PSA: How to shop effectively for your specific character with PoB

Since many players are new to PoB, here's a guide for how to find items with stats that actually matter to your specific build and are not overpriced.
Step 1
Enter your character into PoB (obviously)
Step 2
Click "Trade for these items" in your items panel
Step 3
Set your desired stat weights
Step 4
Click on "Find best" for the item slot you are shopping for
Step 5
Click the link, and PoB has generated you a weighted sum search for items that will increase the stat weights you set in Step 3. Adjust as you see fit, until you find the desired item you are looking for
Step 6
Before you buy an item, add the item to your build in PoB and compare it to your current item to get real time data on how much of an upgrade it is before you decide if you want to actually buy it.
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but how do you enter your character into it? manually?
may i ask what is full dps, combined dps and hit dps? what are the diflferences
How do you come up with your own stat weights effectively?
Cries on console...
Thanks for this guide. I think the biggest barrier to entry for me (a new player) is having to manually add my character into PoB. But I also have no idea what I'm doing so there's that
Will comeback to this later, thx
This is really cool, but honestly I feel like I'm just randomly doing stuff when I'm adding weights. How does the "weight" of % resist compare to DPS? I mean, I typically need a certain minimum threshold of basic stats, resist and spirit, and then maximize values that increase DPS, mana and health. I don't understand how logic like that translates to relative weights.
Thanks! Just started using this today. Am I blind or is the Megalomaniac Diamond jewel missing from the app?
Beginners guide!
Set stat weights!
I dunno what stat weights are I'm a beginner :(
Is there an easy way to copy an item from the trade site and paste it into POB or do you have to craft the item in POB?
Don't forget to adjust the filter until you're seeing less than 10,000 results - if you don't then when you sort the items you may be missing some. If there are 20k results and they only gice you 10k you're missing half your options.
How can i copy items from trade to pob?
Auto weight is bad, for weapon its always favor the + to skills level and of course it would have higher dps even though your mana gone in 2sec, and for the armor and accessories its doesn't care about your resistance.
How do you do step 6? Is there a way to copy paste an item from the trade site into POB?
Can you clarify on Step 6, how do you add/copy an item from Trade to PoB before buying it? Or do you just create it in PoB manually.
Can i use pob on macbook
Does PoB2 really automatically calculate +gem skill levels? I tried entering my char and only managed to get the skill dps to be the same as the sheet dps of the skill when I manually add in +skill levels on my own
You can copy paste gear from the gene, no need to manually enter
You can Ctrl + C on items in your inventory and paste them directly into PoB, no need to hit the create item button or enter them manually
I'm too lazy to manually input my characters so I'll wait until importing is available. For now I just manually to my weighted sums with minimum thought process maths
This is just super complicated . Is pob even worth if I’m following a build guide?
How do I copy items over from the PoE trade site to PoB so that I can compare them to what I have?
I’ve been putting my stuff in but all the numbers just seem to be coming out wrong? And I’m using choir of the storm+cast on shock+cast on crit and it doesn’t seem to be calculating any of it correctly
Playing a Gemling, 2 divs away from another Grand spectrum with int to meet res cap on all three res reqs minus chaos (50%)
How do I get it to not search for gear with res on it? LF a Ring upgrade, Do not see somewhere where I can set the weights on res lower.
You should also mention choosing your ascendancy in the skills pane which actually enables assigning the nodes
Any ETA from GGG regarding the API for the import character feature?
What's PoB?
Why isn't something like this built into games like this by default? I swear, ARPG developers want our actual stats to be obfuscated as much as possible.
Any idea why when I use the search for a weapon it comes up as this?
Thanks for this Very helpful!
what does include in full dps do for your skills
I just posted a simple chrome extension that I wrote to easily export items from the trade website into PoB. This is a feature from the PoE1 Trade website but not available yet for PoE2.
Can I jump a few steps by asking a smart person if they can make it auto pull your stats etc from a assigned character?
How do I enable Archmage for my build to calculate my real DPS as stormweaver?
Dude! This is so effing awesome! Am gonna save this for later!
Any chance of more tips on pob? Any stuff that isnt obvious, like what that jewel button on the bottom is for. And I've heard you can find the best in class annoints or something?
I got pob and literally went from 1,04k dps on my ice strike to 1,54 with just swapping a few nodes around. Managed to get in an extra jewel cuz i realised that i was wasting defense points and the jewel would be better!
One issue i face is that when buying an "upgrade" that POB suggests, in POB it shows a 20k dps upgrade, but my ingame tooltip drops by about 15k. Any idea why?
Can i find out the modweighting of my equipped items to compare it to the items the trade Seite found?
Whenever I'm trying to search for a weapon it ouputs "Could not generate search, found no mods to search for". Only does that to weapons.
I forgot about PoB Sum trading. Why was PoE2 trade whining that i had too many perametres again lol.
Commwnting to savw for later
Neat, thank you.
Step 7 : DM to the seller and got no return.
Step 8 : Keep DM and watching the seller increase the price.
Step 9: Give up on this item then redo from Step 4
Step 10 : Close PoB, trade site altogether because no seller respond.
Source : True story, a lot of PoB warrior experience it.
Thank you for this guide, very helpful.
I just have one issue so far. I want to find a weapon so I've setup weight and then click "find best" but then the link is this : https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Standard?q=%7B%22query%22%3A%7B%22status%22%3A%7B%22option%22%3A%22online%22%7D%2C%22filters%22%3A%7B%22type_filters%22%3A%7B%22filters%22%3A%7B%22category%22%3A%7B%22option%22%3A%22weapon.warstaff%22%7D%2C%22rarity%22%3A%7B%22option%22%3A%22nonunique%22%7D%7D%7D%7D%2C%22stats%22%3A%5B%7B%22type%22%3A%22weight%22%2C%22filters%22%3A%5B%7B%22value%22%3A%7B%22weight%22%3A2.9425161027612%7D%2C%22id%22%3A%22implicit.stat_1702195217%22%7D%5D%2C%22value%22%3A%7B%22min%22%3A0%7D%7D%5D%7D%2C%22sort%22%3A%7B%22statgroup.0%22%3A%22desc%22%7D%2C%22engine%22%3A%22new%22%7D
and it looks like this on trade site
not sure what I've done wrong.
Thank you
What?
Is there an option to set wildshape passive skill points?
This is why people think poe = excel