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Guides to the tools here, and what six months of hourly prices say that nobody else is publishing.

6 min readBoth games

A build planner for both games

One editor for Path of Exile 1 and 2 — the passive tree drawn the way the game draws it, gear, gems, a full import from Path of Building, and a build page anybody can open without installing anything.

4 min readPoE 2

December 11: what full release changes for trading

Path of Exile 2 leaves Early Access on December 11 and becomes free to play. Here is what that reliably means for prices and trading, and the one question nobody can answer yet.

4 min readPoE 1

The Divine curve of Allflame, hour by hour

Three weeks of the Divine Orb in one league, from 22 chaos in the first hour to a peak of 259.5 — and what 515 hours of data say that a snapshot cannot.

9 min readPoE 2

The Forbidden Rites, hour by hour

The first two days of a currency market that started from nothing — seven markets and a single trade in hour one, 1,791 markets thirty-nine hours later, and the Divine Orb from 29.5 Exalted to 95 with the volumes beside every price.

4 min readPoE 2

Trading in PoE 2 without getting burned

How to work out what something is worth, which of the two trading systems to use, and the four ways new players lose things — including the one that gets the account banned rather than robbed.

5 min readPoE 2

The Forbidden Rites: a market that starts from nothing

Path of Exile 2's event league begins on September 4, and with it a currency market where nobody owns anything yet. What the first hours of prices mean, what they don't, and how to watch one appear.

5 min readBoth games

How to read the economy dashboard

What the numbers on the price pages actually mean, why some rows show a dash, and how to price things in the currency you think in rather than the one the game uses.

6 min readPoE 1

PoE Regex 101: what the search box actually does

The search field in Path of Exile takes regular expressions, and 250 characters of one. Here is what that buys you, where the limit really comes from, and how to stop writing them by hand.

5 min readBoth games

Why Exiles Base exists

A free toolkit for both Path of Exile games, built because the tools we relied on were either slow, ugly, or quietly asking for money to keep working.