Path of Exile – How to Buy Scuffed Rares to Start Mapping

Quick Guide to Buying Scuffed Rares

Step 1: To begin buying a bunch of scuffed rares you need to define what you need. For most people and most builds, this is just going to be Ele resistances to 75%, movement speed 30% on boots, and good flat life on everything except your weapon.

To help clarify this, buy any cheap uniques you’re going to be using in the build, and unequip everything that you plan on replacing. This will give you an accurate count of what your resists current look like without the new gear and what you need to buy. Skip any step where you’ve already bought a cheap unique to cover it that’s a good mapping unique.

Step 2: Buying your new body armor. For most people and most builds, a scuffed rare chest is the optimal chest with which to start mapping, especially if you’re reading this guide for info. Do NOT use a Tabula. It’s shit in trade league at this point in your progression, and you’d be better off with a 5-link chest with good life.

To build your filter, go to poe.sale. You want to start selecting criteria that will make for a good chest.

Select a min-life value of about/above 90. Usually I go for 120 when I hit maps. If the chests you see are too cheap for your budget, bump up the resistances a little. You should play with these numbers to help filter out chests you don’t want to buy, after the rest of the filter is set up.

Set this up so you don’t randomly get a weird non-chest item or unique that’s not going to play nice with your build. If you’re not having problems, this one is optional, but it’ll filter out garbage sometimes.

After that, you got 2 choices for how to ensure you get a chest that will work with your main skill’s colors. First, you can search for appropriately colored corrupted rares, or second, you can search for an uncorrupted rare. You can set that here:

If you’re going for a corrupted rare, set your colors in the following image:

For non-corrupted, set armor, evasion or energy shield to 1(leave the rest blank) based on which colors dominate your 6-link. For 4+ blues(ES), green(evasion) or red(armor), a single defense is best. For a more mixed coloring, get one that has the two defenses that favor the majority of your colors.

And set the minimum links to 6, as shown.

Some example chests with 100 minimum life in the search:

Step 3: Repeat the above, but for your Helmet and Gloves, but don’t get a corrupted one, and don’t specify links. You can socket/link gear cheaply yourself at this point, so the focus is on finding one with good rolls, and linking it yourself. However, focus your life down to about 60-70, and bump up the total-resistance filter option a LOT so that you can get the best 2-5c rare that’ll give you good resists. Watch your resists as you buy stuff, and make sure you’re buying gear that contributes to that.

Step 4: Boots. For boots particularly, you want 30% movement speed if you can get them. Take a hit to your life roll to get that, imho. MS is THAT good. A resist or two should also be fairly cheap to pick up, but play with the filter values above.

Step 5: Repeat again for belt, rings and amulet. At this point, it’s just flat-life and resists as a basic necessity, or you can try to get access to some map-tier affixes that someone found on an other-wise shitty rare. Watch your resists, and swap from total-res to one or more of the specific resistance filters, as appropriate, and shown below:

Good life value on rings/amulet is ~70, and if you’re later in the league, belt can go over 90.

These rares are often good places to pick up damage stats, as well, so if you’re finding it trivial to cap your resists and get 70 life, start looking for mods that help your damage, or attributes to cover requirements.

I hope you found this helpful!

Volodymyr Azimoff
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