Path of Exile 3.25 - Settlers of Kalguur (2024)

mogbert said:

I'll probably update the page later, maybe. I'm just kind of futzing around right now. I think at the end of the league my character gets thrown over to that Standard section and I can keep playing them right?

How are stashes handled with new leagues? Is the stash constant between standard and leagues?

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What sort of things should I be sure to hold onto as I'm leveling up, other then currency and maps (when they eventually drop)? I've gotten some sort of gems that I should be able to socket on the sphere grid, but not the ones I want, do I vendor them, try and sell them? Are there levels and qualities (and I don't understand "quality" yet, just found a gem that said it was a higher quality). Not knowing what I'm doing, I'm mostly just trying to put the gems that I will eventually use somewhere so they can level up.

But I have a bunch of gems in my stash, and some weaker equipment that has some nice slots. Do you pick equipment based solely on slots, or do you hold out until you can get a rare piece that has just the right slots on it?

What about low level uniques?

Basically what I'm trying to find out is if I need to be holding onto anything as I'm leveling since I'm not sure what will be happening to the stash. When a new League starts, do you start completely fresh with nothing in the stash and a blank character? Do you think I should start my character over in the new league or finish playing the game in standard?

PoE seems to be a Jenga stack of game mechanics added on top of each other from different "free" versions, each one designed in order to make you need to buy a new $15 tab for your stash, which they will then put on sale for $12.

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This is very stream of consciousness, and I apologize, but I'm trying to also work

At the end of the league, all characters are moved to Legacy league (or Hardcore Legacy). Nothing comes over to the new league, but you can continue to play in legacy. Legacy has some features from previous leagues, but some league features just get dropped.

Some items have quality. For armor it increases the defense values. For weapons it increases base damage (and maybe the +% crit for daggers?). For gems, it makes them better. How the gems becomes better varies based on the whims of Grinding Gear Games (GGG). Some skills get cheaper. Some do more damage. Others get a quicker cooldown. Summon gems tend to summon more things. The wiki will tell you. Without special effects, quality goes to 20%. If you find a gem with 19% or 20% quality, it will sell for a higher rate. You can increase the quality of items using loot. Weapons use whetstones. Armor uses ??. Gems need gemcutter's prisms. Maps need chisels. Weapons and armor often drop with 8 to 11% quality, but the UI doesn't do a lot to show you. If you sell several pieces of weapons than have a combined total of 40%, you get a whetstone (or a single item with 20%). Armor, gems and maps work the same (although I'm not sure it's worth it for maps.) White objects get 5% quality from a <whetstone>. Magic items of any kind get 1%. If you're going to use a chaos orb on a white item to make it yellow, you should throw four <whetstones> on it first, to get it to 20%.

Thinks that sell for currency other than just scroll scraps are magic or rare, which give shards of the same type xxx or chaos. You can also sell quality items to get <whetstones>. The other thing to sell is any item that has a linked green, red, and blue socket. That gives prismatic orbs, which will change the socket colors on an item.

People who go really fast to get to the end game and start making money just ignore 90% of the drops, except for rare and prismatic items. I personally like to play a little slower, so I also pick up most magic items. When my inventory is full, I portal back to town and sell everything then put the orbs and shards into my stash. You can got to filterblade.xyz and download a filter than will make most of the drops not appear, but the great ones will make gongs and drums and horns to let you know something cool has dropped.

The other thing to keep are cards, some of which sell for multiple exalted orbs.

If you think you're going to make a second character later in the same league, keep low level uniques that are suitable for the planned character, otherwise just sell them. If you haven't bought any stashes, wait until the next combined stash tab sale and you'll get one of each of the special ones, between that and the starting tabs, you'll be fine. Most of the special items that have a extra stash show up rarely, so wether it's worth buying the special tab is debatable. I bought them because I like the game enough to give the devs more than $0, but YMMV.

The gems for the sphere grid are called jewels. You can try to sell them via the /trade channel, but how to price them correctly requires another several posts. If they don't suit my build (and some builds never bother with jewels at all), I just throw them in my guild stash and someone eventually sells them or just destroys them to make room.

If you get a gem to level 20 (requires your character to get to the mid 90s), you can vendor it to get back a 20% quality gem of the same type, at level 1.

Slots make the build more than the numbers on the equipment in most cases, so just try to upgrade your equipment in place to newer stuff with the same slots. If you find it as a white item, quality it up to 20% then throw a chaos on it and you'll be fine until you find a higher level item or get well into the end game.