I'm convinced now...SSF is next to impossible

I'm convinced now that SSF is next to impossible to get your build to a very high level without the proper gear stats to support them. I have a level 80 ice strike/monk and a level 86 huntress/lightning spear build and can barely get past level 86 on that one. Some of my gears are level 65-70 but their stats are like level 30-40 stats. Some have 'decent' stats but not amazing. It is impossible for me to even try to delve deep into their gambling crafting system. I only have enough of those items to be able to perform one recombinator...and thats it! I never even tried that yet. I have some uniques, but the crucial stats on them are pretty low and I have used up all my divines to help randomly beef up their numbers. It rough! I look on youtube and see these guys on ultra maxed out gear and it just makes me want to give up.

I tried recently a Ranger/bow build of some sort but got to level 30 and lost interest. Looking at what I would have to acquire to make a killer endgame bow build just made me shake my head. It would be impossible in SSF.

Stormweaver and minions have been destroyed, sadly to say...

I am really getting bored here and dont know what character build I could try that could lead me to level 90 endgame in SSF.

Finding uniques in this is just a pain. I am finding too many duplicates of the same stuff over and over. I have yet to see all the uniques, pre DOTH so forget even finding many of the new ones =(

I even tried to apply a chaos on some of my uniques and have basically ruined most of them, but some were good.

Jewelers Orbs of higher tiers are next to impossible to find. I must have like over 70 of the lesser Jewelers but to get the mid and greaters.....pfft!!

I'm just at a loss with this game as ive spent a decent amount of money on having a bunch of extra tabs so that I can save more items and share them across all my builds since I do not want to trade.

It might be that the game is not complete enough to support high-end SSF. However, I got the Corpsewade boots today from a Twilight Reliquary Key, and that's probably going to be the core of my next character, because the effect seems cool.

Open Path of Building (PoE2), add the gear you have that you think is coolest, and theorycraft with that gear until you can beat your current DPS and defenses.

At least, that's what I've done in PoE1.

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It might be that the game is not complete enough to support high-end SSF. However, I got the Corpsewade boots today from a Twilight Reliquary Key, and that's probably going to be the core of my next character, because the effect seems cool.

Open Path of Building (PoE2), add the gear you have that you think is coolest, and theorycraft with that gear until you can beat your current DPS and defenses.

At least, that's what I've done in PoE1.

+1

Great advice *thumbs up*

I don't think that's true, but you might need to re-align your expectations, if you are coming from trade league. Last league (in SSF), I got 2 characters to 90, and this league I've got 1. None of my builds use Uniques, and they're all different. One of them is a mace user.

If a build NEEDS Uniques to work, then I would say that build is too brittle. Such a unique is only possible because EVERYTHING is available to use in trade, as long as you have the currency to trade for it. It's almost like a cheat code. Imagine you had a vendor NPC that sold you anything and everything you wanted, without you even having to leave town. That's basically what trade league is.

So, SSF isn't resource poor. Trade is resource rich, too rich, to the point that some builds can be built, which are not possible in a "find stuff" kind of game.