Path of Exile 3.25: SSF RF Leveling and Gear Progression Update

Pohx explains how RF does leveling and upgrades gears in SSF

### Path of Exile SSF Atlas Progress Update and Character Gear Overview
* 🗺️  The player is currently at **level 93, almost level 94**, with **significant progress in completing the Atlas**.
* 🔮  The strategy involves using Kirak to **sustain map tiers** and **refresh his shop** by running maps to keep **progressing**.
* 🛡️  The character has **150k RF DPS** and **194k Fire Trap DPS**, with plans to **improve gear further**.
* 💰  The player has focused on **map sustain**, acquired **two Void Stones**, and is preparing for **Maven fights**.
* 🔍  Syndicate intelligence gathering has been crucial for early game gear, with many items **unveiled or crafted through Syndicate**.
* 🏆  The player demonstrated **clearing a T16 map**, showcasing the character's **survivability** and **potential for future improvements**.
* 🛠️  Gear progression plans include obtaining an **Elder Helm**, crafting a **new weapon**, and improving various **gear slots**.
* 💎  Notable gear includes a **Shaper Shield with high life gain on block**, and a **Hunter belt that may be crafted for life recovery**.

why hello and welcome everybody. Also, good morning. So, today I wanted to go ahead and update you guys from that video I made, which was basically, I finished the campaign. I've kind of started mapping and where do I go from here. Now, this one is kind of a jump ahead 'cause I did play a little bit here. Um, so we are currently level 93, almost Level 94. But don't be intimidated by my character level as my gear is pretty [ __ ]. Right, leveling up in Path of Exile just effectively means not dying. If you're not dying that much and you're playing a lot, you're effectively going to level. So, let's talk about what I have completed since then. You look at my Atlas here, you'll notice a large amount of it has been completed. Um, this is primarily through Kirak. As on my starting atlases, I like to go full Kirak. And the process of basically using Kirak for map completion is pretty easy. Basically, you'll look in your map and if you say, say you have only um white maps.

and yellow maps completed and you're all the way up to here at tier 10, right? So, you're all the way up here, you only have one tier 10 map, and you run that map, and you get nothing out of it. So, now you're all the way back down to, say, tier five or tier six. You can use Kirak here to open up his shop, right? Pull his highest-level map, which for me will be 10, maybe drop a tier 11 map out of it. So, now you can get your sustain back without having to go through the tiers. Also, whenever you click any map from here, so like if I open this right now, opening this is going to allow you to refresh Kirak's shop, and this is where I use most of my currency at the beginning, so chance orbs, Alchemy orbs, even my chaos to get these completions, 'cause in reality, chaos for me in SSF, I'm going to be getting the majority of it back from Xar Alters in the future, like these things.

over here and over here, uh, more specifically this, so that I don't really mind the map completion for me is very important. Now I'm going to go a ah head and jump on into a t16 map and show you guys how it looks. I always get questions about people asking, you know, what are the minimum requirements for RF to clear t16. Very common question. Well, here you go. This is my ssf character. I'm rocking a 150k RF DPS and a fire trap of 194k. Some pretty small numbers, to be honest. We don't even have our Elder Helm yet. We also do not have our ignite proli yet, so that is something we're going to be working on. And I also don't have my anoint yet. The anoint is extremely important because it covers so much physical mitigation that this build really, really needs. However, I do have a shaper Shield already, a shaper life G on block Shield, which is going to carry my ass for quite a bit. And we'll talk about that process.

as well as we get a little further into the video. Oh, here's a bisma. There is no shot I can charge this for that much, so I'm going to just do like, yeah, that. I don't know why I call Vis with. It's whatever it's called. Well, got an explode good [__] going now on this character as well. I will talk about my gear progression after this map. I went rise of the Phoenix, Into Dawn breaker, into a shaper shield. Now, I get so many questions about, you know, can I use x Shield over shaper shield, and the answer is no. The only Shield you can really use as a replacement to the shaper Shield is the surrender because it also has really high life gain on block or recover life on block. The point of the shaper Shield is to basically make it so that little hits get turned into healing, bigger hits get mitigated so they don't kill you as much, and that's solely from the recover x amount of Life on block. The more you build your

character. The stronger that recovery on block will feel. You can see here, even in a t16 environment, like it's pretty smooth sailing. Like, yeah, it may not be the fastest, right? I'm still taking damage here and there, but it's a pretty weak character, all things considered. Now you can see my single target. Everyone can go make breakfast during this time. It's uh, nothing special over here. I like to actually see if I can drag any mobs to the boss, but that didn't seem to be the... Oh, there's one. We'll get close to like a 50% damage increase when we get an elder helm, so I'm not too concerned about that. Alright, that is our clear. Now this character is also very weak because if you look at my life regen, it's only 950. That is very low. Um, and the reason it's so low is I still don't have an immortal flesh um, or a life regen belt. This is just basically a chaos res high life belt. So um, um, yeah.

let's talk about this here, then we'll go into gear progression. So, with this current Atlas, I favored basically three things. Number one, map sustain. You can see that located here. I took every map sustain mod. This will give me an abundance of maps to go through at my, you know, however I want to. I won't feel map-starved at all, and I'll have excess maps for my map runners later. Furthermore, this will help me get T17 maps, but that's not really a big deal right now. Next thing you'll notice, I have my two Void Stones. Acquiring your two Void Stones, you pretty much are following this thing on the right here. See how it says collect map bosses in T14 plus Maps? There's also going to be one for Eer of Worlds and Searing Exarch. They're going to want you to climb all the way up to T16, and you'll have two boss fights in between, and then the big boss fights at tier 16. After you do that, the next up thing is Maven. Now doing

Maven. Maven is a lot tougher than Xar and Eater, and Xar and Eater can be killed in just basic life res. But when you're getting to things like Maven, Maven is when I would recommend like an Elder Helm and a Shaper Shield, for example, probably a six-link too. But RF is mainly AOE, not single target. And the last thing that I have done is I have incorporated my basically intelligence gathering, which is Syndicate. Syndicate got me a lot of my early game gear. So if you look at this belt, for example, actually this belt did not have Syndicate. Do I have a pie of gear that was unveiled? Here's one. See this how it has cold and chaos res. This means I unveiled cold in chaos. It hit a really high dexterity naturally with a T1 life roll, and it crafted increased damage. The increased damage is from Syndicate. Same thing here, the trail Syndicate. Whatever, I always miss like to say the names wrong. So there's an increased damage roll here. We

unveiled the Inc AOE uh on the boots. We unveiled Onslaught, so you can see most of my gear is, if not given to me from them, crafted with it right here. You'll see fire and Chaos. Here is plus one gem. Here is plus one gem. All of that is betrayal. Here, actually, damage over time is not, but that's 'cuz my weapon is kind of weird. So, that's pretty much the character gear. Um, looking at my character right now, I'm not a big fan of my weapon as it has a spell damage roll, so definitely could get a new weapon. Over here, I've got frost blink, punishment, and life tap. Uh, my helmet is not an elder Helm, so top priority is getting an elder Helm. Downside, my current Helm has 177% life regenerate, which means going to an elder Helm without Immortal flesh is probably going to cause me to really not like it 'cuz my sustain is going to be so bad. Here, we've got fire trap, Swift Affliction, trap in mine, and life tap. Over here, we have our

shaper Shield, which actually hit maximum Fire Res, pretty cool Shield. Um, I do need to Divine it to try to get the life on block higher, and I need to either get an exalt to slam a suffix, and I'm going to hope for crit damage reduction, or I'm going to farm Beast the area on my second Atlas and do prefix to suffix to pull one of these prefixes down to a suffix, and then exalt slam and hope I hit life. Um, or there's some other methods, but yeah, that's pretty much the shield. Talk about how I got the shield in a minute. Um, amulet, I would like to have dot multi or plus fire rings are okay, but I'd like to see more useful stats. For example, the strength roll does not help, and here the light radius does not help, so I plan on Crafting new Rings soon. I do like the life rolls on them. U, my body armor, I found a grand ring mail, which is a new base, so the armor is pretty decent on it, but realistically, it's pretty [ __ ]

could recraft this for percent physical damage reduction. You'll notice on the Alrich implicit I have physical taken from hits is cold. This is the top tier modifier for mitigating damage. Don't worry about the maximum chaos res. I don't have many of these yet because, you know, the character is still kind of fresh, and we need to farm them. So, this ideally just gets replaced with like Cloak of Flame or Lightning Coil. We'll have to see kind of when that opportunity presents itself. These boots are really nice downside. They actually, I just realized, they can be exalted still. They don't have increased life regeneration rate, which is the number one thing I want here. That or chaos res since I'm getting annihilations approach in SSF is a much bigger hurdle. Belt, we already talked about. I'd love to just plug in an Immortal Flesh here, to be honest. And my gloves are pretty nice. Life regenerate, cold lightning res. I actually need to swap that lightning res.

at the bottom to fire. That'll give me another bulk of Regen. Prefixes are okay. It just has a life roll, and I crafted plus one gems. I'm spamming my Embers to try to get ignite proliferation here, so that's pretty much my gear. Just to cover my links again here, I'm just leveling a swift Affliction. I've got Tempest Shield, Flesh and Stone, Ell Focus, Righteous Fire, Burning Life Tap, Efficacy, six link will be swift Affliction, Life Tap, Shield Charge, Faster Attacks, Enduring Cry. This is where my level one Life Tap is. You only need one level one Life Tap to trigger the Life Tap, and then you're good. Here we've got Blood Rage, Summon Skitterbot, Unbound Ailment, and Purity of Fire. I actually need to evolve this, so if I can get a 22 in one thing. I'm going to be doing next, I'm thinking of going into Bestiary on my second Atlas, so I'm thinking Atlas 2 is going to be a

beastiary delirium Atlas and the purpose of this is two things. Number one, uh, getting beastiary for like prefix to suffix, suffix to prefix crafting, random uniques, be has a lot of good ssf stuff. And number two, delirium, so that I can remove this part of my tree alongside this part of my tree in favor of going into a large eight passive cluster and then two uh medium clusters with flow of Life. Other downside, I need to actually have jewels at that point. Furthermore, talking about jewels, we did get lucky and out of a ritual, I pulled a two Max fire trap throwing speed burning damage Jewel. Doesn't have life, but that twax fire uh is very, very, very welcome. So, I'm a big fan of that right there. Anyway, I think that is pretty much the character um, as for you know where we're going from here, like I said, I want an elder Helm. I really want the immortal flesh. Going to be looking at a six link. Got to farm a couple of exalts, one for

my shield one for uh my boots really need the freaking. I cannot, you know, overstate enough how much I need the uh Whatchamacallit Immortal flesh here. Otherwise, we have to go for a recovery belt, which I could also craft. Um, before we end though, I'm going to explain how I acquired these. So, over in my Scarab tab, there is this Scarab here called Apparition Shrine. And I don't know exactly how it works, but to my knowledge, when you get this Shrine, you basically get a buff that makes you drop random conqueror gear. So, mine picked Al hesman. So, what I did is I basically Juiced my map as much as possible. I made it, you know, t16. Uh, I got extra mobs on it. I threw in like all my domination scarabs, right? Whatever I had for density, basically. Pick domination, 'cause that's basically domination, is just giving me bonus density from my Atlas here, right? Have a chance to be guarded by a magic pack. And as I was blasting

the mobs were dropping influence gear, so I, for example, got an influenced Sharine Tower Shield along with a Conqueror helmet. What you can do with this piece of gear is, if you farm Harvest, you can actually reroll the influence. So, whereas this may be Conqueror, right? So, this may be Al Hesman. I want it to be Elder, and I can spend a th000 blue Life Force to do this and potentially change it to Elder, right? So, now it went to what is that like Baron or whatever, and then that's actually Shaper, right? So, that's a prime example of how you can kind of do that. It's pretty nice because it allows you to kind of manipulate the gear in different ways rather than just chaining guard or whatever it is you're doing. You could pursue a different method, and I really like that about SSF, is you get to utilize different parts of the game where people normally wouldn't. And then this Hunter belt, I think, can actually be crafted. I do, considering my current belt's not actually that good. I have to

go look and see if this can hit life recovery. Anyway, that's pretty much about it. Hope you guys had a wonderful time. Hope you guys enjoyed yourselves. If you did, please feel free to like, share, and subscribe. And don't forget, you can catch our progress live every day at twitch.tv/px, except for Sundays. Take care. See you guys all tomorrow.

PoE 3.25 -  SSF RF Progressing Through the Atlas

Pohx Kappa

The player is currently level 93, almost 94, and has completed a large portion of the Atlas through Kirak.

They use Kirak's shop to sustain map completion and refresh their currency.

The player's character has a 150k RF DPS and a 194k fire trap, with plans to improve gear and anoint for better physical mitigation.

The character's gear progression includes the Rise of the Phoenix, Dawnbreaker, and a Shaper Shield, with the Surrender being the only viable replacement for the Shaper Shield.

The Shaper Shield's recovery on block is crucial for healing and damage mitigation.

The player's Atlas strategy focuses on map sustain and acquiring Void Stones, with the goal of climbing to T16 maps and completing boss fights for progression.

Maven is a tougher challenge than Xar and Eater, requiring better gear like an Elder Helm and Shaper Shield.

The player's early game gear was largely obtained through the Syndicate, which also provided crafting opportunities for increased damage and other useful stats.

The character's current gear has some flaws, such as a suboptimal weapon and helmet, and the player plans to craft new rings and divine the Shaper Shield for better stats.

The character's gear focuses on mitigating physical damage, with the Alrich implicit providing the top-tier modifier.

The plan is to replace the current chaos resistance with Cloak of Flame or Lightning Coil as the character progresses.

The boots and gloves offer life regeneration and resistances, while the skill links are designed for efficient life tap and damage mitigation.

The player is focusing on the bestiary and delirium for crafting and character progression.

They are aiming for an elder helm, immortal flesh, and a six-link, while also needing to farm exalts for their shield and boots.

The player acquired their gear through juicing maps and using the Apparition Shrine for random conqueror gear drops.

Mobs are dropping influence gear, allowing players to reroll the influence using Life Force from farming Harvest.

This method offers the opportunity to change the gear's influence, providing a unique way to manipulate gear.

The Hunter belt can also be crafted, offering the potential for life recovery, and the player's progress is streamed live daily on Twitch.