{
"post": {
"title": "PoB quality of life idea - gems acquisition. When you go to the \"Skills\" bookmark and hover mouse above a gem it would show you the earliest quest that allows you to acquire this particular gem for the given class. Would be great for leveling for people who don't know every single gem by heart",
"selftext": "",
"url": "https://i.redd.it/luf1d0818wqc1.png"
},
"comments": [
{
"body": "Don't use PoB when you're leveling. Use the generated pobb.in link on your second monitor or phone. When you hover over a gem there or tap it it will show in which act, from which vendor and for what quest that gem can be acquired by your class.\n\nhttps://pobb.in/_KY5CfJBxBAf\n\npobb.in links show you the minimum required information you need when you level a build through acts.\n\nAnd if you need more information, you can ctrl-click the gem to go to the poewiki page.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "👀"
},
{
"body": "TIL"
},
{
"body": "Will this pobb.in link work with pobs that have multiple trees/skills and gems?",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Yes, you can select which tree, gear or skill setup you want just like in pob.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Thx Dr"
}
]
},
{
"body": "Yes, in my example link you'll notice there's dropdown menus. They correspond to different skill trees, gear sets and gem sets."
}
]
},
{
"body": "https://heartofphos.github.io/exile-leveling/\n\nyou can add your PoB here and it tells you when to buy your gems :D"
},
{
"body": "Holy HAnnah that is good info."
},
{
"body": "Too based"
}
]
},
{
"body": "As someone who really wants to try building out my own league starter I was looking for something similar. I'm fairly new to the game less than 800 hours, so I don't remember where all the gems come from. It's also so annoying to have like 6 different chrome tabs + POB + poe trade, but right now it doesn't look like there is any better option.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "> I'm fairly new to the game less than 800 hours\n\nImagine saying this about any other game. Path of Exile is the best.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "If we are talking about arpgs only then sure. Poe destroyed any arpgs for me, I can't find anything more engaging."
}
]
},
{
"body": "Dude I'm over 4k hours in and all i know about gems without looking it up is \"I'll get them all act6 anyways\" (fuck the library)."
},
{
"body": "https://heartofphos.github.io/exile-leveling/\n\nif you add your pob it tells you when to get each gem :D"
}
]
},
{
"body": "Why are you posting this on Reddit and not the GitHub page"
},
{
"body": "ITT: Butthurt people who will look at this suggestion an go \"I DON'T NEED THIS, SO NO ONE SHOULD HAVE IT\"",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Literally 2 people at the time of posting this"
}
]
},
{
"body": "I would only be ok with this if there's a way to turn that off. I don't need PoB to hold my hand as a campaign walk through, as I use it strictly for build planning, and I don't need added visual clutter on my tooltips. It's fine to have it on by default so new players have a way of knowing where to get the gems, but for veterans, we already know where everything is.\n\nWhat I would really like is a keybind that we can hold to show the scaling of all levels of a gem that we mouse over, so we don't have to refer to the tables on poewiki, or doing the math on a calculator. This way we know what level we should optimally push for on a gem with breakpoints, or diminishing level scaling.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "I see where you're coming from, but then if we take it just a tiny step further - do veterans need a description of a skill like on the screen above? Veterans already know what Lighting Arrow does \\^\\^",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Not a veteran but yes. In case of buffs/nerfs, wording changes, to check all gem modifiers (spell/att/elemental/support etc)",
"replies": [
{
"body": "> buffs/nerfs, wording changes, to check all gem modifiers (spell/att/elemental/support etc) \n\nveterans know this by heart soon after the patch notes too \\^\\^"
}
]
},
{
"body": "Yeah, when planning a build I like to know exactly the mechanics of my main skill so I can think and theory craft.\n\nYou're telling me you know the tags, base damage, damage effectiveness, speed etc of all gems? Don't use bad faith arguments just because you're getting criticism over this bloat feature."
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "Would be great. I usually have a tab open with poe wiki quest rewards during league start and manually search"
},
{
"body": "https://poegems.com/\n\nSpecifically: https://poegems.com/planner",
"replies": [
{
"body": "I guess, when checking your gems setup in PoB you could\n\n1. alt-tab to your browser,\n2. open the above URLs,\n3. write the name of the gem you're interested in,\n4. choose your class\n5. hit enter to get the info you're looking for...\n\nOr you could move your mouse a bit so it hoovers on the gem in PoB (where you're already are) and get that info in an instant \\^\\^\n\ne: also - are we sure that site is up-to-date? As much as we can be sure PoB is?",
"replies": [
{
"body": "For the record you can also hover over gems and unique items in PoB and hit F1 (I think it is) to automatically open the corresponding wiki page, then scroll down to the item acquisition section.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "You can what now? How long has this been in pob?"
}
]
},
{
"body": "> are we sure that site is up-to-date?\n\nI try :) Last update date is at the bottom right of the page.\n\nYou're right though, my planner is definitely not the best, especially for your use-case. Although ideally you'd prepare your list of gems before playing, since your planned gems are saved."
},
{
"body": "You can copy/paste every Gem from PoB directly into the planner.\n\nGenerally people get this stuff ready before league start so they can just alt-tab. Not that the setup would take very long, though.\n\nThe bottom of the site shows what version of the game it has been updated to."
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "Wat? You don't know the reward for every single quest in the game for every single type of character?? Noob!!! /s\n\n​\n\nGreat idea, especially for the league start when you want to get through levelling ASAP and not switch between windows to look things up on wikia/poedb, but you're on /r/pathofexile where people will moan and criticise literally everything, as you can already see."
},
{
"body": "Nah we don't need even more tooltips in pob. For new players chances are they've reached act 6 before downloading pob and for everybody else this feature will be useless anyway.",
"replies": [
{
"body": "nah, there's a plenty of people between \"new players that barely reached act 6\" and players that know every gems and every class acquisition table by heart \\^\\^\n\nAs u/EkaErik said above\n\n>I usually have a tab open with poe wiki quest rewards during league start and manually search\n\nIMHO there's plenty of that kind of people",
"replies": [
{
"body": "but why would you need that in the first place? do you really plan builds for act 2?",
"replies": [
{
"body": "no, but I often follow builds of other people which do include the \"leveling\" sections for both tree and gems and it's frustrating to juggle between PoB and browser to manually look for a gem I don't happen to remember",
"replies": [
{
"body": "Doesn’t Exile Leveling do what you want? You import a PoB, and it tells you when to buy the gems. If you throw it into LaillokenUI, you get an overlay on the screen as you play and a hotkey that automatically highlights the gems you’re supposed to buy at the vendor.\n\nhttps://heartofphos.github.io/exile-leveling/\n\nhttps://github.com/Lailloken/Lailloken-UI"
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"body": "It needs to also include the act. The name of the quest alone will not be helpful to the target audience you're referring to. With that included I think it's a great idea!\n\nEdit: Also, for transfigured gems it could mention lab."
},
{
"body": "https://poedb.tw/us/QuestRewards#QuestVendorRewards"
}
]
}