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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 in the case of the Orb of Regret.
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.
Scrolls
Icon | Name | Stack Size | Description |
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File:Scroll of Wisdom icon.png | Scroll of Wisdom | 40 | Identifies an item. Right click this item then left click an unidentified item to apply it. |
File:Portal Scroll icon.png | Portal Scroll | 40 | Creates a portal to town. Right click on this item to use it. |
Quality Upgrades
Icon | Name | Stack Size | Description |
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File:Armourer's Scrap icon.png | Armourer's Scrap | 40 | Improves the quality of an armour. Right click this item then left click an armour to apply it. Has greater effect on lower rarity armours. The maximum quality is 20%. |
File:Blacksmith's Whetstone icon.png | Blacksmith's Whetstone | 20 | Improves the quality of a weapon. Right click this item then left click a weapon to apply it. Has greater effect on lower rarity weapons. The maximum quality is 20%. |
File:Glassblower's Bauble icon.png | Glassblower's Bauble | 20 | Improves the quality of a flask. Right click this item then left click a flask to apply it. Has greater effect on lower rarity flasks. The maximum quality is 20%. |
File:Cartographer's Chisel icon.png | Cartographer's Chisel | 20 | Improves the quality of a map. Right click this item then left click a map to apply it. Has greater effect on lower rarity maps. The maximum quality is 20%. |
File:Gemcutter's Prism icon.png | Gemcutter's Prism | 20 | Improves the quality of a gem. Right click this item then left click a gem to apply it. The maximum quality is 20%. |
Alter Sockets
Icon | Name | Stack Size | Description |
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File:Jeweller's Orb icon.png | Jeweller's Orb | 20 | Reforges the number of sockets on an item. Right click this item then left click a socketed item to apply it. |
File:Chromatic Orb icon.png | Chromatic Orb | 20 | Reforges the colour of sockets on an item. Right click this item then left click a socketed item to apply it. |
File:Orb of Fusing icon.png | Orb of Fusing | 20 | Reforges the links between sockets on an item. Right click this item then left click a socketed item to apply it. |
Alter Normal Item
Icon | Name | Stack Size | Description |
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File:Orb of Transmutation icon.png | Orb of Transmutation | 40 | Upgrades a normal item to a magic item. Right click this item then left click a normal item to apply it. |
File:Orb of Chance icon.png | Orb of Chance | 20 | Upgrades a normal item to a random rarity. Right click this item then left click a normal item to apply it. |
File:Orb of Alchemy icon.png | Orb of Alchemy | 10 | Upgrades a normal item to a rare item. Right click this item then left click a normal item to apply it. |
Alter Magic Item
Icon | Name | Stack Size | Description |
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File:Orb of Augmentation icon.png | Orb of Augmentation | 30 | Enchants a magic item with a new random property. Right click this item then left click a magic item to apply it. Magic items can have up to two random properties. |
File:Orb of Alteration icon.png | Orb of Alteration | 20 | Reforges a magic item with new random properties. Right click this item then left click a magic item to apply it. |
File:Regal Orb icon.png | Regal Orb | 10 | Upgrades a magic item to a rare item. Right click this item then left click a magic item to apply it. Current properties are retained and a new one is added. |
Alter Rare Item
Icon | Name | Stack Size | Description |
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File:Chaos Orb icon.png | Chaos Orb | 10 | Reforges a rare item with new random properties. Right click this item then left click a rare item to apply it. |
File:Exalted Orb icon.png | Exalted Orb | 10 | Enchants a rare item with a new random property. Right click this item then left click a rare item to apply it. Rare items can have up to six random properties. |
Alter Modifier Values
Icon | Name | Stack Size | Description |
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File:Blessed Orb icon.png | Blessed Orb | 20 | Randomises the numeric values of the implicit properties of an item. Right click this item then left click another item to apply it. |
File:Divine Orb icon.png | Divine Orb | 10 | Randomises the numeric values of the random properties on an item. Right click this item then left click a magic, rare or unique item to apply it. |
Miscellaneous
Icon | Name | Stack Size | Description |
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File:Orb of Regret icon.png | Orb of Regret | 40 | Grants a passive skill refund point. Right click on this item to use it. |
File:Orb of Scouring icon.png | Orb of Scouring | 30 | Removes all properties from an item. Right click this item then left click on a magic, rare or unique item to apply it. |
File:Mirror of Kalandra icon.png | Mirror of Kalandra | 10 | Creates a mirrored copy of an item. Right click this item then left click an equipable non-unique item to apply it. Mirrored copies cannot be modified. |
Shards and Fragments
Shards and fragments are obtained by selling items to vendors. They can be combined to form certain currency items by stacking them.
Icon | Name | Stack Size | Combines Into |
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File:Scroll Fragment icon.png | Scroll Fragment | 5 | Scroll of Wisdom |
File:Transmutation Shard icon.png | Transmutation Shard | 20 | Orb of Transmutation |
File:Alteration Shard icon.png | Alteration Shard | 20 | Orb of Alteration |
File:Alchemy Shard icon.png | Alchemy Shard | 20 | Orb of Alchemy |
Vendor Prices Chart
Most orbs are purchasable 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 a measurable orbs.
Currency items that have scraps are italicised.
Main Progression | |||
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Orb | Price | Value in Alts | Location |
Orb of Alchemy | 1 Regret | 64 | Act 3 (Clarissa) |
Orb of Regret | 2 Scouring | 64 | Act 2 (Yeena) |
Orb of Scouring | 4 Chances | 32 | Act 2 (Yeena) |
Orb of Chance | 1 Fusing | 8 | Act 3 (Clarissa) |
Orb of Fusing | 4 Jewellers | 8 | Act 2 (Yeena) |
Chromatic Orb | 3 Jewellers | 6 | Act 2 (Yeena) |
Jeweller's Orb | 2 Alterations | 2 | Act 2 (Yeena) |
Orb of Alteration | 4 Augmentations | 1 | Act 1 (Nessa) |
Orb of Augmentation | 4 Transmutations | 1/4 | Act 1 (Nessa) |
Orb of Transmutation | 7 Portals | 1/16 | Act 1 (Nessa) |
Portal Scroll | 3 Wisdoms | 1/112 | Act 1 (Nessa) |
Scroll of Wisdom | baseline currency | 1/336 | -- |
Scraps Progression | |||
Glassblower's Bauble | 8 Blacksmith Whetstone | -- | Act 3 (Hargan) |
Blacksmith Whetstone | 3 Armourer's scraps | -- | Act 2 (Greust) |
Armourer's scraps | 1 Blacksmith Whetstone | -- | Act 1 (Tarkleigh) |
Act 3's Clarissa has all the Main Progression recipes.
Quick note on vendors and player economy
Vendor prices are a base value for comparisons, player market value will vary. Since players can't downgrade 1 fusing into 8 alts, 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 alts.
Converting between orbs that aren't on the vendor table is more tricky and based on supply/demand and drop-rates. There is a "community consensus" on alc-chaos ratios and alch-fusing ratios, and a thread or two in the forums. Several sites also offer tools to help you keep track of commonly accepted exchange rates of currency items:
- poetoolkit.com currently has most features, including a currency parser which translates any offers you receive into the item of your choice, optionally using the exchange rates of your choice, and the ability to render currency sets along with their translated currency value as an image. At the moment this site uses the default currency exchange rates from www.poeex.info, but in the future it will use stored exchange rates of all its users to calculate averages. You can post suggestions and feedback on its official forum thread.
- poeex.info offers an exchange rate table, and relies on anonymous suggestions to keep its currency up-to-date.
- poecalc also allows you to translate currency from one type to another, optionally using your own exchange rates.
Don't forget that barter trading is not just what it is worth, it is also what you are willing to pay.