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Beginners Guide - Currency System

The currency system in Path of Exile revolves around a variety of different orbs and scrolls. Each currency item serves a specific function in the crafting and enhancement of a character's equipment, or allowing restructuring of the character's passive skill tree.

Currency items are used to pay for items in player trading.

Currency items

Currency items can be found as drops from monsters or chests, bought directly from different vendors in town, or received through the use of the vendor recipe system by trading specific configurations of items to any town vendor. Currency items play a large role in the player to player trading system, with rare orbs able to be traded for powerful equipment, or even other types of orbs that a player might need at the time for crafting.

Basic currency

Basic currency items are those that have no specific drop restrictions (in-game wording: non-league), such as which areas or monsters they can drop from.

Item	Drop Level	Stack Size	Tab Stack Size	Help Text
Armourer's ScrapArmourer's ScrapStack Size: 40Improves the quality of an armourRight click this item then left click an armour to apply it. Has greater effect on lower-rarity armours. The maximum quality is 20%.	1	40	5000	Right click this item then left click an armour to apply it. Has greater effect on lower-rarity armours. The maximum quality is 20%.
Blacksmith's WhetstoneBlacksmith's WhetstoneStack Size: 20Improves the quality of a weaponRight click this item then left click a weapon to apply it. Has greater effect on lower-rarity weapons. The maximum quality is 20%.	1	20	5000	Right click this item then left click a weapon to apply it. Has greater effect on lower-rarity weapons. The maximum quality is 20%.
Blessed OrbBlessed OrbStack Size: 20Randomises the values of the implicit modifiers of an itemRight click this item then left click another item to apply it.	35	20	5000	Right click this item then left click another item to apply it.

Shards and fragments

Shards and fragments are obtained by selling items to vendors or by defeating Harbingers. They can be combined to form certain currency items by stacking them.

Item	Drop Level	Stack Size	Tab Stack Size	Help Text
Alchemy ShardAlchemy ShardStack Size: 20A stack of 20 shards becomes an Orb of Alchemy.	N/A	20	N/A	A stack of 20 shards becomes an Orb of Alchemy.
Alteration ShardAlteration ShardStack Size: 20A stack of 20 shards becomes an Orb of Alteration.	N/A	20	N/A	A stack of 20 shards becomes an Orb of Alteration.

Endgame currency

Endgame currency is mostly drop-restriced and does not drop in regular areas while leveling or in a map.

Item	Drop Level	Stack Size	Tab Stack Size	Additional Drop Restrictions
Awakener's OrbAwakener's OrbStack Size: 10Destroys an item, applying its influence to another of the same item class The second item is reforged as a rare item with both influence types and new modifiersRight click this item, then left click the item you wish to take the influence from, then left click an item of the same item class you wish to apply it to.	1	10	5000	N/A

League currency

League currency were introduced with there corresponding temporary leagues, which later made it into the Base Game.

Scourge currency

Tainted currency drop from Scourge monsters while in the Nightmare using the Blood Crucible. They can only be used on Corrupted items, usually at the cost of being more unpredictable than their standard equivalents.

Item	Drop Level	Stack Size	Tab Stack Size	Help Text
Allflame Ember of Untainted ApesAllflame Ember of Untainted ApesPack Size: 4-8 MonstersPack monsters reward greatly increased Experience Pack monsters drop no ItemsClick and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.	1	N/A	N/A	Click and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.
Allflame Ember of Untainted BeastsAllflame Ember of Untainted BeastsPack Size: 2-5 MonstersPack monsters reward greatly increased Experience Pack monsters drop no ItemsClick and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.	1	N/A	N/A	Click and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.
Allflame Ember of Untainted ChimeralsAllflame Ember of Untainted ChimeralsPack Size: 3-7 MonstersPack monsters reward greatly increased Experience Pack monsters drop no ItemsClick and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.	1	N/A	N/A	Click and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.
Allflame Ember of Untainted DevourersAllflame Ember of Untainted DevourersPack Size: 2-5 MonstersPack monsters reward greatly increased Experience Pack monsters drop no ItemsClick and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.	1	N/A	N/A	Click and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.
Allflame Ember of Untainted MawsAllflame Ember of Untainted MawsPack Size: 3-8 MonstersPack monsters reward greatly increased Experience Pack monsters drop no ItemsClick and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.	1	N/A	N/A	Click and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.
Allflame Ember of Untainted RhoasAllflame Ember of Untainted RhoasPack Size: 3-7 MonstersPack monsters reward greatly increased Experience Pack monsters drop no ItemsClick and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.	1	N/A	N/A	Click and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.
Allflame Ember of Untainted SpittersAllflame Ember of Untainted SpittersPack Size: 3-8 MonstersPack monsters reward greatly increased Experience Pack monsters drop no ItemsClick and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.	1	N/A	N/A	Click and drag this item over a Monster Pack in the Lantern of Arimor to have those packs in the area replaced with this pack.

Expedition currency

During an Expedition encounter, Runic Monsters and Excavated Chests have a chance to drop expedition currency to refresh the inventory or to buy from Expedition NPCs.

Main page: Expedition

Ritual currency

can be bought after a Ritual encounter. Combing 100 Ritual Splinter will give a which then can be filled with blood at a Ritual altar for a

Main page: Ritual

Heist Currency

Lenses can drop from the Curio Displays while running Blueprints with the heist target Unusual Gems or Enchanted Armaments. are used to enter the The Rogue Harbour, start Contracts or reveal Blueprints

Main page: Heist

Delirium currency

Delirium orbs are currency items that can be applied to maps to add layers of Delirium and grant specific rewards. Delirium Monster can drop . 300 Splinters can be combined to a .

Main page: Delirium

Metamorph currency

Catalysts increase the quality of jewellery to increase specific modifiers.

Main page: Metamorph

Blight currency

Oils can improve Blighted maps, or anoint amulets, rings and certain unique items.

Main page: Blight

Legion currency

Legion enemies can drop Legion Splinters of their Legion. 100 Splinters of the same type can be combined into an Emblem to open a portal to the Domain of Timeless Conflict.

Main page: Legion

Delve currency

Delve currency is divided into Fossils and Resonators. Fossils are socketed into a Resonator to change modifiers on an item.

Main page: Delve

Incursion currency

Vials drop from The Vaal Omnitect in The Temple of Atzoatl and can upgrade specific unique items to make them more powerful.

Main page: Incursion

Bestiary currency

A Bestiary OrbBestiary OrbStack Size: 10Stores a Beast in an itemRight click on this item then left click on a Beast in your Menagerie to itemise the Beast. is a currency item that can store a captured beast. This allows the beast to be traded with other players.

Main page: Bestiary

Harbinger currency

Harbinger currency are dropped as shards by Harbingers or Harbinger reward chest of other mechanics. Some currencies are dropped from such chest only or by combining shards.

Main page: Harbinger

Breach currency

100 Breach Splinter can be combined into a Breachstone. A Blessing can be used to upgrade Breach unique items to a more powerful version of the item.

Main page: Breach

Essence currency

Essences are items that upgrade a normal item to a rare item with predetermined modifiers. Higher tier essences can reforge rare items.

Main page: Essences

Prophecy currency

Prophecies are given out from Navali in return for . They can be sealed into Prophecy items.

• Note: will be removed with Version 3.17.0

Main page: Prophecy

Currency exchange resources

Exchange rates between different currency items is largely dependent on the item's scarcity and the demand for it by players willing to trade. Due to the continuously fluctuating nature of the Path of Exile economy, it is too impractical to keep an updated table of currency exchange rates here. Instead, please refer to these tools and resources:

• currency.poe.trade
• pathofexile.com/trade
• poe.ninja (single-page overview and value-over-time tracking)

Vendor prices chart

A number of orbs are purchasable at vendors, and can thus be ranked like coins in normal currency. There are several progression tables below showing who sells what and what their equivalent value is in Alts ().

Currency items that have shards are italicised.

Main Progression
Orb	Price	Value in Alts	Location
Orb of Alchemy	1× Orb of Regret	64	Act 3 (Clarissa)
Orb of Regret	2× Orb of Scouring	64	Act 2 (Yeena)
Orb of Scouring	4× Orb of Chance	32	Act 2 (Yeena)
Orb of Chance	1× Orb of Fusing	8	Act 3 (Clarissa)
Orb of Fusing	4× Jeweller's Orb	8	Act 2 (Yeena)
Chromatic Orb	3× Jeweller's Orb	6	Act 2 (Yeena)
Jeweller's Orb	2× Orb of Alteration	2	Act 2 (Yeena)
Orb of Alteration	4× Orb of Augmentation	1	Act 1 (Nessa)
Orb of Augmentation	4× Orb of Transmutation	1/4	Act 1 (Nessa)
Orb of Transmutation	7× Portal Scroll	1/16	Act 1 (Nessa)
Portal Scroll	3× Scroll of Wisdom	1/112	Act 1 (Nessa)
Scroll of Wisdom	baseline currency	1/336	N/A
Scraps Progression
Glassblower's Bauble	8× Blacksmith's Whetstone	N/A	Act 3 (Hargan)
Blacksmith's Whetstone	3× Armourer's Scrap	N/A	Act 2 (Greust)
Armourer's Scrap	1× Blacksmith's Whetstone	N/A	Act 1 (Tarkleigh)

Act 3's Clarissa and Act 4's Petarus and Vanja have all the Main Progression recipes.

Some Masters sell currency in bulk:

Master Progression
Orbs	Price	Master
20x Cartographer's Chisel	12x Chaos Orb	Zana

Vendors and player economy

Vendor prices are a base value for comparisons, player market value will vary. Since players can't downgrade one Orb of Fusing into eight Orbs of Alteration, they may be willing to sell them for less. High-level players will tend to accumulate rarer currencies, and when they begin rolling maps and running them, may run out of smaller denominations such as wisdom scrolls and orbs of alterations.

Don't forget that barter trading is not just what it is worth, it is also what you are willing to pay.

See also

• Currency creation and trading