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The original was posted on /r/pathofexile by /u/ilasfm on 2024-12-25 13:05:35+00:00.
And I mean literally 0%. Not 50%, not 20%, not 10%, 0%. No golden charm. Take off all rarity on your gear and just run around for 50 maps. Do some Sanctums.
I can guarantee you that the difference will be drastic. People do not believe me when I say I found more useful currency in t5 maps with rarity than I do in t15 maps with 0 rarity. I could regularly walk into early maps with 50-90%ish rarity and walk out with several exalt. I would slam constantly in search of upgrades to my gear. Now I feel pretty lucky if I find 2 exalt in an end game map surrounded with towers and have a whole 4 regals in my stash.
I just did a complete, 4 floor level 80 Sanctum, killing 4 rares in every hourglass room, and walked out with 2 regals, 2 chaos, 1 vaal, and 1 exalted orb in monster currency drops. When I had rarity on my gear, I was literally getting more than that entire runs worth of raw currency in a single hourglass room in level 65 Sanctums sometimes.
If you want to progress your character at a good pace, whether you are in trade or in SSF, the answer is to make sure you have rarity on at least some of your gear. For trade it's obvious why you want rarity. but why does it matter in SSF? You need currency in SSF to upgrade your character. In an early PoE 2 world where crafting is basically a slot machine, you need to be constantly pulling the lever to try and find upgrades to your gear, and to pull that lever you need currency.
Putting on gear that doubles your damage and doubles your survivability but leaves you with 0% rarity in SSF is actually running it down mid. By doing so you basically cut off your ability to keep fishing for upgrades while juicing maps at an acceptable rate. You are shooting yourself in the foot. So the correct play is to ignore the gear that doubles your damage and doubles your survivability in favor of your older shittier gear that has rarity rolled on it and suffer on it longer until you do find some minor upgrade that lets you keep some rarity.
It feels awful. The objectively correct thing for me to do is downgrade my build (which is not a particularly strong setup with my current gear) by looking for rarity lines. That is not good character gear progression and a huge red flag.