u/FairSeaworthiness441

I think this a lot in all variations of the game as I dabble in ssf, trade, and even the occasional ruthless. I feel the knowledge around crafting and builds and economy that people have regularly far outstrip mine.

As an example, the farming methods recommended especially surrounding 16.5 maps are often rippy as hell and I know my build isn’t great, but I also know in trade I could make it great with time or at least passable with less time. The amount of time I’m putting into every farm whether it’s six links, clusters, harvest, etc. seems like forever. Meanwhile, most posts I see here you have better gear than I do in trade.

I know I get better every league and practice is the best, well, practice, but I feel like there’s some fundamental skill gap or knowledge resource I’m not tapping into. What advice would you give to newer, shittier players?

Got a lot of suggestions from a lot of old time frames when I googled this, none recent. Enlighten would take an absolute load off my passive tree and let me swap to my clusters. Empower is just massive for damage. I already have an enhance from an astrolabe :D it's for my golems

Edit: thanks for the answers. Was already farming astrolabes and it’s been taking forever so I’ll try labs and post updates in a few days

Never had one before. I know it’s supposed to be a t0 and a pretty good one at that but I don’t even know what to run with it

How do you go about your atlas progression? I feel like I am usually very slow and farming a bit before running voidstones is usually a good strat, but is it better to just blast even if the red maps are a little slower to get through?

I actually have a lot of questions, being new to ssf, but didnt want to spam and clutter chat. Scarabs are definitely a limiting factor in my ability to farm. What are the best ways to get them? Also, who should I look up for ssf specific information because some of the guides have not worked for me so far