These items can be exchanged for better items, or used by themselves.

New to crafting in Path of Exile?

Here, we are going to take a look at the basics of crafting.

A player standing in the Overseer’s Tower near NPCs that can trade.

Overall, it’s good to have a few extras in your storage.

For example, The Settlers of Kalguur leagueintroduces the town of Kingsmarch, which relies on gold for trading.

There is acurrency ‘hierarchy’ that existsin Path of Exile.

A player in Path of Exile standing next to a Crafting Bench in their hideout.

Typically, these can be found while buying various currencies from a vendor.

For example, an Orb of Regret costs two Orbs of Scouring.

This hierarchy will alsoaffect how you trade with other players in the game.

A player buying an item with the heavy belt highlighted.

Overall, you will need to trade items that are of similar value.

Here,we can buy a Regal Orb for one Chaos Orb, with many listings like this.

Some divination cardsreward you with a specific item, like Ryslatha’s Coil.

A player in Path of Exile hovering over the Emperor’s Luck divination card.

What Are Currency Shards?

Shards are essentiallyfragments of currencies.You will obtain shards as your exchange items with vendors.

A player’s inventory highlighting an Alteration Shard.

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