Questions regarding path of building

Hi guys,

I just installed path of building v1.4.64

https://github.com/Openarl/PathOfBuilding/releases

I am confused on how to use this software and would appreciate anyone's help on how to use it.


I import my character's items/skills/ tree and check for my spell totem (flameblast)'s effective DPS.


It says about 250k damage at the 10th stage of flameblast with lightning golem passive buffs and flammability curse and vaal haste.


My question is on whether the 250k dps is for a single spell totem or all my spell totems(4) combined?

How do i manually add my other buffs such as elemental overload from skill tree, vaal lightning trap, flask's buff for the total effective dps calculation?

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My question is on whether the 250k dps is for a single spell totem or all my spell totems(4) combined?

Per totem.

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elemental overload

Automatically applied if you have it allocated.

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vaal lightning trap

Not really possible right now - you can tick "enemy is shocked" but PoB still thinks that means 50% extra damage rather than 20%.

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flask's buff

Tick the box next to the flask in your gear.

Thank you so much viperesque.

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YoursTruly86 wrote:

It says about 250k damage ...

Keep in mind that PoB calculates dmg numbers regarding trash mobs by default.
Which means you´ll deal way less dmg to regular map bosses or guardians/shaper.

You can change the dps calculations in the "configuration"-section to check what your dmg would look like when fighting a boss.
If you were to do that, keep in mind that PoB is taking temporary buffs into account as well, if you ticked them or have the skillgem equipped, keystone allocated and so on.
So make sure to DEACTIVATE those temporary buffs (like flasks, power/frenzy charges, golems, EO, EE ...), if you cant proc them reliably in a bossfight.

Otherwise PoB numbers will be misleading.

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Orbaal wrote:

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YoursTruly86 wrote:

It says about 250k damage ...

Keep in mind that PoB calculates dmg numbers regarding trash mobs by default.
Which means you´ll deal way less dmg to regular map bosses or guardians/shaper.

You can change the dps calculations in the "configuration"-section to check what your dmg would look like when fighting a boss.
If you were to do that, keep in mind that PoB is taking temporary buffs into account as well, if you ticked them or have the skillgem equipped, keystone allocated and so on.
So make sure to DEACTIVATE those temporary buffs (like flasks, power/frenzy charges, golems, EO, EE ...), if you cant proc them reliably in a bossfight.

Otherwise PoB numbers will be misleading.

Ok noted. Thanks for the info.

Damn i lost so much dps when i tick the "against shaper/guardian" check box 90k dps loss.