XP overlay

PoE2 Oracle sets its experience readout on top of the game’s own HUD. On the rail along the top of the flask panel, left of the experience bar, stands a plate that tells how fast you gain experience and when the next level comes, with a ⚙ at its end that opens the settings. With the map timer on, a plate on the skill panel’s rail shows the current map. The plates stand on the rails, never over them – the game fills the rails with its rage and stun gauges – and are drawn pixel by pixel in the HUD’s own molding and colours. At its outer end each plate runs on to the frame of its globe, life or mana, filling the gap there to the pixel; at its inner end it curls down onto the tip of the game’s scrollwork in one smooth curve. The overlay is on by default; the settings section XP overlay turns it and its parts on and off.

Above the flask panel:

64.8% ◆ +12.4%/h · level 75 in 2h 50m

Above the skill panel:

map 4:07 +1.2% · avg 6:30

Each line says as much as its plate has room for. When the whole wording doesn’t fit, the flask panel’s line drops the level (64.8% ◆ +12.4%/h · 2h 50m) and then the percentage (+12.4%/h · 2h 50m); the map line drops the average and last. For the first couple of minutes the line reads measuring rate…. Times use m for minutes, h for hours and d for days. With the Russian interface language, the lines are in Russian: 64,8 % ◆ +12,4 %/ч · до 75 ур. 2 ч 50 мин.

In a town or hideout, and after five minutes of play without experience or a change of area, the line dims and says only how much of the level is done, with Level percentage off too: the rate and the time to level would still be those of the play before.

64.8%

The map line drops the average. In a town or hideout it keeps the map you left, dimmed; in an idle pause inside a map it stays lit, and the map’s time keeps running. The pause does not change the rate: it is back as it was when you play again.

How it works

• Every two seconds PoE2 Oracle reads how full the experience bar is, straight from the screen, and reads the game’s log (Client.txt) for level-ups, area changes and returns to character selection. While the game is behind another window, where no experience comes in, it looks at the bar only every ten seconds, and two seconds after a look that finds it changed or can’t read it. Started in the middle of a session, it reads back through the log with the time of each line: your character’s level (if it levelled up in that stretch), the map you are in or left, with its time so far, and how long you have been in town or the hideout. Only a map already under way when the log’s last stretch it reads begins is left out, since its start isn’t there. After a restart for an update it doesn’t start over: the rate, the time to the next level and the map timer go on as they were.
• The level comes from a level-up line in the game’s log and, until the log names it, from where the bar stands. PoE2 Oracle keeps on your computer the level of your last 20 characters and where each one’s bar stood when you last played it (see Privacy); the first time, it reads the levels back from the end of the log. It writes the positions down as you play: right after a level-up, soon after you change area or log out, otherwise once a minute, and when the app quits. After a restart or a login it compares the first bar reading it accepts with those positions: if exactly one character’s bar stood within 0.3% of it, that is you, and the plate gives the level again instead of next level in. The first time, before any position is known, it takes your most recent character; if you play another, your next level-up corrects that. If none fits, or more than one, the plate says next level in until your next level-up. So it does if the app was ended without warning in the middle of a map, by a power cut or Windows shutting down: the position it kept can then be up to a minute behind.
• The rate weighs recent play more. With Rate smoothing at 10 minutes, the default, play from 10 minutes ago counts half as much as play now. Choose 5 minutes to see a change of farming sooner, or 20 or 30 for a steadier number.
• Time in towns and hideouts does not count towards the rate. A level-up does not reset it, and neither does a death: the death costs experience, the rate stays.
• The map timer pauses, dimmed, when you leave the map, and continues when you go back into the same map through its portal, even once it reads last map. A map counts as finished when you enter a different map, whether or not you completed it. Returning to character selection starts everything over, since you may come back as another character: the rate (measuring rate… again), the level (found again from where the bar stands, as after a restart) and the map statistics.
• Ascendancy trials (the Trial of the Sekhemas and the Trial of Chaos) are never part of a map, but count as play for the rate.
• If something covers the bar for more than a few seconds (a loading screen, the passive tree, the price panel), that time counts only when you earned experience behind the cover, as in a fight with the price panel open, and the bar was back within a minute; otherwise neither that time nor the experience earned in it counts. The plates themselves follow their rails, not the bar: a loading screen or the passive tree takes them down with the HUD, and the price panel hides only a plate it stands over (see Requirements).

Requirements

• The game window must be at least 720 pixels tall and not minimised.
• The game must run in Windowed or Windowed Fullscreen mode, like everything PoE2 Oracle draws over it.
• The plates are the size of the game’s HUD at the game’s resolution; the Interface scale setting does not change them. They let clicks through to the game, all but the ⚙, and the price panel hides one only while the panel stands over it: dragged there, or wide enough to reach it by itself (a 4:3 or 5:4 game window, a large Interface scale). While the game is in front, a plate steps aside the moment a tooltip, the chat or another part of the game’s interface covers its rail, and is back the moment it goes. What the game puts over a rail while you leave the mouse and keyboard alone, such as a loading screen that comes a while after a click, takes a plate down within two seconds. Behind another window the game still shows a tooltip under the pointer; a plate then steps aside within four seconds, and is back within two.