Gear in Path of Exile 2 significantly impacts the gameplay experience. High-end players with top-tier gear will have an experience as exhilarating as Diablo II. Players with average gear will struggle, almost like playing Dark Souls from a top-down perspective.
Playing with a fully optimized build is one of the ultimate goals for every player, and to achieve this, you need to fill every pocket with POE 2 Divine Orbs. If you’re not a wealthy individual, you’ll likely have to be a farmer for a while. Below, IGGM will explain step-by-step how to improve your currency farming efficiency.
Step 1. Prerequisites
To farm high-value currency, your map must be at least T15. Lower-tier maps have too low drop rates and item levels to yield high-value items.
If your build even isn’t ready for Tier 15 yet, you should first farm low-level content like Trials of Chaos to build up your starting capital. You can also buy PoE 2 currency at IGGM.com and acquire basic equipment to improve your character’s power, rather than aiming for unrealistic levels.
You’ll also need to upgrade your Atlas talent tree to have enough talent points to support a specialized farming strategy.
Step 2. Efficiency Fundamentals
- Approximately 2 Divine Orbs/hour
Once you’ve reached the standard of farming Tier 15 maps, the remaining focus is on maximizing your time killing monsters within the map and minimizing time spent in your hideout.
Hideout layout is crucial, which your warehouse, appraiser Dani, essence pool, and map devices should be tightly arranged. You need to complete tasks like appraising quickly, storing items, replenishing items, and entering new maps.
You’ll also need to create a custom filter that uses strict rules to filter out unwanted items and ensure that only those items you do have are useful. This way, you can avoid wasting time browsing and selecting loot.
After you’ve returned with a full loot, you’ll need to prepare a loot tab and dump everything into it without sorting. Spending 10 minutes at the end of each day’s play through, rather than sorting after each map, can also save significant time.
Step 3. Character And Map Clearing Speed
- Approximately 5 Divine Orbs/hour
Once you’ve earned a few Divine Orbs in PoE 2 using this system, don’t hoard all your currency to pursue a single item for your final build. Instead, use your earned currency immediately to get gear that offers substantial improvements. Your primary goal should be to improve your farming efficiency and don’t worry about wasting resources. This will save you significant time.
You can customize your Atlas talent points based on your strategy. If you want better drops, you can choose talents that increase the effects of Precursor Tablets, monster pack size, or map modifiers. If you’re looking for faster farming, you can choose talents related to Shrines, particularly Seeking Shrines and Diamond Shrine, to gain significant bonuses to speed, damage, and item rarity.
Step 4. Content Layering Strategy
- Approximately 10-15 Divine Orbs/hour
Content layering is key to juicing map drops. Precursor Tablets inject different content (Ritual, Delirium, Bridge) into the map’s Towers. By layering them within the tower’s area, you can simultaneously benefit from the effects of multiple tablets, resulting in a richer drop pool.
Also, don’t focus on just one activity; you can flexibly switch between them based on the map type. For example, open maps are better for Ritual and Breach, while closed maps are better for Delirium. This helps avoid low returns because of poor luck with a single content.
Step 5. Market Operations
- Up to 50 Divine Orbs per hour.
Finally, there’s the market. This is the fastest but also the most risky way to earn money. You must be aware of PoE 2’s market dynamics and know how to craft items.
Crafting Items
You need to find rare items with excellent affix combinations and then use currency like Exalted Orbs on them. If you’re lucky, their value can increase or even double. Some items with exceptional affixes can even fetch several Divine Orbs.
You can also perform this operation on currency, for example, reforging lower-value Distilled Emotions and Essence into higher-valued currencies and profiting from the difference.
Arbitrage Trading
Some high-circulation currencies have discrepancies in value. If you can exploit this discrepancy and use it to circulate in the market, you’ll end up with more POE 2 currency. For example, trading Exalted Orbs for Chaos Orbs, then Perfect Exalted Orbs, and finally back to Exalted Orbs (this is just an example, not a guaranteed cycle). This way, you’ll have more Exalted Orbs.
Flipping
Flipping is the fastest way to find high-value items with price discrepancies in the market. This is because there are always players desperate for currency who will sell their items at a lower value, often below average. These are the items you need to flip. You need to quickly trade the lowest-valued item and then immediately resell it at a higher value.
Investing
This method requires a deep understanding of the game meta and player demand. You need to predict which items will appreciate in value in the future, stockpile them in advance, and then sell them when demand increases.
The above is a step-by-step guide to improving your farming efficiency. IGGM recommends not trying to imitate the strategy in step 5 right from the start, because a solid foundation is essential. Whether it’s judging item value or predicting market trends, a deep understanding of the game is required. Beginners are advised to start with the basics and gradually learn. And don’t forget that the purpose of earning a large amount of currency is to better experience the game.
