Path of Exile's vendor recipe method provides you with a variety of currency items and equipment gear by selling goods (items, currency) to any vendor in town. All recipes require specific items or combinations of items be placed into the “Sell Items” window at the same time, the outcome is based on any matching of those “Vendor Recipes”.

Did you know that selling any normal, magic, rare, or unique item is already a Vendor Recipe?

Here's an example of vendoring identified items for Alteration Shards & Alchemy Shards, which is one of the most basic vendor recipes described above. Items and their costs sold by vendors as part of their normal inventory are covered on the vendor page

When farming currency, efficiency is the key, and the same applies when using vendor recipes. Some of these recipes not only reward you with extra currency but can also be used to acquire important league start gear to help you through the campaign.

Tip: For recipes that require a certain rarity of the target item, consider using the Orb of Transmutation to turn it into a magic item first if the ingredients do not match the recipe.

Basic Items can be used to get the right resistance or even craft amulets without using any Orb of Scouring because each time you use a vendor recipe you create a new base item. New base items are always normal and get a new Implicit.

Written by terence_
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