All currency items and effects

In both Path of Exile And Path of Exile 2Currency is used for a variety of things – and there’s a lot more than just gold to worry about. Although gold is important, there are others Path of Exile 2 Currency items are used almost exclusively to upgrade your equipment, from adding sockets to changing modifiers to improving the rarity and quality of weapons and equipment.

Path of Exile 2 supports Gem sockets and supports Gems PoE 2

Path of Exile 2: How to Equip Support Gems

In Path of Exile 2, Support Gems work a little differently than they did in PoE 1.

There are many currencies Path of Exile 2but they are all linked together to give players multiple ways to obtain powerful items. Essentially, Path of Exile 2 Currencies are a type of crafting and upgrading system, not necessarily items you trade with vendors, and each has a unique effect. Some currencies can be created over time using shards, while others can only be collected from monster drops – some of the most exclusive currencies can also only be found in the very late game and post-game content.

This guide goes into all of the currency elements Path of Exile 2 as of the Early Access release and details of the impact of any changes PoE2 Currency items are.

All Path of Exile 2 currencies

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Major Currencies – Modifiers, Quality, Sockets and more

These currencies can be found randomly throughout your adventures in the main campaign. First of all, you mainly get low-level Orbs of Transmutation, Augmentation, Royal Orbs, and equipment quality upgrade materials, which are the most common PoE2 Currency items.

Later in the campaign and as you near the end of the game, you will find some higher tier items (such as Orbs of the Perfect Jeweler, Vaal Orbs, and Orbs of Alchemy).

currency	Effect
Gold	Spend money on merchant items and gambling, or on nodes in the passive skill tree
Orb of transmutation	Transforms a normal item into a magic item with a random modifier
Orb of Reinforcement	Adds a random modifier to a magic item (maximum 2).
Orb of Alchemy	Upgrades a normal item into a rare item with 4x random modifiers
Ball of chance	Transforms a normal item into a magical, rare, or unique item with appropriate modifiers
Royal ball	Transforms a magic item into a rare item with a new random modifier
Sublime sphere	Adds a random modifier to a rare item (maximum 6).
Chaos Orb	Randomly replaces a modifier with a new modifier for all equipment except Uniques
Bullet of annulment	Randomly removes a modifier from the selected element
Small jeweler’s ball	Adds a support gem socket to a skill gem slot. Works with skill gems with 2x support gem sockets (standard)
Large jeweler’s ball	Adds a support gem socket to a skill gem slot. Works with skill gems with 3x support gem sockets
Perfect jeweler’s ball	Adds a support gem socket to a skill gem slot. Works with skill gems with 4x support gem sockets (maximum 5x support gem sockets)
Artisan’s Orb	Adds a socket to equipment (maximum 2x for two-handed weapons and body armor, 1x for all other equipment)
Arcanist’s Eraser	Increases the quality of a wand, staff, or scepter. Useful for witch and sorceress classes.
Weaponsmith’s Scrap	Increases the quality of armor parts
Blacksmith’s grindstone	Increases the quality of a combat weapon (not a wand, staff or scepter)
Glassblower ball	Improves the quality of a bottle
Gemstone cutter prism	Improves the quality of a gem
Vaal Orb	Corrupts an item and grants a random effect, from changing nothing to increasing stats to granting an additional rune socket – but when used, the item can no longer be improved
beings	Transforms a normal item into a magical item with a guaranteed modifier
Greater essence	Transforms a magic item into a rare item with a guaranteed modifier

Path of Exile 2 ties new abilities to PoE 2

Path of Exile 2: How to bind skills

To bind new skills, Path of Exile 2 players on PC and console must equip a skill gem and then select the input of their choice.

Path of Exile 2 Endgame and Exclusive Currencies

These five currencies can only be purchased in the endgame and during certain endgame activities.

The Catalyst, Distilled Emotions, and Omen currencies are exclusive to the Rupture, Delirium, and Ritual endgame events, while upgrade materials can be farmed for Essences and Greater Monster Essences.

currency	source	Effect
catalyst	Violation event (exclusive)	Increases the quality of rings and amulets
Distilled emotions	Delirium Event (Exclusive)	Adds passives to your amulet
omen	Ritual event (exclusive)	Grants certain abilities upon certain triggers
Mirror of Kalandra	Random drop, extremely low chance	Copies an article perfectly, doesn’t work on uniques

Path of Exile 2 Currency Shards

You can craft currency items Path of Exile 2 Offers with shards. These shards can be acquired as normal monster and treasure loot, or obtained by disenchanting or salvaging certain types of items. You get Transmutation and Royal Shards for disenchanting magic and rare items, respectively.

You can salvage equipment with rune sockets to craft Artisan’s Shards, which create a full Artisan’s Orb for a stack of 10x.

Shard type	Created
Artisan’s Shard	Required 10x for the Artisan’s Orb
Random shards	Required 10x for Orb of Chance
Chaos Shards	10x required for Orb of Chaos
Exalted Shard	10x required for Exalted Orb
Royal Shard	10x required for Regal Orb
Transmutation shards	Required 10x for Orb of Transmutation.