In the previous POE 3.25, you will notice that the game began to add gold as a new component of the entire currency system, and it still plays a role in POE 2 early access.
But this does not mean that the original POE2 Currency is not important - in fact, various currencies still bear the main responsibilities of upgrading your equipment, adding slots and even changing modifiers.
At present, the currency in Path of Exile 2 includes many types, but they are all related to each other. These currencies are not just a trading item, but also represent a crafting and upgrading system, and each currency has unique effects.
In addition, some specific currencies can be obtained by completing different tasks to obtain corresponding shards to synthesize; some types of currency can only be collected from the drops after killing monsters. Even some of the unique currencies can only be found in the late game and endgame content.
Therefore, in order to help you better understand and adapt to the various mechanisms and settings related to currency in Path of Exile 2, we will introduce you to those more important types.
Mainstream POE 2 Currency Types
You can get this type of currency randomly by completing adventures related to the main campaign. In the early stages of the campaign, you will mainly get the commonly used Exalted Orb and Regal Orb. In the later stages of the campaign, or after completing some rare and difficult tasks, you may find some rarer currencies, such as Chaos Orb, Divine Orb, etc.
Based on this, the following is a detailed introduction to some mainstream currencies.
1. Exalted Orb
POE 2 Exalted Orb can be used to enhance rare equipment with new random affixes, and is also one of the four most commonly used orbs when you exchange items with other players. It can be dropped by killing monsters, obtaining treasure chests and destructible containers.
In addition, they can also drop from arcanist’s strongboxes and beast crafting recipes. Or you can also get Exalted Orb by downgrading Mirror of Kalandra, or get Exalted shards and then combine them into orbs. However, neither of these two methods is practical.
2. Regal Orb
This orb acts as a currency to upgrade a piece of your magic equipment to a rare, or to add additional affixes to it, and can also be used to exchange for certain skill gems from vendors.
Adding affixes can improve maps or strongboxes, and additional affixes can also produce additional results. Converting magic items to rare items is important for your crafting, as rare items have six affixes, while magic items only have two.
In crafting, using a Path of Exile 2 Regal Orb is an intermediate step to crafting a magic item with good affixes into a rare item. If you need the affixes added by Regal Orb, you can continue with Master Crafting, or use Exalted Orbs to add six affixes. If the affixes are not to your liking, you can use Orb of Annulment to remove an affix randomly.
3. Chaos Orb
In fact, you can use Chaos Orb to re-roll the random modifiers on a piece of your rare equipment, and it is also one of the four most commonly used orbs when exchanging items between players. Chaos Orbs are less common than Exalted Orbs or Regal Orbs, but they are still obtained as drops from monsters.
These orbs are useful in crafting, as they can re-roll all modifiers on a rare item, as well as the number of modifiers. While the final result is unpredictable, it at least gives you the opportunity to get more and better modifiers.
POE 2 Chaos Orbs also play an important role in trading, and are often used to exchange for low- to mid-tier items.
4. Divine Orb
As an extremely rare currency item, you can use Divine Orb to re-roll the values of all random explicit modifiers on a piece of equipment, but can only be used on magic, rare, or unique items. Only the values of affixes with a certain value range will be randomized, because Divine Orb does not change the level of the affix, but only re-rolls within the current level.
When Divine Orb is used on the legacy variant of a unique item, the affixes will be re-rolled to the new value range. When used on magic or rare items, the affixes will be re-rolled, assuming the new range is the same level. It is worth noting that Path of Exile 2 Divine Orb does not change Style Variant of unique items, such as Doryani’s Invitation.
5. Other Main Currencies
In addition, the mainstream currencies include the following types:
- Orb of Transmutation
- Orb of Augmentation
- Orb of Alchemy
- Orb of Chance
- Vaal Orb
- Arcanist’s Etcher
- Armourer’s Scrap
- Artificer’s Orb
- Blacksmith’s Whetstone
- Gemcutter’s Prism
- Glassblower’s Bauble
Special Currency Types
In fact, most currencies can be obtained by completing quests or killing monsters, but there are five currencies that can only be obtained in the endgame and specific end-game activities.
Among them, The Catalyst, Distilled Emotions, and Omen Currencies can only be obtained through Breach, Delirium and Ritual end-game events, while Essence and Greater Essence upgrade materials can be obtained by killing monsters.
- Catalyst: Increases quality of rings and amulets.
- Distilled Emotions: Adds passives to the amulet.
- Omen: Grants specific abilities under certain triggers.
- Mirror of Kalandra: Copies an item perfectly, doesn’t work on Uniques.
How To Use Currency Shards?
When you kill some common monsters or get treasure loot in Path of Exile 2, you can get some currency shards, which can be directly used to craft the corresponding currency. In addition, you can also get currency shards by disassembling or salvaging certain types of items.
- Artificer’s Shard: 10 can form 1 Artificer’s Orb.
- Chance Shard: 10 can form 1 Orb of Chance.
- Chaos Shard: 10 can form 1 Orb of Chaos.
- Exalted Shard: 10 can form 1 Exalted Orb.
- Regal Shard: 10 can form 1 Regal Orb.
- Transmutation Shard: 10 can form 1 Orb of Transmutation.
I hope that after our introduction, you can have a deeper understanding of the currency structure of POE 2. In addition, if you pay attention to the game giveaway information on IGGM Discord in a timely manner, you may get some currency for free. Wish you good luck!
