Path of Building PoE2: from a build code to items you can buy
By Almost · · 5 min read
Most PoE2 build guides end in a Path of Building code. Here is where to find it, and how to see the whole build’s gear for sale in a few clicks.
The short answer
Copy the build’s Path of Building code from the guide.
Add the free Almost extension, then paste the code at almost.trade: you see the whole build’s gear.
Press the Almost badge on a rare to see the items for sale most like it, the best for their price; any other item opens on the trade site.
What a Path of Building code holds
A guide’s code carries every item its character wears: each slot’s base, every mod with its roll and the runes in its sockets. Many carry several item sets as well — starter, mid-budget, endgame.
Where to find the Path of Building code in a PoE2 build guide
Mobalytics: many guides have a “Path of Building Code” block with a Copy Code button.
poe.ninja: a build’s page has a Path of Building button that gives its code.
pobb.in: a link that holds a code; open it and copy the code from the page.
Maxroll: its guides export a build file for the game; a Path of Building code, where a guide has one, is in the guide itself.
How to search the PoE2 trade site for a PoB build’s items
By hand, you import the code into Path of Building, pick an item set and build a trade search for every rare — its base and the mods that carry the build, each with a minimum — then widen each until something fits your budget. A dozen or more slots is a dozen or more searches before you have compared a single listing.
Path of Building’s own trade search finds the upgrade that raises your character’s damage or defences most; it does not start from the guide’s item. How to weigh a listing against the guide, and which mods you can give up, is in How to gear your PoE2 build from a guide — and pay less.
Find a PoE2 build’s items on the trade site from its PoB code
Add the free Almost extension, then paste the code at almost.trade. The page opens the whole build: the character’s class and level, its gear on a paper doll, its jewels — on the item set the guide’s author left active, with the other sets beside it.
The build page for a guide’s Path of Building code: a Shaman, level 92, its “CI Mid Budget” set — a screenshot from almost.trade’s demo.
Point at any item and its card opens beside it, as the trade site would show it: every mod with its tier, and a weapon’s DPS. Each item has one button:
The Almost badge, on a rare: shows the items for sale most like it, the best for their price, each with what it gives up.
The scales, on everything else: open the trade site’s own search, cheapest first — a unique by its name, a jewel by its base and nearly all its lines.
So the dozen searches become a dozen clicks: each rare comes back ranked against the guide’s item, and everything else opens on the trade site.
Works on your computerOpen this page there to add the extension.
Safe for your account: the extension runs the trade site’s own searches, in your own session — see how.
Which PoE2 build items to buy first
Read the guide’s notes first: they say which items the build cannot start without. Then fill the slots where a close item is cheapest, and upgrade them later.
Uniques, links and leagues
Uniques: Almost’s search leaves them out; a unique’s button opens the trade site’s search for it by name.
A link instead of a code: paste the code itself — a pobb.in link is not opened.
Another league: a Path of Building code names no league, so every search runs in the current one.
Questions players ask
Do I need Path of Building installed?
No. The site reads the code itself, in your browser.
I play on PlayStation or Xbox. Can I use Almost?
Yes. PC and console players trade on one market, so whatever it finds, you can buy. The extension runs in Chrome on a computer.
Can I see the guide’s other item sets?
Yes — every set that holds an item is one click away.
This product isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Grinding Gear Games in any way.
