How are People Finding Extreme Amounts of Currency?

The title says it all folks. The question every new player wants an answer to. Let's dive in shall we.

I myself am a new player, and i must say making the switch from Blizzard's headliner game Diablo 3 to Grinding Gear's overlooked revolutionary game was not a mistake. There a many things that have made this game stand out to me which is very hard (all of you hardcore veteran gamers will understand), but we will not get into the pros and cons of P.O.E. vs D3 as this is not what the topic is about.

I recently was looking for some of the top builds, and studying them trying to figure out what makes the so powerful and i couldn't help but notice the items required for these builds to really stand out. If your like me and try to replicate these builds, but come to find out that even if you have decent gear to support that build its still nothing compared to the original build (this is where it starts to get good).

Most of the top builds i have looked at require a lot of mirrored items to really put out. My question is where does one get the required currency for just one mirrored item. Not two or three, but just one.

I recently did my own personal study on how many exalted orbs i could make in one week of just farming low and high level maps/Dominus. I tested with two different Characters: the first being a non-magic main character mainly for leveling and killing shit really fast, and second being a magic find character. I played roughly six hours a day, three hours on one and three hours on the other.

RESULTS: As one would assume i found 3 times the alteration orbs then i did with my non-magic find character, but i found the same amount of unique items on both characters (thanks to RNG). Thus, with just trading the alterations for exalted orbs (300:1)(not including the chaos orbs, vaal orbs, ect..) on the magic find character came to a whopping 8.7 exalted orbs. NOTE: i SOLD EVERY YELLOW I FOUND TO VENDOR IF IT WASN'T REASONABLE. As for the non-magic find character it came to a whopping 3.0 exalted orbs.
This could be different for others with better gear than i, but if you do the math 11.7 exalted orbs in a week is not a lot of currency at all.

So, how does one come about getting thousands of exalted orbs? What gets me is that a lot of RICH people have multiple characters with multiple mirrored items on them. Imagine farming 300,000 alteration orbs which would be 1,000 exalted orbs if you do the 300:1 ratio. That's a lot of hours of gaming.

With that being said i would like end this with a question to Grinding Gear Games: "Arn't the drop rates on a Mirror of Kalandra and or Exalted orb very low if not nothing?"

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BloodShotEyes wrote:

That's a lot of hours of gaming.

With that being said i would like end this with a question to Grinding Gear Games: "Arn't the drop rates on a Mirror of Kalandra and or Exalted orb very low if not nothing?"

Yes, the drop rates ARE very low. Most people will never see a mirror drop. You might find 1-2 ex a month with a reasonable amount of play time.

So how do people find so much currency? The answer is simply that they do spend a LOT of hours playing...and probably even more importantly, a lot of hours trading as well. And on top of that, many of them probably got lucky with having at least a few really good drops.

And of course, there were probably some that used...less legal means to acquire them.

Standard isn't really a place for young upstarts to farm and sell gear, it's a place where old money can coast mostly indefinitely on sheer volumes of accumulated wealth. So that's your first mistake.

Second mistake is assuming that currency items and uniques are the only source of income. Godly rares will come much more frequently than you realize if you know what you're looking for. Especially rings and amulets. Again though, the bar for "godly" rares is much higher in standard, and you certainly aren't going to find them farming a lowly level 68 boss.

I made a healthy currency pool in warbands in only 1 week playing. Let me give few advices.

1) First advice is to use item quantity and rarity in standard and item rarity cull in leagues. Those extra yellows and sometimes unique are huge boons on bosses.

2) Alch your maps and farm with a mobile spec that doesn't care about most map affixes. Something that at least do not care about reflects and regen affixes. Dealing with map affixes is a huge deal farm wise, it saves chaos from rolling them, and if it doesn't hinder your clearspeed it gives you a tremendous edge.

3) When ricing, focus on content you can stomp.

4) Use a loot filter.

5) Gather yellow items(yes it sux) and sell fast / Use chaos and regal recipe.

6) Buy your jewelry from players.

7) Don't bother putting in sale medium yellows, I sold 5c great things early in warband and not instantly, also for 5c I rather help a mate LOL.

8) 5L then buy again and try to 6L.

9) Chisel lvl76+ maps. (Can start at 74)

10) Run Unid maps as these have usually high clearspeed(blues) and drop decently enough.

11) On maps irrelevant for your map pool stability(for example running a lvl72 map if you are stable at 76), best way is to rush the boss while checking all the common strongboxes areas and big packs. No need to full clear.

My last session of 6H got 1 ex, 120 fuses of alt/jew/fuse, 2 valuable uniques. Exalted orbs drop well, some days you won't get any, the next one 2. I'm pretty sure best players average more than 1ex/10hours of play, not factoring decent uniques. This is how you get rich. Poor players are often less good at the game of playing inadequate specs for ricing. PoE is a game of numbers.

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BloodShotEyes wrote:

RESULTS: As one would assume i found 3 times the alteration orbs then i did with my non-magic find character, but i found the same amount of unique items on both characters (thanks to RNG). Thus, with just trading the alterations for exalted orbs (300:1)(not including the chaos orbs, vaal orbs, ect..) on the magic find character came to a whopping 8.7 exalted orbs.

Right now on Warbands alt to exalt ratio is over 700:1. You must be talking about Standard. (?)

Thanks for those who have already responded to this Topic.

@Arthikas Yes i am talking about standard.

Everyone's thoughts so far are very interesting and helpful to say the least.

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A lot is just knowledge. As you learn values of drops you make money.

Like do you understand why I can sell this drop for 5-10ex?


Second part is actually playing to avail yourself to lots of drops.

You can do even better/faster with Magic Finding.


Really rich do market tactics. Flip/make gear/make mirrors etc. No way to drop yourself you to the super rich class. Just like working class in real life makes dick compared to hedge fund managers. They are the hedge fund managers of PoE. They dont even have to play to get rich.

Yes, that is a nice ring. I was just giving thought on how so many people have mirrors and loads of exalted orbs even though they are the rarest form of currency in the game. Has the game really been out long enough for this many people to have that much currency?

Anyway i thank everyone for the awesome feedback!

I still believe this game has won my heart over any of Blizzard's games.

Great community and fun environment!


-Blood