Guides
Path of Exile gem economics
Field notes from running poegems.net — how the mechanics work, where the markets behave, and what the numbers in the tables actually mean.
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Gem leveling as a money-making strategy
8 min readWhy buying cheap level 1 gems and selling them at max level is one of the most reliable, low-risk currency flips in Path of Exile, and which gems actually pay off.
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Vaal Orb corruption: when it pays, when it loses
10 min readThe four-outcome model behind every Vaal Orb roll, what each outcome is worth in practice, and how to spot the gems where the math actually clears.
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Why some corrupted gem listings cost 100× the uncorrupted version
6 min readA single-stat L20 corrupted gem has the same effective power as the uncorrupted version, but the listed price is sometimes orders of magnitude higher. The economics of why, and how this site corrects for it.
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How to read the leveling-profit table
7 min readA walkthrough of every column, filter, and indicator on the leveling page — what each one means, when to trust it, and how to use the table to actually buy and sell gems.