trade you can find a lot of cheap path of exile items
Definitely. As someone who has avoided standard for quite some time and only played temp leagues: I was baffled by the prices when I played standard last week. If you use poe. trade you can find a lot of cheap items, but most of them are inactive users (not saying they quit, but often stopped playing for weeks).
If you're trying to buy stuff from online players like in challenge leagues you're going to pay exorbitant prices for average rares (the worst thing are gems. People want EXALTS for ~level 15-17 gems).
I assume the post I made sounds worse than I intended it to sound.
I wanted to try several CoC setups because I never played them, so I tried to buy level 15+ Arc/Ice Spear/Cold Snap/some other gems. While in general there are many people selling them for ~1 chaos, most of them were not online (and often offline for way more than one day). When I searched for them I was unable to find Ice Spear/Cold Snap for <1 exalt from someone that is currently online, searching for several hours while playing.
I just redid my search and the cheapest level 15+ Cold Snap that is currently online was listed for 5 chaos, with a total of 7 gems <1 exalt (to be fair, the rest are mostly 20Q gems, but that wasn't the case the last time I searched. Arctic Breath shows similar results).
When you actually take your time and search stuff over some time/PM a lot of offline traders you probably could get them cheaper, but when you're trying to trade instantly like in challenge leagues/the 1 month league it appears to me to be a lot more expensive

Oct
How do you get your sac fragments in Path of Exile?
If we're talking about day 1 atziri farming, you'll be mapping enough to reach a decent level ~75-80 and you shouldve collected a few sets with whatever vaal Path of Exile Orbs you have

Dec
The way armor works is too RNG in Path of Exile
The problem isn't really map mods. The problem is that armor and evasion are not even close to as good as having a giant 'life' pool.

Jan
In Path of Exile any decision at any point in time matters
Having cool armor skin =/= pay to win.Having 100 times more warehouse space = p2w. If it affects gameplay, its p2w.

Nov
Eternal orbs still exist in standard
what we really need is to get rid of all the eternal orb influence in standard, or make a new dumpster league without eternals and eternalled mirror-able items destroying the market.

Oct
Path of Exile Useful Tips 02 - Check Your Unfinished Map
In order to help players better enjoy the fun of Path of Exile, we decided to share some useful tips here regularly. This time we will show players how to check your unfinished map.

Oct
GGG want to force us to trade
So much stuff in POE we take for granted was so fun to discover. Figuring out how to change my skills using support gems was amazing.