Path Of Exile | Market Friday 2019
Been a while since I’ve invaded one of these with a gaming post! While it’s more like market Sundays for me where all the players are out and about buying and getting set up. So, when they come home during the week they can just sit down and game! I felt it was fitting to share a bit of some craziness that pursued last Sunday one of my biggest market days to date. Along with some of my biggest trades over that weekend.
As often times during the many past weeks I was too lazy to try and price or list new items for sale. I also had a necromancer I wanted to gear up since he now could wear much better gear. So my own stash space just becomes overflowing with items that I may or may not try and sell. Unless I was for certain it was just junk or I was just too lazy to think about it.
My Market Sales
There are a few different kinds of items I sold, armor, weapons, cards, jewels, and other stuff. After a little while of cleaning up my many tabs, I started to move in items as they sold to the one I have for selling. Everyone in this stash tab gets to pick up by the game’s API and listed on a few different websites that pull information from it.
Then a player contacts you in the game trying to buy the item. If you agree you invite them into your group and you meet. Most of the time it is in the seller’s hideout.
Cards
The cards themselves you need to collect a set and then you turn them into an NPC for whatever the item that card awards. While some of the cards might tell you exactly what you get like 20 Orbs of Fussing (used for linking sockets on items together) others might give you say a random belt out of a pool of possible belt. Most of these cards have a bit of a gaming style of risk to them since the people buying, collecting, and turning in are hoping for the best possible item. While myself the seller just wants currency right away and not having to take a massive risk.
While most of the cards sold for around 1 Orb of Alchemy (around 1/3 of a Chaos Orb) there were a few that I get several Chaos for. As such, I can’t just wildly toss them up into my single sales tab that I own. I need to check comparable on a site like PathofExile/trade to see the comparison of what everyone else is selling an item for. Then decide do I undercut, list as same, or do I think the item is being undervalued.
Jewels
These fit into a player socket in their skill tree and provide some kind of benefit. They can be a bit more complex to price and take longer to look up since there are so many different ranges and different kinds of stats that could be listed. Some are vendor trash and others could be worth a small fortune.
I always find these a bit hard to price as they require deep knowledge in what class builds are popular and what they need for that build. So I start now that I think is the high end and I reduce my price every half. Lowest I ever go on any of them will be one Orb of Alchemy. Since they only take up one slot in my stash tab I’m not too concerned if they take longer to sell.
I had a lot of these up for sale and other tabs full of them. At end of the day, I tossed out some of the more junky feeling ones just to clean up some space. Some of them could be such a rare use case it could take weeks till a single buyer contacts you looking to acquire it. Unless it’s worth big bucks I don’t always hold onto them.
Amour And Weapons
One of the faster-selling items that I tend to get a few of are what I would call leveling items. Most of them like this amulet has no level requirement or a very low requirement. While they are not worth a lot they sometimes depending on demand and supply shoot up in price a few times over.
My biggest mover happened to be Blackheart Iron rings. I sell them for three Alchemy each and ended up selling all four I had. I only place one of them at a time into the sell tab just so I can pull out quickie the one I have for sale and don’t have to make sure it’s the correct one. While they are rather similar there are some stat ranges and I don’t want someone to feel like they been cheated. I also might have a few trades going on at a time so I don’t want that to slow me down double checking.
Trading Madness Sunday
Once I had a few items for sale set up I made my stash tab public so the API would pick it up and I could start getting trades while also price checking, listing, and dealing with a customer at the same time. Sunday was my longest day where I was at it for a few hours.
Sometimes I had no sale for 10 mins other times I would have three people lined up in my hideout waiting for the person in front of them to make the trade. These are just some random screenshots I took so you get the idea of the process of someone contact asking to buy an item.
Here is one of the random customers who joined my hideout and I’ll be trading with shortly. I was not running any maps at the time that was just the last one I ran. I like the looked of open portals in the upper left. There was too much going on I would never have been able to clean a map nine out of ten times. So it was just quicker to get a bunch of trades done all at once.
This was one of my trades I had that Sunday. The guy was buying an enlighten gem that grants bonus XP towards anything it was linked with. They are very slow to level up and can be worth a fortune. I got 23 Chaos Orbs for the deal and I did not have to do any of the extra work. Players are upgrading them when raiding the right Syndicate members but that more work then I want to do for it and beyond the scope of this post!
Profits From Sunday
I ended up mostly selling a bunch of smaller items for one Orb of Alchemy each. They are the currency on the right-hand side. While I could convert those to Chaos Orbs the stuff you see on the left-hand side I will, in fact, use them. As such this saves me from having to do a few player trades to make the exchange.
All in all, it was a great day I made around 56 Chaos Orbs. While that not a lot I also did not have to do much for it. I also just find it relaxing as I get to watch some videos while I chat with people. Some junk I vender to just make room for later on. I now also have organized and more space to store stuff! Ah, the cycle starts all over again.
My biggest trade happened during last weekend as well. I punched 2 Tul’s Breachstones for around 65 Chaos Each and I upgraded them to Pure Breachstones which sold for around 126 Chaos Orbs each. Netting a profit of 61 Chaos Orbs each. Which was more then I made on my sale Sunday! Players trying to reach the level cap of 100 often times grind these out with very crazy gear hoping to turn massive profits. I’ll have to try one at some point. They are supposed to be a great experience.
Necromancer
I also did some shopping for my newish alt that I been leveling up. She got a new chest that you can see her wearing in this screenshot.
Most of these items that she is wearing I went out and just bought as well on the same day. The Vis Mortis Necromancer Silks where 3 Exalted Orbs (around 510 Chaos Orbs at the time). It would take many market days to make that kind of money back! Thankfully I luck out and have had two Exalted Orbs drop so far off monsters!
Everything else I bought was mostly ten Chaos Orbs or less. I upgraded some of it since so I don’t recall quite all that she had. I was mostly just looking to max out resistance and pick up some Dexterity for item and skill requirements.
Special Thanks
I always have fun making one of these Market Friday posts. The ones I make are quite different then what anyone else shares. As most people are sharing about different markets they have around the world. As such I’m a bit off the odd duck out when I make a gaming post around it.
It is run by the very amazing @Dswigle! These are always treated when I have time to check them out. Have an amazing weekend!
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Screenshots were taken and content written by @Enjar. Screenshots are from the game Path of Exile.
I love the out of the box posts for things like marketfriday. I have been selling things on EOS knights, but haven't got to the stage of buying in hopes of reselling. There are a couple of gems in the game I'm pretty comfortable if they reach a certain price again I'll start buying with hopes of reselling, but storage is expensive in that game and you don't want it to sit too long in your bags or it just becomes annoying.
Looks like a profitable couple weekends of trading. Are chaos orbs the money in that game. I'm assuming it's the equivalent of gold in world of warcraft where lower money builds up to chaos orbs or no?
It’s one of many different kinds. While it’s not worth the most everything is rather based off of it when you think of in terms of price.
All our currencies are useable in crafting or in other ways. It’s what the players have chosen to use for bartering.
At least in my mind I tend to think of Mirror of Kalandra (168 Exalted) (I’ve never have one nor will ever be rich enough to have one) > Exalted Orbs (190 Chaos Orbs and increasing every day) > Chaos orbs > Alchemy (about 1/3 of a Chaos. There are currency with price points in between Exalted and Alchemy but those fluctuation a lot more depending on player need.
https://www.pathofexile.com/trade/exchange/Betrayal
Since I play in a limited time league that will move over to standard league and I'll start over again fresh when a newer league opens.
Mirror of Kalandra are worth so much no one is rich enough to pay a fair price for one. Granted 168 Exalted more or less set you up for an entire league. My most expensive toon so far I've spent less then 4 Exalted on for his gear. I'm making a new alt that going cost a lot more.
One these days I got get around to testing that game out. I’ll have hit you up for a referral link when I do. Might try and fund my fun over there with exchanging some Steem. Not really sure what is a good “budget” to even get started in that game.
Hit me up and I'll give you some guidelines on EOS needed getting started. Nothing except an EOS account is needed because there is an end game currency and EOS currency used to purchase in game items.
It's more of what's needed to set-up an EOS account + 0.1 EOS to purchase the first toon, but like I said a little more EOS is required for other things.
I don't think you'll enjoy it as I'm much more of a passive gamer now that one who has a few hours to devote to a game. This is a game that would be enjoyed while playing POE or watching a movie. Almost like an idle game.
Hit me up and I'll give you some guidelines on EOS needed getting started. Nothing except an EOS account is needed because there is an end game currency and EOS currency used to purchase in game items.
It's more of what's needed to set-up an EOS account + 0.1 EOS to purchase the first toon, but like I said a little more EOS is required for other things.
I don't think you'll enjoy it as I'm much more of a passive gamer now that one who has a few hours to devote to a game. This is a game that would be enjoyed while playing POE or watching a movie. Almost like an idle game.
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Oh! Well played @enjar!! Oh, you have my head spinning right around right now!
Oh!! Mirror of Kalandra ?? Not in my lifetime! Besides, this game is not for the faint at heart or the empty-pocketed. I love when you make a #MarketFriday post. They are different and quite fun AND educational. :))
I try to get out of the box when I can, although this week I actually went to a home show, but, a few weeks back I went to a Chinese Lantern Festival and I like to mix it on up so people will know we are very liberal in what I call a Market!
Mix it up and drag it on over! We love it! I think that you should give lessons on how to play the game. You sould over-educated in it! ;)
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Always a blast to join! I hope in the future to have another game that fits into something like this.
I was just down to Daytona beach but did not have time to visit the flea market. Something I still want do this year and get a lot of photos. That should make some fun posts!
Before I forget to take one and put it all away. Have a wonderful week!
Well, you know I love it when you join! And the fact that you take it out of the box, I love it even better! Thanks for giving us a peek at your beautiful Christmas tree oh, you know how I love Christmas and I appreciate the last look. I hope you have a wonderful day and a superior week.
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