I got tired of pasting every rare into PoB to see if it beat what I had on, so I made a small overlay that does it for me. It started on PoE2 and now works in PoE1 (beta).

I really love both POE1/2 and this tool has been immensly useful for me. I hope you like it too.
Testing so far has been on one of my standard league POE1 toons and my current POE2 minion build. Will likely come out of beta into 0.5.0 once I complete extensive linux tests.

The app automatically detects which game you are in and switches to your last loaded toon.

Hover an item, press F2, and you get UPGRADE / SIDEGRADE / LOSES RESISTANCE / LOSES DAMAGE for your character. The numbers come from Path of Building Community running locally with your build, so it works for any class or skill.

What else it does:

Find upgrades: a trade search weighted by PoB, then every listing checked against your build

Where to spend: which slot gives the most for your divines, and pairs of items that cap your res together

Map check: DANGER / CAREFUL / FINE for your build (max res mods run through PoB, checked against your damage)

Links, and flasks checked too; poe.ninja prices with the last 7 days; keep / sell / vendor hints

Standard and league both work

It doesn't read game memory or touch game files. The only input it sends to the game is one Ctrl+C per key press. It also sends an anonymous daily "in use, PoE1 or PoE2" ping so I know if anyone uses it; one checkbox turns that off.

Free and open source, Windows and Linux: https://poe2upgrade.com

Latest beta build for POE1 & 2: https://github.com/ets-public/poe2-upgrade-checker/releases

AI disclosure: most of the code was written with an AI assistant (Claude). I direct it, test it in game and decide what goes in. The verdicts themselves come from Path of Building, not from AI.

Contributors welcome. PoE1 support is new and I'd love help from people who love both games like I do. Send me your bug reports, PoE1/2 edge cases, or pull requests. Someone already sent in a fix for a res-cap bug this week. GitHub: https://github.com/ets-public/poe2-upgrade-checker

If a verdict looks wrong, Tray → Open log and send it to [support@poe2upgrade.com](mailto:support@poe2upgrade.com) or open an issue.

Happy hunting exiles!

I'm in the POE missmaxing phase, I'm about to start another character in Allflame.

Can we get anything in terms of a 3.30 teaser, it can be even just a word about the new league, that'd be enough.

Please let the word be 'boat'.

Hi all,

Realizing that this is pretty late in the league and inflation might be pricing things out of my reach, do you recommend any off-meta mercs and Lumi builds that work well?

I'm thinking of trying to go for 36/40 with the time we have left, so I the mercs and build would be have to be uber capable.

Thanks all

Hi guys, I want to practice some runs to improve my league start.

What are good target times for Act 10, 2 stones, and 4 stones?

Also, what are the fastest/good builds for the first two days to get through the campaign and start progressing quickly? Bow builds? Venom Gyre? Kinetic Blast? Slams ?

Thanks!

Got 36/40 a month into the league and was gonna call it quits there, but I couldn't figure what to play tonight so I decided to push 40/40. Good league, going to miss boat crafting. GGs!

I’ve always wanted to pick up some Path of Exile merch at ExileCon, but unfortunately a trip to New Zealand is way beyond my budget. To celebrate the launch of the new league and ExileCon from afar, I decided to get my second PoE-inspired tattoo. Maybe one day I’ll finally make it to ExileCon in person and bring home some official merch as well.

Last few leagues I fill the gap between the leagues by getting one or two achievements each time. Having the end in sight, I decided to push last week and finished the remaining 9 achievements!

After 2.8k hours on Steam, and probably another 2k on standalone, I now have all 119 achievements! Yay!

Funny anecdotes

- In all these hours I notice I never played Scion, hence Seeker was one of the latest challenges I completed. Maybe next league I need to consider the Reliquarian

- People usually get Beginner's Luck (drop unique from Hillock) around the time they have 4 characters around level 7, in about 4 hours. I was extremely lucky and got it before any character hit level 4, in less than an hour.

- Delve is one of my favorite contents. In Mirage I'm sure I sold/gave away 100+ Aul taxi services and made hundreds of divines from it, but it seems I never killed him myself.

- I was very bummed by the thought of buying a carry service for the Hall of Grandmasters achievement. I thought it would cheapen the achievement. However, it turns out my my homebrew Mirage character is a beast and I got it on Standard myself! Take that Empyrian!

- I only tried hardcore for Ziz's Gauntlets and never reached level 90 or completed the merc lab. Taking a serious attempt was probably the most nerving and exciting POE experience I had in a long while. I had two close calls but I made it eventually, and I really enjoyed the HC experience! I will probably continue and see if I can get 7/7, and next time I'm done with a league I will definitely consider restarting in HC or HCSSF.

I am a "casual" and I'd say I'm a shitty player. However, Steam says less than 1% of players have all achievements. I guess now I am now officially a top 1% POE player. /s LOL