Path of Exile

Path of Exile

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Quick reference guide
By Skipper
This is a quick reference guide, for some basic information about the game. If you see any wrong information on it let me know and I will have a look at it. Suggestions to add to this guide are always welcome and I will then probably add them, thanks !
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Vendor recipes / Worth to sale
The vendor recipe system allows the player to sell items to any town vendor in exchange for a multitude of currency items and equipment. Each recipe requires semi-specific items or combinations of items be put into the sell window at the same time, and the outcome will change based on any recipes that have been matched.

Chromatic Orb recipe
Need: 3 different color sockets linked together.
Get: 1 Chromatic Orb.



Jeweler's Orb recipe
Need: 6 socketed items.
Get: 7 Jeweler's Orbs.
Note: If 5 or more sockets are linked together, it might be worth it to sell it to other players.



Rare items of item level 60+/75+ for Chaos / Regal recipe
Need: Level 60+ item.
Get: 1 Chaos Orb.

Need: Level 75+ item.
Get: 1 Regal Orb.

Stone hammers / Rock Breakers / Gavels recipe
Need: Stone hammers / Rock Breakers / Gavels + 20% quality AND any map
Get: Chisel



Flasks recipe
Need: 3 of the same level flask.
Get: For exchange you get 1 higher level flask in return.

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Currency
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Hideouts
The Hideout is a special area you can design for yourself. It is awarded by any level 3 Master. You can invite up to 4 Masters to your hideout and decorate it with items you buy from the masters for special points called "Favour".
Your Hideout can be visited using the /hideout command while in town, or from any Waypoint. The waypoint for your hideout is found in the bottom right corner of the map, but only appears there when you are at a waypoint.

Whenever one of your masters reach a higher level, you will be able to keep more masters inside your hideout.

Level of master
Hideout capacity
3
2 masters
5
3 masters
7
4 masters

Whenever you create a hideout, your hideout will look differently depending at which master you create it, below here are the examples how they can look like.

Catarina



Elreon



Haku



Tora


Vagan


Vorici


Zana
Master part 1
Reputation
Level
Haku
Elreon
Catarina
Tora
Vagan
Vorici
Leo
Zana
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
430
430
770
770
1,050
1,050
2,700
4,700
3
1,210
1,210
1,920
1,920
2,430
2,430
7,030
13,170
4
4,610
4,610
6,620
6,620
8,020
8,020
18,270
23,700
5
17,520
17,520
22,920
22,920
26,460
26,460
47,520
66,390
6
66,550
66,550
79,290
79,290
87,310
87,310
123,560
185,870
7
252,920
252,920
274,350
274,350
288,120
288,120
321,270
520,440
8
961,090
961,090
949,250
949,250
950,820
950,820
835,300
1,457,240


Crafting benches
  • Haku: Armourer's Workbench, which modifies gloves, boots, body armour, helmets, and shields.
  • Elreon: Blessing Font, which modifies rings and amulets.
  • Catarina: Headstones, which modifies primarily wands, staves, and sceptres. Can add int and mana stats to other items.
  • Tora: Bowmaker's Tools, which modifies bows, wands, quivers, belts. Can add movement speed to boots.
  • Vagan: Sharpening Wheel, which modifies weapons.
  • Vorici: Artisan's Bench, which modifies socket numbers, links, and colors.
  • Zana: Map Device, which adds an extra effect to the map at time of activation.
  • Leo: Gladiator's Workbench, which modifies various kinds of equipment.

Craftable mods
Armourer's Workbench (Haku)
Level 0:
  • Equipped Animated Guardian drops item on death
Level 2:
  • (40 to 52)% increased Armour
  • (40 to 52)% increased Evasion
  • (40 to 52)% increased Energy Shield
  • +(20 to 25) to Strength
  • +(20 to 25) to Dexterity
  • +(35 to 44) to Maximum Life
Level 3:
  • (40 to 52)% increased Armour and Energy Shield
  • (40 to 52)% increased Armour and Evasion
  • (40 to 52)% increased Evasion and Energy Shield
  • +(26 to 30) to Strength
  • +(26 to 30) to Dexterity
Level 4:
  • (55 to 68)% increased Armour
  • (55 to 68)% increased Evasion
  • (55 to 68)% increased Energy Shield
  • +(25 to 50) to Armour Rating
  • +(25 to 50) to Evasion Rating
  • +(14 to 17) to Maximum Energy Shield
  • +(21 to 25)% to Fire Resistance
  • +(21 to 25)% to Cold Resistance
  • +(21 to 25)% to Lightning Resistance
  • +(45 to 54) to Maximum Life
Level 5:
  • (55 to 68)% increased Armour and Energy Shield
  • (55 to 68)% increased Armour and Evasion
  • (55 to 68)% increased Evasion and Energy Shield
  • (0.2 to 0.4)% of Physical Attack Damage leeched as Life
  • (0.2 to 0.4)% of Physical Attack Damage leeched as Mana
  • Adds (3–6 to 4–7) Physical Damage
Level 6:
  • +(11 to 14) to All Attributes
  • +(26 to 30)% to Fire Resistance
  • +(26 to 30)% to Cold Resistance
  • +(26 to 30)% to Lightning Resistance
  • (2 to 3)% additional Shield Block chance
  • (4 to 12)% increased Weapon Elemental Damage
  • +(55 to 64) to Maximum Life
  • Reflects (8 to 17) Physical Damage to Melee Attackers
Level 7:
  • Remove Crafted Mod
  • +(51 to 80) to Armour Rating
  • +(51 to 80) to Evasion Rating
  • +(18 to 22) to Maximum Energy Shield
  • (1 to 2)% additional Global Block chance
  • (9 to 12)% increased Attack Speed
  • +(8 to 13)% to Fire and Cold Resistances
  • +(8 to 13)% to Cold and Lightning Resistances
  • +(8 to 13)% to Fire and Lightning Resistances
Level 8:
  • Prefixes Cannot Be Changed

Blessing Font (Elreon)
Level 2:
  • +(15 to 24) to maximum Life
  • +(16 to 20) to Strength
  • +(16 to 20) to Dexterity
  • +(16 to 20) to Intelligence
Level 3:
  • +(14 to 16) to maximum Energy Shield
  • +(17 to 21) to maximum Mana
  • +(91 to 120) to Accuracy Rating
  • +(16 to 20)% to Fire Resistance
  • +(16 to 20)% to Cold Resistance
  • +(16 to 20)% to Lightning Resistance
Level 4:
  • +(25 to 34) to maximum Life
  • +(17 to 20) to maximum Energy Shield
  • +(22 to 26) to maximum Mana
  • +(21 to 25) to Strength
  • +(21 to 25) to Dexterity
  • +(21 to 25) to Intelligence
  • +(6 to 11) to all Attributes
Level 5:
  • +(121 to 150) to Accuracy Rating
  • +(21 to 25)% to Fire Resistance
  • +(21 to 25)% to Cold Resistance
  • +(21 to 25)% to Lightning Resistance
  • +(1 to 2) Life gained for each Enemy Hit by your Attacks
  • (25 to 34)% increased Mana Regeneration rate
Level 6:
  • +(35 to 44) to maximum Life
  • +(21 to 23) to maximum Energy Shield
  • +(27 to 31) to maximum Mana
  • +(7 to 10) to all Elemental Resistances
  • Adds (3–7 to 5–9) Physical Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (1–36 to 4–39) Lightning Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (10–17 to 12–22) Cold Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (10–20 to 13–26) Fire Damage to your Attacks
  • (12 to 16)% increased Critical Strike chance
  • (22 to 27)% increased Critical Strike chance
Level 7:
  • Remove Crafted Mod
  • (5 to 20)% increased Energy Shield
  • (5 to 20)% increased Evasion
  • (5 to 20)% increased Armour
  • (13 to 17)% increased Rarity of Items found
  • Adds (8–18 to 11–23) Chaos Damage to your Attacks
  • +(8 to 13)% to Fire and Cold Resistance
  • +(8 to 13)% to Cold and Lightning Resistance
  • +(8 to 13)% to Fire and Lightning Resistance
Level 8:
    Can have multiple Crafted Mods
Master part 2
Headstones (Catarina)
Level 2:
  • +(20 to 25) to Intelligence
  • +(27 to 32) to maximum Mana
  • (25 to 34)% increased Mana Regeneration
  • Minions have (10 to 15)% increased maximum Life
Level 3:
  • +(26 to 30) to Intelligence
  • (9 to 11)% increased Cast Speed
  • (10 to 14)% increased Fire Damage
  • (10 to 14)% increased Cold Damage
  • (10 to 14)% increased Lightning Damage
  • Adds (8–16 to 11–18) Fire Damage to your Spells
  • Adds (7–13 to 9–15) Cold Damage to your Spells
  • Adds (1–27 to 3–29) Lightning Damage to your Spells
  • Adds (11–22 to 14–25) Fire Damage to your Spells
  • Adds (10–19 to 13–23) Cold Damage to your Spells
  • Adds (1–41 to 3–43) Lightning Damage to your Spells
Level 4:
  • (35 to 44)% increased Mana Regeneration
  • (25 to 34)% increased Spell Damage
  • (37 to 52)% increased Spell Damage
  • (30 to 49)% increased Critical Strike Chance for Spells
  • Minions have (10 to 15)% increased Damage
Level 5:
  • (4 to 8)% increased Cast Speed
  • (15 to 19)% increased Fire Damage
  • (15 to 19)% increased Cold Damage
  • (15 to 19)% increased Lightning Damage
  • Adds (12–21 to 16–27) Fire Damage to your Spells
  • Adds (10–19 to 13–22) Cold Damage to your Spells
  • Adds (1–39 to 4–42) Lightning Damage to your Spells
  • Adds (16–31 to 21–36) Fire Damage to your Spells
  • Adds (14–28 to 19–33) Cold Damage to your Spells
  • Adds (1–59 to 5–64) Lightning Damage to your Spells
  • +2 to Maximum number of Skeletons
  • 0.2% of Fire Damage Leeched as Life
  • 0.2% of Cold Damage Leeched as Life
  • 0.2% of Lightning Damage Leeched as Life
  • (2 to 5)% increased Chance to Shock
  • (2 to 5)% increased Chance to Freeze
  • (2 to 5)% increased Chance to Ignite
Level 6:
  • (35 to 44)% increased Spell Damage
  • (53 to 68)% increased Spell Damage
  • +1 to Maximum number of Zombies
  • (10 to 20)% increased Ignite duration
  • (10 to 20)% increased Chill and Freeze duration
  • (10 to 20)% increased Shock duration
Level 7:
  • Remove Crafted Mod
  • +(35 to 44) to maximum Mana
  • (50 to 69)% increased Critical Strike Chance for Spells
  • (30 to 50)% increased Curse duration
Level 8:
  • Cannot roll Attack Mods*

Bowmaker's Tools (Tora)
Level 3:
  • (8 to 12)% increased Movement Speed
  • +(35 to 44) to maximum Life
  • +(14 to 16) to maximum Energy Shield
  • Adds (1–34 to 3–36) Lightning Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (8–16 to 11–19) Cold Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (10–20 to 13–23) Fire Damage to your Attacks
  • (5 to 15)% increased Flask Life recovery rate
  • (5 to 15)% increased Flask Mana recovery rate
  • (17 to 21)% increased Global Critical Strike Multiplier
  • (17 to 21)% increased Critical Strike Chance
  • Adds (7–13 to 9–16) Physical Damage
  • Adds (10–20 to 13–25) Physical Damage
  • (40 to 59)% increased Physical Damage
  • +(16 to 20)% to Fire Resistance
  • +(16 to 20)% to Cold Resistance
  • +(16 to 20)% to Lightning Resistance
  • (17 to 21)% increased Global Critical Strike Chance
Level 4:
  • +(45 to 54) to maximum Life
  • (8 to 22)% increased Elemental Damage with Weapons
  • (10 to 20)% increased Trap and Mine damage
  • Adds (10–17 to 13–20) Physical Damage
  • Adds (14–26 to 18–31) Physical Damage
  • (22 to 27)% increased Global Critical Strike Chance
Level 5:
  • +(17 to 20) to maximum Energy Shield
  • (22 to 27)% increased Critical Strike Chance
  • (5 to 15)% increased Flask effect duration
  • (60 to 79)% increased Physical Damage
  • +(21 to 25)% to Fire Resistance
  • +(21 to 25)% to Cold Resistance
  • +(21 to 25)% to Lightning Resistance
Level 6:
  • (1 to 5)% increased Movement Speed
  • (13 to 17)% increased Movement Speed
  • +(55 to 64) to maximum Life
  • Adds (1–50 to 4–52) Lightning Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (12–23 to 16–28) Cold Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (15–29 to 19–34) Fire Damage to your Attacks
  • (22 to 27)% increased Global Critical Strike Multiplier
  • (7 to 12)% increased Attack Speed
  • +(10 to 30)% increased Projectile Speed
  • (7 to 12)% increased Attack Speed
Level 7:
  • Remove Crafted Mod
  • +(21 to 23) to maximum Energy Shield
  • Attack Projectiles return to you
  • (6 to 12)% increased Trap Throwing and Mine Laying Speed
Level 8:
  • Suffixes Cannot Be Changed

Sharpening Wheel (Vagan)
Level ?:
  • Adds (15-29 to 19-34) Fire Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (12-23 to 16-28) Cold Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (1-50 to 4-52) Lightning Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (22-43 to 29-51) Fire Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (18-35 to 25-41) Cold Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (3-70 to 6-79) Lightning Damage to your Attacks
Level 2:
  • Adds (7-13 to 9-16) Physical Damage
  • Adds (10-20 to 13-25) Physical Damage
  • (17 to 21)% increased Critical Strike Chance
  • +(20 to 25) Strength
  • +(20 to 25) Dexterity
Level 3:
  • (40 to 59)% increased Physical Damage
  • +(91 to 120) to Accuracy Rating
  • (17 to 21)% increased Global Critical Strike Multiplier
  • +(16 to 20)% to Fire Resistance
  • +(16 to 20)% to Cold Resistance
  • +(16 to 20)% to Lightning Resistance
  • Adds (10-20 to 13-23) Fire Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (8-16 to 11-19) Cold Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (1-34 to 4-36) Lightning Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (15-30 to 20-35) Fire Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (13-24 to 17-28) Cold Damage to your Attacks
  • Adds (2-52 to 4-55) Lightning Damage to your Attacks
Level 4:
  • Adds (10-17 to 13-20) Physical Damage
  • Adds (14-26 to 18-31) Physical Damage
  • (22 to 27)% increased Critical Strike Chance
  • (8 to 11)% increased Attack Speed
  • (8 to 22)% increased Elemental Damage with Weapons
Level 5:
  • (60 to 79)% increased Physical Damage
  • +(26 to 30) Strength
  • +(26 to 30) Dexterity
  • +(121 to 150) to Accuracy Rating
  • (22 to 27)% increased Global Critical Strike Multiplier
  • +(21 to 25)% to Fire Resistance
  • +(21 to 25)% to Cold Resistance
  • +(21 to 25)% to Lightning Resistance
  • +(2 to 3) Life gained for each enemy hit by your Attacks
  • (0.2 to 0.4)% of Physical Attack Damage leeched as Life
  • (0.2 to 0.4)% of Physical Attack Damage leeched as Mana
Level 6:
  • (12 to 15)% increased Attack Speed
  • (0.6 to 0.8)% of Physical Attack Damage leeched as Life
  • (23 to 28)% increased Stun Duration on enemies
  • (11 to 12)% reduced Enemy Stun Threshold with this Weapon
  • (2 to 5)% additional Chance to Block while Dual Wielding
Level 7:
  • Remove Crafted Mod
  • Gems in this item are Supported by level 1 Blood Magic
  • Causes bleeding on hit
  • +(1 to 2) to weapon range
Level 8:
  • Cannot roll Caster Mods*
Master part 3
Artisan's Bench (Vorici)
Level 2:
  • Two Sockets
  • Two Linked Sockets
  • Three Linked Sockets
  • At Least One Red Socket
  • At Least One Green Socket
  • At Least One Blue Socket
Level 3:
  • Three Sockets
  • Four Linked Sockets
  • At Least Two Red Sockets
  • At Least Two Green Sockets
  • At Least Two Blue Sockets
Level 4:
  • Four Sockets
  • Five Linked Sockets
  • At Least One Red and One Green Socket
  • At Least One Red and One Blue Socket
  • At Least One Green and One Blue Socket
Level 5:
  • Five Sockets
Level 6:
  • Six Sockets
  • At Least Three Red Sockets
  • At Least Three Green Sockets
  • At Least Three Blue Sockets
Level 7:
  • Six Linked Sockets
  • At Least Two Blue and One Red Socket
  • At Least Two Blue and One Green Socket
  • At Least Two Red and One Green Socket
  • At Least Two Red and One Blue Socket
  • At Least Two Green and One Blue Socket
  • At Least Two Green and One Red Socket

Map Device (Zana)
Zana's "crafting bench" is a map device similar to the one in the Eternal Laboratory. However, it offers the ability to add an extra effect to the map at time of activation (that is, it does not craft a mod onto the item, but is rather used at the time the map is run).

Level 1:
  • +1% Quantity Per Master Level
Level 2:
  • 40% Increased Monster Cast & Attack Speed
Level 3:
  • Area is inhabited by 4 additional Rogue Exiles
Level 4:
  • Area spawns 3 extra Tormented Spirits
Level 5:
  • Area is inhabited by 3 additional Warbands
Level 6:
  • Slaying enemies close together can attract monsters from Beyond this realm
Level 7:
  • Area contains 3 extra Strongboxes
Level 8:
  • Rare Monsters each have a Nemesis Mod

Gladiator's Workbench (Leo)
Level 2:
  • (10 to 15)% reduced Enemy Block Chance
  • Reflects (30–70 to 40–80) Physical Damage to Attackers on Block
Level 3:
  • (15 to 30)% increased Damage over Time
  • (10 to 20)% faster start of Energy Shield Recharge
  • (10 to 20)% reduced Damage taken from Damage Over Time
Level 4:
  • (20 to 25)% chance to Avoid being Ignited
Level 5:
  • (20 to 30)% chance to Recharge 1 Flask Charge when you take a Critical Strike
  • 50% chance to Avoid being Knocked Back
  • (25 to 35)% chance to Avoid being Stunned
  • (20 to 25)% chance to Avoid being Chilled
Level 6:
  • Reflects (150 to 200) Physical Damage to Attackers on Block
  • (20 to 25)% chance to Avoid being Frozen
Level 7:
  • Remove Crafted Mod
  • (20 to 25)% chance to Avoid being Shocked
Level 8:
  • Cannot roll Mods with Required Level above 28
League
Permanent Leagues
Standard is the default league and has no modifiers.
Hardcore has the hardcore modifier, meaning characters who die are moved to Standard. Hardcore is equivalent to permadeath in other RPGs, though your character and items are not automatically deleted.

Characters used in certain races (notably Descent, Descent: Champions and Endless Ledge races) are afterwards sent to a Void League instead of being deleted. You can't play these characters or access their inventory; void characters can only be deleted or kept as a sort of trophy.

Temporary Leagues
Temporary leagues have a set duration, which can vary from 12 minutes to four months. They are usually defined by specific modifiers or features that the permanent leagues don't have. When a league ends, the characters are not lost but transferred to one of the permanent leagues.

Challenge Leagues
Periodically, two new leagues are created and the previous two challenge leagues are removed. Challenge leagues have been three or four months long. In addition, each pair of leagues has a set of eight optional challenges that can be completed for a prize.

When a challenge league ends, all characters and their stash will be sent to their respective parent league (either Standard league or Hardcore League).

Warbands and Tempest
Warbands: The Warbands league is an ongoing challenge league. In the Warbands league, warring clans have spread throughout Wraeclast. These warbands are tight-knit groups of enemies who cooperate and use synergistic skills to take you down. At higher levels, elite and leader enemies are present, who direct their Warband in combat and can take matters into their own hands if the tide of battle turns against them. Each of the three Warbands have exclusive Unique Items that only drop from them. The presence of the warbands in Wraeclast fluctuates over time and responds to the Exiles' efforts to hunt them.
Tempest: The Tempest league is a hardcore challenge league. This league introduces Tempests. These can cause a variety of effects that influence both monsters and players, such as changing their sizes, causing damage, altering drop rates or automatically animating weapons that drop. It's possible to see the current affected areas on the World Screen.

Torment and Bloodlines
Torment: In the Torment league, your adventures are haunted by the spirits of tormented criminals that yield their ill-gotten gains when slain. Eager to protect their trove, these spirits flee when encountered and imbue nearby monsters with dangerous powers, which improves their item drops. It's also possible for spirits to possess rare and unique enemies, greatly increasing their threat (and value!) to treasure-seeking exiles.
Bloodlines: Bloodlines is a Hardcore league (characters who die are converted to Standard characters). Each pack of magic monsters has a shared Bloodlines mod that greatly influences combat - sometimes while the pack is still alive, and sometimes after it has been killed. Where Nemesis involved individual rare monsters gaining an additional power, Bloodlines revolves around groups of monsters with synergistic powers. Various strategies are needed for approaching the different Bloodlines, as there are a wide variety of effects, such as constructing an Animated Guardian piece-by-piece or monsters becoming immortal while near their slain brethren.

Rampage and Beyond
Rampage: Players can build up a devastating rampage buff for killing monsters within a short time frame before the rampage resets. Each kill causes characters to become slightly faster and deal more damage. The kill streak wears off after five seconds of no kills. As players reach higher rampage levels they receive special effects such as novas that explode or stun enemies, summoned spirit weapons, and a cyclone at that explodes nearby enemies. One of the new challenges is to reach every tier of rampage.
Beyond: Beyond is a hardcore league. Demons from another realm are attempting to invade Wraeclast. Monster kills have a chance to cause small red portals to appear. If enough portals spawn close together, a larger portal opens and demons spawn and attack the player. Several of those larger portals close together can open a third tier that unleashes one of several extremely difficult demon bosses.

Ambush and Invasion
Ambush: Various new types of chests called Strongboxes could be found throughout Wraeclast. These chests were guarded by monsters that ambushed the player when they were opened. The ambushing monsters must be slain before the contents of the Strongbox could be claimed. Sometimes you encountered magic, rare or unique Strongboxes which had modifiers like items do. Prefixes affected the difficulty of the ambush by adding more monsters, springing traps or affecting your character. Suffixes improved your rewards from the Strongbox. You could use currency items to reroll these mods. One of the new challenges was to open Strongboxes with each mod.
Invasion: Invasion was a hardcore league. Areas of Wraeclast had substantially more monster variety, so players would run into unexpected and dangerous invading monsters from other levels or acts. A unique Invasion Boss from an invading monster type was also lurking in each level. Higher difficulty levels contained expanded monster variety and the invading bosses with more abilities. One of the new challenges was to kill a selection of the invading Unique bosses.

Domination and Nemesis
Domination: A variety of powerful shrines spawned along with large groups of monsters that received powerful buffs from the shrine. If you got close to a shrine and "tagged" it, you received the shrine's bonuses for a short time. One of the new challenges was to tag each type of shrine. The shrines were later added to the rest of the game with a reduced spawn rate.
Nemesis: Nemesis was a hardcore league. Rare monsters had one additional mod from the Nemesis Pool, which could make a fight substantially harder. These enemies were more powerful, made players weaker, or had special effects on death. One of the new challenges was to kill rare monsters with each nemesis modifier. After the league ended, rare monsters were given a small chance to have a nemesis modifier.

Anarchy and Onslaught
Anarchy: In each area, Rogue Exiles could spawn to attack the player. The rogue exiles were later added to the rest of the leagues and spawn at around 60% of the rate that they appear in Anarchy. They were also rebalanced.
Onslaught: Onslaught was a hardcore league. Monsters had a +20% bonus to move speed and attack/cast speed.

Race Leagues
Race leagues are temporary leagues created specifically for a single race event.

These leagues have their own stash. At the end of the event, characters and their stashed items will be moved to the parent league, which is typically Hardcore or Void league. The player's race stash may be placed in remove-only stash tabs if the parent league has no empty tabs. A list of race modifiers is here.
Extra notes
Here we will add notes that has no special section:
  • Look at vendors (on Cruel and Merciless) if they selling any 6 socket items, vendor price is 1 Transmute, selling price is 7 Jewellers Orb.
  • Look at vendors (on Cruel and Merciless) if they selling any 5 linked items, they worthy selling to other people.
  • Be careful with the currency values shown in this guide or anywhere else. They are very open-ended and often fluxuate on whim and can vary in different leagues. Best advice is to simply get in Path of Exile and listen to trade chat to get a feel of where things are at on any given day / league or / and check http://poe.xyz.is.
    Although this currency table shown here gives good example how much each currency is worth against eachother.
Useful links and tools
Loot filter
Website: http://ziggyd.tv/featured/ziggyds-loot-filter/
Description: ZiggyD’s loot filter is designed to be a broad purpose learning aid that stays close to the default colours in Path of Exile.
The filter is levelling friendly, hiding lower base items as you enter higher level zones and reducing screen clutter.
Some items are given extra attention by the filter so players can learn vendor recipes and chance orb bases while high value items and currency are highlighted to ensure you don’t miss those sweet drops!

PS. There are also other loot filters, but I'm using ZiggyD.

Acquisition
Website: https://github.com/xyzz/acquisition
Description: Acquisition is an inventory management tool for Path of Exile. It is written in C++, uses Qt widget toolkit and runs on Windows and Linux.

Character builds
Website: https://pathofpoe.com/
Description: Place where you can see builds from other players.

PoE Wiki
Website: http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/
Description: Simply the Wiki page of Path of Exile.

PoE shops indexer
Website: http://poe.xyz.is
Description: Place where you can search for items, which players got for sale.

PoESkillTree
Website: https://github.com/EmmittJ/PoESkillTree
Description: Application where you can build your skill tree. This application shows you all the attributes you get from your skill tree, very helpful.

Procurement
Website: https://code.google.com/p/procurement/
Description: Procurement is a Windows application for the online game Path Of Exile, that logs in to the forum and downloads your characters/stash. From there you can:
  • Search/filter your stash/tabs for gear/items
  • Search for gear based on item stats
  • Show where items are in your stash, that form part of vendor recipes
  • View your characters/gear
  • Oneclick generate forum trade posts that you can copy&paste into a trade post, which will have
  • all your gear linked, verified and categorised in spoiler tags.
  • Customise how your shop thread gets generated
  • Breakdown of your currency with GCP total (Ratios configurable)
  • Everything is cached and can be viewed offline after you've logged in once
  • Single tab refreshing (if logged in)

Vorici Chromatic Calculator
Website: http://siveran.github.io/calc.html
Description: Title says it all, it's a chromatic calculator.
39 Comments
Revalopod 25 May, 2023 @ 7:59am 
the author is dead, sadly
Wandering Mania 27 Apr, 2023 @ 2:35pm 
This guide really needs an update.
A: ilevel 60+ and 75+ do not sell for Chaos/Regal orbs anymore.
B: Those forgotten masters no longer exist.
And C: Not all flasks sold at 3 of a kind make a higher level flask anymore. It's stopped pretty early on.
RYG 18 Sep, 2018 @ 7:44am 
vaal recipe: sell 7 vaal gems + map fragment (Dusk, Dawn or Noon. Midnight is a waste of currency) and you get a Vaal orb

didn't see this in vendor recipes, maybe I overlooked it
KhorneHub 7 Sep, 2016 @ 2:32pm 
Thanks for the awnser, got another loot filter though. Works like a champ.
Wheeshnaw 4 May, 2016 @ 5:25pm 
Just an FYI, those currency rates are incorrect in many cases. I recommend you use currency.poe.trade for current rates.
RampRat 16 Apr, 2016 @ 12:56pm 
Hey there Khorne. I have been using ZiggyD's loot filter. Check out his site where you will find the filter as well as an explanation on how to install it and how it works. Hope this helps.

http://ziggyd.tv/featured/ziggyds-loot-filter/
KhorneHub 16 Apr, 2016 @ 12:46pm 
How do you use the Loot filter?
4th 31 Mar, 2016 @ 5:55am 
"coming soon"
Skipper  [author] 28 Feb, 2016 @ 6:25am 
Thanks for your comment, glad to hear you love it :) Your right on the currency it's been told a few times before about the currency, since they fluxuate a lot. So your total right on that side. That's why I also added a notition in the extra note section. (Since I also couldnt add any more characters in the currency section :steamfacepalm:).
Back 2 Reality 28 Feb, 2016 @ 1:53am 
Nice work man not too sure with the currency but you probably know better than me. also if I had this when I started I would loved this guide