How the RICHEST Players get their Currency EARLY

So ye, there you have it. This video isn't a "do exactly this" sort of a guide, but more-so a mentality guide, what you need to think about, what you need to UNDERSTAND. And no, there isn't any secrets, that's really all there is to it.
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0:00 - Focusing on Day 1-3
1:08 - Disclaimer #1 - HIDEOUT WARRIOR VIDEO
1:55 - Disclaimer #2 - DOES NOT REQUIRE TO PLAY NONSTOP
2:50 - Common Knowledge
3:30 - Who has Currency?
5:10 - Focus on GROUPS Day 1
7:00 - Who gets GEAR EARLY?
8:20 - The Pushers
10:50 - Affix Rolls & Divination Cards
12:30 - Toxic Rain Example
13:00 - What do people buy?
14:35 - Focus on providing DAMAGE
16:10 - First BIG Purchases (DAMAGE)
19:00 - SPLIT YOUR 6 LINKS (Div Cards)
20:30 - ilvl matters - 86 vs 84 vs 73
23:00 - Divination Cards (Damage & Speed)
24:45 - Legion Example (Cylone META)
26:50 - Expedition Example (Spectre META)
28:40 - ONLY THE LADDER MATTERS
29:30 - DO NOT GAMBLE
30:45 - Focusing on "CC Warriors"
32:55 - How to TARGET them?
38:00 - EVERY CHAOS MATTERS EARLY
39:45 - Getting Started (Currency, Uniques & Prophecies)
42:10 - ANY Profit is better than None
43:55 - Our own Failure (Expedition Duo Experience)
45:25 - League Start are DYNAMIC (Unpredictable)

[@pathofmatth]

*** I AM NOT DELETING COMMENTS. IT SEEMS KZbin IS REMOVING THEM AUTOMATICALLY, I DO NOT KNOW WHY!!! ***** Long, theory, I told you it wouldn't be all that glorious, but to those who take the information and work with it... This is LITERALLY what you need to click in your head to truly succeed and outdue everyone else in the currency game! Also, who made it far enough in to hear those dogs going at it?

[@Franek_Kimono666]

Hi Matt, question. How do you start. How to get initial money to start flipping. This league I had 18c when I started mapping. For this to work you need some currency in like 5-6 hour after league start. How do you get it. Even if you want to flip your first Tabula you need like 14-16c to get 9 cards for one. I have no idea ho to get it in 5 hours after league start. Usually I am in act 4-5 in that time lol and lucky to get 1c drop.

[@BassNuke]

@@Franek_Kimono666 Chaos recipe is big money early in the league and it is how he makes most of the starting money as well

[@key3david]

Amazing list! The biggest tip I can also provide: Craft for items that popular streamers use. I remember the league were empy played str stacking zombi. He had an insane strg amulet so I bought t1-t2 strg and all atribute amulets with open suffixes, slammed a warlord orb to get t1 inc strg. Cost about 2-3ex per try(Base sometimes a few c and warlord ex was I think 1.5 - 2 ex). It was a 1/7 to get t1 and it sold for 80-100ex each amulet. I made about 3-4 mirrors in just 2 weeks from that.

[@zxkredo]

Poe is a game where I see knowledge being the most powerful.

[@nictanwh]

careful what u say here. it might get nerfed.

[@zxkredo]

@@nictanwh good one hahahah

[@kanatsumirain3338]

Life is also similar.

[@sal1764]

I think that goes for everything

[@cooldudep]

Game is literally real life simulator. Knowledge is everything.

[@Glemondota]

Good contents, but in a league start, how can i have my first couple ex or even chaos to craft or flip?

[@LaudieTV]

Hey Mat, Love your vids just suggesting that you increase your mic reception a bit. I listen to you a lot during chores at home basically downtime from playing. And most of the time volume is too low. More power man!

[@ivylilybasket]

Yep, the sound is way too low, I had to up youtube 100% and windows sound nearly double what I normally have and still could barely hear it...

[@jeyserreacts3444]

@@ivylilybasket i mean its a bit low but god damn i think ur headphones might be broken...

[@ivylilybasket]

@@jeyserreacts3444 It's not, I usually put vids to hear in the background when I play POE and the worst feeling is when I have to lower POE game sounds to be able to hear the video behind it despite youtube being at 100% and POE's master volume being at 5%. Playing any other video is fine and usually I can play them on less than 100% youtube sound and still hear them fine.

[@flateric4815]

sound is great, check your headphones or settings

[@StoneDeceiver]

wont change, been telling him for like 2 leagues

[@d1jn]

Great guide! Thanks for your effort.

[@joonnieguerra7223]

I made 100 chaos from selling lvl1 forbidden right gems at 1c each, bought them from npc. Helped me fast league start🤣

[@G33KST4R]

Big brain 🧠😭😭

[@paxtonjolly7975]

I used offerings to open trial portals and then gave away portals for tips. Offerings were 8c and people would tip between 1 and 10c, i often made 40+c per offering

[@beasthaven1571]

@@paxtonjolly7975 giga 🧠

[@beasthaven1571]

How did you know that gem was going to be good to sell at start or did you buy a bunch of new gems and then sell them and see which one sold the fastest or most?

[@joonnieguerra7223]

@@beasthaven1571 it wasn't at day 1, i rush to maps first day of the league at day 2 people that main FR where talking so much about it and a lot of people where saying about reroll to it, so i whent and bought 100 gems to see if people wanted to buy them of market, they did.

[@dbzwarlord]

How much time do you spend actually playing, or what amount of currency do you try to accumulate, before you stop playing and become a hideout warrior?

[@myownhaven1601]

Nice juicy video. How about how to get currency to start flipping? Like you know, the epilogue before this strategy starts to roll as a solo player?

[@Vyn64]

Really appreciate pulling back the curtain on the mindset for making bank early. Gonna get to implement some of this next league!

[@wshc]

9:22 take the time to appreciate the day 1 warriors’ names

[@youteubakount4449]

hey! what are the resources you mentioned about crafting clusters?

[@alijaved2654]

Hey Matth, great video. I was just wondering at what point into the game should I focus on hideout warrior (i.e. premaps, white maps, etc)? I watched your other video on how you made money, but it was a combination between you farming bosses and someone else flipping. I'm just wondering how I can do something similar as a solo player.

[@MrRaja]

You start doing it after you have around one exalt worth of Chaos. Sometimes it's better to bosses instead of trading. Sometimes you trade for shaper sets and then just do shaper and then sell Uber elder sets for profit.

[@pathofmatth]

You can start trading before you even get to act 5 kitava, what a lot of good traders do is get to like the ledge, or the city of sarns of chamber of sins, some place with good monster density in early acts and farm rares, ID them and vendor for Alts, and then trade alts for chaos and just flip currency, alcs / regrets / chaos / fusings / jewelers / scours, they are all good. This gets them their first 10-20c and they do fated uniques until they can do div cards

[@keebell]

I would highly recommend semi ho warrior style in blood aqueduct. Equip sadimas, perandus blazon, 2x andvarius rings for sweet 18 quant 160%+ rarity and spam chaos recipe + livesearch for cards/flips all the time. If you are fast enough, that could be better than alch and go white maps, and it can easily net you more c/hour with juicy league mechanics (not expedition for sure). It's safer, faster and you can leave aqueduct at any time for quick trade.

[@anathema1828]

Thanks for the video!

[@Klasus357]

Nice video! Thanks for revealing the secrets of the early market.

[@StinkyBean989]

The most honest, well explained PoE vid I've ever seen! Thanks for sharing Matt as always. Hope you're having a great day :)

[@henrikswanstrom9218]

Thanks for still making the best PoE content for people playing trade league, despite this league being dead right now.

[@nazagipham7288]

hideout warrior will always be the best build. notthing can match that xD

[@Tsekeflime]

Want that divination card video :D

[@Logined85]

Now that you made guide of it, this will become less effective for so many people definitely tries that the next league.

[@alecaboss1073]

in solo oriented game, economy is run by 1% of players which are groups, well played GGG

[@bamxz9336]

Lol

[@alecaboss1073]

@@bamxz9336 have something to say tough guy?

[@brucejje]

P.s. u can be 50% hideout warrior 50% leveling in acts(just need a few portal scrolls) Source: me Didn't know the 6link stuff was a hideout warrior tactic? It's the first thing I do when I get some chaos, seems like i'll have more competition next-league... Let's just hope player numbers increase, that way it won't matter.

[@Digital_Renaissance81]

Now what build are we going to focus? 3.16 Aurabots nerfed

[@JackJGX]

Do you think this still stands after the aurabot nerf? will groups still funnel all their currency into aurabots in the first 16 hour?

[@pathofmatth]

We need patch notes to really get a good idea of what is going to happen, it could go both ways for now

[@xElMery]

We need this video with the Sigma grindset background music

[@georgewilliamgutarracampos6262]

I do not know much, but last league I made some currency selling shaper fragments. But to be honest, after five or six times I got bored because of the mechanics.

[@jakub895]

Nice

[@stripedmilo]

"Best currency making strat: Sell expensive items!!" Ok, how do we get those items, especially at league start? "No get!!!!! Only sell!!!!!!1!"

[@000ShiningTiger000]

If he said anything about any good items that are desirable and hiw to get them at league start that strat will immediately become no longer viable. Use your own time, research and engineering skills to figure out how to get these items that are desirable.

[@fyregrass5348]

WOW Not even doing a 2 Hour Video on Day 1/2 Grand Heist. ANGERY FACE

[@SuperCinemaLife]

Where i can check cluster craft document?

[@pathofmatth]

Check out elesshar cookbook

[@Votexforxme]

Easyest way for generating currency for the pleps and casuals and guideuser for builds: Always buy as many Divine orbs as you can as long as they go for under 5c ea. w8 a bit and you suddently turned it into a few extra exalted and depending on your investment and cost you started buying you can nearly make 8x the ammount back. thats how i did the lazy way of getting my HH this league.

[@Blubiblub1]

How did you get 8x the amount back if divines are only 10c now. Investing into exalts or investing into new items to sell for profit seems much more profitable

[@Votexforxme]

@@Blubiblub1 sry for late response, the key is bulk you can always sell much higher in bulk becasue ppl pay extra for the time they are not spending buying 1 at a time. and in the first 24h on a league divine's are always 1-2c.

[@akpade]

What ? A divine is 250c, I don't get it

[@Votexforxme]

@@akpade Youre a bit late on the party! This comment was writen wellllllll before they butchered the drops. Edit: And i didnt play at all after they yet again lied to its own player base.

[@akpade]

@@Votexforxme Oh ok that's unfortunate :/

[@lemonelderflower2619]

very nice video! the aurabot-selling is indeet very profitable

[@zandiskoul]

makes me wonder who bought my shit for 32 exalts in prophecy on day 3. A duper or GGG spawning them in to keep the market strong? Only 7 were sold on poe.trade at the time.

[@KyomaGaming]

really nice video! But sir, i wanna make money now, early days are already gone :( anything coming up about making currency in this league?

[@terranova8890]

"You might have to watch it a few times" "Glances at 50 minutes video" Ok dude.

[@Sammysapphira]

Spectacular video Your content is nearly unmatched in terms of endgame minmax strats Don't let the nay sayers get to you

[@pathofmatth]

Thanks man :)

[@megasmit]

I hate that its always 'and then craft it'

[@phaZZi6461]

guide also applies to real life

[@titolovely8237]

the richest players generally play in groups and have clear, defined strategies from the outset of a league, good game knowledge, and are online alot for trades. it's not really rocket science. it's basically similar to having money irl, where most wealthy people are working with other wealthy people to pursue a clearly defined goal, work all the time, and are highly competent/knowledgeable within their sphere/market.

[@pathofmatth]

that's actually wrong, and a very common misconception, the richest players in PoE are almost all entirely solo players or they duo for a short period (typically early league) like 3 days to a week and then go solo. It's much easier to make 25 mirrors solo during a league than to make 50 as a duo or 100 as a group of 4.

[@devourr461]

Hey Math you answered me but my comment is gone since that i cannot read it fully :/

[@pathofmatth]

YO WTF COMMENTS ARE ACTUALLY DISSAPEARING WTF KZbin

[@UnbalancedChaos]

5min into the video and it's made me realize that i've been playing PoE wrong >.

[@pathofmatth]

well, to some, this isn't considered "playing" at all, either way, there's no WRONG way to play PoE, whatever you enjoy is what matters

[@UnbalancedChaos]

@@pathofmatth That's true..I still need to finish watching the rest of your video but there are some good things in that I can incorporate into my game. So this is a real eye opener for me. Thanks Matth!

[@dakzikat3856]

Every chaos matters is really a good statement. I was trading for quitty and he gave me maps and said its not much but sell em. Sold em all and ended on 90 ex in map sales. He was shocked lol

[@pathofmatth]

i didn't even know if quittyyy played this league XD but ye, early its extremely important to take everything you can get, because anything is still an advantage over most players nothing

[@dakzikat3856]

@@pathofmatth he is playing

[@frankie69]

this guy is the tom holland of path of exile

[@OnlyfansCustomerSupport]

Remembers me of those Guys Just finishing Story and buying an perfect 20% pandemonius with Double curse annoint for whatever the best cold damage annoint was called at that time .. for Like 9-11ex on day 1 2 ... And IT Just repeated itself same Kind of Just finished Story Guy with some Kind of "tornadoshot" in His Name ... :D one of Them even didnt have enough currency and CAME Back an hour later saying He got another 20ex ^^ ye rmt Kiddies are interesting and there IS a true Set Market for Them according to current meta .... So 3.19 leauge they will Play Flicker Stricke i guess ?

[@shortmuscle7223]

Ok I am going to put it out there... May I not getting this. I am Console POE user. When you start a New League, you start everything from scratch, you don't have access to your Stache, or previous skills. So how can you get all the stuff you need to craft, the crafting bench, the hideout, the materials to do all of this within the first 16-24 hours?

[@OnlyfansCustomerSupport]

Umm you seem very inexperienced ^^ but thats the Play ... You craft that Shit before the Others so you make the Cut you make the Money ... You need to be faster Then Most Players and have alot of hours in to understand this

[@aleksandyrveliki162]

people who buy exalts for real money have currency and dont really care for price.

[@pram6066]

Anyone have TLDR ?

[@PrivatesPlay]

i'm a simple man, i just need my old poe where i can farm and buy the stuff i need for my build, not gazillion mirror.

[@EAZUP]

I gave up on trading in this game.. I did items that's 5 ex or 50c and I try to sale for 1 ex or 25 c and STILL can't sell it all league. Makes no sense you would think people want a sale. But no. I don't understand this community with trade. You know why this happens everytime? Plz help I have tabs full of crap no one wants even if the sites say people want it

[@RickReasonnz]

So... TLDR is crafting? ehh.

[@raymund8775]

I’m definitely 90% a CC crafter lmfao

[@pathofmatth]

holy shit raymund, did you even play in 3.15? haven't heard of you in a whiiiiiile brother

[@raymund8775]

@@pathofmatth detox + best time to "get ur shit together" irl hahaha, but yeah i skipped 3.15 but occasionally lurk in poe streams

[@tttt-dx2nu]

why cant cant any POE player ever understand volume? good video aside from that

[@stempek121]

Hey mate, can you make sure while publishing videos that your audio levels are tweaked? I can barely hear you speaking while having my speakers really loud :(

[@pathofmatth]

Really? I actually raised the volume specifically for this one... I put more "gain" in my mic, its starting to sound a bit distorted. I'll try and see what I can do

[@stempek121]

@@pathofmatth You can try to use a limiter or compressor if your editing software allows for that and then raise gain on it.

[@gren4072]

@@pathofmatth Coming here to say that I have zero issues hearing you in this video. It sounded perfect to me.

[@flateric4815]

sound was great for me

[@Brii.Z]

Great video, but this again outlines the exact issue PoE has. Everything seems to need a guide, most are 15 - 25 min long, but this one is 45 min long. Is it really asking too much to make a game where a player can pick it up, play self found, wrangle any build together that looks good on paper, and finish all available content without having to look at (or even entertain the idea of looking at) a guide?

[@semma19]

No sleep strategy and ez money

[@Cheezer3089]

No life strategy you mean?😅

[@semma19]

@@Cheezer3089 funny how all the streamers that play 18 hours a day say u don't need to play a lot to get currency hahahha

[@Cheezer3089]

@@semma19 well... It's their job to play the game, so unless you become a streamer it very much does become a 2nd job in a way , especially after all those atlas watchstone nerfs .

[@phatschtuff]

They ALL R M T

[@michaelhogge8669]

Thanks again for spending time to educate us poor bastards you absolute legend

[@dotalikeaboss]

Sadge that this video came out after the league start... but still thanks tho

[@pathofmatth]

Well, I didn't think it would be asked for much, but it was a very common request since I made the league start weekend video, so I decided to make a more indepth video thats more-so about "why" and "how" than like "what we did", since the moment I make a video about "what we did" exactly, those methods will instantly decrease in profit, meanwhile a "why and how" is a lot more interesting for people who are willing to learn

[@classicbikerx3588]

Is it a secret, why you whispering?

[@firelordkushroll]

seems fine to me. do you ahve volume turned on? (video and monitor and mixer?)

[@classicbikerx3588]

@@firelordkushroll His audio vs any ads is drastically lower. An ad came up at the end and was distorting my speakers!

[@j45002]

The richest people become rich by banding together and hoarding synth items. Charging fees to mirror them and then buying the items from the sellers. You know who I'm talking about

[@shantanugupta4442]

So in summary : Step 1: Get currency Step 2: Use that currency to craft specific items Step 3: Sell those Items in bulk to snowball Step 4: Profit and repeat The problem is that the first step is the hardest for me. What should I do ?

[@onlyspeakingtruth5420]

u could try to farm it

[@jospie1]

league mechanic can get you a lot (tujen ftw), mapping and doing alva temples to sell them later, selling logooks etc

[@SNRDanY]

:)

[@zyntril6404]

Wait a sec why am I even watching this. 3.16 is most likely going to be worse than 3.15 since the next league is going to be smaller.

[@petrjara7559]

You spend 30 minutes explaining how "RICHEST Players get their Currency" and how crafting and flipping is the most profitable thing in the game and then you say most of rich lvl 80 players are buying currency for real...

[@petardinjo]

hahah THIS !!!

[@pupkin-qk8ql]

Its not true, you dont need to buy currency early to get rich, its very easy to exploit the poe market, as people are lazy and just dont care….

[@genewood4489]

How to get your currency early, be a streamer. The get early access and elevated drop rates.

[@shock7258]

this game should be easier, fuck having to know 1000 tactics

[@genewood4489]

Absolute truth

[@koopk1]

hideout warrior is so fucking boring, i do that shit for real life living, when i play the game, i want to play the game

[@pathofmatth]

Which is why I said that in the first 3 mins of the video. This isn't for everyone, it's about THE RICHEST players, not the players who make SOME or even A LOT of currency, you can do that while just playing the game for sure

[@AnonyMeowr]

ok everything in the video is fairly useful, but still think the ''you do not need to play 24/7'' is a lie because if you are just busy and miss the first few days or just play very little on those first days you basically made your snowballing impossible because after the first week all these methods become quite mediocre or not worth doing at all from scratch and you need to get to juicier crafting/bossing/strategies but good luck getting there because now you'll have a way harder time getting the necesary currency to reach those points. It's all about the start, and if you don't 24/7 it, you are going to need to invest way more time later on to reach the same point you could've in the first days. It's sad really because people with jobs, families, lifes in general, will have to either endure a super slow progression playin only a few hours a day or buy currency with real money so they can finally get the feel of a powerful build in their busy life, i'm in the first category and it's quite sad honestly. But hey, 30 hours all it took me to realize how awful is this league so i'm skipping it.

[@pathofmatth]

That's not true, my buddy started league day 6 and by day 13 he had over 1000 ex in value. He used the exact methods I spoke about in this video. Started crafting for a rising build, raider SST and focused on the items of the highest DPS users, gloves, weapons and shields. Made over 1k ex from bulk crafting. You just need to understand what people want and who has currency, the difference after the initial league start is that its no longer just groups or pushers, but a lot more players, so woke bulk crafting becomes very, very good

[@karlnord1429]

The RMT thing is why I play SSF. I can't handle P2W even if the game developer is against it. I just don't want to participate in that space.

[@nordmu]

yea same, i've decided to start playing ssf, every league i was just farming low tier currency and selling it to buy upgrades, it got really boring.

[@magscat493]

I usually play 1 week before end of league. I do this so i can just beg for end game items and then i'm set.

[@COWBLACKFPS]

Hahaha once at the end of the League I gifted my Headhunter in global Chat to the one who brings me to laugh with a 18+ Story. I was Messing around and expected no one to answer but People messaged crazy things xd

[@bluemario9101]

why are you deleting reviews

[@pathofmatth]

you mean comments? I haven't deleted a single comment, look down below, there's some english but not rlly comment that I don't even understand, and it's still there

[@bluemario9101]

@@pathofmatth You have removed 5 comments from my friends you a joke muupet

[@pathofmatth]

@@bluemario9101 I most certainly have not, and I looked a "under review" to make sure it wasn't blocked my youtube, and it's not. So ye, idk what you're talking about

[@kikkik444]

@@bluemario9101 what's going on

[@kikkik444]

@@bluemario9101 I want to know can you explain

[@neckolascage194]

all true but. BUT THERE'S PROBLEM THIS LEAGUE. Item even for TOP DPS BLA BLA BLA builds - NOT SELLING, and market is over saturated , NO DEMAND whatsoever. too many ppl left league this time.

[@Sammysapphira]

Then sell it cheaper Match the demand 70c now is better than 150c in 2 and a half weeks Remember that the prices that are currently posted are the prices of stuff that have NOT SOLD, not the price an item is actually worth

[@neckolascage194]

@@Sammysapphira i know my shit, even in this league i made more than patths duo, to be precise - 400ex. already quit today, since build variety is dogshit and ppl selling items for 50c-1ex profit when in previous leagues EVERYTHING i crafted was x2 price on market. and i know when im saying market is dead, it is. this is not healthy trade prices

[@L.Israel.A]

damn thats a lot of not saying what they do even at 2x speed

[@pathofmatth]

You trolling or you just can't listen? Pretty sure explaining what we do and exactly what I did

[@loganjackson90]

You contradict yourself so much u have no clue how to explain poe