ormsen's guide to poe, leagues and money (updated)

Resetting instance:

One of the first nice things to know when playing path of exile is how to reset an instance this is simply done by holding ctrl and then left clicking on that instance portal to open a window, here you’re able to join old instances and create new. Creating a new instance is at the top and older ones are below that. You can also make a new instance from the waypoint in a town or in a zone by clicking on it and then hold ctrl while clicking on the instance you want to reset.

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Linking stuff in the chat:
As some of you might have seen people link different items in the chat, this is done by holding down Ctrl and Alt and then clicking on the item you want to link in chat.

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What is prefixes, suffixes and implicit stats?
so there is two pools of rolls you can get on your item one pool is called prefixes the other is called suffixes a rare item can have a maximum three of each. There are different brackets of these mods ex. Local physical damage% if the item is level one you can get the mod heavy which is 20-49% increased physical damage and so the brackets goes up when the item have higher level.
A good link for this is www.poeaffix.net that shows the prefixes to the left and the suffixes to the right.

implicit mods is a mod an item will always have a good example is the coral ring which is one of the first rings you will probably see they give 20-30 life this is an implicit mod

Items can roll different tiers of rolls, for example a chest can roll 10-119 max life, if it rolls 119 it is T1 and if it rolls 10 it is T10. There are several tiers for most mods, for example life has 10 tiers and +1 to gems in this item only has 1 tier.
If you use a divine orb on an item it can only roll within the tier that it already has rolled.
For example if a chest rolls 23 life it is T10, which is Sanguine. Sanguine can roll from 20-29 so if you use a divine orb on the chest it will likely roll higher.
Items with several T1 mods will likely be valuable.
Tier varies depending on item level, so it is better to craft items with high item level.

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Commands:
You can type some different commands in the game that will help if you have macro keys I suggest getting these set up
/help
this command will show you all commands in game available for you
/claim_crafting_benches
so you don’t have to invite the masters to get the benches
/itemlevel
is to check the level of the item, you can also check item level by holding ALT over a item.
/hideout
This teleports you to your hideout.
/remaining
This is to check how many monsters are left in you instance, it shows up to 50 monsters.



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The base orbs:
Anything that add quality to an item works like this: it will add 5% quality to a regular item 2% to a magic and 1% to rare and unique items, up to a max of 20% quality.



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The value of the orbs:
First of all I want to mention that the prices of the orbs varies in a league so this is some general numbers. We have chaos orbs which is the main orb that most other orb prices relate to. Then we have orb of alchemy two to three of them is worth one chaos, 1 regal is worth 1,5-2 chaos. Gemcutter's prism are worth 2 chaos orbs. In the start of a league 2 orb of fusing is worth 1 chaos but later in the league people start trading 3 fuse for 2 chaos. Cartographer's chisel is 2-3 per 1 chaos and I would say 3 is most likely. Regret orbs is worth around 1-1,5 chaos. 2 scoring orbs is worth 1 chaos. Divine orb varies a lot in the beginning it's worth very little but as we progress in the league it gets more value so I am going to set it at 8-20 chaos it's hard to price. Exalted orbs are the big money orb this also varies a lot in the start we are around 20-30 chaos then it shoots up to like 50 (warbands atm 78-80) (talisman also went to around 80) and goes back down to around 40. Normally on hardcore exalted orbs are a bit cheaper around 30. Alteration and chromatic is about the same 10-16 of them is one chaos. Jeweller's orb are 7-8 to one chaos. Chance orbs 4-6 to 1 chaos. This should cover most of it.

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Skill gems
There is two kinds of gems skill gems and support gems the skill gems is your attack and the support gems then affect the skill gems in some kind of way it can be scaling the damage make it crit more often increase the area of effect of area skill and a bunch of other things.

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Crafting and helpful recipes
The physical based weapon recipe
normally it can be a little hard to get a nice physical roll on your weapon. You can force a decent roll by taking your weapon, a whetstone and a rare rustic sash and sell it to a vendor this will give you a nice physical roll. Then you can use a augmentation and hope for something good (that's the very cheap version) if you have a bit more then you can use a regal on it and make it rare and then use vagan the weapon master's crafting bench and craft a flat physical roll and then you'll have a 4 modded very nice item.

The spell damage based weapon recipe
Normally it can be a little hard to get a nice spell damage roll on your weapon. You can force a decent roll by taking your weapon, a whetstone and a rare chain belt and sell it to a vendor this will give you a nice spell damage roll. Then you can use a augmentation and hope for something good (that's the very cheap version) if you have a bit more then you can use a regal on it and make it rare and then use catarina's crafting bench and craft a like fire, cold or lightning damage depending on your spell and then you'll have a 4 modded very nice item

+1 to gems
You can take a magic wand a alteration orb and either a ruby(fire) sapphire(cold) or topaz(lightning) ring and craft + one to elemental gems in this item based on what kind of ring you used.

The gem flipping
Once your gem hits level 20 you can sell it to a vendor with a gemcutters prism (GCP) and you get back a level 1 with 20 quality.

Other recipes:

Making resist rings: one iron ring and a skill gem will give you a resist ring: green will give lightning, blue cold and red fire.

3 of the same base potion will give you a higher level potion

7 vaal gems and a sacrifice piece will give you a vaal gem

3 of the same type of maps will give you one of the next tier (3 level 68 = 1 level 68)

There are 3 types of two stone tings selling one of each type to a vender will give you a prismatic ring which gives all resist.

If you have a lot of quality flasks or gems you can collect 40% quality all together and sell it for a orb you get 1 gemcutter’s prism for gems and 1 glassblower’s bauble for flask. if you get a 20% quality flask it can sell for 1 bauble same goes for gems but this would be stupid as most 20% quality gems sell for 20 chaos to 1 exalted orb

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Check shops when you level up and loot this stuff when it drops on the floor:
Chromatic items is an item with a red a blue and a green socket linked up when you sell these to a vendor you get a chromatic orb
6 sockets these you can start getting from weapon/armor vendors from cruel act 3 when you sell them back you get 7 jeweller’s orbs
Stone hammers, rock breakers and gavels (white only). You can use 4 whetstones to add 20% quality and then sell with any map to a vendor this will give you one chisel
All these items need to be white:

Agate amulet
Leather belt
(I will return to them later in the guide)

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Leveling uniques
I do a lot melee builds and some of the really solid leveling uniques for me I have found to be slitherpinch, and wurm's molt for the leech, some good examples of other uniques that should be good for most builds are wanderlust which offers high move speed and cannot be frozen. Goldrim offers a lot of resist 30-40 and a bit of rarity. The ignomon gold amulet this have some nice elemental damage and resist for act 1 normal also the accuracy and evasion is really nice.

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Strong boxes:
Strongboxes is a box that is guarded by monsters and when the monsters are killed you get a lot of loot depending on what kind of box we are talking about. The mods on a strongbox can be affected by transmutations alterations alchemy chaos scour, so this is why I always have some of them with me once i get some more money. Also using a vaal orb on a strong box will corrupt the items within the strongbox.



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Maps:
when you get to around level 64 and have completed most of act 3 on merciless you can start getting into maps. Maps will drop as you play on merciless or from piety one of the main bosses (she have like 50% chance to drop a map) the first maps you find will be level 68 (tier 1) and when you’re inside a map monsters within that map will also drop maps. All magic and rare monsters can drop up to +1 level maps and bosses will drop up to +2. So killing monster in the maps will slowly give you higher and higher level maps all the way up to 82 (tier 15) which is endgame maps and then there is level 16 which is the guardians which was included in the atlas expansion. Sometimes when you play a map you do not get any map drops and you might struggle keeping your map pool running in the beginning. But when you get a nice pool going you won't need to think about farming piety for more maps. I have found that the best way to get higher level maps is by increasing the pack size on maps this can be done with some different mods. when rolling a map every mod on it gives increased quantity and rarity, while some mods also gives pack size like curses, less recovery rate and elemental equilibrium. It is important
to try to get to level 75 (tier 8) maps as this is where you start getting item level 75 items for regal recipe. Also when you’re running your maps i suggest to start alching them from tier 8 and then also chisel from tier 10. i found that this helped me building my map pool.

The atlas:
The atlas is also a great way to get better map drops when you start out and have no progression on the atlas you have a 0% bonus and every time to you complete a map's special objective (white maps (1-4 needs to be magic, yellow maps 5-9 needs to be rare and red maps 10-16 needs to be rare and corrupted) for the first time you will get +1% bonus each % gives you a flat chance to get a map that is one level higher than what the monsters are usually able to give this means that at 100% u can get +2 from normal monsters and +3 from bosses so it's important to try to get as high a bonus as you can.

also a very nice video guide here below by all time favorite ZiggyD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vcBnTC2-N8
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The masters
The masters offers a lot of unique ways of crafting it is therefore important to level them as much as you can also they will offer you daily quests with high area level once they are level 8. They also start offering you special items with unique mods on them called master mods or signature mods.
The masters starts selling the signature mod items at level 4 so I strong suggest getting them to level 4. you should be able to get them to level 6 without much effort and that means you can use most of the crafting which is really nice. Also at level 6 the start offering you a special discount currency exchange that can help you out. Sometimes the also sell you a skill gem with quality which is almost always worth buying to sell to other players or make GCP's.

If you are able to get them to level 8 they will sometimes sell you a unique item and some of them will have a really nice price so you can buy these items and make some money or use them.
You can reset their shop once a day by doing their daily quest but you do not need to complete it as long as you just start the quest you’re fine.

The Labyrinth
As a new player, you might be wondering what the labyrinth is! The labyrinth is a special set of zones, which reset every day.If you finish it, you will be able to enchant your gloves, boots and helmet – depending on which difficulty you are in.When completing the labyrinth once in each difficulty you get to pick an ascendancy class.There are three different ascendancies for each class, and one for the Scion. The Scion’s ascendency allows you to pick two mini-ascendancies depending on which ones you find the most relevant for your build. You get a total of 6 ascendency points to allocate in your designated ascendency class tree, 2 for each difficulty you complete.Respeccing these points requires 5 respec points per ascendancy point.
However, before you can enter the labyrinth, you must complete a set of six trials of ascendancy, which are situated in the following zones:



Alright, now that you're done with the trials, let's continue on to what you will encounter in the labyrinth. Expect a lot of traps, and a lot of deaths TO the traps
Every time you enter a new zone in the labyrinth you will be presented with option to click on a map stone that shows you where you are and what might await you in the zone you just entered. On the map you are presented with circles that might have an icon on them. Hover over them with your mouse to learn what they are. They correspond to what you can find in the zone.

First of all, there are two types of doors: Silver doors and golden doors.
I. Silver doors
a. Opened by silver keys, these signify the existence of an "Ascendant's Treasures", an "Emperor's Cache", an "Intricate Locker" or a Mysterious Darkshrine that grants a random effect.
i. Darkshrine effects last throughout the whole labyrinth run
ii. Silver key zones can also contain a secret passage to the golden key zones, which can be found by checking a fountain or a pool of water, if it gets a white glow when you mouse over it, it's a secret passage!

II. Golden doors
a. Opened by golden keys, these have to be opened in order to proceed to the next area.
i. Golden key zones are always adjacent to the golden door zones, and are always nearby a golden door.
Keys can be found in their own zones in the labyrinth, and are reached by completing a gauntlet of traps.

A few other kind of zones are the Forgotten Reliquary and the Aspirant's Trial. The Forgotten Reliquary contains a trinket, which will help you in the upcoming Izaro fight in the Aspirant's Trial. The trinkets – just like the keys – are contained behind a gauntlet of traps.
Per labyrinth you will encounter three Aspirant's Trials. The first two Izaro fights have special challenges that if left unmet will render the subsequent fights harder.The last one is an Izaro fight with the presence of traps in the room with a few safe spots, which is also dictated by how you completed the special conditions from the previous Izaro fights. Every Izaro fight ends when you take away 33% of Izaro's max HP, technically chopping up the big fight into three small fights.
Izaro’s first two phases can be chosen from a pool of 8 different special conditions:

I. Conduit
a. Three statues, one for each element, are located in each corner of the room. While active they provide Izaro with increased damage, added damage, and resistance to the corresponding element. The statues can be clicked to deactivate them for a short time. Any statues active when Izaro is defeated continue to provide their benefits through any remaining encounters.
b. TRINKET: Cube of Absorption – Disables a conduit statue for the remainder of the fight

II. Charge Disruptors
a. Izaro will gain frenzy charges throughout the encounter, granting him bonuses to damage, speed, and defense. Charges can be removed by activating one of three Charge Disruptors. Each Charge Disruptor can be activated once. Any charges active on Izaro at the end of the encounter will persist as permanent charges for any remaining encounters.
b. TRINKET: Cogs of Disruption – The first Charge Disruptor you use will reactivate after a short while.

III. Elemental Essences
a. Three elemental essences, Burning Essence, Freezing Essence and Crackling Essence, that take the form of Golems will join the fight one after another. After rising out of the floor, they will slowly walk towards Izaro, attempting to bond with him.If they reach Izaro, they disappear, giving bonuses to him for the remainder of the fight. Each golem is one of the three elements, and will give Izaro added damage, resistance, and a chance of status ailment of this respective element. Not killed essences will return for any remaining fights instead as Golems, which will act in a manner similar to their wild counterparts.
b. TRINKET: Orb of Elemental Essence – The first Elemental Essence you damage is killed instantly.

IV. Gargoyles
a. Izaro will summon three gargoyles to join him in the fight, one after another. Once a gargoyle reaches the floor, it will remain stationary for several seconds. During this time, the gargoyle can be damaged, but has a high degree of damage mitigation, making killing them challenging. Once the gargoyle is active, it will take substantially more damage from the player, but will actively attack the player, as well as give bonuses to Izaro. The Gargoyle will channel a beam at Izaro to show that it's active. The gargoyles each provide one of three benefits, appearing in no particular order.
Granite-infused Gargoyle will provide damage reduction, Basalt-infused Gargoyle will provide increased damage dealt, and Quicksilver-infused Gargoyle will provide increased movement speed. If any gargoyles remain alive, their bonuses will persist for any remaining fights.
b. TRINKET: Heart of the Gargoyle – The first Gargoyle you damage is killed instantly.
V. Idols
a. Three Idols will spawn in each corner, one for each element. These Idols start with minimum Life and cannot die. Each Idol will slowly regenerate Life over time. At full Life, the idol will cast Fire/Ice/Lightning Beacon, creating multiple delayed explosion in random areas that deals elemental damage (the same explosions as Flame/Frost/Storm Bearers Bloodlines enemies), then return to minimum Life.Any of the Idols that used Fire/Ice/Lightning Beacon at least once will return in the remaining fights.
b. TRINKET: Sand of Eternity – The first Idol you damage will not regenerate health.

VI. Lieutenants
a. Over the course of the encounter, Izaro will summon a skeletal Lieutenant for each element, which will resist and deal damage of the corresponding element: Lieutenant of Rage, Lieutenant of the Bow and Lieutenant of the Mace. All Lieutenants that were not killed will appear in all following Izaro battles.
b. TRINKET: Bane of the Loyal – The first Lieutenant you damage is killed instantly.

VII. Summoning Portals
a. The portals will spawn in a corner, one at a time. These portals constantly summon Skeletal Mages of a specific element. The portal stops spawning skeletons once it is destroyed. Any portals not destroyed will return in the remaining fights.
b. TRINKET: Portal Shredder – The first Portal you damage is destroyed instantly.

VIII. Fonts
a. Three fonts, Font of Fragility, Font of Lethargy and Font of Elements, will spawn one after another. Fonts will enter the fight with a health pool, and while active will curse the player with Vulnerability, Temporal Chains and Elemental Weakness respectively. Upon killing a font, it casts an empowered curse of its type for 10 second If a font is not killed by the end of the fight, its curse will be active for any remaining fights.
b. TRINKET: Rod of Detonation – The first Font you damage is destroyed instantly.

Though focusing on these may prove useful in the later fights, do not forget that Izaro has a few moves of his own:

I. Ground Slam- Raises his weapon up then slams the ground, dealing heavy physical damage in an area in front of him. Identical to Voll's attack, but with a smaller area of effect.
II. Leap Slam - Leaps at the player and slams the ground, dealing heavy physical damage
III. Shield Bash - Charges up, then dashes forward and swings his shield, dealing heavy physical damage on contact. Almost identical to Voll's attack.
IV. Ground Wave - Sends a wave that travels forward, dealing damage when it hits.
V. Spikes - Izaro strikes the ground and channels, releasing spikes from the ground at the player's location. The spiky ground deals damage over time and slows.
VI. Radiant Slash - Winds up and slashes, releasing a huge projectile forward, dealing heavy damage.

Izaro is also assisted by the Goddess of Justice – the green lady ghost that follows him around – she also has some moves:
I. Mortar Barrage - Lobs mortars towards the player, dealing Fire damage in an area when they land.
II. Summon Skeletons - Bombards a random area, each explosion summoning a skeleton.
III. Teleport - Casts a green circle around Izaro and a random area in a trapped area. After a delay, anyone within Izaro's circle will be teleported to the other circle. Only used on the 3rd fight and on Cruel and Merciless.
Depending on if you got rid of the special conditions during the first two Izaro fights, you will receive extra treasure keys if the fight was harder, up to two extra keys for each fight in which you ignored the special conditions.
Every labyrinth run, you can find Argus in one of the rooms, which when killed drops an extra treasure key, but he can be as dangerous as Izaro, depending on your build. He has a charge attack similar to the Act 4 minotaur's charge, a Sunder attack which deals heavy physical damage, and a Blood Rage effect, which gives him a dark red glow and a huge increase in attack and movement speed.
NOTE: The labyrinth resets DAILY, which means that every 24 hours the whole labyrinth changes – the Izaro fights, Argus' location, the reliquaries, the golden and silver doors – EVERYTHING.

“Ormsen’s, patent pending, ultimate POE sales guide”
Have you ever walked around thinking “there is so much loot on the floor and I don’t know what to pick up!?” First of all, a loot filter is a great thing to get–here, you can use mine https://jpst.it/GCN0 or NeverSink’s loot filter, which is a very nice one. https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1246208
This is a guide mainly focused on picking up items to sell for profit. Remember to always look for items that might benefit your current build.
One of the most useful tools for finding out what to pick up is poewiki.http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Path_of_Exile_Wiki look at the highest 1-3 tiers of items of each type.
The stats on gear fall in different categories depending on the item level of the item. http://Poeaffix.net is a great website to see if the stat you are looking at is as high or as close to as it can get.
here is a list of what rare item bases you should pick up, for best profit, the rest you can leave. i always say, the more time you spend farming and less time vendoring and selling, the more money you make.
Gear:


Weapons:

Rings:

Amulets:

Belts:

Flasks:

Hammer:

Quality gems:

Stuff for alch’ing:

Skill gems
the skill gem system was changed but i still find that some gems are sellable. some of the best ones are the drop only such as added chaos damage (4-6 chaos in start of league goes down to 1) and Empower/Enlighten(always kinda high like 15-20 (ofc more if quality))




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The jewels:
these can be worth a lot but are kinda harder to craft you need to know a bit about the game and the builds to get the most profit. but in general u can go for gems with life and damage (make sure it’s the same kind of damage, as in for example axe damage 1/2 handed damage phy damage). As for spell casters spell damage, cast speed, life and crit is nice (just make sure it's not like fire damage and cold crit).
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Vendor recipes for money
Remember to make chaos and regal recipes this is done with ilevel 60+ for chaos and ilevel 75+ for regals. You need a full set of gear (2 rings amulet belt boots gloves armor helmet 2 handed weapon) you can check the item level of an item by having it in your hand and type in the chat /itemlevel. If all the items are identified they will give you 1 orb if they are unidentified you get 2 orbs if they are unidentified and have 20% quality you get 3 orbs .


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Alching jewelry
So when you play 75+ maps you'll be finding a lot of ilevel 75 jewelry that can be alched and if it's bad you can still use it for the regal recipe and as one regal is worth 3-5 alchemy orbs you don't really lose any money and you will get lucky if you keep doing this and get some nice 1-2 ex jewelries. It is very hard to get good belts but you also have to alch some of these so you have for the regal recipes.

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Offhand leveling gems
Another way I make a lot of money in a league is by leveling gems offhand in my second weapon slot I have already talked about haku weapons and how they can help you level up empower gems. What I normally level up is purity of fire and then vaal them to try to get a level 21 you can sell a level 20 corrupted for 15-30 chaos and a level 21 for 2-5 exalted orbs. Another thing you can do is try to figure out what builds a popular at the time you play and then level them because they will sell at a very nice price. Do note you need int dex and str to level them so level whatever gems you have attributes for.

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Stuff you can use your chance orbs for
Here's a list of items you can collect as they can be chance’d for good gear or sold off for a nice passive profit. (not all items will sell to other players during torment the items people bought was agate amulets, leather belts and moonstone rings)
First we have the name of the unique item, then the item base which is the item you want to be looking for (it needs to be white) and then the league where you can craft it in. Any means you can just chance it right away except from the gavel you want 20% quality on that first for the chisel recipe. They way to get into an old league is by using Zana's map devise it will open up old leagues for a price.