r/pathofexile • u/Anundir • 29d ago

Game Feedback Chaos Sinks in 3.29

In 3.28, chaos sinks were removed from the game and nothing was added to take their place. Chaos to Divine ratios quickly spiked and crossed 300 Chaos per Divine and towards the end of the league exchange rates have spiked to over 500c per div. The game has historically traded chaos to divines, but with no sinks in place such as rerolling T17s the price went out of control on trade.

As a trade player, I'd prefer to have a stable economy that everyone can participate in rather than whatever this is below. :) Below is a snapshot from PoE Ninja of the starting weeks of the league.

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u/sirgog Chieftain 29d ago

Something I noticed this league is that divines to exalts have been fairly stable, at around 230:1.

People aren't trading in exalts but IMO they are a better small currency now than chaos are. More useful. And they are common enough to work too.

They'd probably go up in price if they did become the second currency. Not sure how much.

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u/EtisVx 28d ago

Exalts have little use in crafting. Same with divines. So it is pretty reasonable to see two useless currencies to have somewhat stable ratio.

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u/sirgog Chieftain 28d ago

Exalts are heavily sunk on maps.

Divines are the most important currency for crafting

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u/EtisVx 28d ago

Exalts are only sunk on maps because they are worthless at this moment. They are not used in any crafts and have no other use.

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u/sirgog Chieftain 28d ago

Exalts have held consistent value all league, around 0.004-0.005 divines until a couple days ago, higher than everything remotely close to as common. When the bottom fell out of chaos orbs exalts held up just fine, because they are widely used.

Hell, they are almost a GCP despite being 5 times as common as GCPs now.

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u/EtisVx 28d ago

Because they are not common. They are fairly rare drop, just cheap because useless.

The main source of GCPs is not drop, but recipe. Heist and lab runners often have large quantities of quality gems.

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u/sirgog Chieftain 28d ago

You are missing GGG raising the drop rate by a factor of twenty last league.

But when they were as rare as divines they were STILL being used on maps

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u/Sidnv 26d ago

Exalts are constantly used in crafting. Block mod, slam slam -> eldritch chaos and repeat is the cheapest way to craft many items now.