The obvious secret to getting rich

Hey Folks,

can someone tell me how to get such an incredible wealth as for example: one exalted orb?

I confess: I'm a casual. I played two leagues now, playtime in sum: 150 hours.
And because I'm a casual, I'd like to buy some items instead of grinding them.

But, whenever I read some guides, there are items listed there which are far beyond my cash!
I'm happy to have a fortune of 20-40 Chaos Orbs at the end of the league.
I know, I can improve that, but ... how?

1)
be efficient.
play a good build, run good maps, clear them fast.
also get a good loot filter (or make one yourself) to save a lot of time.

2)
play a lot.

Stop trying to have fun. The game doesn't reward that.

Make an MF build and grind low level easy maps. Alternatively, stand around in your hideout and just flip currency all day.

1. Play the very start of the league, everything costs high these days.
2. Find league starter build able to run up to t15 to complete the atlas. More completing = more higher map drops. Totem and summmoner builds usually don't take much currency to run.
3. Run high-level maps, sell high-level maps, t16 cost up to 30-40c
4. Read some atlas guides, play shaper-elder influenced maps
5. There are few good divination cards, you can farm them: for example Doctor from Burial Chambers map costs about 6-7ex every single league. You need about 200 maps run to drop it, takes time but worth it.
Same goes for Wind at Atoll (30-40c) or Kaoms at Volcano.
6. To have many maps to run you need to shape your Atlas. For example, to have Burial Chambers, you need to complete as much maps as possible and then "unlearn" all T3 and T4 maps except Burials. You will have ONLY them dropping and even can sell them in bulk.
7. Fast mapper build, you want to run and kill as fast as possible. Forget leveling, forget end-boss killing, just farm low-levels but FAST.
8. Or you can just choose to make Guardian-Shaper-Elder killer and sell drops from them. One single item can earn you tons of currency. Flask from Shaper is still 7ex in flashback, Starforge is always pricy etc.
I personally still can't decide what is the best league start strategy. Maybe people here will help with it.

In rich environment like now the Flashback race from lvl 60+ onwards doing unidentified chaos recipe can get you like 20C a hour easy.

The 'obvious' secret is trading. The big flaw in your methodology is that you are trying to get 'rich' entirely off your own efforts, which is statistically unlikely with the way PoE is designed.

The game is heavily designed around trading at the high end. Knowing what items have value and trading them to other players for currency is how you amass large amounts, to be able to afford some of the (occasionally overpriced, but hooray cutthroat free market principles, ya?) things that other people are trading. An item that may be useless to you may be worth 5-10c to someone else, etc.


If you really want to make money, the more obvious trick is to play the market and flip items or currency (buying items that are underpriced and selling them at a higher value - sometimes that the market agrees with, sometimes not). More risk and time investment, but higher returns.

Not any more complex then that.

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hwat wrote:

2. Find league starter build able to run up to t15 to complete the atlas. More completing = more higher map drops. Totem and summmoner builds usually don't take much currency to run.

I've never tried totem. Are there any good league starter builds?

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hwat wrote:

5. There are few good divination cards, you can farm them: for example Doctor from Burial Chambers map costs about 6-7ex every single league. You need about 200 maps run to drop it, takes time but worth it.
Same goes for Wind at Atoll (30-40c) or Kaoms at Volcano.

Speaking of map clearing speed. What is a good average duration for completing a map?

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hwat wrote:

6. To have many maps to run you need to shape your Atlas. For example, to have Burial Chambers, you need to complete as much maps as possible and then "unlearn" all T3 and T4 maps except Burials. You will have ONLY them dropping and even can sell them in bulk.

What do you mean by "unlearn"?

Buy low, sell high. Troll poe.trade all day for deals

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I0wa wrote:

Buy low, sell high. Troll poe.trade all day for deals

This assumes you have knowledge of what things are worth. Most dirty filthy casuals like myself have no clue.

Well as a casual running up to Tier 15 map, lVl 90 character, 146 Atlas, all I can say is - the game pretty much provided me with what i needed on the way.

Every league i have at least 1 item dropping for me generating loads of currency (or at least 1 exalted orb). Also selling jeweller orbs, divine orbs, regret orbs, chayula shards and specific Div Cards is very profitable.