Path of Exile: Currency & Crafting Beginner's Guide

The currency, trading and crafting system in Path of Exile is quite unique. There is no monetary system (gold, $, £, etc.) and instead everything is traded via barter (item for item). The trading system features a lot of different items which are known as currency as they are commonly used to trade. This is because they have their own usefulness and value to certain players. In this video I go over these currency items and show/explain what they do. Table of Contents (click time stamps): 0:00 - Introduction & Overview of the System 0:56 - Scrolls (Identify & Portal) 1:10 - Magic Crafting (Transmutation, Alteration & Augmentation) 2:46 - Quality Improvement (Armorers, Blacksmith's, Glassblowers, Chisels, GCP) 4:37 - Rare Crafting (Chance, Alchemy, Chaos, Regal) 6:55 - Socket Crafting (Chromatic, Jewellers, Fusing) 8:28 - Scouring & Regret Orbs 9:36 - Divine Orbs 9:50 - Blessed Orbs 10:35 - Currency Exchange Rates & Values Currency Exchange Rates (guideline for default league): http://exileex.com You can connect with me and find out when I upload new content in the following places: Twitter → http://twitter.com/ziggydstarcraft Homepage → http://rlhighscore.com Alternate Channel → http://youtube.com/rlziggyd

Comments

1. bro you talk too darn ole fast
2. Can you make a new video about what to pick up and so on? Iam from d3 but Its kinda hard to know what to pick up
3. How much of this still holds true to the game?
4. What constitutes a good or a bad item usually?
5. Ok, if someone wants to trade an item, and their price is "2c," what the fuck does that mean?
6. Realistically speaking, how far do you think people can go WITHOUT crafting a single thing?
   
   No spending of orbs etc on items, just hoarding like a mental patient xD
7. Thanks this helped alot and gave me a better understanding :)
8. Thank you for making these videos.  This video really helped explain the currency for me (I'm obv a newbie, only 2 days in), and your videos really have helped.  Saving this video for reference material!
9. I'm running a Flame totem build and this video helped me a lot to upgrade my gear.
   I would've better if I had more luck with crafting :)
   
   Thanks for the vid and keep it up!
10. Thats exactly what every PoE's newbie should know, gj.
11. POE's economy is fucking retarded, it's based off of the richest players and what they are willing to pay for an exalted or chaos orb, so all of the low level new players have nothing because they can't buy any of the items people are selling, even 1-10 unique weapons have ridiculous prices like 3 chaos orbs or 5 alch orbs, thats the one thing that lets this game down, giving all the power to the rich players
12. Hello, and thank you for the video, it was informative. I am new to POE and i have a witch with the rain of fire spell that i have had since about level 9 and im currently level 24 i think. I have done none of the crafting stuff and i have have rarely if ever upgraded any of my gear and im still rolling through the content like it is not even there... is this normal for this game? Does the difficulty increase at some point of can i just rain of fire my way until the game is over without putting much thought into it? And before you ask if im trolling, im not. I am legitimatlly wondering where the challenge is supposed to be and if im doing this right because i dont think it should be quite this easy. Thats not to say i have never died in the game because i have, it just seems like it takes a whole, whole lot to kill the witch.
13. i'm new to POE and i made it to level 32 now and i didn't know like half of this info lol.. thanks for helping and keep it up :)
14. Thanks Ziggy, i started this game cus my friend from WoW said it was great, you've really helped me learn some important crafting and newbie stuff so again thank you so much for your videos ^^
15. I love these types of games. Especially that skill tree is really compelling. But this crafting, items, currency and these random rolls on important stuff just irks me out.
    
    I wish there were no items and just levels and skills that you could choose.
16. Is there an acoustic version of price of freedom from ff7cc in the background?
17. just5 started playing poe and your videos are amazing!!!!!!! your my new favorite youtuber.
18.  So ... if you have an iLvL 78 rapier, and you spend 1500+ alts and never see a +130% phys roll, what can you do?
19. i was lost with this but good video im seeing your entire list haha! good job dude 
20. Thank you for the video mate, it helped more than I can say. Stay Excellent!