How are people making money? Everything is so expensive on trade. Help?

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Aldora_the_Summoner wrote:

I've always found the game immensely frustrating with the whole crafting / gear / currency situation. The game is obviously pitched at having players open their own retail store in order to progress. Can't just play the game, you have to earn enough to purchase the gear in order to tackle the content that would actually drop gear worth selling to be able to earn enough to purchase the gear...

There's some specific game design approach involved in this, but primarily it's about retarding the progress of a large group of players while allowing the efficient, powerful or extremely lucky to get ahead and 'win' the game.

I like trying out new and funky builds but mostly what stops me is how do I accumulate the 10 - 20 ex they seem to need to be playable? Build diversity used to be one of the big selling points for this game but so much of the game is simply beyond the reach of many players who just like playing through the actual game without turning it into a speedrun efficiency simulator.

So rather than give $30 to GGG for designing a shit end game that inhibits players from enjoying the game, I'd prefer to find someone else to give that money to.

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BrightButHeavy wrote:

My first league. I dont know exactly what to do and how craft so i just sell EVERYTHING. Currently using 5 tabs for sale and thinking that i need 6 more tabs just to cover everything. Mb it’s not smart but it gave me ~20 ex for experiments with my scion.

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Defiants wrote:

I'm not a new player, but I've never been an excellent player either. The prices of good items seems to be significantly higher than usual this league, Chaos seem to be worth significantly less, and I'd often make most of my currency by selling items in the range of 5 - 20 chaos orbs. I'm still making those sales fairly regularly, selling off life/resist rares etc etc-- but the price of Exalts makes it all feel rather pointless.

I think my gear is around 3 - 4 exalts worth, I have a single Exalt in my stash, and probably 300 chaos orbs. I feel like I'm doing very bad this league, and my build requires fairly expensive gear. ( I'm struggling to handle high yellow tier maps when I'd typically be cruising through T16 at this point. )

So how are people making all their money? I'm seeing items going for 40 exalts that wouldn't have cost more than 5 in the past. Seems like inflation has hit POE hard lol.

I'm struggling, any advice is appreciate.

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tuccos wrote:

Funny i often get insulted for only having 4 achievement.
I have gear on my characters + ex + chaos + xxx worth ~100 ex tough...

and i never cared about currency, i just played...