Trading in Path of Exile 2 (PoE 2): How to Sell and Buy Items

Trade in Path of Exile 2 — one of the easiest ways to get equipment with ideal characteristics. At the same time, you don’t need to waste time on grinding, re-killing bosses and subsequent, often unsuccessful, recrafting of the dropped loot using spheres. It’s enough to simply buy the necessary item using one of the methods provided by the developers.

In this guide we will tell you how trading works in PoE 2, show you how to buy items from players and put unnecessary things up for sale using the built-in tools.

How to Trade with Other Players in Path of Exile 2

The question of how to trade in PoE 2 arises for many players when enemies start dropping rare and unique items for another class. With yellow equipment, the problem is not so acute - you can disenchant it into fragments of the sphere of kings and later craft the rare item you need. With uniques, everything is more complicated - it's a pity to disenchant them. Especially considering that for 10 fragments you can only get one sphere of luck, which with a 50% chance is destroyed along with the upgraded item. Exchanging such loot for the one you need for your class seems like a completely reasonable solution.

The developers have provided an exchange function directly within the game with the ability to search for items of interest on an external official website. Next, we will take a closer look at how trading works in PoE 2 and consider the two main ways to trade with other players.

Directly through barter

The easiest and most intuitive way to start trading is to use the game's built-in barter system. To do this, simply approach a player who is ready to exchange, click PKM on his character model and press the button Trading in the drop-down menu. An exchange window will open with cells for items at the top and bottom. Drag the items you want to sell to the bottom half. Wait until the previously agreed price in the form of items or currency appears at the top, and click the confirm button.

For greater convenience of this method, the game has a special trade chat channel, in which players post their offers for sale. Links to items are posted in the chat, and when hovered over, you can see all the necessary information.

Once you have decided what you want to buy, click Right-click on the seller's nickname and press the button Private message. Write to the player and agree on a barter. This usually happens through an invitation to a group. Once in the same location, you can freely exchange loot.

To understand how to sell things in PoE 2 in this way, you need to learn how to do link to the item. Hover over any item in your inventory and use the key combination ctrl+old+LMB. This action automatically copies the item's name and all information about it into the chat text field. Add a message to the link notifying that you want to sell this item, and wait for someone to respond to the offer.

Use the site for trading (auction)

Trading in PoE 2 would not be so convenient if it were not possible to check the entire available range of goods on a separate page. the official website. Here you can use a convenient search with a large number of different filters and select weapons or armor for yourself that have only useful modifiers. Here you can also place your unnecessary things. In this case, it is enough to simply put them in a special section of the chest and set the price.

Pay attention to the cost. All items at the auction are sold for currency in the form of spheres. You can find out the rate of each of them using currency exchange — a function available directly in the game. After completing the third act and moving on to the brutal first (fourth), NPC gamblers (Finn, Risu and Alva) a new dialogue option will become available. Here you can either simply find out the current rate of a particular item or set your base currency for exchange.

How to use trade in PoE 2

To trade on the official PoE 2 website, it is important to understand how it works and what functions the trading platform has. Using a variety of filters, you can easily select an item with useful modifiers and instantly the seller. The site displays the range of absolutely all items placed by players in their chests for sale.

Link to trade PoE 2

On the trading platform, you can track the availability of items of interest on the market in real time, see the seller's nickname and their current status. Find out whether the player is online or is currently AFK to understand how quickly they can read a personal message. Here, with one click, you can generate and send a purchase request to a PM - it only works if the seller's status is Online or Moved away.

How to Buy Items in Path of Exile 2

Immediately after entering the trading platform, the player is greeted by a large number of fields with various settings for advanced search. To make a purchase at the auction, you need to find the item you are interested in. As soon as you see something interesting, check the price to the right of the lot on display and, if everything suits you and you are ready to make a purchase, follow these steps:

• Press the "Personal Message" to the right of the item. If the game is running at this point, the message will automatically be sent to the chat and notify the seller. You can also open the drop-down menu and select «Copy whisper». This button copies the generated message, which you need to paste into the chat yourself.
• Wait for the seller to invite you to the group and accept it. It may not come right away, but you shouldn't rush or spam messages, as the player may be busy at the moment.
• Prepare the currency for purchase and use the quick travel button to the party member's location on the seller's portrait on the left.
• Wait for the exchange request and accept it.
• Check if he is giving you the right thing and if so, place the correct type and amount of currency in your half of the trading window.
• Press the Accept, thank the seller via chat and leave the group.

How to set up a search filter for items

There are several main categories of filters in the search menu on the site:

• Filter by type - here you can select the item category you are interested in (for example: bow, amulet, body armor, gem, etc.), rarity (magic, rare, unique), and also set the range of levels and quality.
• Equipment Filters — detailed adjustment of the item's characteristics. By setting the minimum and maximum values ​​in the fields, you can find, for example, armor with an armor rating in the range from 700 to 800.
• Requirements - here you can set the ranges of item requirements for the character's level and basic characteristics.
• Waystone Filters - to fine-tune the level range of waystones and their drop rate from map bosses.
• Miscellanea — here are less common settings, where you can specify the number of slots for runes in equipment, the size of the stack of purchased items, corruption or mirroring, and some other parameters.
• Trade filters — are used if you need to search for products by seller name, by how long ago the lot was posted, by the type of set price (fixed, negotiated, price with a note).
• Properties filter — here you can specify the modifiers you are interested in on the item. For example, if you need boots with an increase in movement speed and an increase in the rarity of found items, specify these properties.

After setting all the necessary parameters, click the search button at the bottom and the site will display a list of all things that match the current request.

The more useful modifiers an item has, the more expensive it will be. To avoid unaffordable prices, specify 2-3 most important bonuses in the filter. Then you can snatch a potentially good item at a very favorable price.

How does wholesale exchange work?

A separate tab is provided for exchanging several types of stackable items (currency, runes, essences, soul cores, delirium, etc.). Select the goods you want to receive on the left side, and on the right side, specify the items you are willing to give for them. After clicking the button "Search" The system will select all available offers for this request.

How to sell things in PoE 2

It is not possible to manually list items for sale on the trading site, as it automatically reads the information directly from the game. Before you can start trading, you must purchase section for your stash. You can also upgrade one of the existing ones. You can do this for donation coins in the microtransaction store:

• Open microtransaction store using the button on the bottom left, next to the HP and mana vials. You can also use the key M on keyboard.
• The tab "Score" select the desired section. Suitable for trading are: "Upgrade Personal Chest Section", " Personal Chest Section" and "Large Chest Section". If desired, you can buy the " Personal Chest Sections Set", which has 6 additional tabs available at once.

In a separate article we talked in detail about most useful chest tabs in poe 2.

How to set up chest tabs for sale

By default, items from the trade tab in PoE 2 will not be placed on the site. To fix this, you need to configure the sections:

• Navigate to your stash and open the purchased section.
• Click the PKM on the tab to set the required parameters.
• Check the box next to the word Open and select the appropriate price settings. It is best to start by setting "Every item has its own price" and install it manually. If desired, you can purchase an additional section and use it for auto sales at a fixed price.

Now you can put things in this section of the chest, and they will be automatically placed on the site. After making all the necessary settings, go to the PoE 2 trading site and find your item through the search. If everything is done correctly, you will see it in the list.

Do not forget set price on each item by clicking on it PKM. Monitor the chat to avoid missing personal messages from buyers.

How to Price Your Items for Sale

After a rare or unique item drops, it is often unclear how much its affixes are valued by other players. Experimenting with the price may not be profitable, as you can undervalue your item and sell it too cheaply. There is another side to the coin - you can unknowingly overprice it and wait months for it to sell.

The easiest (but also long and unreliable) way to evaluate an item is to set a high price tag on it initially and lower it a little every few days. Sooner or later, demand will appear and this will most likely happen when an adequate price is set for it.

One of the most reliable ways to estimate the loot dropped is manually search for products with similar affixes on the marketplace. Spending a few minutes studying the market will help you understand how highly items with certain modifiers are valued. It is worth paying attention to the age of the items listed and not taking into those that were listed more than a week ago.

A simpler and more convenient way — use a specially designed trading overlay. It is available for via the Overwolf in-game app platform. To use this add-on for the game, follow these instructions:

• and install Overwolf from the official site.
• Launch the app and search for PoE Overlay II.

• Hover over it and click the install button. Once the operation is complete, a window with information about the character will automatically open. Until the game is launched, it will remain empty.

• If everything is done correctly, when PoE 2 starts, a small translucent for controlling the overlay will appear on the screen.
• to the game as your character, hover over any item in your inventory and use the key combination Alt+E. A small window will appear on top of the game with information about the item and a list of prices for it.

The cost of items on the market directly depends on the rarity of their drop, as well as the demand for building meta builds. The stronger and more popular the build using a certain item, the higher the average market price for it. Expensive items may be needed by any class when selecting equipment for the endgame. In articles with builds on Enchantress You can find information about the equipment they will need in the late game.

We hope that our guide to trading in Path of Exile 2 was useful and helped you understand how to trade with other players. Write comments, if you have any questions or additions to the article, we will definitely answer them. With others PoE 2 Guides can be found in a special section of our website.