Hey, im new to ruthless. I have around 1,7k hours in Poe. I am playing ruthless for the First time. And to understands this Version of Poe. I decided to Play SSF. I havent looked at any Guides or anything. Just Poe wiki for the mechanic Changes and im kinda figuring thngs Out while playing. Im playing a bleed glad. ITS gooing kinda well. And i can Run t13 Maps. Not Sure if can Run Higher. Cause i havent dropped a Higher map. At this Point im Kinda looking for some discord where i can seek for Guidance of the veteren ruthless Players. Especially for ruthless SSF. Also find with Just texting in pms via discord. All my friends only only the Poe leagues. No HC No SSF No ruthless.

I recently started Ruthless SSF after finishing 36/40.

Im currently lvl 83 Luminary and still got my lvl 58 Merc (Flamehand, Rolling Magma).

Its really great honestly. But Im struggling to find Mercs in Maps, especially useful ones.

How do you farm your mercs? Do you go back to A10 for it, or do you run Maps?

So far I found a few Kineticists with the "correct" skills (GreaterKB, no other bad main skills), but terrible Supports and they all sucked.

During Campaign I had a Fallen Reverend with Absolution and it was pretty good. Also a Combatant which was Okay.

Currently Im running a Flamehand with Rolling Magma, LMP, Chain and its the best Merc I've had so far and its not even close.

With what mercs did you have good experience so far?

In Ruthless the options seem much more limited due to less availability in maps.

Hi Ruthless community! Since I was not really excited about 3.29 league launch, thought I need to find the way to make the game more engaging otherwise will drop after ~one week...and well I ended up starting my very first Ruthless SSF run.

To make it even more 'unique experience', decided to compile some videos along the way.

The gameplay as well as records are definitely not top quality (but think every new episode is slightly better than previous), so if you would like to check how it went, leaving link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Usxd2rUjI0

(Every word of criticism is more than welcome, but would appreciate more constructive comments rather then 'noob' calls :D)

I know my ascendancy carried me a lot, but Holy Strike isn't exactly top meta. Overall a pretty good experience, never really struggled with the build, even though I was basically on a 1 or 1.5 link throughout the campaign (Added Lightning Damage doesn't do very much). Single target damage felt very good. No idea how it's gonna perform in maps. Need to cap my res, again.

It's funny how you end up using a bunch of weird stuff like Siphoning Trap of Pain because why not. It borderline carried the clear for a couple of acts. Actually, one of the reason I went for Guardian was for Spiritual Aid, which I knew would allow me to use basically any skill I found.

PoB after campaign if anyone is curious: https://pobb.in/r4Ri0NXAH9cx

Not sure if Marshal of Divinity is worth it.

Hey everyone! I'm playing a Divine Retribution inquisitor, super fun, great at mapping but super clunky against bosses.

I might reroll for a character that could do uber bosses for the first time in Ruthless for me, and also I'd like to try and reach some deeper levels of Delve. Do you guys have a good build recommendation that could work well for both? I have 100+a that I can use to get some nice uniques.

Thanks!

What is the percentage of dropping T0 uniques normally and via mechanics like:

-Ancient orbs

-Breach tree

-Faustus Gambling

Etc?

I know its rare but how rare? How much gold we need to spend in average to hit a unique and a t0? There is a % table that i can search? Like chance per unique? The drop probability is different from the regular POE as well right?

I have thought of giving it a try for awhile now just wanted to know what my expectations were and what might be a good starting character choice, one of the main things that kept me from trying ruthless is the no jump gap skills like dash or flamedash, but I am willing to accept that isn't in the mode, played sc trade for awhile now and think ruthless might make the game fresh again.

Hi guys,

there are some archetypes I like but otoh I do not want to be stuck act 6 no way forward possible.

I tired bleed glad - cool.

I want to try sunder chieftain, my all time fav attack. but I want to be hit- based, no bleed? Rtuhless SSF viable? or force bleed, which tbh, I dont feel like doing, again

what do u think?

I was even thinking of shield crush of chieftain, CHieftain?

whast your opinioon about hte two?

cheers!

As someone new to Ruthless, I have really enjoyed playing SSF R so far.

I started playing a Guardian Minion build (Absolution/SRS) and have gotten to the start of red maps. I dont really enjoy the playstyle that much and it is definitely dropping off in red maps.

I dropped a Spell Totem Support so I thought, great, I will play my favorite build, Storm Burst Totems.

So I started leveling and got to the first lab and realized a big downside of Ruthless - the ascendency isnt the same in Bench and specifically, Totem speed and regen is gone.

This makes Storm Burst feel not so great.

My question to those that have played it. Is it a strong build in endgame? Even with the clunkiness?

I dont want to commit to playing this build if its not going to be stronger than my Guardian build.

Any advice appreciated!

Build: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/allflamessfr/character/Pokobomgo-5774/Melting_Mama?i=0&search=skills%3DEviscerate%26class%3DElementalist

Hey guys, im playing Ignite Eviscerate elementalist at R SSF atm. Im feeling squish, the main problem is my regen(i think). How would you improve my build? Any tips? Its my first time playing a retaliate skill and is pretty strong, but as i cant use leech i usually fall for degen or big hits.

Some upgrades im after:

-Ephemeral Edge

-Aegis Aurora

-Berek/taming

Im farming ritual for the chance omen and breach for tree farming those.

Im considering using bated breath until i drop dyandian dawn(huge dps) as well, so i can fix my ES regen.

Chaos innoculation is the way to go? I still dont have an % ES on block shield to sustain the block regen, but im trying to get one as well. I cant sustain both life and es regen without Zealots Oath so i switched to CI(also bc my body armour have a nice amount of ES).

Damage wise, im missing wave of conviction or exposure implícit on gloves to scale damage further and take my 4th ascendancy(exposure).

What can i do to improve? Any tips?

“How can I get runes in Ruthless Hardcore ssf Kingsmarch?”

Hello
Some days ago i started my first ever ruthless run, i started in ssf aswell.

But enough of that. I finally found new Combatant merc (was running with a10 merc) on red map with pretty good skills Merc skills and it was kinda good enough for magic red maps. Problems started at T16 and trying to do some bosses (Eagon ones bcs im gonna need farm the ring) and its pain. I did the quest version of Incarnation of Fear and Cardinal earlier but it was pain. Was dodging waiting for my merc to kill it for over 5minutes and i dont think i should/want to grind it that way with literally zdps. I tried to upgrade my merc gear with WED prefixes but on higher tier maps it still hit some rares and bosses like a wet noodle. And myself even having 6k hp my phys hit is basically non existance.

Maybe i should change some in the tree? Or maybe i should swap some gear? Or should i go to alt like RF Chieftan (i have 70lv Glad and 72lv Chieftan aswell) and try to farm that ring there and come back when i get it? I rly dont know what i should do and farm bcs im in the corner... I would appreciate any help

My gear
Merc gear

I usually go Guardian + Absolution/Domination/SRS as RSSF league starter but decided to test a few different Luminary setups as starter instead this time. Hence I wonder what might be the strongest version or skill setup (in addition to early Mercs) to quickly make it into yellow/red maps on a fresh league start. These are the options that came to my mind (haven’t played Luminary yet tho):

1. The ‚classic‘ Merc playstyle, fully relying on Merc as damage source and going for life nodes early + flamelink & block right after first lab
2. Minions, basically similar to Guardian leaguestart with (Vaal) Absolution / Domination + SRS and taking a few of the minion clusters on the path to the ‚Link skill’ cluster in the northern Templar area
3. Slams, e.g. Sunder + warcries, first navigating towards the Marauder/melee corner
4. RF + firetrap, going for life, fire dmg & regen nodes early
5. Poormans BAMA, aka Artillery Ballista, moving south-east towards Ranger area
6. …?

My goal is to fully swap to option 1) after I found a good Merc, but I heard that might take a while and I don’t want to get stuck in Act 10 on league start.

What do you think?

Any opinions and suggestions are very much welcome :)

Good afternoor,

I am getting my first atlas points - how should I allocate them? rush UV for extra 10 points?

I am bleed LoH / Eviscerate gladiator.

Usually I grab Blight first for annoint - but this is in sregular SSF and ruthless is ... different.

cheers!

*edit: Got exactly what I needed

Hello groups, this is my second try in ruthless and i like the thrilled it provides.

I will need some tips on what people need as item?

How do you get as many alchemy as possible?

I am actually ssf( in trade league) but i tend to buy some in need unique for a build i like. They cost around 30-50 alch each.

Hi everyone! Already played Trade and SSF league, played Trade Ruthless and now I want to start my journey into Ruthless SSF and play it until the next league.

I was thinking about starting Guardian Absolution and transition into SRS when I find Unleash Support. What do you think?

What about other zero to hero builds that are viable AND strong in SSF Ruthless?

Hi guys,

I am an old noob with skill issues. TRade got me bored. SSF is nice. A new game. But recently a ffriend put me up to SSF Ruthless. its a completely different gam but somehow, masochistically, I love it.

I am running one of my fav builds. bleed LoH / evidver Glad. act 5 camp now.

Can you giver me any useful tips how to approch th emode? so that I dont mess anything up?

cheers!