An idiot's guide to understanding the poe economy

Good day [Removed by Admin]. I am an experienced player who has been inside Poe since closed beta and full time troll. When I am not soloing high level maps and becoming filthy rich I like to pepper General with my charm.

I noticed some of you were complaining about the economy today. Poor souls! If you can't understand a simple video game's economy what hope is there for you to ever understand the REAL WORLD'S economy and function in it?

Well fear not, by the time you are done reading this post you will understand the poe economy!


-Prices of all items and orbs in poe are roughly fixed by supply and demand. You can buy items
for below market value if you are willing to be patient and shop for a good deal. You can sell
items for above market if you are willing to wait for an impatient (or ignorant customer)

-Orb prices can be learned by looking at poestats or simplying looking at vendor recipes.
Prices of low-mid level rares almost never exceed 2 chaos. Price of high level rares are determined by the number of 'good' rolls on them. They have very consistant prices so its easy to learn. If you see a chest piece with 3 good rolls on it and it sells for X orbs than a
similr level chest piece with 3 good rolls on it will also sell for X

-In general it is best to sell items that a low demand at the earliest possible time, even
if you have to take a low offer. When buying items that are in high supply it's best to
be selective and wait till you have a good deal.

-The reverse is also true. items of high demand you can wait days or even weeks to find a
buyer willing to pay high. Items

-If you dont know the price of an item you should not sell it or buy it.

-It's your own fault if you make a build that has a budget beyound what you can afford.
In general casters are cheap builds because all they are not as reliant on getting a powerful weapon. Archery is also somewhat cheap because it isn't a popular spec so bows are cheaper.
The worst build for a poor player is one that cannot function without a 6 link or certain expensive uniques. FOTM builds are also more expensive.

-If you are not swimmining in exalts you should forget about ever getting a 6 link.

I REALLY would not call this a guide.

good guide

Guide to PoE economy:

1. Earn some of these
2. Trade

Any decent moderator should close this, as your tone is clearly disrespectful.

But just to answer you wall of nonsense:

-what if you're not willing to trade ? Or to spend weeks waiting for THE trade of your life?

-what build would you propose that will work above lv60 without at least a 5-linked item, which is still pretty difficult to obtain yourself ? Don't even mention BoR (I have one, and pretty anything works with it, which is borderline ridiculous).

- believe or not, loot is not the issue. The issue is to craft ANYTHING with 5/6-link so your build can perform at high levels. Obviously any "experienced elitist" buy/trade such items, why would you spend currencies in a nonsensical lottery system ? How is that different from D3, beside the AH ? PoE is very fun, so much more than D3. But at high level, you hit the same wall, just not in terms of loot, but the crafting you need for your loot.

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tienbasse wrote:

Any decent moderator should close this, as your tone is clearly disrespectful.

But just to answer you wall of nonsense:

-what if you're not willing to trade ? Or to spend weeks waiting for THE trade of your life?

-what build would you propose that will work above lv60 without at least a 5-linked item, which is still pretty difficult to obtain yourself ? Don't even mention BoR (I have one, and pretty anything works with it, which is borderline ridiculous).

- believe or not, loot is not the issue. The issue is to craft ANYTHING with 5/6-link so your build can perform at high levels. Obviously any "experienced elitist" buy/trade such items, why would you spend currencies in a nonsensical lottery system ? How is that different from D3, beside the AH ? PoE is very fun, so much more than D3. But at high level, you hit the same wall, just not in terms of loot, but the crafting you need for your loot.

PoE is DESIGNED for a 5 link to be manditory. They do this to intionally slow down your progress through the game. An online rpg is no good if you can clear it quickly! You'd
beat in a week-end and never even browse the cash shop! Remember every time you log on
you see an ad for a shiny new toy! They want to keep you hooked in because GGG will die
if you dont buy that daily deal.

Heres the solution your link QQ.

You can beat PoE on merciless only trading ONCE. Here is how you do it.
First play self-found like you normally do, be sure to store several different sets of elemental
resist gear so you can swap when you need to (I think the easiest way to do is is just
having a nice collection of jewelery and betls since they dont take up much space and have no
attribute requirments). Be sure to set aside a pile of like 20 chaos orbs, for your 1 big trade.

Than once you get into merciless buy yourself a white 5 link chest. You could probably get it for
below 20 chaos if you shop around. Than spam alts on the fucker until you get 2/3 of these mods
*life
*resist all
*extra armor
than regal the fucker and hope for the best.

You could also use tabula rasa as your end game chest, all your characters would share the same item so its super cheap! But that would be a bit more dangerous.




As for doing content with minamial trading in mapping? Mapping is as hard as you make it.
You can scale up map's difficult almost endlessly so I don't see the issue.
If you have godly gear you will be buying up poorjoy's and running those all day.
If you have crappy gear you will use transmutes and alts to run maps with few,extremely safe, mods.
Anyone can do mapping. Better players just crank up the dial.

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NotRegret wrote:

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tienbasse wrote:

Any decent moderator should close this, as your tone is clearly disrespectful.

But just to answer you wall of nonsense:

-what if you're not willing to trade ? Or to spend weeks waiting for THE trade of your life?

-what build would you propose that will work above lv60 without at least a 5-linked item, which is still pretty difficult to obtain yourself ? Don't even mention BoR (I have one, and pretty anything works with it, which is borderline ridiculous).

- believe or not, loot is not the issue. The issue is to craft ANYTHING with 5/6-link so RMT players just crank up the dial.

i fixed both of your posts into one post.

you don't need a 5L to beat the game, far from it.

A 4L is plenty for the normal game and for most maps.

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Ghidet wrote:

Guide to PoE economy:

1. Earn some of these

2. Trade

This saved me the trouble of reading the OP.

Thanks.

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NotRegret wrote:

PoE is DESIGNED for a 5 link to be manditory.

This isn't true. Perhaps for higher level maps, but don't worry about those. They don't drop.

The original poster doesn't have a good grasp of the whine threads. The economy in PoE is excellent. Standard has a few things that cause slight issues but the economy still works really well. You can buy and sell goods. When you can't do that the economy is failing. But each league right now has a healthy working economy.

The people complaining are complaining about legacy items, or drop rates, or crafting. They are not actually complaining about the economy. The economy is magnificent in this game.