing whichever mode doesn't matter. if you dont wanna trade, u can play trade league and not trade. if you want headhunter, trade!

Would love to try but with ghe limited time I have its better to do trade league so I can play the build I want to complete, if I complete it at all.

You will have alot of fun :) just try to dont get frustrate about stuff you dont get and instead cheerish the stuff you got

@@AdamL-18 Thanks, I've already started learning the crafting mechanics better from using my crafting bench more

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@@awemowe2830 how are you getting it? just randomly kill the beasts and there is a craft for unique chest or something?

@@trentntb5437 yes

I got an early badge of the brotherhood lol

I thought it was rush the 4 outer corners first..then inner after

@@beasthaven1571 You have to do each corner once with no stones in order to spawn each conqueror. And that's good because it gets you more white map completion. However, it's a bigger jump in map tier doing the outer regions first. 0stone outer region is T3-5, but 1stone is T6-9. This makes building the map pool for your next region harder because you have to run T5, and only the T6 drops are helping your map pool. In contrast, 1stone Tirn's end is T4-7 so running literally any map in a 0stone outer region can progress your map pool in the next region. The slower progression in tiers also generally helps SSF builds not run into content thats too hard too early. Obviously trade builds can just spend 15c and buttfuck all content, but gearing takes more time in SSF.

Hey this was super fucking helpful thank you

Foothills is your friend :)

I play SSF too and it's more fun than trade league. But I also have been 40/40 for several leagues, I would be uncomfortable if I can't make it, just hope someday I could let it go :(

@@AGVenge To some the 40/40 is the challenge, not the MTX that it brings. Some of those 40/40 requirements are downright RIPPY

I enjoy my ssf journey from last 2 leagues. Harvest is the best league to start ssf and Heist is more and more comfortable.

It's great fun. My favorite way to play the game. Just plan it out more than you normally would, and make sure to pick a build to league start with that will run on pretty much nothing. One of my favorite parts of playing ssf is seeing what drops, and using that to put together a fun build that I might not have played normally. Learning how to scale different offensive and defensive aspects has taught me a lot about the game too. I think that everybody should try it for a bit if they're a long term or serious PoE player.

cus he's stalling 24/7, look strim KEKW

Afaik its a meme relating to him playing it safe in these hardcore races, stalling, while other players go for risky content first.

@Chris Brunner thanks man. i think it will help a lot as it is a farmable guaranteed 6 link.

Then play tradeleague with your friends

That's called a private league, and it's been available for quite some time. You also have the option to play in trade league and not trade with anyone else....

Yeah, many unique items that are build enabling allow SSF to have longevity. You put it in your stash or create a tab called "xyz build" and then make a new character to use those special items you farmed yourself.

@@Demonace34 awesome. Thanks for the info. Just started my poe journey this league. Trying to learn as much as I can. Happy Hunting.

Shakcentral

Here on youtube

Also lighty is doing unique completion

IronVsWild also recently finished collecting every single unique in SSF standard

@@dreamwynd8705 that’s what I was asking, thanks!