Item

Items in Path of Exile are used to represent not just a character's equipment but a variety of other game features. Items can be moved around between locations using the mouse cursor, including the inventory, worn items, stashes, and others, as well as on the ground. Not all types of items can be moved to all item locations. Different item types take a different amount of space in grid based item locations such as inventory and stashes.

Depending on their type, items can have attributes such as rarity, quality, item affixes and item level.

Loot items

In Path of Exile, "items" usually refers to loot items. These are items that have a physical representation in the game world as loot. They are often dropped by slain monsters or loot containers. When a player commands their character to pick up an item, it goes into the character's inventory where the player can then make use of it. In towns or hideouts, items can be stored in the stash to free up inventory space. Items can be purchased from or sold to NPC vendors. Most items can also be traded between players.

Equipment

Equipment categories includes armour, weapons, jewellery, and flasks. Rarity is indicated by text colour (normal, magic, rare or unique).

Currency

Currency items are used to modify other items, and are also used for trading or gained from vendors for selling equipment. They have a light brown text colour by default.

Divination cards

Sets of Divination cards can be exchanged for a certain item, and have specific drop locations. They have a light-cyan text colour by default.

Quest items

Quest items are found on the ground like other items, or given as rewards for completing quests. They cannot be placed anywhere but in inventory or back on the ground. By default they have a bright green text colour.

Gems

Skills in Path of Exile are granted by gems which are treated as regular items. The skill can only be used when the appropriate gem is socketed in an equipment item being worn by the character. Skill gems, by default, appear in blue-green text when on the ground.

Other items

Cosmetic items

Cosmetic items use a separate cosmetic tab for managing them and applies to the whole character instead of on specific items.

Hideout decorations

Hideout decorations and crafting benches, when not in use in a hideout, appear as items in a hideout tab. They can be right clicked from this screen to add them to a hideout.

Summary

Item	Type	Dimensions	Quality	Default colour	Locations stored	Equipped in slots	Dropped	Vendored/traded
Currency	Currency	1×1	✗	light brown	Inv, Stash	✗	✓	✓
1h weapons	Equipment	1×3, 1×4, 2×3	✓	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Weapon, offhand, alt. weapon, alt. offhand slots	✓	✓
2h weapons	Equipment	2×4	✓	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Both weapons slots or both alternate weapon slots	✓	✓
Chest armour	Equipment	2×3	✓	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Chest armour	✓	✓
Helms	Equipment	2×2	✓	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Helm	✓	✓
Boots	Equipment	2×2	✓	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Boots	✓	✓
Gloves	Equipment	2×2	✓	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Gloves	✓	✓
Shields	Equipment	2×2, 2×3, 2×4	✓	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Offhand or alt. offhand	✓	✓
Rings	Accessories	1×1	✗	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Left ring or right ring	✓	✓
Amulets	Accessories	1×1	✗	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Amulet	✓	✓
Belts	Accessories	2×1	✗	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Belt	✓	✓
Quivers	Accessories	2×3	✗	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Offhand or alt. offhand	✓	✓
Flasks	Flasks	1×2	✓	by rarity	Inv, Stash	flask slots 1-5	✓	✓
Trinkets	Accessories	1×1	✗	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Trinket	✓	✓
Jewels	Jewels	1×1	✗	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Passive tree	✓	✓
Heist gear	Heist gear	2x2	✗	by rarity	Inv, Stash	Rogues	✓	✓
Divination cards	Divination cards	1×1	✗	light-cyan	Inv, Stash	✗	✓	✓
Skill gems	Skills gems	1×1	✓	blue-green	Inv, Stash	Sockets in other equipment items	✓	✓
Skill books	Quest items	2×2	✗	green	Inv	✗	✗	✗
Other quest items	Quest items	1×1 to 2×3	✗	green	Inv	✗	✗	✗
Microtransactions	Microtransactions	N/A	✗	N/A	mtx stash	✗	✗	✗
Decorations	Decorations	N/A	✗	N/A	hideout stash	✗	✗	✗

Version history

Version	Changes
3.25.0	The range you can pick up items when using a keyboard and mouse has been increased, to be more on par with Controller Input mode.
0.8.6	Added heaps of new item tiers to each progression, so that they are spaced out better at higher difficulties, and scale properly to the new maximum item levels. The highest tier are extremely rare.
0.8.1	Changed how rare item names are generated. Dropped item base type selection is now biased towards items at 70% of your character's level.
0.8.0	Condensed requirements on items to be more concise. Reduced drop rate of rares and uniques by 25%. Rares are now biased towards spawning with four mods.
0.7.2	Rares can now have six mods.
0.7.1	Fixed a bug that would cause items to get deleted. Fixed exploits with creating and using empty stack items. Fixed an item duplication exploit. Slightly reduced drop rate of magics, increased rate of rares, reduced rate of uniques.
0.7.0	Ground items now show socket arrangement.
0.6.11	Linked items now show sockets.
0.6.10	Reduced global monster item drop rate by 33%.
0.6.7	Fixed an item generation bug that could cause server crashes.
0.6.0	Items now spawn with sockets. Complete rebalance of items. Added many new items, including many helmets.
0.5.13	Fixed rare/magic items generating unidentified without mods. Fixed some item sounds. Items play drop sounds when they hit the ground. Added a variety of new item drop and use sounds.
0.5.11	Added many more item sounds.
0.5.4	Adjusted chances of base types spawning and their levels. Fixed crashes when sending players and items from distant servers.
0.5.3	Renamed many base items.
0.5.1	Fixed delay that occurred when the first item was generated.