Path of Building Community is an offline build planner specifically designed to help players optimize their characters in Path of Exile. The tool provides a comprehensive platform for calculating damage, managing skills and passives, and planning gear setups.
Key Features:
Comprehensive Damage Calculations: Accurately compute skill DPS, damage over time, life/mana reserves, and other critical stats while factoring in auras, buffs, curses, and monster resistances.
Passive Skill Tree Planner: Create and visualize passive builds with support for jewels and alternate path tracing. The tool integrates seamlessly with offensive/defensive calculations to show real-time effects of your choices.
Skill and Item Support: Manage main and supporting skills, including auras and curses, while automatically applying socketed gem modifiers from items. Search and add in-game items directly into the planner for realistic build simulations.
Item Crafting System: Design custom base items with prefix/suffix modifiers or create rare item templates to approximate gear setups for your builds.
Community Sharing: Generate unique share codes to exchange builds with other users, fostering collaboration within the Path of Exile community.
Audience & Benefits:
Ideal for Path of Exile players looking to refine their builds offline, whether they are experienced veterans or newcomers. The tool enhances efficiency in build planning, promotes creativity through customizable setups, and streamlines the process of sharing strategies with other players.
The software can be installed via winget for seamless integration into your workflow.
README
Path of Building Community
Welcome to Path of Building, an offline build planner for Path of Exile!
Features
Comprehensive offence + defence calculations:
Calculate your skill DPS, damage over time, life/mana/ES totals and much more!
Can factor in auras, buffs, charges, curses, monster resistances and more, to estimate your effective DPS
Also calculates life/mana reservations
Shows a summary of character stats in the side bar, as well as a detailed calculations breakdown tab which can show you how the stats were derived
Supports all skills and support gems, and most passives and item modifiers
Throughout the program, supported modifiers will show in blue and unsupported ones in red
Full support for minions
Support for party play and support builds
Passive skill tree planner:
Support for jewels including most radius/conversion and timeless jewels
Features alternate path tracing (mouse over a sequence of nodes while holding shift, then click to allocate them all)
Fully integrated with the offence/defence calculations; see exactly how each node will affect your character!
Can import PathOfExile.com and PoEPlanner.com passive tree links; links shortened with PoEURL.com also work
Skill planner:
Add any number of main or supporting skills to your build
Supporting skills (auras, curses, buffs) can be toggled on and off
Automatically applies Socketed Gem modifiers from the item a skill is socketed into
Automatically applies support gems granted by items
Item planner:
Add items from in game by copying and pasting them straight into the program!
Automatically adds quality to non-corrupted items
Search the trade site for the most impactful items
Fully integrated with the offence/defence calculations; see exactly how much of an upgrade a given item is!
Contains a searchable database of all uniques that are currently in game (and some that aren't yet!)
You can choose the modifier rolls when you add a unique to your build
Includes all league-specific items and legacy variants
Features an item crafting system:
You can select from any of the game's base item types
You can select prefix/suffix modifiers from lists
Custom modifiers can be added, with Master and Essence modifiers available
Also contains a database of rare item templates:
Allows you to create rare items for your build to approximate the gear you will be using
Choose which modifiers appear on each item, and the rolls for each modifier, to suit your needs
Has templates that should cover the majority of builds
Other features:
You can import passive tree, items, and skills from existing characters
Share builds with other users by generating a share code
Automatic updating; most updates will only take a couple of seconds to apply
Download
Head over to the Releases page to download the install wizard or portable zip.