MercuryTrade-Community-Fork VS PoB-Item-Tester

if you trade a LOT, then you might benefit from a dedicated trade manager macro/app like Mercury Trade Community Fork.

[https://github.com/morph21/mercurytrade-community-fork/releases/lateest

If you liked Slimtrade, you could test MercuryTrade Community Fork.

Next, thing: trade. Trade is a big part of the game, and to access you will want to be playing in a Trade league (not SSF - Solo Self Found). Here are the resources you will need to use the trade system: https://poe.ninja/challenge/currency is the "price-checking" tool for currency exchange rates and pricing unique items. (There is no way to reliably price rare items for a new player, unless you know all builds, all item affixes, all crafting mechanics and what is popular at the moment). Although there is almost 50 different currencies (you will want to memorize those), don't let that fool you - the basic "dollars" is the Chaos Orb. Everything you will trade to and from will have to be exchanged into Chaos Orbs. Hundred dollar bills are the "Exalted Orbs", and then "ten thousand dollar bill" is the Mirror of Kalandra. You will need Awakened PoE Trade (https://github.com/SnosMe/awakened-poe-trade), an overlay for the game that lets you quickly check prices of items in-game. Do not attempt to trade without a trade overlay, or you will get assblasted and have a terrible time. https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/ is the official search API, that lets you search for items based on a set of criteria. You will be using it constantly to set up alerts on items you are interested in to snipe, or to quickly search an over-priced piece of gear if you are in a rush. The only way to trade is to whisper another player with the information about the item you are interested in and wait for them to respond. It's all done through the in-game chat-window based on text messages. There is no other form of support for trading in this game. That is why we need Awakened PoE Trade, and this next piece of equipment: https://github.com/Morph21/MercuryTrade-Community-Fork will help you manage trades in-game.

MercuryTrade Community Fork may also work well for you.

It sounds like this does the same as https://github.com/VolatilePulse/PoB-Item-Tester but within PoB and is nicely automated?

I thought most people who use 3rd party tools for PoE were already using this https://github.com/VolatilePulse/PoB-Item-Tester script which does the same thing and has existed for over 4 years.

I mean this tool has functionally existed before, see https://github.com/VolatilePulse/PoB-Item-Tester , it just requires less work now

You can also use POB Item Tester with Xanthic's web service to spit out automatic weighted DPS searches for your build based on a PoB. This is generally very useful for jewels that have a ton of different specific mods, but you can also use it for other gear.

For gear I usually just choose a couple of key uniques, and then just fill it out with life+res gear and then use https://github.com/VolatilePulse/PoB-Item-Tester to generate trade searches within my budget

Pick a spell you like (or any other skill that primarily scales of gem levels) and take some time to learn how to use PoeItemTester, if you're using a spell it can really help bridge the gap between the wand you found in a T2 map and the wands people are crafting for 30ex.

I'd love to see a more fleshed out tool native to pob, though there is similar in pob item tester's weighted sum dps search tool.

Also, https://github.com/VolatilePulse/PoB-Item-Tester this is amazing tool for finding mods esp for jewels to search the most valued price for most DPS gained.

Path of Building Item Tester

you mean this? pob item tester