Currency Items in Path of Exile 2 are essential for crafting and upgrading equipment. They have various effects such as upgrading the quality of the item or its affixes. These items are mostly used for crafting but are also used for trading and bartering with players. Hence the name Currency Items.
All Currency Items
Here are all the Currency Items in Path of Exile 2, their effects, and how to get them.
- Effect: Improves the quality of Staffs, Wands, and Sceptre.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops or Artisan’s Strongboxes.
- Effect: Increases the quality of Armor pieces
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Adds a socket to Martial Weapons or Armor
- How to Get: Salvage socketed equipment.
Artificer’s Shard
- Effect: Stacking 10 Shards turns it into an Artificer’s Orb.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Improves the quality of Martial Weapons.
- How to Get: Salvage items of high quality.
Chance Shard
- Effect: Stacking 10 Shards turns it into a Chance Orb.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Replaces a modifier on any gear, except for uniques, with a random new one.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
Chaos Shard
- Effect: Stacking 10 Shards turns it into a Chaos Orb.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Randomize the values of modifiers on an item.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops and Arcanist's Strongboxes.
Essence
- Effect: Turns a normal item into a magic one with one guaranteed modifier
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Augments a Rare item with a new random modifier.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
Exalted Shard
- Effect: Stacking 10 Shards turns them into an Exalted Orb.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Improves the quality of a skill gem
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops or Artisan’s Strongboxes.
- Effect: Improves the quality of a flask
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops or Artisan’s Strongboxes.
Greater Essence
- Effect: Turns a magic item into a rare one with one guaranteed modifier
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Adds a Support Gem Socket to a Skill Gem with 3 Support Gem Sockets.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Adds a Support Gem Socket to a Skill Gem with 2 Support Gem Sockets.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Upgrades a Normal item into a Rare item with 4 modifiers.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
Orb of Annulment
- Effect: Randomly removes a modifier from any item.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Augments a Magic item with a new random modifier.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops or disenchant equipment.
- Effect: Upgrades a Normal item to a Unique rarity or destroys it.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Upgrades a Normal item to a Magic item with one modifier.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops or disenchant Magic equipment.
- Effect: Adds a Support Gem Socket to a Skill Gem with 4 Support Gem Sockets.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Adds an affix and converts Magic items into Rare items.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
Regal Shard
- Effect: Stacking 10 Shards turns it into a Regal Orb.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Identifies items players pick up
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
Transmutation Shard
- Effect: Stacking 10 Shards turns them into an Orb of Transmutation.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops.
- Effect: Corrupts an item and modifies it unpredictably.
- How to Get: Acquire from Monster Drops or complete the Trial of Chaos.
