Path of Exile Make Currency: Common Barriers, General Principles and Useful Strategies
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If you've ever wondered how people make money playing Path of Exile, don't worry! This is a frequently asked question by many gamers who are either new or wanting to improve their skills. To answer this question effectively, we'll break it down into three parts: common barriers/mistakes/misconceptions; general principles that need understood; and actual examples showing what can be done now for making currency in game.
- Common Barrier 1: Can't Be Done
- Common Barrier 2: Aimless Mapping
- Common Barrier 3: Profit = Only Divines
- Common Barrier 4: Idle Everything
- Common Barrier 5: Too Much Too Soon
- Common Barrier 6: Identifying Too Much
- Principle 1: Making Plan
- Principle 2: Don't Give Up Early
- Principle 3: Profit From Bulk Consumables
- Principle 4: Bootstrap Your Strategy
- Principle 5: Synergy and Investment
- Principle 6: Game Knowledge Enables Profit
- Delve
- Blight
- Incursion
- Expedition/Logbooks
- Harvest
↖ Common Barrier 1: Can't Be Done
Making currency is perceived as being impossible or too complex by some gamers in Path of Exile. However, the majority of farming strategies are easy and do not require a strong build. Even if you have limited playtime you can still create a great build and make currency.
While time investment is required there can still be profitability. Most currency farming methods provide between two and ten divines per hour of profit depending on different factors such as… Expect multiple divines per hour with low playtime.
↖ Common Barrier 2: Aimless Mapping
Newer players commonly fall into aimless mapping which means running maps without any clear goal behind them. To ensure profitability it is important to have a purpose while running maps. Finishing the map and killing monsters alone may not lead to profit hence one should know what they want out of each map before entering.
↖ Common Barrier 3: Profit = Only Divines
Many people think that profit equals finding divine orbs on the ground but this is not true since there are other items also having value like those which could be converted into chaos and divine through trading though some strategies rely on generating raw chaos or divine orbs as their main source of profit
↖ Common Barrier 4: Idle Everything
A different common hindrance is idle behavior, such as aimless mapping and idle activities in the hideout. It can impede money-making potential to check equipment and stash items without a clear plan.
Avoid being aimless by setting goals for each session and completing them before logging off. Think "Hideout is lava" to remind oneself that you should minimize staying idle in your hideout and only do things that contribute towards generating more currency.
↖ Common Barrier 5: Too Much Too Soon
New players tend to try out advanced strategies with underdeveloped characters. There are certain strategies that require a high level character with good gear which can be overlooked by experienced players.
As a new player, it's important to know when to stop, look at your current build and realize what you can't yet do. Don't let this tempt you into attempting higher level strategies prematurely but work on improving your character's capability gradually before taking on harder challenges.
↖ Common Barrier 6: Identifying Too Much
A lot of players, especially those new to Path of Exile have trouble not identifying rare items off the ground. This becomes difficult due to emotional attachment along with the change in gameplay. But once you start getting deeper into the game prioritizing item acquisition efficiency becomes more important.
Why is This Important?
- Inefficient: Spending time identifying many rare items can be inefficient leading to less interesting gameplay activities.
- Change of Focus: Once you get higher levels or start doing maps, finding/crafting items with specific mods should be your focus so that you optimize your character's build better.
- Market Value: Majority of identified rares may not have significant trade value because other people are also at endgame.
Efficient Item Acquisition Strategies:
- Use A Strict Loot Filter: To avoid picking up useless rares which waste time since they don't vendor for much; it will allow you to concentrate on more valuable drops.
- Crafting And Trading: Rather than identifying every single rare item, think about crafting or trading for particular items with desirable mods instead.
- Time Management: If you skip worthless items, then more time can be allocated towards farming mobs and picking up valuable ones.
↖ Principle 1: Making Plan
The first principle to currency farming in PoE is consistency. A clearly defined plan that you stick to is the most important part of being successful. This is how you can do it:
- Set Goals: Before starting any farming strategy, be sure to set specific goals and targets. Whether it's farming for certain items or resources like currency itself, having an objective in mind from the beginning will make things much more efficient.
- Optimize Atlas Passive Tree: Customize your atlas passive tree around what particular strategy/mechanics you're focusing on — this will greatly increase your farm speed and overall profitability.
- Use Scarabs & Enhancements: Whenever applicable, use scarabs or any other method to boost your farm. These mods could raise drop rates/luck which could end up meaning more profit for every hour.
↖ Principle 2: Don't Give Up Early
Don't give up too soon just because it feels like you're putting in a lot of work with no results — there might still be some profits coming your way. Here's why you should keep going:
- Profit Dynamics: Some methods take time before they become lucrative so don't let initial outcomes discourage you; think long term especially if doing bulk sales.
- RNG & Lucky Drops: RNG plays a huge role; what this means is that some strategies may require lucky drops to be profitable — hence persistence pays off.
- Gathering Diverse Resources: Majority of methods involve gathering different kinds of items/resources which takes time until there's a sizable collection able to attract buyers.
- Stash Measurement Tools: Consider using stash measurement tools as they will help track progress and confirm that indeed one is making profit(s). Such programs can calculate the net worth of your stash thereby giving tangible proof/evidence about how well one has done.
↖ Principle 3: Profit From Bulk Consumables
Stackable consumable items are the backbone of any reliable farm. While non-consumables tend to flood the market quickly, consumable items like scarabs, chaos orbs and essences are always in demand.
Unlike most non-consumable items which once bought can be used an infinite number of times, these ones get used up upon application thus creating a continuous need for fresh supplies. By focusing on farming stackable consumable items you are guaranteed a steady income stream without having to rely on rare drops that can sometimes be too hard or risky to get.
↖ Principle 4: Bootstrap Your Strategy
The fourth rule is called "Bootstrap Your Strategy". This means to start small and iterate, reinvesting the products of your initial efforts back into itself again and again until it grows.
In other words, you want to balance character upgrades with farming investments. Gradually improve your character to take on harder content that provides higher returns. Begin by using low-cost or free farming methods and slowly work your way up towards more profitable strategies that can be sustained over time.
↖ Principle 5: Synergy and Investment
The fifth principle involves spending money to make money (investment) as well as combining different strategies together for better results (synergy). Let's break down each part:
Investment: Spend Money to Make Money
- Although there are some no/low investment strategies, having money to put in will significantly increase overall profit.
- If you invest in a strategy; it can give back much higher percentage returns meaning that you could double or even triple your real profit.
- Players should see gains beyond their initial outlay if they put resources behind one approach.
Synergy: More Than the Sum of Your Parts
- It is when different things work together creating an effect greater than what would have been if they were separate
- For instance, adding various components can greatly boost profitability for Legion farming strategy.
- You might get little income from adding Scarabs either increasing encounters with Legions or making them more rewarding individually but when used together these two approaches have synergistic effects that multiply overall returns.
- The idea is to make Atlas passive bonuses, map device selection and Scarabs work together so that each component can give maximum output.
↖ Principle 6: Game Knowledge Enables Profit
Game knowledge is crucial to succeeding in ever-changing economy. While there isn't a shortcut to this acquisition process, using the available resources and interacting with other players will help you learn faster. This rule emphasizes how important it is for one to be aware of which items are valuable, what strategies work best, and when decisions should be made based on informed insight in order to increase currency earnings.
Impact of Game Knowledge
- Identifying Valuable Items: With game knowledge players can quickly determine if an item has potential value or not; thus making a difference between common drops and high profit finds necessary for successful trading or acquiring wealth through looting.
- Optimizing Strategies: Game-awareness enables individuals to come up with efficient ways of doing things; from farming efficiently up character builds that maximize their efficiency during combat situations.
- Time Efficiency: Knowing more about the game helps reduce time spent on pricing checks upgrades planning etc thereby freeing up time for other activities such as farming more currency or leveling alt characters.
Strategies for Enhancing Game Knowledge
- Joining the community: Take part in discussions via platforms like Reddit's PoE where questions are asked answered alongside sharing insights into various aspects revolving around this ARPG title.
- Using Resources: Use the Path of Exile wiki and other sites like poe.ninja for build advice and information on currency value, or craftofexile.com for details about item mods.
- Tools and Add-Ons: There are many tools available to make trading easier, such as Awakened PoE Trade which can check prices in-game and track items you have stored in your stash tabs.
- Being Curious: Be curious about everything; this game has so much depth that even an unrelated discovery might improve your money-making strategy.
↖ Delve
Introduced in fall 2018, Delve is a minecart system in Path of Exile. It is considered to be one of the most reliable ways of making currency, hence can be used by anyone at any point of their gameplay. Though it can be started as early as Act 4 (in campaign), it becomes more profitable when in endgame maps.
Why Delve Is Beginner-Friendly:
The simplicity and scalability makes the delve beginner-friendly. Depending on the progress made by a player's character one can adjust the difficulty level they want to tackle thus suitable for all builds. Furthermore, it offers an easy and relatively consistent source of profit thereby being great for early game currency farming.
General Tips for Delve:
- Lower the delve difficulty to match your character's strength so that you clear efficiently.
- Go after nodes with special symbols that represent gear types such as minion gear, fire gear and chaos gear.
- Collect Azurite which is a socket-resonators-for-profit trade resource exclusively gotten from delving.
- Follow content creators who specialize in delve mechanics and learn mid-level strategies through them.
In-Depth Guide:
To have a deeper understanding about how delves work and advanced methods used while playing them, consider checking out guides or videos made by experienced players like Jorgan who focuses on mid-level delve strategies' explanations among others which may help boost profits through delving.
Recent Changes and Implementation:
After altering some parts of atlas passive tree recently, players are now able to ensure that each map has presence of a delve thus simplifying sulfite acquisition for powering mine cart. This modification allows beginners participate in delves without having to trade heavily for supplies therefore making it less complicated for new entrants into the game.
↖ Blight
Blight is a characteristic in the game of tower defense wherein players construct towers to fight against enemies who march towards a central point. The objective is to defend the central pump for a specified duration of time. If it happens that the pump gets destroyed, then you lose the encounter. Nonetheless, Blighted Maps offer larger encounters vis-à-vis smaller ones found in normal charts.
Rewards from Blights:
Unique rewards conferred by Blight Maps include oils used for anointing items. Oils have the ability of modifying blighted maps, rings and amulets with different effects. Hence, when one anoints their goods using these substances it may give them powerful as well as uncommon benefits making them desirable across all builds.
Interaction with Blights Maps:
To interact with blights maps you will need fully blighteds maps which can be gotten at low costs thus making it friendly to newbies. Running suchlike charts may yield mid-tier oils and various generic drops that contribute to your profits over time.
How to maximize profits:
When running low tier blights maps in addition to oils there are chances of getting raw currency and generic drops which contribute towards long term profitability also. Moreover, these maps act as an excellent fuel source for chaos recipe thereby providing players with steady income stream.
Winning Strategies:
Concentrating defences around central pump while expanding strategically outwards increases success probability when dealing with tower defence mechanic within blighted maps.
Recommended Materials:
For more insights about playing around or increasing earnings from blighted maps we advise watching content creators like Ziziran or Traic who have comprehensive guides on how best this can be achieved within such settings.
↖ Incursion
The Incursion strategy in Canal of Exile gives an unusual chance to make money without any initial investment. By using the mechanism of incursion, players can take part in the time-limited side events with Alva where they can progressively build and improve a very valuable temple.
How it works:
When farming the incursion temple of Alva many times per map, players go into a timed side area through a portal. They gain extra time and progression towards building their temple by killing enemies in the zone. The temple is randomised and the aim is to modify it over time through interaction with the mechanic.
Main Mechanics:
- In these side areas there are specific rooms and mini-bosses for players to come across.
- Killing the mini-bosses and gathering stones of Passage are necessary for progressing through the temple.
- There are strategic choices when picking which mini-boss to kill as it affects room tier and transformation.
Rooms worth having:
The most profitable rooms inside this dungeon are Sacrifical, Gemcutters Workshop, Corruption Chamber. It is important that these rooms be upgraded until they reach tier three so as to increase value from the temple as much as possible.
Profit Maximization:
By upgrading rooms worth having up to their highest levels (3), players can greatly enhance temples' worth thereby making them more saleable among other gamers. This method does not depend on map tier - maximum benefit may be obtained at any level.
High-level goals:
Corruption Chamber provides opportunities for high-end items where two corrupted implicits can be applied by players into one item – though being an advanced upgrade this still creates chances for good-value goods demanded by many people playing Path of Exile.
↖ Expedition/Logbooks
The strategy known as Expedition/Logbooks is a great way to make money in the game, but it requires higher level maps and a deeper understanding of game mechanics. The main idea is to find Expeditions through log books, which allow you to interact with four different factions: Tujen, Denig, Rag and Gwom. Each faction has its own unique rewards and interactions so choosing the right log book is important.
Mechanics of an Expedition:
During an expedition players are required to place explosives that target a circular area on the ground. The goal is to include remnants and chest icons within this circle; they represent special rewards or enemies that will spawn when the explosion goes off.
Remnants & Chests:
Remnants are modifiers that apply to all monsters and loot in the Expedition encounter. They have upsides (increased rewards) and downsides (enemy damage, defense or immunity). As more remnants get activated at once both the upsides and downsides increase leading potentially difficult encounters.
Log Books:
Log books are equivalent to blighted maps, featuring a full area taken over by an expedition encounter. Players can choose log books with their preferred expedition faction - Tujen, Denig , Rag or Gwon represented by each one respectively. When using a logbook there are multiple missions listed - one must be selected as the book gets consumed after use.
Rewards from Expeditions:
There exist three types of rewards that only come from doing expeditions:
- Logbooks - Found in maps or obtained from other players but not self sustained infinitely.
- Artifacts - Untradeable currency used for interaction with faction vendors.
- Reroll currencies - Used to refresh vendor windows; very important for maximum profit.
Interacting with Faction Vendors:
With artifacts and reroll currencies players can interact with faction vendors who offer valuable items/currency. To maximize profit refreshing vendor windows is crucial during which careful decisions should be made.
Strategy Tips:
- Concentrate on optimizing interaction with faction vendors for maximum profit.
- Efficient pathing during expedition encounters should be practiced so that explosions overlap with remnants and treasure chests.
- Read remnants carefully to know what they do in an encounter.
- Think about the rewards vs risks of triggering multiple remnants in an encounter.
Recommended Resources:
There are dedicated guides by experienced players such as [Spicy Sushi] and [additional resource] that offer deep insights into running Expedition/Logbooks encounters and interacting with faction vendors. These resources will help you make more money through this strategy.
↖ Harvest
The Harvest strategy lets players gain valuable life force resources through encounters in the game. Harvest was introduced in patch 3.11, and since then, the mechanics have changed a lot, so it is important to know its setup and strategies to get more currency.
Mechanics of Harvest:
To start a Harvest encounter, one should enter a blue plant-like portal in the map that leads to a small side area with several plots inhabited by plant monsters. These monsters drop three types of colored life force resources: purple, yellow and blue; as well as rare sacred crystallized life force which is highly priced. People can use this for crafting or sell it to other players.
Optimizing Harvest Encounters:
When engaging with Harvest encounters players have to decide which plot they want to fight plant monsters on because another plot withers away and becomes inactive. The color of the desired life force and presence of higher-tier monsters giving more abundant rewards should be taken into account when choosing between them.
Profitable Strategies:
There are three ways of running harvests that differ by profitability level among other things associated with specific items like memories, special options on map device for example scarabs etc. It is necessary to think about cost vs potential reward while selecting an approach suitable for your playstyle.
Maximizing Returns:
If you want to maximize currency gained through doing harvests it would be best if you take deep dive into analysis done by content creators who specialize on strategies. These materials will tell you what are most lucrative ways of running harvests and turning generated life force resourcefulness into profit.
Advanced Currency Generation:
Apart from harvests there is another strategy which revolves around generating tier 17 maps & maven rifts that can be sold to other players. This requires quite strong build along with gathering Void Stones too. But utilizing certain map device options plus unique scarabs will greatly increase player's chances for getting those tier 17 maps as well as other nice rewards.
Thank you for exploring these Common Barriers, General Principles and Useful Strategies for making currency in Path of Exile. For further inquiries or additional strategies, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. Stay tuned for more in-depth discussions and guides on maximizing currency-making potential.
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