We love working on PoEBuilder. Path of Exile is one of the best games ever made and the Path of Exile community is the best in gaming. We would be happy to work on PoEBuilder for as long as people want to play Path of Exile.



We have a couple projects in mind that we would love to build and maintain permanently.



PoEBuilder - A bulletproof theorycrafting tool. You should be able to select any gear, any passives, any uniques, any gems and read out your DPS, Armour, Avoidance, Mitigation, and Mana Costs. PoEBuilder is close to this currently, but there is still some work to do to make it perfect.



Additionally, we want to separate out some of the tools so they are faster and easier to work with. For example, we have an aura reservation calculator, but you have to go through the tedium of creating items and gems to get it to work. We can make that a standalone tool so it’s easier to use.



PoEDatabase - A fully updated, cross referenced database for Path of Exile. Here are some things that you could do on PoEDatabase:



Find all the items in the game that provide a bonus when on low life.

Find all the base items that can roll a particular mod, like critical strike.

Find out what the base stats are for every vanilla monster in the game.



PoEOptimizer - A suite of tools that optimize your build. Here are some things you could do on PoEOptimizer



Input a passive tree and find a way to add 50% increased life to it with the fewest number of nodes.

Maximize the Critical Strike Chance of a passive tree starting with the Shadow, provided you guarantee a minimum 200% increased life and 100% increased armour.

Find the cheapest item on poe.xyz.is that increases your DPS by 200.



PoECommunity - A community site that allows you to connect with people who are using PoEBuilder, PoEDatabase, or PoEOptimizer. Here are some things you could do on PoECommunity.



View all the builds that people are working on right now.

Ask someone to look at your build and help you plan it in real time.

Post an item you have and get suggestions on what build to try with it in real time.



We also want all of these tools to be usable on mobile devices. You can’t use PoEBuilder on an iPad right now, and that’s a shame.



These four sites would be totally kickass, and we have the tools to build them.



We just don’t have the money. PoEBuilder is a full time job, and it doesn’t generate any money for us. If we want to continue with PoEBuilder and these other sites, we need to find some way to pay for it.



We wanted to go directly to you guys with this problem. Are these sites and communities things that you want? Are there other sites and tools that are not on this list that we should be building instead? Would you guys be willing to fund the development of those through something like Kickstarter?



Ideally, we get to continue working on Path of Exile and PoEBuilder for a very long time. We love what we do, and we’ll support the community for as long as we can.



What do you guys think? Last edited by tks2103 on Jun 26, 2014, 12:36:18 AM