{
"post": {
"title": "Best Method to Farm Awakened Gems in SSF",
"selftext": "I know that there are some postings about this, but pretty much everything I'm able to find is about other leagues. As I'm sure we're all aware, things are quite different in 3.24 in terms of scarabs and atlas. I want to get awakened cast on crit, and I have heard that farming breaches with full breach atlas/scarabs and using the breachstones to get high quant feared invitations (since they're guaranteed now) is the way to go. Is this the case? Are there any tips and tricks to make sure that I'm doing it optimally? I'm also doing this in group self found - my buddies would appreciate the other awakened gems so I don't mind getting a bunch of \"missed\" awakened rolls.",
"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1cjhm4u/best_method_to_farm_awakened_gems_in_ssf/"
},
"comments": [
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"body": "I haven't really tried Hidden farming recently so i'm not sure how it fares awakened gem wise, but i don't think i would be better than just destructive play boss rushing to generate a ton of synth/shaper/elder/conq maps to run all the invitations and mavens as you get them",
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"body": "Regular 10 run mavin invitations have super low rate of drop of them just do invitations like hidden and the like",
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"body": "Yea you just do 10ways to generate the other maps if you need, but usually you don't run out once you have a sizeable map pool",
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"body": "Just to be sure, 10ways are just the maven invitations for the mish mash of 10 map bosses right? And when you say generate the other maps you need, which ones do you mean?",
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"body": "Yea 10 ways means atlas invitation. Just boss rushing 10 different maps with destructive play and maven witness, with the recent changes, you'd have to pick maps like strand where you can fullclear easily while rushing the boss to maximise the number of bosses maven spawns.\n\nYou will get a lot of gardian/conqueror/synth maps, which are the ones you really want to run because their invitations drop more maven splinters and more awakened gems than the atlas invitations.\n\nLast league you could reliably sustain conqueror/synth/elder/shaper maps once you had built a decent map pool to alleviate possible bad luck at the start."
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"body": "Apparently there's a lab craft now that turns a support gem (non exceptional) into its awakened version. Not sure if it needs a special offering like dedication or something. Could be just in regular Eternal.",
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"body": "As far as I understand, it's in eternal, dedication, and gift labs. People claim that gift is the best for it because of the additional crafts. The information on this is pretty scarce which I imagine is for two reasons: 1) people don't run lab if they don't have to and 2) it seems like it's a pretty rare craft. If I weren't doing self found I would buy a couple gifts and give that a shot, but it seems annoying to source them myself. Then again, getting awakened gems A-Z from maven before I actually get the gem that I want may be more annoying lol",
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"body": "It took me 40 Mavens to get it myself, this league. The struggle is real.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "If you got the specific awakened gem you're looking for in 40 maven kills I'm pretty sure that's significantly luckier than average."
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"body": "Destructive play"
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{
"body": "You can't get woke coc from anything but 10 witness invitations, maven, or maven witness."
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"body": "Destructive Play (you need to clear map), invitations (elder guards, shaper guards, conquerors) and Maven. Just do it as fast as possible."
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"body": "Awakened Cast on Crit is a maven drop only (or maven witnessed map bosses at a tiny rate, but not maven invitations). There are a few gems that cannot drop from invitations: GMP, Fork, Chain, Spell Echo, Spell Cascade, Cast on Crit, Multistrike. \n\nI got very lucky in SSF with mine on the 5th Maven kill. Your best bet is to run destructive play and chain invitations till you build up enough maven writs and then farm maven a bunch. You can't realistically farm this from map bosses. Feared takes too much setup in SSF (Uber Atziri is an annoying bottleneck). If you want to do feared, you need to farm some breach allflames or breach itself for Chayula and run some ritual for uber atzriri frags. Running elderslayers/formed/twisted is much easier.\n\nIf you don't have enough influenced maps to kick start destructive play, farm some legion. The map rewards from legion now drop influenced maps at a pretty high rate.",
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"body": "Sorry I meant to say hidden invitations, just the 4 other breachlords",
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"body": "Hidden invitations will help generate maven writs, but you can't get awakened coc from the hidden itself. The allflames are a good way to generate breachstones, but running breach also works well.\n\nI think it's easier to destructive play sustain the other invitations though, and since the only thing that matters is generating maven writs, I'd run those."
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]
}
]
}
]
}