1. Introduction

This will be part written guide part collection of links to other guides

Many currency making methods are inter-related and all of them relate to trading one way or the other.

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2. Before you start

This is what you need to know/have before you can really get going with majority of the currency making approaches described below

1. Loot Filter. You need it, you want it and you want it more and more strict as you progress through the game and speedrun from peasant > mogul. Time is money and wasting time picking up Transmutes which cost 1/100 of an exalt literally costs you money in the long run. Your options for getting one are A) Get one of the templates from FilterBlade B) customize your own or C) use somebody else's filter like your favorite streamer
2. At least an average build with average gear with ability to run at minimum T10 maps comfortably but better T15 with either good clear or good single target or both. If you are playing some sort of off meta warrior melee armor monstrosity than this guide cant help you, only Jesus can
3. Understand that time is money. The less time you waste doing random shit in your hideout the more money you will earn doing content. You dont craft 1 map > run 1 map. You dont get a bit of loot and immediately start sorting the good from the bad. No you do everything in bulk. Need to craft? Craft in bulk. Need to sort through loot? Dump it all into a dump tab until its full only than sort through it in bulk. Trade in bulk. Take a shit in bulk
4. Understand that to make money you need to spend money. This is completely unavoidable. Dont fear it. Build up some starting capital and fully embrace it. To make the most of your waystones you need to juice them by spending currency crafting them. To turn a mediocre rare item drop into something decent or amazing you need to spend currency for a chance at some good exalt/chaos outcomes. etc
5. A huge share of potential income is dependent on the ability to trade on the trade website. To trade you will need premium stash tabs as well as basic understanding of how the website works but better yet an advanced understanding of website features to really maximize potential. Some useful guides to follow: Trading Tips & Tricks For Path of Exile 2 and PoE 2 - You Are Buying Items WRONG! - Trade Site Tips and Tricks
6. Bulk Trading can almost double your profit. Time is money. Spending hours buying hundreds of item bases for crafting is a waste of time. Many people will pay premium for the ability to buy a whole stash tab of items in one go. You can offer bulk item trade on the /trade 820 channel in game or on the official poe2 discord
7. Increased Item Rarity on gear is crucial for more rare currency drops and better rare item drops. You need at least +50%, better 100% but no more than +150% on gear. After that diminishing returns make it pointless. (14) Path of Exile 2: Testing Increased Item Rarity Part 2 (IIR/Magic Find). Results of 250+ T15 Maps - YouTube

3. Waystone / Map (POE1 Term) Farm

1. Map sustain guide
2. Breach Guide
3. Expedition guide
4. Ritual guide
5. Delirium guide

4. Farming Citadels

1. Explore the atlas in search of Citadels.
2. Killing the Citadel Bosses drops Crisis Fragments which are necessary to access the Arbiter pinnacle boss.
3. Get a t15 corrupted map with 500+ waystone drop chance (careful with dmg related modifiers or will die). You can either craft one yourself (unreliable) or buy one on trade for 5-10 ex.
4. Use tower tablets around citadels with waystone drop chance modifiers
5. Use general atlas passives from Breach Guide to maximize waystone drop chance even more
6. Unspec boss atlas passives to reduce difficulty. Either unspec all if weak or keep up to Radiant Waystones notable for more waystone drop chance
7. This will net you 3+ Criss fragments
8. Fragments Sell on currency exchange for 75/80/225 ex depending on which citadel they came from

5. Trial of Chaos

5.1 Requirements:

1. Level 75+ Inscribed Ultimatum to enter (costs 1 ex)
2. Level 80 Ultimatums are better for leveling as you are grinding the trial and provide a chance to get some useful random drops from mobs.
3. Build that can complete all 10 rooms (if you are doing t15 maps than you should qualify. Probably even before that).

5.2 Profit Expectations:

1. You will be killing a bunch of mobs throughout the run. Expect to see avg of 3 ex of drops per run. Obviously sometimes a divine will drop
2. You are guaranteed 3 soul cores per run. Avg soul core price around 5 ex. = 15ex per run
3. You are guaranteed either a Victorious / Cowardly / Deadly Fate key fragment drop from room 10 boss which sell for 10/11/31 ex at the time of writing. Avg of 17 ex per run
4. For the rich and powerful you can buy up Fate keys and run the final boss - Trial master for a chance at some good uniques. Prices have currently dropped. Details below

5.3 Trial Mods:

Before each room you will have to choose 1 of 3 detrimental mods. Its essential you choose carefully so you dont brick your run with difficult mods.

Mod Table

5.4 Running Trial Master:

You can buy up Fate key fragments to run the final boss Trial Master for a chance to drop some good uniques.

Estimated Drop Table:

Item	Drop Rate	Trade Price Check
Glimpse of Chaos	50%	Glimpse of Chaos Tribal Mask - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile
Zerphi's Genesis	28%	Zerphi's Genesis Heavy Belt - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile
Mahuxotl's Machination	15%	Mahuxotl's Machination Omen Crest Shield - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile
Hateforge	5%	Hateforge Moulded Mitts - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile
The Adorned	2%	The Adorned Diamond - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile

based on current prices doesnt appear to be profitable. adorned is the big money maker but 2% is ridiculously low and remember that the range on the adorned is 0-100% with everything bellow 30% being utter trash. Since adorned always drops corrupted you cant even divine it in hopes of a better roll nor vaal it pseudo divine effect

6. Trial of the Sekhemas

First I will describe all the farming strategies than at the end I will go over trial strategy and afllictions/boons

6.1 I am new Strategy

This is mostly for those on a new account who are just trying to complete this thing for the first time and ascend or build up a set of relics to run other strategies without buying them

What to do:

1. Either repeatedly run 1 or 2 floor trials. Pick up all relics that drop along the way. Make sure to end the run with some water to spare since Barya will have relics for sale after you've killed the final boss of your run
2. Or run the trial up to the closest hourglass room. Enter the room and fight with a focus on killing the rares and looting relics from them. Logout before the timer ends. Go back in and repeat the room in a loop. NEVER KILL A RARE IF TIMER BELOW 20 SECONDS or the room will complete and you will not be able to loop
3. Sell excess relics for 5-50 ex of potential profit. Most will be trash
4. Its best to run area lvl 50 minimum for this

Relic loadout

1. Honour resist / Max honor / More defenses / More life etc. Anything to survive
2. Increased quantity of relics dropped to maximize relic drop chances and build out full cache of relics

6.2 Humble Exile Strategy

Made for less powerful characters who can only reliably do floors 1-3.

1. Run lvl75+ - 4 floor trial. Preferably lvl 80 for more experience gain and better random loot drops
2. Kill third boss
3. In the boss reward room EXIT USING PORTAL NEXT TO THE DJINN
4. Take out test of time token from the pedestal
5. Sell on Trade website for 45-80+ ex
6. Price depends on afllictions/boons and relic loadout of the trial.
7. Read the next strategy since thats who your buyers will be, to understand whats needed. Also read about afflictions/boons in a section down below
8. Loot relics off the floor and sell on the side for 5-50ex most will be trash

Relic loadout:

1. Same survival focused relics as in the previous strategy IF YOU NEED THEM
2. Otherwise read up on the loadout of relics in the next strategy since this directly effects the value of token because your relic loadout here will be used by the customer that buys the token

6.3 Meep Meep Motherfucker Strategy

Objectives:

1. Complete the full Sekhema run with the final boss killed
2. Complete the run as fast as possible
3. Maximize relic drop quantity to get as many unique relics from the final boss with as little need for honour defense as possible
4. Loot and sell regular jewels from the Royal Caches in the final reward room (abundant)
5. Loot and sell time-lost jewels from Time-lost Caches in the final reward room (rare)
6. Loot and sell unique jewels from the Spectrum Cache in the final reward room (1 per 10 runs)
7. Royal Caches and Time-Lost caches can some times appear in reward rooms after bosses 1-3 but your ability to pick them depends on how many keys you have at the time and the keys you can expect to get by boss 4
8. Always end the run with a minimum of 1 gold / 1 silver key no matter what to be able to open Spectrum and Time-Lost jewel caches if they are present

Boss Loot Table

Unique relic	Drop Rate	Price Check Link
Burden of Leadership	All the f*ing time	Trash The Burden of Leadership Tapestry Relic - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile
The Changing Seasons	All the f*ing time	Trash The Changing Seasons Seal Relic - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile
The Peacemaker's Draught Amphora Relic	All the f*ing time	Trash The Peacemaker's Draught Amphora Relic - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile
The Remembered Tales Coffer Relic	All the f*ing time	Trash The Remembered Tales Coffer Relic - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile
The Desperate Alliance	5% ish	2 Div The Desperate Alliance Vase Relic - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile
The Last Flame (a.k.a Temporalis relic)	1% ish	100 Div The Last Flame Incense Relic - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile

Spectrum Jewels (appear 1/10 runs)

Jewel Trade link	Price Now
Grand Spectrum Ruby - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile	45 ex
Grand Spectrum Emerald - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile	1 div
Grand Spectrum Sapphire - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile	7 div

Relic Loadout

Relic Modifier	Priority
Increased quantity of relics dropped by monsters	1 - you need to get this as high as you can which requires sacrificing honour defenses. With 120 ish quantity you can expect two unique relic drops from final boss. With 180 + 30% boon you can get 3 drops per run
Movement speed	2 - occurs on the same relics as relic quant
Dodge roll distance	2 if you are somehow using this instead of movement speed. occurs on the same relics as relic quant
Additional Merchant Choices	3 - if you get +6 you can get all boons in the world and snowball your water through boons. Unfortunately, you will need to sacrifice some quant/MS relics for this. In another words this is a choice between comfortable runs with 2 unique relics at the end or uncomfortable runs with 3
Honour Res	4
Everything else	5
Reduced merchant price	Some people think this is important cause they saw a guide on youtube. They are objectively wrong. + merchant choices is better in every way

6.4 Carry Elon Musk Strategy (combine with Meep Meep for max efficiency)

1. Lets be clear there is nothing against ToS here. Carry services have been a thing in PoE 1 for years
2. Once you complete the room BEFORE the final boss. Exit the trial
3. Go to /trade 820 channel and advertise a carry service. You can also use official poe2 discord for this (although have not done so personally). Current price around 40 ex / person
4. Once you've got customers in a party and at the trial doors. Open the trial and go in
5. Party members stay in the lobby room BEFORE THE BOSS
6. You go in and kill the boss
7. Honour dmg is shared. If you are taking hits your customers may die in the lobby room. The more people in party the harder it is to carry them alive.
8. The squishier the customers are the harder it is to carry them. Your honour resist doesnt apply to them AT ALL
9. Once boss is dead they can come in and fully ascend to 8 ascension points even from 0 points
10. Have them trade you the 40ex fee once they've ascended
11. Get scammed by them running off and not paying. Cry in corner. JK i've had good experience so far but this is a risk you always take with any service sale. No you cant take money up front cause now people will be afraid that you will scam them

6.5 Overall Run Priority

1. Minimize number of afflictions or your run may become bricked
2. Maximize sacred water
3. If you have water maximize merchant encounters
4. At merchant buy up all the best boons with priority on water/merchant price to create a feedback loop that allows you to eventually buy out the whole merchant (see boons table for more details)
5. Lowest priority is picking rooms that are faster/easier to complete. Its goes Ritual > Escape > Chalice > Hourglass (actually really fast once build is good enough) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gauntlet (but you can cheat, read tips and tricks section)

6.6 Afflictions and Boons

Affliction and Boon Table

6.7 Tips and Tricks

1. Blink is very useful for speeding up the run as well as final boss time freeze mechanic. You can teleport up and down ledges and stairs. You can have it on your weapon swap
2. If you have a couple cheap minions + blink on weapons swap, you can blink through closed doors in gauntlet trials. Hug the door. Spam command minions to move past the door. Blink through. Sometimes doesnt work on doors that need multiple levers to activate. Always works on single lever doors.
3. If you are unlucky to get the "You are not always taken to the room you want" affliction you can mitigate the damage by looking at the map before selection the room and once you select it comparing whether a left/middle/right door has opened and whether that corresponds to what you selected on the map. If it doesnt than exit trial and go back in and repeat room selection. Sometime the door/map order is strangely backwards, happened to me ones, dont know why

7. Pick Up Item Bases

7.1 Chancing Bases:

Some people have a crippling gambling addiction and like to blow 20 divines try to chance orb an Astramantis and other uber uniques. Your job is to take on the role of the casino, feed their addiction, and take all their money

Set up your loot filter to highlight these bases when they drop with NORMAL RARITY. Fill up a tab and than sell in bulk for a lot of profit

Chance Base	Base Trade Link	Chase Unique Trade Link
Heavy Belt	Heavy Belt - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile - 1ex each but more if you sell in bulk	Headhunter Heavy Belt - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile
Saphire Ring	Sapphire Ring - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile - 1 ex each but more if you sell in bulk	Dream Fragments Sapphire Ring - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile
Stellar Amulet	Stellar Amulet - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile - 20 ex each but more if you sell in bulk	Astramentis Stellar Amulet - PoE2 Trade - Path of Exile

7.2 Crafting Bases:

The moguls of wraeclast need 100s of normal item bases for a potential to craft something good. Take all their money

Configure the loot filter to highlight these, pick up, fill up a tab, sell in bulk for more money

Minimum 1ex each guaranteed for item level 70 - 79 and more for 80 and 81+. Its really difficult to explain all the possible item level considerations here for each base. Instead I will breakdown a single example to help understand why higher item level can be more valuable

Craft of Exile - Wand [Attuned Wand] if you click on the lightning damage modifier you will see that starting with item level 71 you have a chance to craft up to (90-104)% increased Lightning Damage. However starting with item level 81 you can craft up to (105-119)% increased Lightning Damage. This is where the value is coming from

There are a lot of basses to potentially pick up and I am loosing my sanity writing this so here is a random utube video on the topic.

You can pretty easily configure the loot filter through filter blade to highlight all the crafting bases without having to deeply understand all of them

Bottom line there is literally free money on the ground that can be easily liquated through a bulk trade.

8. Chance gambling

Literally the opposite of whats in section 7.1. You have a crippling gambling addiction. You will blow 20 divines buying chancing bases and chance orbs. You will gamble it all away without getting the Astramantis. Than you will see someone post on reddit about how they got an Astramantis this way. Blow more money. Read more reddit. Repeat the cycle

9. Profit Crafting

This is such an enormous and complicated topic that I am not qualified to explain so we will rely on some existing guides for it

How I Made My First Mirror Only Trading+Crafting, As a Path of Exile 2 Noob

[PoE 2] 1+ Mirror a Day Profit Crafting Strategy | Full Guide

10. Path of Excel gaming

I Made 217 Divine From Scratch On a Level 1 Account In Under a Week (Only Crafting/Trading).

POE 2 In-Game Exchange HIDDEN Arbitrage!! | HOW TO MAKE Free Exalts Using Your Gold!

11. Gold Selling

Some people need a lot of gold because they are doing thousands of arbitrage trades on the currency exchange or they are gambling gold with Alva for a chance at a chase Unique

You can buy gold but you can conver rares into gold. So some people will pay currency for a full tab of random trash rares that they can buy and convert to gold.

Dont know exact price. Maybe 20-40ex per tab of rares? Check on discord and trade 820 channel

12. Alva Gamble

if you have millions of extra gold from all the mapping you can try to gamble with Alva

[PATH OF EXILE 2] – GAMBLING 1 MILLION GOLD AT ALVA – IS IT WORTH IT?

13. The End

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