A ladder row tells you who is ahead. It does not tell you what they are playing. The new Path of Exile characters page turns the top 30 of each ladder (trade league, Hardcore, Solo Self-Found and Hardcore SSF) into cards that answer the question players actually ask: which ascendancy, which skill, which gear.
What each card shows
- The ascendancy with its class colour, the level and a bar for the experience still needed to reach level 100.
- XP per hour over the last three hours of readings and, at that pace, the time to level 100.
- The main skill, its gem level and how many sockets it is linked with, alive or dead, and the ladder rank.
- The account, the Twitch channel when the ladder lists one, the official profile and the character’s poe.ninja build page.
Each character also has its own page with the gear in every slot (weapon, offhand, helmet, body armour, gloves, boots, belt, amulet and both rings), every socketed gem with its level, the flasks, the passive tree summary with keystones, masteries and jewels, and the experience chart for the last 24 hours. A short build at a glance line names the ascendancy, the main skill and any defensive keystone, and leaves out what the data cannot show for certain.
Where the numbers come from
Rank, level, experience and alive or dead come from the official ladder, read every 15 minutes, the same reading that drives the race board. Gear, gems and the passive tree come from the official character window that pathofexile.com uses for public profiles. Game Pulse asks for one character at a time, at most once an hour for gear and every six hours for the tree, stays well inside the limits the site announces with each answer, and stops at the first sign that it should slow down.
The main skill is worked out the way a player would read a character sheet: the active gem with the most links in the body armour or weapons, ignoring auras, guards, warcries, curses and movement skills. When two candidates tie, the one with more supports wins, then the body armour before the weapon. If nothing qualifies, the card simply leaves the line out.
Privacy
Path of Exile lets every player choose whether their characters are visible. The ladder says which profiles are public, and Game Pulse never asks for the others: a private character shows its public ladder entry, rank, level and pace, with a Profile private badge instead of gear. If a public profile turns private, its stored gear is dropped at the next reading.
Item art stays where it belongs. Game Pulse does not copy or embed images from pathofexile.com; items are named in their rarity colour, and each one offers the official icon as a link. For the full tree and item details, follow the official profile or poe.ninja’s builds from any card.
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