[PoE 3.24] Necropolis SSF Day 5 Update - League Good! Crafting Mid? Bone Slayer! RF Chieftain?!

Sorry for the lack of videos/streams recently! I wanted to make many more videos & build updates, but I've been dealing with a root canal infection/tooth extraction, which has really been kicking my ass as of late.

0:00 Bone slayer T16 Phoenix
8:25 RF Chieftain T16 Phoenix
18:45 Thoughts on the league itself

My findings:
Bone slayer https://pobb.in/M5pRKQu4inp7 is a A tier league starter due to fast movement, reasonable damage, and burst damage potential. It maps okay, and does early bosses & invitations well IMO, but is a bit squishy until you get it going. However, I think it is maybe B tier going into mid-league, because the scaling is heavily limited due to difficulties crafting good gear in SSF now, it can feel squishy due to weaknesses against elemental attacks, and difficulties in bossing/late endgame content due to being melee and not having the greatest damage uptime. However, I was still able to take down Uber Elder/4 breachlords/4 conquerers with it (70+% quant invitations). Haven't managed to farm up a feared yet though Smoge (but I'm pretty sure I can beat it).

RF Chieftain https://pobb.in/ds_HMeqz6I3V on the other hand, while I wouldn't league start it due to having really low damage and maybe not having enough damage to beat certain invitations without decent gear, I think is S tier as a second build. It maps super well with great defense and minimal stress. It also has insane synergy with Packed With Energy 100% chance in every map, allowing you to build around 87% maxres. However, it probably won't be able to do super endgame content, due to having too low damage/damage uptime. But it is so nice to farm with it. I'm also going to attempt a Traitor build tech soon using Traitor, Micro-distillery belt, and Ruby Flask, for permanent +7% maxres.

100% packed with energy chance, and 100% expedition chance is probably the most solid SSF farming strat IMO. Packed with energy carries clear speed, Tujen carries currency progression, and Rog carries gear progression. Unfortunately...I haven't found any super secret innovative strat that is better than that for me 😅 you might have to check out other content creators for that. Graveyard crafting still feels meh to me...they buffed it, but it just takes too long to get the corpses (I farmed 2 whole days in SSF, and it's still not enough to even make 1 craft????? 🙄)

Next up (after traitor RF)...need to figure out a 3rd build which can do T17's and ubers. Maybe ice nova of frostbolts? Idk. Also might start farming challenges soon.

Hope to make more videos/get back to streaming soon~! Let me know in the comments below if you found some super sick SSF farming strat, or some sleeper OP build

  / smokie_777