Content Update 3.28.0 — Path of Exile: Mirage

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Esubane#6099 wrote:

Well of course I planned in advance and bought T0 uniques when they were cheap in week one. I was paying just about 40-60c for each one. I know how ridiculous is the price hike on them in 2nd and subsequent weeks and I really really really don't want a weekly ship to be a gamble and potential currency loss. My dust stock pile was about 200M. I overfarmed actually cos keepers turned out to be incredibly stale and boring league and I quit long before I expanded this stock. Still have 60M left there lol xD

Gold was the main bottleneck. Each T0 was 40k and i bought loads. Farmers eat through 400k per day. Recruitment costs solid amount too. I farmed blightheart cos this was the only strong gold strat I could do while making regular currency.

This time around the price hike on T0's might not be as dramatic. Cos shipping isn't mandatory anymore. You have to farm ores, they don't come out themselves from strict time gating alone.

This change is simple, yet it makes significant impact. I calculated the smelter yield based on verisium bar value and to generate a 25M ship it will take just under six days (all T5 smelters). That's if you don't use any "instant bar" scarabs and always send bars, not just raw ores. Without port quota too. So on face value it's BETTER than crops in 3.27. BUT, now you have to farm up the ore and this is a pretty hefty farm to amass this much ship value.

Pretty good if you can queue your smelter for a week or so and then switch your farm to sth else tho.