How to use the PoE2 trade site: searching, filters and buying on PC and console
By Almost · · 6 min read
The Path of Exile 2 trade site is where players buy and sell items. It is powerful and not very friendly. Here is how to find an item, narrow the results, read the prices and buy — on PC, PlayStation or Xbox.
The short answer
Go to pathofexile.com/trade2 and sign in with the account you play on.
Search by base and mods; widen with a Count group when nothing comes up.
Buy with Travel to Hideout while the game is running.
How to open the PoE2 trade site and sign in
The trade site lives at pathofexile.com/trade2. Sign in with the account you play on. You can search without signing in, but a signed-in search may hold more filters, and buying needs it.
Pick your league at the top of the page. Each league has its own market, and an item listed in Standard cannot be bought from a challenge league.
How to search the PoE2 trade site for an item
Name or base: type the item’s name for a unique, or its base for a rare — Siege Crossbow, Ornate Belt.
Type filters: narrow by category, rarity, item level and quality.
Stat filters: add each mod you need, with a minimum.
Search. Results come sorted by price, cheapest first, across currencies.
Start broad: ask for the three or four mods that matter first, and add the rest once you see what is for sale. A search for every mod of a guide’s item at its rolls usually finds nothing.
How to use Count and Weighted Sum filters in PoE2 trade
Stat filters sit in groups, and the group’s type changes the search:
And — the item must have every mod in the group. The default.
Count — the item must have at least N of the mods in the group. Put the mods you could live without here and ask for, say, 3 of 5.
Weighted Sum — each mod gets a weight, and an item must reach a minimum total. Signed out, the trade site often refuses such a search as too complex; signing in raises the limit.
Count finds the bargains: an item that misses one mod you could live without is often far cheaper.
How to buy items in PoE2: Travel to Hideout
Most listings in Path of Exile 2 can be bought at once. Press Travel to Hideout on the listing, with the game running: your character travels to the seller’s hideout, and you buy the item there. The seller cannot refuse the sale — so a listing priced too low by mistake is yours if you press first.
The status filter at the top decides which listings you see. Instant Buyout shows only what Travel to Hideout can buy; Any shows everything.
PoE2 trade prices: exalted, chaos and divine orbs
Sellers ask in different currencies. The trade site converts them when it sorts, so the cheapest comes first whatever the currency. In Path of Exile 2 a chaos orb is worth more than an exalted orb, and a divine orb is worth hundreds of exalted orbs; the rate moves every day.
To buy orbs in bulk, use the game’s Currency Exchange, not item listings.
How to trade in PoE2 on console (PlayStation and Xbox)
PC, PlayStation and Xbox players share one market: every platform plays the same leagues, and a console player’s listings sit beside a PC player’s. To use the trade site from a console:
Open pathofexile.com/trade2 in a browser on your phone or computer.
Sign in with the account your console plays on; the login page offers PlayStation Network.
Search as above. A PlayStation player reports that Travel to Hideout, pressed in a browser on a laptop, sent the console character to the seller’s hideout while the game was running.
When the trade site is not enough
The trade site sorts by price, and a cheap item may miss the one mod your build is made of. It finds items; it cannot tell you which one comes closest to your guide’s.
Almost, a free Chrome extension, makes that comparison mod by mod. Press its badge on an item in a Mobalytics guide, or paste the guide’s trade link at almost.trade, and in about 30 seconds you see the best items for their price, each with how close it is and what it gives up. Read a worked example in How to gear your PoE2 build from a guide — and pay less, and other tools for other jobs in PoE2 trade tools compared.
