Path Of Exile: An Illustrated Adventure - Page 2

Birdie

New Zealand4438 Posts

September 24 2011 10:20 GMT

#21

On September 24 2011 00:54 MyLastSerenade wrote:
would be nice if u could add something about the currency mechanic in this game, i read something about no gold, but they implemented items for trading.
sounds intersting.

http://www.pathofexile.com/news/2011-02-08/dev-diary-currency but that's a bit outdated. Basically there's currently no gold, and you buy and sell items via currency items. The most common currency item is a Scroll of Wisdom. Scrolls of Wisdom identify unknowb items so you know what properties they possess. There are also whetstones, orbs of transmutation, etc. All the currency items have a use other than buying items. Currently you can't sell items but when you can you'll be able to get a certain combination and amount of useful currency items in exchange for your item. Not sure how player to player trading works as I haven't had time to try it out

Dacendoran

United States825 Posts

September 24 2011 15:15 GMT

#22

If you're looking for someone to do a duo story with I just got into the beta as well and this inspired me to start my own blog! I'm going to play some kind of fighter class

MyLastSerenade

Germany710 Posts

September 25 2011 10:12 GMT

#23

On September 24 2011 19:20 zany_001 wrote:

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yes thats what i read so far, sounds really intersting. they did this because they saw how in d2 the most things were payed with SoJ´s for example or gems. But that u can exchange items at vendors for this " currency items " is nice. In the videos i saw dropped many Scrolls of Wisdom and some kind of orbs the color of this items were already different so it was kind of obvious that these are the currency items they talked about.

Ghin

United States2391 Posts

September 25 2011 10:48 GMT

#24

I'm not sure if I feel it's "nice." It's more that Diablo 2 failed hardcore at having a form of valuable currency. In Path of Exile, you have less options for buying things from ingame vendors. Basically you trade in things like portal scrolls, identify scrolls, and other random transmutative items for poor/low quality vendor items. Normal quality items usually sell for 2x identify 2x portal scrolls. Magic items usually take some other transmutative item that you're probably better off saving to use later on. So far the vendors haven't been selling anything good at any price I can afford. If this isn't entirely clear, I'll try to write something later to clean up any holes.

I've had a bit of computer trouble while attempting to write an update, so I've given up until tomorrow.