Currency

The currency system in Path of Exile revolves around a variety of different Orbs and Scrolls. Each currency item serves a specific function in the crafting and enhancement of a character's equipment, or allowing restructuring of the character's passive skill tree in the case of the Orb of Regret.

Currency Items

Currency items can be found as drops from monsters or chests, bought directly from different vendors in town, or received through the use of the vendor recipe system by trading specific configurations of items to any town vendor. Currency items play a large role in the player to player trading system, with rare orbs able to be traded for powerful equipment, or even other types of orbs that a player might need at the time for crafting.

Orbs and Scrolls

Name	Stack Size	Modifiers	Help Text	Category
Scroll of Wisdom	40	Identifies an item	Right click this item then left click an unidentified item to apply it. Shift click to unstack.	Identify Item
Portal Scroll	40	Creates a portal to town	Right click on this item to use it. Shift click to unstack.	Create Portal
Armourer's Scrap	40	Improves the quality of an armour	Right click this item then left click an armour to apply it. Has greater effect on lower rarity armours. The maximum quality is 20%. Shift click to unstack.	Upgrade Quality
Blacksmith's Whetstone	20	Improves the quality of a weapon	Right click this item then left click a weapon to apply it. Has greater effect on lower rarity weapons. The maximum quality is 20%. Shift click to unstack.	Upgrade Quality
Glassblower's Bauble	20	Improves the quality of a flask	Right click this item then left click a flask to apply it. Has greater effect on lower rarity flasks. The maximum quality is 20%. Shift click to unstack.	Upgrade Quality
Cartographer's Chisel	20	Improves the quality of a map	Right click this item then left click a map to apply it. Has greater effect on lower rarity maps. The maximum quality is 20%. Shift click to unstack.	Upgrade Quality
Gemcutter's Prism	20	Improves the quality of a gem	Right click this item then left click a gem to apply it. The maximum quality is 20%. Shift click to unstack.	Upgrade Quality
Jeweller's Orb	20	Reforges the number of sockets on an item	Right click this item then left click a socketed item to apply it. Shift click to unstack.	Adjust Sockets
Chromatic Orb	20	Reforges the colour of sockets on an item	Right click this item then left click a socketed item to apply it. Shift click to unstack.	Adjust Sockets
Orb of Fusing	20	Reforges the links between sockets on an item	Right click this item then left click a socketed item to apply it. Shift click to unstack.	Adjust Sockets
Orb of Transmutation	40	Upgrades a normal item to a magic item	Right click this item then left click a normal item to apply it. Shift click to unstack.	Upgrade Rarity
Orb of Chance	20	Upgrades a normal item to a random rarity	Right click this item then left click a normal item to apply it. Shift click to unstack.	Upgrade Rarity
Orb of Alchemy	10	Upgrades a normal item to rare item	Right click this item then left click a normal item to apply it. Shift click to unstack.	Upgrade Rarity
Regal Orb	10	Upgrades a magic item to rare item	Right click this item then left click a magic item to apply it. Current properties are retained and a new one is added. Shift click to unstack.	Upgrade Rarity
Orb of Augmentation	30	Enchants a magic item with a new random property	Right click this item then left click a magic item to apply it. Magic items can have up to two random properties. Shift click to unstack.	Add Modifier
Exalted Orb	10	Enchants a rare item with a new random property	Right click this item then left click a rare item to apply it. Rare items can have up to six random properties. Shift click to unstack.	Add Modifier
Orb of Alteration	20	Reforges a magic item with new random properties	Right click this item then left click a magic item to apply it. Shift click to unstack.	Randomize Modifiers
Chaos Orb	10	Reforges a rare item with new random properties	Right click this item then left click a rare item to apply it. Shift click to unstack.	Randomize Modifiers
Blessed Orb	20	Randomises the numeric values of the implicit properties of an item	Right click this item then left click another item to apply it. Shift click to unstack.	Randomize Values
Divine Orb	10	Randomises the numeric values of the random properties of an item	Right click this item then left click a magic, rare, or unique item to apply it.	Randomize Values
Orb of Scouring	30	Removes all properties from an item	Right click this item then left click on a magic or rare item to apply it. Shift click to unstack.	Remove Modifiers
Mirror of Kalandra	10	Creates a mirrored copy of an item	Right click this item then left click an equippable non-unique item to apply it. Mirrored copies cannot be modified.	Clone Item
Eternal Orb	10	Creates an imprint of an item for later restoration	Right click this item then left click on an item to create an imprint. This imprint can later be used to restore this specific item to that imprinted state.	Restore Item
Orb of Regret	40	Grants a passive skill refund point	Right click this item to use it. Shift click to unstack.	Refund Passive

Shards and Fragments

Shards and fragments are obtained by selling items to vendors. They can be combined to form certain currency items by stacking them.

Name	Stack Size	Help Text
Scroll Fragment	5	A stack of 5 fragments becomes a Scroll of Wisdom. Shift click to unstack.
Transmutation Shard	20	A stack of 20 shards becomes an Orb of Transmutation. Shift click to unstack.
Alteration Shard	20	A stack of 20 shards becomes an Orb of Alteration. Shift click to unstack.
Alchemy Shard	20	A stack of 20 shards becomes an Orb of Alchemy. Shift click to unstack.

Currency Exchange Resources

Exchange rates between different currency items is largely dependent on the item's scarcity and the demand for it by players willing to trade. Due to the continuously fluctuating nature of the Path of Exile economy, it is too impractical to keep an updated table of currency exchange rates here. Instead, please refer to these tools and resources:

ExileStats Currency Guide (exileex.com) 

Exchange rates are determined solely by community input. Simple interface. No registration required. No advertising.

Currency Exchange Rates (poeex.info) 

Users can suggest changes to exchange rates, but it is not dynamically updated and is subject to the admin's discretion. No registration required. Advertising is present.

Path of Exile Toolkit's Currency Parser (poetoolkit.com) 

Tool for converting between different types of currency. Currently uses poeex.info for exchange rates.

Currency Calculator (poecalc.com) 

Tool for converting between different types of currency. Default rates are rough estimations but can be set manually.

Vendor Prices Chart

Most orbs are purchasable vendors, and can thus be ranked like coins in normal currency. There are several progression tables below showing who sells what and what their equivalent value is in a measurable orbs.

Currency items that have shards are italicised.

Main Progression
Orb	Price	Value in Alts	Location
Orb of Alchemy	1× Orb of Regret	64	Act 3 (Clarissa)
Orb of Regret	2× Orb of Scouring	64	Act 2 (Yeena)
Orb of Scouring	4× Orb of Chance	32	Act 2 (Yeena)
Orb of Chance	1× Orb of Fusing	8	Act 3 (Clarissa)
Orb of Fusing	4× Jeweller's Orb	8	Act 2 (Yeena)
Chromatic Orb	3× Jeweller's Orb	6	Act 2 (Yeena)
Jeweller's Orb	2× Orb of Alteration	2	Act 2 (Yeena)
Orb of Alteration	4× Orb of Augmentation	1	Act 1 (Nessa)
Orb of Augmentation	4× Orb of Transmutation	1/4	Act 1 (Nessa)
Orb of Transmutation	7× Portal Scroll	1/16	Act 1 (Nessa)
Portal Scroll	3× Scroll of Wisdom	1/112	Act 1 (Nessa)
Scroll of Wisdom	baseline currency	1/336	--
Scraps Progression
Glassblower's Bauble	8× Blacksmith's Whetstone	--	Act 3 (Hargan)
Blacksmith's Whetstone	3× Armourer's Scrap	--	Act 2 (Greust)
Armourer's Scrap	1× Blacksmith's Whetstone	--	Act 1 (Tarkleigh)

Act 3's Clarissa has all the Main Progression recipes.

Quick note on vendors and player economy

Vendor prices are a base value for comparisons, player market value will vary. Since players can't downgrade 1 Orb of Fusing into 8 Orbs of Alteration, they may be willing to sell them for less. High-level players will tend to accumulate rarer currencies, and when they begin rolling Maps and running them, may run out of smaller denominations such as wisdom scrolls and alts.

Don't forget that barter trading is not just what it is worth, it is also what you are willing to pay.