Path of Exile: How to trade with other players

You've found all the best loot, now here's how to get rich from it.

In Path of Exile, trading items with other players is a whole other game in itself. Nearly every piece of loot you find while adventuring can be traded away, and if you know the right stuff to look for you can make an absolutely absurd amount of money. But what if you don't know how to trade in Path of Exile? Don't sweat it. This guide covers all the basics.

If you've just started playing, a big part of what makes Path of Exile cool is its complex bartering economy. Unlike, say, Diablo 3, there's no single currency like gold that you use to purchase items from NPC vendors or other players. Instead, trading in Path of Exile is done in a variety of currencies that also double as crafting resources. When you sell loot to a vendor, they'll also pay you in these currencies. It's a little bit complicated, but don't sweat it too much—before long, you'll start to get the hang of things.

How to trade in Path of Exile

Unlike other online RPGs, Path of Exile doesn't have any sort of in-game infrastructure to facilitate trading with other players. There's no auction house to browse, so the only way to trade is to physically find a person and manually start a trade with them. It's a pretty standard interface where you can each drag items from your inventory into the trade window, which requires both players to agree before the trade is finalized.

To find out what other players have for sale, use Mmoexp.com.Path of Exile's website, lets you search through items that other players have marked for sale.

Here's a quick rundown of how this process works:

Use Mmoexp.com to find items you're interested in.

Click the 'whisper' button next to the seller's name.

This copies a string of text you can then paste into the in-game chat window to automatically message a player saying you want to buy the item.

Assuming that player is online, they'll message you back and typically invite you to their hideout to trade.

Make sure to bring the currency with you in your inventory.

At their hideout, complete the trade.

How to sell items in Path of Exile

This is a little bit trickier and will require you to also spend a little bit of money. In order to list items for sale and make them appear on Poe. trade, you need to have a premium stash tab. The chest found in every main hub and your hideout is your stash, and it normally comes with just four basic tabs (think of them like pages) for you to store loot in.

Premium tabs have a few extra features:

They can be renamed.

They can be colored (for easy organization).

They can be set to 'public' so that websites like Poe. trade can index the items stored there so it'll show up in search results and other players can buy them from you.

Don't worry, though, making a tab public doesn't mean anyone can come and take your items.

In Path of Exile's microtransaction shop, you'll find a category for stash tabs that offers a bunch of different tabs that suit various purposes. Some have special layouts for organizing your crafting items, maps, or other unique types of loot you might find. If you play Path of Exile seriously, it's worth investing in a few of these tabs.

Here are the two I recommend buying to start:

Premium stash tab upgrade (15p) - This upgrades one of your regular stash tabs to a premium one.

Currency stash tab (75p) - This adds a new tab with a special layout for storing different currencies. It's super helpful to have.

With your new premium tab, you can now right-click it to set its color and also set it to public. You have two options for how to sell items:

Set it so every item in the premium tab sells for the same price

Set it so each item is priced individually

For now, you'll probably want to individually price your items since you only have one premium tab and the value of loot can vary wildly.

When you drop any gear into this premium tab, you can right-click it and set its price, choosing how many of a certain type of crafting resource you want someone to pay for. Then, assuming it's priced reasonably and is an item people actually want, other players will soon start messaging you.

What are the best items to sell in Path of Exile?

I could give a whole seminar on what items are worth selling to other players and which ones are worth dumping at an NPC vendor. There is no simple answer to this and an item's value can change wildly over the course of a patch. But there are some simple steps you can take to find out if an item might be worth some money.

Since Poe. trade lists all other people trying to sell that item, the first thing you can do is search for similar items to yours and see how much of a price they fetch. This works particularly well with Unique items (the ones with the brown names). But it's also important to remember that even two Uniques can have wildly different values.