Path of Exile Currency System

Path of Exile features one of the most unique currency systems in the ARPG genre. Unlike most other RPGs or MMOs, there is no standard gold-based economy. Instead, PoE currency is based on various types of Orbs, each serving specific crafting, enhancement, and trade functions. These Path of Exile orbs are consumable items that modify gear, maps, or character properties—making them essential for both progression and crafting.

Rather than being used solely for purchases, PoE orbs are the core of the game’s economy. Whether you’re upgrading gear, rolling affixes, or enhancing map difficulty, there’s a dedicated orb for each task. Some orbs add or reroll modifiers, others upgrade item rarity, quality, or links between sockets. This creates a dynamic and self-regulating player economy where even low-tier PoE currency has real value and importance.

Most importantly, every orb has a functional use in both gameplay and trading, ensuring that Path of Exile currency never becomes meaningless—unlike traditional gold systems in other games. Instead, your currency stash is your lifeline to progression, power, and profit in Path of Exile.

How to Acquire and Use PoE Currency

There are dozens of different PoE orbs, and understanding their uses is key to success. Even the most common ones like Orbs of Alteration or Chaos Orbs play a major role in the Path of Exile trading economy. High-level players consume these in bulk when crafting rare gear or mapping, making them valuable even for newer players.

Path of Exile currency can be obtained from monsters, chests, events, and vendor recipes—starting as early as level 1. However, rare orbs like Divine Orbs or even Mirror of Kalandra are exceedingly unlikely to drop during the early stages of the game. Efficient farming of high-level Maps, as well as participating in mechanics like Heist, Delve, Blight, or Incursion, greatly increases your chances of acquiring valuable PoE currency.

Players often hoard orbs for crafting or PoE trade, while others prefer to sell them for profit. Some orbs improve item quality (e.g., Armorer's Scraps, Blacksmith’s Whetstones), while others reroll stats (Chaos Orbs, Exalted Orbs) or upgrade item rarity (Orb of Alchemy, Regal Orb). Understanding these functions is vital, as reckless use can ruin valuable gear and waste your hard-earned PoE orbs.

In the dynamic Path of Exile marketplace, it’s also common to exchange one type of orb for another. Exchange rates between orbs fluctuate, creating opportunities for experienced traders. Some players focus entirely on flipping currency and can build fortunes just by buying low and selling high across different Path of Exile trading platforms.

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For many players, especially those with limited time, the most efficient way to get ahead is to buy PoE orbs directly with real money. Grinding the same maps for hours just to afford a single upgrade can be discouraging—especially when powerful builds require specific gear and large amounts of Path of Exile currency.

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Types of Path of Exile Currency and Orbs

	Name: Armourer's Scrap Drop level: 1 Stack size: 40 What Armourer's Scrap does? Improves the quality of an armour​, up to 20%. Increases the Quality by 5% on Normal Items, 2% on Magic, and 1% on Rare and Unique Armors How to obtain Armourer's Scrap? ​Common global drop, ​​​​very often rewarded for returning Empoeror's Luck or The Master Artisan cards. Another easy way is to vendor Quality pieces of equipment
	Name: Awakened Sextant Drop level: 81 Stack size: 10 What Awakened Sextant does? Adds or rerolls a modifier on a Voidstone, additional additional properties to your Maps How to obtain Awakened Sextant? ​Global drop in higher level areas. Also a guarantted reward for a set of Underground Forest Cards
	Name: Blacksmith's Whetstone Drop level: 1 Stack size: 20 What Blacksmith's Whetstone does? Improves the quality of a weapon, up to 20%. Increases the Quality by 5% on Normal Items, 2% on Magic, and 1% on Rare and Unique Weapons How to obtain Blacksmith's Whetstone? Common global drop. Very often rewarded for returning Empoeror's Luck or The Master Artisan cards. Another easy way is to vendor Quality weapons
	Name: Blessed Orb Drop level: 35 Stack size: 20 What Blessed Orb does? Rerolls the numeric values on Implicit properties on items How to obtain Blessed Orb? Global drop. Also a potential reward for returning Emperor's Luck or The Void Divination cards
	Name: Cartographer's Chisel Drop level: 52 Stack size: 20 What Cartographer's Chisel does? Improves the quality of a Map, up to 20%. Just like other Quality-enhancing Items, the scale of improvement depends on the Map rarity How to obtain Cartographer's Chisel? Global drop. Guaranteed reward for returning The Cartograher card or vendoring Quality Map (20% on a single Map, or 40% Quality cumulatively on several Maps)
	Name: Chaos Orb Drop level: 12 Stack size: 10 What Chaos Orb does? Rerolls a new set of modifiers on a Rare item How to obtain Chaos Orb? Global drop. A gauranteed reward from Cards like Rain of Chaos, Three Faces in the Dark, Chaotic Disposition, The Wrath. Can be also obtained by collectin 20 Chaos Shards, or from a very popular vendor Recipe, which requires you to sell a full rare set of items with Item level  60 and above. Unidentified and/or 20% Qualtiy rares can increase the result to up to 3 Chaos Orbs
	Name: Chromatic Orb Drop level: 2 Stack size: 20 What Chromatic Orb does? Changes the colors of sockets on your Items, excluding the White "color". It is also required for the crafting recipes associated to Socket colors  How to obtain Chromatic Orb? Common global drop. Guaranteed reward for returning The Heroic Shot cards. It can be also bought from vendors directly
	Name: Divine Orb Drop level: 35 Stack size: 10 What Divine Orb does? Rerolls the numeric values on modifiers on your Item. It is the primary and most important currenct item in Path of Exile right now How to obtain Divine Orb? Rare Global Drop. Can be also obtained from The Sephirot and Divine Beauty Cards. Very rarely from other Divination Cards too but it is not really worth mentioning as a viable source
	Name: Enkindling Orb Drop level: 40 Stack size: 10 What Enkindling Orb does? Adds unique enchantments to Flasks, increasing their effect but making them unable to generate charges during the Flask effect How to obtain Enkindling Orb? Global drop and reward for Emperor's Luck or Void Cards. Can be also obtained through vendor recipe that requires you to sell 4 Instilling Orbs, "trigger" Gem and Orb of Scouring
	Name: Exalted Orb Drop level: 35 Stack size: 10 What Exalted Orb does? Adds an extra modifier on a Rare item (up to 6). Once the most important Currency Item in Path of Exile How to obtain Exalted Orb? Rare global drop and reward for Emperor's Luck, Void, The Saint's Treasure, Abandoned Wealth, Brother's Stash, The Scout, and the Alluring Bounty Cards. Can be also obtained by vendoring Mirror of Kalandra (no, don't do that), or collecting 20 Exalted Shards
	Name: Gemcutter's Prism Drop level: 12 Stack size: 20 What Gemcutter's Prism does? Improves the Quality of a Skill or Support Gem. Up to 20% How to obtain Gemcutter's Prism? Global drop and a reward for returning The Union, The Gemcutter, and other Divination Cards. Can be also obtained by vendoring 20% Quality Gem, or any number of Gems with cumulative Quality of 40%
	Name: Glassblower's Bauble Drop level: 2 Stack size: 20 What Glassblower's Bauble does? Improves the Quality of a Flask up to 20%. It can increase this stat by up to 5% when used on a Normal Flask How to obtain Glassblower's Bauble? Global drop and reward for Emperor's Luck, The Master Artisan, or Void Cards. Can be also obtained through vendor recipe that requires you to sell a 20% Quality Flask or several lower Quality Flasks if cumulatively have 40% total Quality
	Name: Instilling Orb Drop level: 40 Stack size: 10 What Instilling Orb does? Adds a unique enchantment on a Flask, making it trigger automatically when certain conditions are met How to obtain Instilling Orb? Global drop and reward for Emperor's Luck, or Void Cards. Can be also obtained through a vendor recipe that requires you to sell two Enkindling Orbs, "trigger" Gem, and Orb of Alchemy
	Name: Jeweller's Orb Drop level: 8 Stack size: 20 What Jeweller's Orb does? It reforges the number of Sockets on an Item. All Sockets change color as well How to obtain Jeweller's Orb? Global drop and reward for Emperor's Luck, or Void Cards. Can be also obtained directly from vendors or through a very popular vendor recipe that requires you to sell six-socketed Item
	Name: Mirror of Kalandra Drop level: 35 Stack size: 10 What Mirror of Kalandra does? It creates a Mirrored copy of a Rare Item. Since it is so expensive, obviously you want to use it on Items worth more than the Mirror itself, which limits the usage for just the highest Tier of crafted gear How to obtain Mirror of Kalandra? Extremely rare global drop and reward for House of Mirrors, or very rarely from Emperor's Luck and Void Cards. Can be also obtained by collecting 20 Mirror Shards
	Name: Orb of Alchemy Drop level: 2 Stack size: 10 What Orb of Alchemy does? Upgrades a Normal Item to Rare with at least four new modifiers How to obtain Orb of Alchemy? It is a global drop and reward for The Survivalist, Emperor's Luck, or Void Cards. Can be also obtained directly from vendors or from combining 20 Alchemy Shards, or several vendor recipes that require you to sell specific sets of Rare items
	Name: Orb of Alteration Drop level: 2 Stack size: 20 What Orb of Alteration does? Rerolls affixes on a Magic Item How to obtain Orb of Alteration? Common global drop and reward for Society's Remorse, A Sea of Blue, Acclimatisation, Emperor's Luck, or Void Cards. You can also buy it directly from vendors or obtain it from collecting 20 Alteration Shards
	Name: Orb of Annulment Drop level: 35 Stack size: 20 What Orb of Annulment does? Removes a random affix from an Item How to obtain Orb of Annulment? Global drop and reward for Demigod's Wager, The Seeker, Emperor's Luck, or Void Cards. You can also get one by collecting 20 Annulment Shards
	Name: Orb of Augmentation Drop level: 1 Stack size: 30 What Orb of Augmentation does? Adds an extra affix on a Magic Item (up to two) How to obtain Orb of Augmentation? Common global drop and reward for Emperor's Luck, or Void Cards. You can also buy it directly from vendors
	Name: Orb of Binding Drop level: 25 Stack size: 20 What Orb of Binding does? Upgrades a Normal Item to a Rare one with up to four linked Sockets How to obtain Orb of Binding? Common global drop and reward for Emperor's Luck, or Void Cards. You can also buy it directly from vendors or obtain it by collecting 20 Binding Shards
	Name: Orb of Chance Drop level: 2 Stack size: 20 What Orb of Chance does? Upgrades a Normal Item to a random rarity (can upgrade Items to Unique as well) How to obtain Orb of Chance? Common global drop and reward for The Fool, Emperor's Luck, or Void Cards. You can also buy it directly from vendors
	Name: Orb of Fusing Drop level: 8 Stack size: 20 What Orb of Fusing does? Rerolls the links between Sockets on an Item How to obtain Orb of Fusing? Common global drop and reward for Loyalty, Lucky Connections, Emperor's Luck, or Void Cards. You can also buy it directly from vendors
	Name: Orb of Horizons Drop level: 68 Stack size: 20 What Orb of Horizons does? Changes a Map to another of the same Tier. This is particularly useful when completing the Atlas objectives How to obtain Orb of Horizons? Common global drop and reward for Emperor's Luck, or Void Cards. You can also get it by collecting 20 Horizon Shards, and they can drop from Foreboding Incubator, and as a Harbinger Reward from various sources (Chests, Delirium rewards, and such)
	Name: Orb of Regret Drop level: 2 Stack size: 40 What Orb of Regret does? Grants a Passive Skill Refund Point How to obtain Orb of Regret? A global drop and reward for Vinia's Token, The Innocent, Emperor's Luck, or Void Cards. You can also buy it directly from vendors for Orb of Scourings
	Name: Orb of Scouring Drop level: 12 Stack size: 30 What Orb of Scouring does? Removes  all modifiers from an Item (except Implicit ones) How to obtain Orb of Scouring? Global drop and reward for No Traces, Emperor's Luck, or Void Cards. You can also buy it directly from vendors for four Orbs of Chance
	Name: Orb of Transmutation Drop level: 1 Stack size: 40 What Orb of Transmutation does? Upgrades a Normal Item to a Magic Item (with up to two modifiers) How to obtain Orb of Transmutation? Common global drop and reward for Emperor's Luck, or Void Cards. You can also buy it directly from vendors for Portal Scrolls, or by collecting Transmutation Shards
	Name: Orb of Unmaking Drop level: 70 Stack size: 40 What Orb of Unmaking does? Adds one Atlas Passive Skill Refund Point How to obtain Orb of Unmaking? Global drop and reward for Ever-Changing or Void Cards. According to poewiki, it might be not accessible through exchanging Emperor's Luck, but we believe it might be possible, just uncommon enough to make it very hard to verify
	Name: Portal Scroll Drop level: 2 Stack size: 40 What Portal Scroll does? Opens a portal to Town (or later on, to your Hideout) How to obtain Portal Scroll? One of the most common global drops. Can be also bought from vendors for Wisdom Scrolls
	Name: Regal Orb Drop level: 12 Stack size: 10 What Regal Orb does? Upgrades a Magic Item into a Rare one, adding one extra modifier How to obtain Regal Orb? A Rare Global drop and the reward for returning a set of Coveted Possession, Emperor's Luck, or the Void Divination Cards. It can also be obtained by combining 20 Regal Shards into one, or from vendoring Mirror of Kalandra
	Name: Rogue's Marker Drop level: 48 Stack size: 50000 What  Rogue's Marker does? Open a Portal to Rogue Harbour and used as a Currency in Heist locations How to obtain Rogue's Marker? A Global drop in small/moderate quantities, can also drop from Bounty Target Packs, from Smuggler's Caches, and for selling heist targets to Faustus, The Fence
	Name: Sacred Orb Drop level: 35 Stack size: 10 What  Sacred Orb does? Rerolls the numeric values of the base defensive stats on an Armour piece How to obtain Sacred Orb? A very rare global drop with approximately three times lower chances of dropping than Exalted and Divine Orbs
	Name: Scroll of Wisdom Drop level: 1 Stack size: 40 What  Scroll of Wisdom does? Identify and unidentified Item How to obtain Scroll of Wisdom? The most common "currency" item in Path of Exile, being a global drop, the result of exchanging various other low-level Orbs, a reward for returning The Scholar or The Void cards
	Name: Stacked Deck Drop level: 50 Stack size: 10 What Stacked Deck does? Using it gives you a random Divination Card How to obtain Stacked Deck? It is a global drop, and a reward for returning Lucky Deck, Emperor's Luck, or the Void Cards. It can also be rewarded from Diviner's Incubators, and are often found in Heist chests
	Name: Surveyor's Compass Drop level: 68 Stack size: 10 What Surveyor's Compass does? Stores a sextant modifier inside it How to obtain Surveyor's Compass? It is a global drop, and can also be purchased from Kirac for 1 Chaos Orb
	Name: Vaal Orb Drop level: 12 Stack size: 10 What Vaal Orb does? Corrupts an item, modifying it unpredictably (the pool of outcomes is set and known though, so the description is not entirely accurate) How to obtain Vaal Orb? It is a rare global drop, and can also be obtained from various Divination Cards like The Catalyst, The Inventor, Emperor's Light, and the Void
	Name: Veiled Chaos Orb Drop level: 61 Stack size: 10 What Veiled Chaos Orb does? Reforges a Rare Item with Veiled modifier to a Rare Item with new  sets of modifiers including one Veiled  How to obtain Veiled Chaos Orb? It is a rare global drop and can also be found as rewards from Aisling room in Research safehouses