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

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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

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Step 3

Set your desired stat weights

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Step 4

Click on "Find best" for the item slot you are shopping for

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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

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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.

Comments

Far_Atmosphere_38537

but how do you enter your character into it? manually?

SpiritualBluejay43633

may i ask what is full dps, combined dps and hit dps? what are the diflferences

CoreyJK1

How do you come up with your own stat weights effectively?

LostLobes1

Cries on console...

msalad1

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

diimitra1

Will comeback to this later, thx

mistervanilla1

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.

blksunday1

Thanks! Just started using this today. Am I blind or is the Megalomaniac Diamond jewel missing from the app?

Dexember691

Beginners guide!

Set stat weights!

I dunno what stat weights are I'm a beginner :(

Smiggels1

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?

IncestosaurusRekt1

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.

Ok-Supermarket-90681

How can i copy items from trade to pob?

alexanderblight1

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. 

CarterA694201

How do you do step 6? Is there a way to copy paste an item from the trade site into POB?

phly1

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.

Fun-Engineering-33201

Can i use pob on macbook

phreakstorm1

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

jaleCro1

You can copy paste gear from the gene, no need to manually enter

Mrbazzanator1

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

Accomplished-Lie7161

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

ZazzooGaming1

This is just super complicated . Is pob even worth if I’m following a build guide?

Reftro1

How do I copy items over from the PoE trade site to PoB so that I can compare them to what I have?

SparkStorm1

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

Furiousaf1

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.

duder9071

You should also mention choosing your ascendancy in the skills pane which actually enables assigning the nodes

ammenz1

Any ETA from GGG regarding the API for the import character feature?

Boom_the_Bold1

What's PoB?

Boom_the_Bold1

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.

KingWhipsy1

Any idea why when I use the search for a weapon it comes up as this?

Intro-P1

Thanks for this Very helpful!

sonnentanzz1

what does include in full dps do for your skills

introvertGus1

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.

opposing_critter1

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?

handonghua1

How do I enable Archmage for my build to calculate my real DPS as stormweaver?

socksandshots1

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!

VierK271

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?

TourachPlays1

Can i find out the modweighting of my equipped items to compare it to the items the trade Seite found?

trash-_-boat1

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.

ledrif1

I forgot about PoB Sum trading. Why was PoE2 trade whining that i had too many perametres again lol.
Commwnting to savw for later

Metafield1

Neat, thank you.

Injokerx1

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.

Remarkable_Step_61771

What?

Clorox_is_love1

Is there an option to set wildshape passive skill points?

Freed0mChaser1

This is why people think poe = excel