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PoE Guide

How To MAKE 1+ Mirror In POE 1 In FIRST Week 1 (Step By Step Guide)

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Updated on Nov 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025

Overview

This guide focuses on Making Currency While AFK/Trading:

1. Day 1 & Week 1 POE 1 Guide

2. Gold & Flipping

3. How To Scale Our Shipment AFK Income

Guide

*Please Know That I Am Still NEW To POE 1 & Have Limited Knowledge Of Farming Mechanics, Hence The Focus On Trading & Flipping Using My POE 2 Methods, Below Are Tested & Working Methods For 3.27 & Will Be Constantly Updated In Each League*

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Day 1: League Start (General Reference, Make Sure To Price Check Constantly!)

Finding First 1 Alchemist/Regal/Regret (Listing 1 : 2)

Similarly For Jeweler's Orb/Orb Of Fusing/Chromatic Orbs (Listing 1 : 2)

E.g. 1 Alch For 2 Regal And 1 Regal For 1 Alch

Also Listing 1 Alchemist/Regal/Regret For 1 Chaos

I was able to make 15+ Chaos Orbs before finishing the story this way, enabling my starting capital (the downside is constantly to tp back to trade in person)

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Day 1/Week 1 Important Story/Act Profit Making Spots

The 2 Skill Gem NPC From: Act 3 The Library & Act 6 Lilly Roth

I would buy 1 of each Gems for 1 Scroll/Transmute/Alteration Orb & List them For 1 Alchemist/Regal/Regret Or Even 1 Chaos Orb After Day 1 (People Tend To Value Chaos A LOT More On Day 1)

I Made 1-2 Divine In The First 3 Days Just From 1 Chaos Gem Sales!

For Each Skill Gem Sold, I Bought 2 More Of The Same Name

And If It Gets Very Popular, I Would Buy 10-20+ Of The Same Name, Making Up 90% Of the Listed Skill Gem Market For Popular Skill Gems Selling For 1 Chaos Orb

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Mass & Instant Buyout: Selling Atlas Cleared T1-10-16 Maps For 1-2 Chaos Also Works In Week 1 (I Made Around 1-2 Divine Doing This As Well)

Maps Related To Key Pantheons Tend To Sell For 2-5 Chaos In Week 1

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Usually Takes Me 1 Day To Clear The Story For POE 1

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Day 2-3

Looking For 3 Way Arbitrage Flips In The Exchange

Mainly Alchemist/Regal/Regret To Each Other & To Chaos Orbs

Also Jeweler's Orb/Orb Of Fusing/Chromatic Orbs

E.g. 10 Alch For 20 Regal, Then 20 Regal For 8 Chaos, Finally 8 Chaos For 20 Alch (Its HARDER To Find Arbitrage In 2 Way Flips, But 3 Way Flips ARE SUPER Profitable!)

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Way Are NOW Bottle-necked By Gold, Exchange Fees Stacks Up, Saving Any Gold We Find During Story Is KEY, I've Even Had The 3.27 Tree Dropping Gold Instead Of Currency With Lavish Wombgift

Using The Above Methods, I was able To Turn:

15c Into 5 Divine On Day 1

5 Divine Into 20 Divine On Day 2

20 Div Into 60 Divine On Day 3

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Here Excess Divines That I CANT Use Yet (Due To Lack Of Gold) Are Used To Purchase Reflecting Mist/Hinekora's Locks (If Lock Is Too Pricey Mists Are Good Too)

Also Tons Of Other Options To Invest For 400% Gains On Day 2-4 (See Our Video Guide & Screenshots For More Details) E.g. Tempering/Tailoring Orbs, Awaken Orbs Etc

This Effectually Turning 60 Div Into 120-200+ Divines From Day 2-Day 5 (When Prices Inflates As People Starts To Do Crafting)

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How To Farm/Find Gold

Mapping T 10-15+ Maps Gives Decent Gold (I've Cleared All T1-16 Maps Atlas In Day 2-3 For Self Sustained Gold Incomes)

Buying GOLD Runs Is Very Fast & Quick Gold Gain, Averaging 1m Gold For 1-2 Divine On Day 2-4, Then 2 div For 1m Gold Onward (See Video Guide On Where & How To Buy Gold Runs)

(Prices For Those Gold Runs Always Goes Up Due To Cost Of Scarabs & Allflame Inflation)

In Our Video Guide Demo, I Was Paying 5 Div For 2m+ Gold Runs

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How To Use Gold For Large Scale Flipping:

1. Finding Any Orbs To Chaos With A Good Spread & Fast Volume/Demand + Supply

Orb Of Fusing & Chromatic Orbs are the E.g used in our video guide:

Effectively Turning 500c Into 700c In 1-2 Mins For Fast & Large Quantity Flips (BEWARE Of The Gold Cost Here, Close To 100k Gold Spent)

While My Other Exchange Pairs Are Listed & Waiting, I Can Now Use 1000-5000+ Chaos Orbs For Large & Fast Flips, Making 10-20-30 Divine Per Hour (Careful Its Tiring & 1 Mis-click/Price Could Close 100k-200k Gold!)

Again Any Excess Profits Are Use To Purchase Reflecting Mist/Hinekora's Locks

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Starting Shipping In Week 1 Is A MUST!

Huge Profits From Raw Divine Loots + Runegrafts (Plus Raw Exalts & Chaos)

ONLY ON WEEK 1: Runegrafts sells for 10-50-100c Up To 1-3 Divine (Even 30+ Divine For Angler Runegraft On Week 2, Was 60+ Divine)

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Here Are My Rough Calculations & Currency Shipping Methods

Averaging 1 Raw Divine Per 3-4 Shipments

Also Random Currency Orbs + Runegrafts

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It Would Cost Estimated 1m Gold To Purchase 18 Farmers + 18 Shipping

1. 3 x 6 Level 5 Farmers (With Below 1000 Gold/Hour Wages)

All Farming: Blue Zanthimum

2. 6 x 3 Level 5 Shipping (With Below 1000 Gold/Hour Wages)

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How To Make 2-3x MORE Income With Shipping!

POE 1 Is A F2P GAME! Hence Each New Account With Shipping Unlocked & Invested With Gold = 2x Or 3x MORE Shipping

*Please Note POE 1's TOS States We Can Only Launch 2 Account At Once On 1 PC*

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How Starting New Account For Shipping:

1. Just Level Up & Clear Story Normally - Unlock Shipping (Saves 6-12 Divine This Way!)

Or

Paying For A Carry Story 1-10 Act Speed Run Service (Average Price 6-12 Div, Time Takes 1.5 hour - 3 hour)

2. Getting To Level 80+ For Gears & Tank Up In Gold Runs (Here I'm Assuming We Are NOT Farming Gold On Alts Organically, Not Efficient)

Once Our Alt is level 65-67+ (MIN 65 Due To Exp Penalty) Paying 1 Divine (Week 1 Price) For 4-5 Runs Of 5 Ways Legion = Level 80+

*Important* Acquiring Cheap Tank Gears For 3.5k Life 75% Chaos Res To Survive 5 Ways & Gold Runs

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3. Run 1-2 x 2m+ Gold Runs To Have Alt Account Ready For Shipping

Estimated Total Investment For Each Shipping Alts (Week 1 Prices):

3.1 Fast & Expensive Paying Services: 12 + 2 + 4 = 18 Div, For Act 1-10 1.5 Hour Speed Run, 2 x Legion 5 Ways 2x 2m+ Gold Runs

3.2 Average Clear Speed & Paying Services: 6 + 1 + 4 = 11 Div, For Act 1-10 2.5+ Hour Speed Run, 1 x Legion 5 Ways 2x 2m+ Gold Runs

3.3 Self Leveling Cost: 0 + 1 + 4 = 5 Div, Take Takes To Clear Act 1-10 On Our Own Varies Due To Experience, But Should Be Faster Having Currency For Good Leveling Uniques!

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Cost Of Gold Vs Shipping Income Calculations (Changes As Price For Gold Runs Inflates & Prices Of Runegrafts Drops After Week 1)

During Week 1: Averaging 3-4 Shipping For 1 Raw Divine (Rest Of The Orbs Are Around 5-10c In Value, Runegrafts 10-20-50c Or 1 Divine)

After Week 1: Averaging 3-4 Shipping For 1 Raw Divine (Most Runegrafts Are Now 1-10c)

Cost Around 250k-300k Gold Per Day (Having Less Than 1000 Gold/Hour Workers), So 1m+ Gold = 3+ Days Of Shipping

3 Days: 12 x 3 = 36 Shipments, Which Is Est. 6-7 Raw Divines In 3 Days

Having 1 Main + 2 Alt Accounts, I've Made 50-70+ Divines From Shipping Along In The First Week - 2nd Week

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Bonus Method For Players With Little Or No Capital To Invest/Flip

Using Instant Buyout Vs Exchange Vs In Person Buyout Arbitrage, Flipping Items While Selling It in Our Stash (Since This Saves People On Gold FEES, Most Are Welling To Pay A Bit Extra In Week 1 Or New Accounts Have No Access To Exchange Yet)

E.g I Am Selling Runegraft Of Treachery For 10c - 15c In Stash For In Person Buyout, While In The Exchange Buying It For 2c, Making A 500% Profit Flip While Doing My Trading & Writing Up Guides In My Hideout. See Video Guide On This Live Demo (Making 50c In 1 Hour)

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Please Know That Often As I Post Those Methods, After Few Hours As More Players Just COPY Exactly The Currency/Orbs Flips & Gems/Runegrafts, The Extra Arbitrage/Profits Disappears Fast!

So Make Sure To Learn From The Above, Take The Concept & Discover Your OWN Unique Flips & Arbitrages There Are Tons In POE 1!

I Plan To Make Step By Step Guides On Good Flips & Trading Tips Each Week, So Make Sure To Follow & Sub! https://www.youtube.com/@mattjesticgaming

For POE 1 & 2 Economic Break Downs!


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