Import POB as Loadout (Progression Book)

[BejayCleary]

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What platform are you running Path of Building on?

Windows

Is your feature request related to a problem?

I would like to be able to import a POB as a loadout onto an existing POB.
This would allow the creation of a "progression book" when using the character import and would be a neat momento of your character after a league has finished.

Right now, the only way to do this is to have your existing saved character snapshot POB, and when you import your current character (either via character import, or via a link from poe.ninja). You then manually export the specific skill tree into your previous snapshot, and then manually add the items and skills. Which is very time consuming.

Describe the solution you'd like

To minimise development effort, it can be a little janky.

I would add an option in "Build Sharing > Import Build" to "Import to this build as a loadout".

It would only support the "default" tree, items, and skills, and only the equipped items. With an appropriate error message if there is more than one tree. this could potentially be enhanced later if the imported POB actually has loadouts in it.

Describe alternatives you've considered

This feature could eventually be enhanced to do all sorts of interesting things, like import a whole character + snapshots from poe.ninja; or automatically track your "Import Character" every time you load that characters POB and press a "snapshot" button.

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[bredonkulous]

Seconded. Many build creators are creating multiple files when it would be much easier to manage 1 "character" as a file and adjust each loadout separately. I just had to import 6 different files for 1 character, I would have preferred to import them into loadouts on the same character.

[IdrisQe]

Thirded! I was honestly surprised this wasn't a feature already, this would be extremely useful!

It would also be nice for comparing builds by letting you get the same build from multiple people and import them all as loadouts for easier comparing of passives, items, configs, etc.

[TimothyByrd]

Since this is a feature I'd like, too, but I haven't worked in Lua, I wrote a utility to merge PoB files in C#.

https://github.com/TimothyByrd/PathOfBuildingMerge

Hope that helps.