Must-Know Vendor Recipes for New Players

Beginner

By Dreamcore

Updated on Oct 29, 2025

Oct 29, 2025

Overview

Path of Exile has a Vendor Recipe system that allows you to sell particular assortments of items to receive guaranteed outcomes. In this guide, we'll highlight a handful of extremely useful Vendor Recipes.

A Brief Introduction to Vendor Recipes

How it works

Vendor Recipes require the use of an NPC that offers the option for you to sell items to them.

The 'Sell Items' option can be selected on various NPC interfaces

Vendor Recipes are not detailed in game. However, offering the correct items in the Vendor Sell window will show the Vendor's Offer to you, so you're able to review the transaction result before accepting the trade to ensure you're happy!

When you offer an assortment of items that make up a complete Vendor Recipe, the NPC will produce a guaranteed result than can be seen in the Vendor's Offer window. For example, in the image below we're offering an Iron Ring of any rarity, and a Skill or Support Gem. In return the NPC is offering the guaranteed result of this Vendor Recipe – a normal rarity resistance Ring, the type of which is based on the colour of Gem that we're offering.

An Iron Ring and a Gem can be sold to receive a Resistance Ring

In the above example, we're combining the Iron Ring with a Blue Gem, and therefore the Vendor Recipe result is a normal Sapphire Ring that provides Cold Resistance.

The colour of Gem determines the outcome type of Resistance Ring

If we used a Red Gem in the above example, the result would have instead been a Ruby Ring that provides Fire Resistance, and if we used a Green Gem it would have been a Topaz Ring for Lightning Resistance. This is one such example of a Vendor Recipe, but as you can see, sometimes the components of a recipe can be modified slightly to alter the outcome.

Must-Know Vendor Recipes

We've curated a list of useful Vendor Recipes for players that are new to Path of Exile, especially in regards to navigating the campaign. Check them out below!

Recipe	Outcome
Iron Ring Blue Gem (skill or support)	Sapphire Ring (normal rarity)
Iron Ring Red Gem (skill or support)	Ruby Ring (normal rarity)
Iron Ring Green Gem (skill or support)	Topaz Ring (normal rarity)
Amulet (can be corrupted) Green Gem (skill or support) Red Gem (skill or support) Blue Gem (skill or support)	Onyx Amulet
Amber Amulet Lapis Amulet Orb of Transmutation	Agate Amulet
Jade Amulet Lapis Amulet Orb of Transmutation	Turquoise Amulet
Amber Amulet Jade Amulet Orb of Transmutation	Citrine Amulet
3x Life Flask (same base type)	Life Flask (upgraded base type)
3x Mana Flask (same base type)	Mana Flask (upgraded base type)
Item with at least a Red, Green and Blue Socket, linked together	Chromatic Orb
Item with 6 Sockets	7x Jeweller's Orb
Item with 6 linked Sockets	20x Orb's of Fusing
Single weapon with at least 20% Quality or multiple weapons with combined Quality of at least 40%	Blacksmith's Whetstone
Single Gem with at least 20% Quality or multiple Gems with combined Quality of at least 40%	Gemcutter's Prism
Single Flask with at least 20% Quality or multiple Flasks with combined Quality of at least 40%	Glassblower's Bauble
Portal Scroll	Scroll of Wisdom
Skill or Support Gem Orb of Scouring	Lower Level of input Gem by 1
Level 20 Support Gem (not corrupted) Gemcutter's Prism	Level 1 version of input Gem with 20% Quality
Boots with 'increased Movement Speed' modifier (magic, rare or normal with no existing mod) Orb of Augmentation Quicksilver Flask	Magic Boots with higher tier 'increased Movement Speed' modifier than input (normal input results in lowest tier, max output tier 2)
Normal Rune Dagger/Sceptre/Staff/Wand Gems with matching tags (fe. Fire, Physical etc.) with combined Quality of at least 40%	Magic weapon with +1 to Level of all (input tag) Spell Skill Gems
Normal weapon Magic, Rare or Unique Rustic Sash Blacksmith's Whetstone	Magic weapon with 'increased Physical Damage' modifier (higher tier from higher rarity Rustic Sash input)
Normal Rune Dagger/Sceptre/Staff/Wand Magic, Rare or Unique Chain Belt Blacksmith's Whetstone	Magic weapon with 'increased Spell Damage' modifier (higher tier from higher rarity Chain Belt input)
Weapon with 'added Physical/Fire/Cold/Lightning Damage' modifier (magic, rare or normal with no existing mod) Matching Flask (Granite for Physical, Ruby for Fire, Sapphire for Cold, Topaz for Lightning) Orb of Augmentation	Magic weapon with higher tier 'added Physical/Fire/Cold/Lightning Damage' than input (normal input results in lowest tier, max output is tier 3 or tier 2 for physical
Respec 'Deal with the Bandits' Quest choice 20x Orb of Regret Onyx Amulet OR Jade Amulet OR Lapis Amulet OR Amber Amulet (selection changes result)	Book of Reform: Eramir +1 Passive Skill Point (Onyx Amulet input) Book of Reform: Kraityn 8% increased Movement Speed (Jade Amulet input) Book of Reform: Alira +15% to all Elemental Resistances (Lapis Amulet input) Book of Reform: Oak +40 to maximum Life (Amber Amulet input)
3x Unique item (same named Unique, cannot be corrupted)	Unique item (same as input, can be used to reroll modifiers/reset when use of a Divine Orb is not feasible)
Though not recommended, note the below Chaos Orb recipe for use in a pinch if absolutely necessary (usually better to just play the game rather than spending time collecting correct pieces to vendor). Full rare rarity set of Gear (detailed below, lowest item level item must be 60 or higher) Two handed weapon OR 2x One handed weapon OR One handed weapon and Shield OR 2x Shield Helmet Body Armour Gloves Boots Amulet 2x Ring Belt	Chaos Orb (if at least one input item is identified) 2x Chaos Orb (if all input items are unidentified) 3x Chaos Orb (if all input items are unidentified and have at least 20% quality each)

1. Overview 2. A Brief Introduction to Vendor Recipes How it works 3. Must-Know Vendor Recipes