PoE Currency Farming

Sell Items for Currency

The best way to farm currency items is by selling items. Different builds and levels have different equipment requirements. Selling items to a vendor always gets a bad price. In order to make a profit, you need to sell items to other players for exchanging currency items.

For selling items, you need to buy a Premium Stash Tab for 40 points from the Path of Exile shop. Or, you can just Upgrade to Premium Stash Tab for 15 points from the Path of Exile shop. Then, set a selling price for every item.

You can search price from Path of Exile Trade or PoE Trade.

Heist

Farming currency items in Heist. There are many currency and valuable items here. However, if you die, you will lose all the items. Here are some tips:

Picking currency items firstly, then leave the Heist area and put the currency items in your Stash. You can come and back again until the Alarm Lock is full.
Buy Heist contract firstly, then play it until you are at least six levels higher than the Heist area. This way can help you get more currency. However, you will not be granted Blueprint reveal bonuses.

Leveling Gems

Leveling a gem need a lot of time and can be sold for a lot of currency items. The rarest and the most valuable are awakened gems. You can find valuable gems here and level them. For example, a Level 6 Awakened Brutality Support with 20% quality can be sold for about 40 Exalted Orbs.

Some players level gems in weapon swap to sell on the market. The rarest and the most valuable are awakened gems but they are hard to find for most beginner players. Drop-only gems may be easier option to start with. This should be done by players that have upgraded all their own gems already, other players might want to achieve this goal for themselves first. Once the gem reaches level 20, sell it with one Gemcutter's Prism to get a level 1 gem with 20% quality. Level them again to get a level 20 gem with 20% quality. You now have three options:

sell the gem as is to other players if you don't feel like gambling and just get the safe payout
use a Vaal Orb trying to get a lvl 21 gem or get 23% quality, this might work but corrupted 20/20 gems are worth less
keep the and use the Doryani's Institute to try for two vaaling outcomes, for example, a 21/23 gem.

There is also a Harvest craft that allows you to try to awaken a gem with a corresponding awakened gem (See Awakened Support Skill Gems There are also Harvest crafts that allow you to sacrifice corrupted gems to either gain Gemcutter's Prisms or Facetor's Lenses

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Chaos Orb Recipe

When you reach Act 9, you can start to make the Chaos Orb recipe. From there, the area level is above 60 and all the item level of dropped items are higher than 60. Picking up all the rare items and sell the full rare set of items.

Here is a guide for making PoE Chaos Recipe.

Speed is King

Increase your movement speed. A faster speed not only means you can get more items, but also grants you more survival chances.

Almost all currency is created by killing monsters and opening reward boxes. Players kill a lot of monsters every day. Some players have a goal to reach a certain character level by killing enough monsters. Other players kill a lot of monsters to get rewards from mechanics.

Build a Strong Character

Choose your desired class and build a strong character. PoE Ninja Builds is a useful website. From here, you can find the best class and how to build your character.

Vendor Recipes

Selling a single item to a vendor always obtains a bad price. However, by doing vendor recipes, you can always earn more. The following vendor recipes are recommended:

Chaos Orb recipe: Full Rare Sets(Level 60 to Level 74)
Six socketed item for 7x jeweler’s orbs.
Linked red, green and blue socketed item for chromatic orb.
Set of 40% total quality gems for gemcutter’s prism.

Divination cards

Farming divination cards are easy ways to earn currency items. You can find the divination card price from PoE Ninja. Choose a suitable location to farm. For example, Humility card for Tabula Rasa.

Efficiency

The basic idea of making currency is trading time. Players always spend time to make currency. Every action in the game takes time: killing monsters, picking loot, movement, porting to map and back, trading with vendors and other players, putting items in stash. So players try to focus on making more currency in limited time: hour, evening, week end. Basic “currency per time” increase relies on increasing value of actions: value of maps, value of trade sessions, value of loot management. Trading 1 chaos orb for 2 fusing is less value, then trading 10 chaos for 20 fusing in the same time, spent for act of trading.

Methods of increasing map value:

Crafting maps to increase pack size, item quantity and item quality.
Spending sextants to add monsters to maps.
Doing master missions to add monsters to maps.

Another way to get more value per hour is improving map crear time:

Increasing character AOE and single target damage.
Using movement skills.
Increasing movement speed.
Reducing time spent on collecting loot, interacting with map objects, backtracking.
Reducing number of teleports to hideout or town.
Reducing time spent in hideout or town.

Item Filter

To be involved in trading currency should be created in game. A lucky player can get more exalted orbs from trading than from killing monsters, but where this currency came from at the very beginning? A lot of currency is created by killing monsters. Players kill a lot of monsters every day. Some players have a goal to reach certain character level by killing enough monsters. Other players target farm specific items by killing a lot of monsters. Also, there are achievements and challenges, involving a lot of monster kills. All of that generates currency.

Popular method to improve value of collecting currency from monster kills is using drop filter to highlight currency items, highlight high-value items, and completely hide low-value drops. Picking less items is spending less time to get currency. Less time per currency is more currency in a time period.

Find Popular Item Filters here.

Arcanist's Strongbox drops currency when opened. Some players prefer to craft it before opening, to increase item quantity.

Endgame bosses

Killing bosses for loot is a natural popular concept of all RPG games, including Path of Exile.

Six Linked Socketed Items

Six-linked item can be sold to vendor for a divine orb. So it is minimum price for any six-linked item on the market. Some items players value a lot more, if they have good stats, because six-linked item provides opportunity to increase active skill damage with five support gems. Basic famous six-link item is Tabula Rasa. You can get it as unique item drop, divination cards Humility and Vanity, or prophecy Cleanser of Sins. Humility is a common drop in Waterways map and Channel map.

Sentinel

Sentinels are a type of item that are exclusive to the Sentinel league. They can be deployed to empower enemies, making them stronger but more rewarding.

When a Sentinel is deployed, it will follow you and fire beams at enemies to empower them, restoring it to full life and giving it an Empowerment buff. Empowerment increases the damage dealt and reduces damage taken by the monster, but it also increase their experience given and item yield. There is also a chance an empowered enemy gains an additional reward. The Sentinel will disappear once it has empowered a set number of enemies, is dismissed manually, or when the user dies.

You can equip one of each type of Sentinel. There are three types of Sentinels:

Stalker: Fires beams periodically to empower enemies.
Pandemonium: Fires a beam once, chaining to multiple enemies. Unlike the other types, it will disappear after firing its beam once, even if it didn't get to empower the maximum number of enemies.
Apex: Fires a beam to empower enemies, but it only targets Rare and Unique monsters.

Sentinels drop unidentified, but cannot have their mods modified. Sentinels also have a limited number of times they can be deployed. There is no way to add charges to a Sentinel.

Sentinels cannot be deployed in unique maps.

A Power Core allows you to combine two Sentinels (regardless of charges left) to create a new, fully charged Sentinel. The Sentinel will receive a combination of mods from both components, with a chance for unpredictable changes. Certain Sentinel base types can only be created with Power Cores. There are four different types of Power Cores: Power Core, Transforming Power Core, Augmenting Power Core, Amplifying Power Core.

Immortal Syndicate

Players interact with Immortal Syndicate members by doing Jun missions. One mission is offered daily. There is a change to get another Jun mission as reward for killing map bosses. And there is a chance for random Jun mission spawn on map, if there are no other master missions in it.

If a player wants to specifically find master missions on maps, he can run many maps with only fast boss kills. There is a good chance master mission will spawn for map opening or boss killing.

There are several different approaches to organize Jun’s syndicate “map”. They all have pro’s and con’s. Learning them, understanding and implementing then requires advanced game experience and separate guides.

Beginner players do not have to involve with all syndicate manipulating details. Here is basics. Choose several members with good rewards. Try to increase their ranks and promote to branch leadership. Run safehouse for rewards. Sell rewards to other players. Choosing members is based on rewards. Refer to Immortal Syndicate page. Here is some high market demand ones:

It That Fled in Research provides craft to upgrade breachstones.
Tora in Research provides craft to level up gems.
Cameria in Intervention provides chests with sulphite scarabs.
Vagan in Intervention provides chests with legion scarabs.

Also many other syndicate members provide chests with different scarabs. Check scarab prices on Trade.

PoE Expedition Farming

Every three months, PoE reveals a new challenge. In every area, you will find the new challenge content. It rewards more currency and valuable items than just killing monsters. For example, in Expedition league, Exotic Coinage and Burial Medallion are worth at least five Chaos Orbs. The best place to farm PoE currency is Expedition Logbook. You can obtain a large number of valuable items there.

Master the new challenge mechanics and make more currency items.

Bestiary

Bestiary is another master mission mechanics. It rewards players with beasts in menagerie. You can itemize them with Bestiary Orbs and sell to other players. Beast master is Einhar.

There are several different ways to get Einhar’s mission: daily mission, killing map boss, opening a map with no other missions, and using a bestiary scarab.

Players help Einar to capture beasts by reducing enemy HP to minimum. Then you can visit Menagerie, buy bestiary orb, find your beast, itemize it, and sell to other players. Also some beast generate currency buy killing in arena directly.

Actual market prices are based on popularity and change with time and game updates. Usually players like to buy beasts for crafting and for opening portals to bestiary bosses. Here is some examples to check prices:

Farric Ape - unique belt
Craicic Squid - unique jewel
Farric Taurus - unique map
Craicic Chimeral - imprint
Farric Pit Hound - level 21 gem
Saqawine Vulture - six linked rare armour
Farric Lynx Alpha - Add a Suffix, Remove a Prefix
Farric Wolf Alpha - Add a Prefix, Remove a Suffix
Farric Tiger Alpha - Farrul's Den Portal
Saqawine Rhex - Saqawal's Roost Portal
Fenumal Hybrid Arachnid - Fenumus' Lair Portal
Craicic Spider Crab - Craiceann's Cove Portal

Atzoatl

The Temple of Atzoatl is a temple with many rooms.

Alva will open portals to it after a player completes enough missions for her. Minimum is 4 missions, 3 incursions each, 12 incursions total. Same room does not have second incursion on the same map, so some players prefer to delay Alva quests to manipulate room incursion probabilities. Alva missions are generated every day, and randomly by killing map bosses or opening maps without missions.

If nothing else, Alva provides a lot of additional monsters on each map, which has Alva mission. It increased total quantity of item drops, including currency. Atzoatl itself is a free map.

Direct currency rooms are: Vault, Treasure and Wealth of Vaal. Some players prefer target farm other room for a small chance of very valuable reward.

Hall of Offerings and Apex of Ascension - old league unique items
Locus of Corruption - double-corrupted items
Doryani's Institute - double-corrupted gems
Museum of Artifacts - old league unique items
Throne of Atziri - Atziri (endgame boss)
Atlas of Worlds - maps
Court of Sealed Death - strongboxes
Hall of Mettle, Hall of Heroes, Hall of Legends - legion encounter

Legion

Legion is league mechanics included in core Path of Exile. Sometimes players meet black obelisks. Those are Timeless Monoliths. After activating they start Legion encounter. There are several ways to generate a timeless monolith:

They have a 10% chance to spawn in a map
As a Delve node in the Azurite Mine
As a room in The Temple of Atzoatl (the Hall of Mettle room and its upgraded versions).
As a sextant affix
As a Legion scarab

Some legion monsters and chests with currency icons drop currency directly. Common reward for each legion encounter is timeless splinters. Collect 100 splinters to assemble an timeless emblem. This emblems usually are in high demand on market.

Legion generals from rare legion encounters can drop unique legion items, some of which sell well on market. Check prices of unique items of Legion league.

Legion encounters can randomly reward players with incubators. They can be sold well to other players. Check market prices. Fine incubators and Ornate incubators generate currency directly. Other popular incubators are:

Geomancer's Incubator - six linked item (can be traded for divine orb value).
Thaumaturge's Incubator - high level gem
Time-Lost Incubator - old league unique item
Foreboding Incubator - valuable currency shards
Skittering Incubator - scarab

Blight

You will meet Blight encounters on maps. After successful completing blight encounter players are rewarded with chests of items. Common blight rewards are oils and blighted maps. Blighted maps are just a giant blight encounters. You can sell blighted maps for other players. They usually have a relative high cost. If player are capable of doing blighted map successfully, they reward with very many blight chests. Some blight reward chests drop currency directly.

Upgrade oils with 3-to-1 vendor recipe until you get good enough oil, worth spending time trading. Oils are used in augmenting amulets, rings and blighted maps. Check prices of the following oils:

Opalescent Oil
Silver Oil
Golden Oil

Metamorph

Players find metamorph encounters on maps. It involves collecting monster organs and assembling metamorphs, boss-like enemies. Different organs have different rewards. There are direct currency reward options and rewards from other leagues: oils, incubators, scarabs, fossils.

Metamorphs, killed in maps, while having full difficulty bar, drops unique organs of map bosses. Assembly 5 different Metamorph organs to fight metamorph boss in Tane Lab. Those have the same metamorph rewards with more chances to be more valuable. Some players just stack all 5 organs with several currency reward mods.

Catalysts are the special metamorth legue rewards, used to increase jewelry quality. Players can sell catalysts to other players.

Delirium

Players find Delirium mirrors at the beginning of maps with a small chance. After going through the mirror, delirium empowers existing and add new monsters to the map. Kill as many as possible. The reward type is shown during the encounter. There is direct currency reward, looking as chaos orb sign. Previous league rewards is also possible to find in delirium: oils, incubators, scarabs, fossils.

Harvest

Harvest is a mechanic, allowing players to grow plants in the personal groves. Those plants have a valuable craft-like rewards. Seeds to plant are found in seed caches on maps. Some players may want to purchase specific seeds in large packs on market. So it may be worth collecting seeds on your maps for trading.

Tier 2 - tier 4 seeds are collected from plants in grove and could be traded as well.

Labyrinth

Players must complete The Lord's Labyrinth to progress in ascendancy tree of their characters.

Izaro's Treasure at the end has a chance to give multiple currency items. Also some assorted chests in labyrinth itself drops currency as well: Labyrinth Trove, Emperor's Trove, Emperor's Treasury, Emperor's Vault.

The endgame Eternal Labyrinth was reported for giving better currency rewards.

Delve

Delve means exploring Azurite Mine.

Finding loot in delve requires sulphite. It is reward for Niko map missions. Players get one Niko mission for free every day. Killing map bosses has a chance to reward another Niko mission. Using sulphite scarabs adds Niko mission to maps. And there is a chance for random Niko mission spawn on map, when a player opens it without scarabs or master mission choice. Once enough sulphite is accumulated, players can start delving.

There are several ways to get currency from delve, ether by direct drop or trading valuable items with other players. Direct method and farming azurite is good for beginners, because they can do it on any comfortable depth level without much skill and risk.

Direct currency

There are currency nodes with currency icons and description. Just travel there and collect reward. Also any node has a chance to reward currency for clearing all monsters, just like on maps. Special nodes, like Vaal Outpost, have currency chests. So it may be worth to check as well.

Azurite

Players need to farm azurite to improve their character’s stats in delve, like darkness resistance. However, it is possible to trade azurite for resonators with Niko. Check resonators price on market. Players may wish to buy them in packs for crafting. If it is profitable enough, target farm azurite nodes in delve, convert it to resonators and sell it on market

Fossils

It is advanced and usually more profitable method. Players tend to buy many fossils on the market in large packs. So it is worth farming them in delve. There are nodes with fossils explicitly visible on delve map, but they are rare. More common way to find fossils is to explore darkness in side passages. Use flares to avoid darkness and blow walls with dynamite. Such side passages with fossils behind walls is common in long delve corridors.

This method is advanced and require practice with understanding delve layouts. Azurite mine map is a grid. All grid points contains something, ether marked on the map, or not. If the map has empty space in place of supposed node, and there is long corridor next to it, there must be hidden something there behind a wall.