“there’s no “auction house” interface or anything to make the process faster and smoother. It’s also the main reason why I’m very unlikely to return to the game.”

I am sure you already know about http://poe.trade

Of course, it is not run by GGG, it is not an in-game UI asset that players see as a random NPC holding an auction (whether live or after a buyout period, a la WoWarcraft).

The market is, and always has been, controlled by the players, the past markets influencing the current one, and naturally some power player econocrushers who can dominate a certain item(s) niche by being first-to-market with that league’s most desirables.

Economy controlling players work by: being good at reaching the end-game quickly and efficiently. This takes practice, experience, and maybe simply skill in finding new “OP” builds and holding onto them while everybody else is jizzing about the ‘next op sheeeiot’ on redditz. sheeple,. he calls them.

Economy controllers are also willing to play the fastest build in terms of reaching endgame, farming the mechanic of the league (warbands, Shapter, atlas, atziri and uber lab/atziri, etc. Even if it is a rather ‘boring’ and unengaging build; you will be able to play your ppreferred build soon, anyway, and youll have tons of currency to do it with since you were the first one selling highest tier maps, drops, tokens, fragments/offerings, etc.

And obviously, the players that have been in control, as ALWAYS in poe’s economy, have to know what to do with their market advantages. Wast time spamming trade chat for something, not sure of its worth but its a new unique? That’s bad. Target-farming what you know will be in demand, and has been hyped by the masses for weeks in that new OPop build that you refuse to play because yours is better! Then selling it at a huge, huge profit being one of the first, or first, to be able to do so.

Let’s condense. The economy and trading of POE is still in the hands of the players, completely. As such, player has created http://poe.trade which indexes all special stash tabs automatically, and lets pllyers post prices to sell each, any, or all items contined within, From in-game.

Buyer’s can search the indexer site linked above and see and specify any number of myriad affixes and ranges, sockets, etc. get a scrape of the specific item in question, along with a buyout price next to it.

It’s not perfect.
GGG didn’t code it.
It’s not like Diablo III AH (thank god)
Yoiu can’t search in game, and as you know, even back then, trade chat was a huge waste of time. Even moreso now.

Now, you cut through the trasde chat step, and find all the people spamming the one item youre looking to buy, then deciding if you want to or not, stats vs cost, links/sockets, etc.

Similarly it lets sellers post and have the item indexed, then go do maps or something instead of spamming trade chat for 4 hours from the hideout. Sure, either he will have to quit labyrrinth run, or he refuses and buyer goes to another player instead, once in a while. FAR better system than what you left the game to as being the standard of the time.

So to say trading is still only done in ‘direct chat’, or any sort of item listing interface that you can search for by item name, type, mod/affix, sockets, links, etc. — there is, though. It’s just not from Gazelowe the Goblin dispensing your treats like a vending machine. You still need to interact with people to get shit done. Just dont have to feel like thats what youre trying to do, but getting trade chat drowned in a sea of flaming capslock.

That’s all good man I appreciate the insight

Following someone else’s build is certainly a good idea, you can easily adapt it further later on once you get a better grasp of the game’s difficulty and mechanics.

Trading is still only done through direct chat with other players, there’s no “auction house” interface or anything to make the process faster and smoother. It’s also the main reason why I’m very unlikely to return to the game.

There’s no “default” currency in the game, various currencies like Chaos or Exalted Orbs have different values, so the game basically has different currencies, and you can either farm what you need or trade in between them.

My currency guide is likely outdated in some things, but may help you understand a few of the basics.

As for your third question, I’m afraid I really can’t answer about weapon choices with any insight. I haven’t played the game for a couple of years actually, and I’m not even following patch notes anymore, so I’m completely out of touch with what’s viable and what isn’t. Sorry!

Oh yeah and I forgot to mention , I’ve was using a two handed staff which dealt insane damage but only 3 gem slots sooo, I switched to sceptre and dagger which increased to 4 gem slots and I only lost 5 dps , was this a good choice for weapon ??

I appreciate it man thanks , and I did follow someone’s build and spiced it up a bit lol , that’s what I meant when I said I’ve been doing some research , and I also wanted to know about the trading menus , is there only trading ,there’s no official currency in PoE ??

Sadly I can’t give you any useful tips, it’s been a long time since I last played the game, but I do hope you followed someone else’s build. PoE gets increasingly hard at later difficulty levels, so many builds which look great in Normal simply don’t work in endgame.

You’re welcome to try creating your own build and experiment, but if you’re new to the game and don’t want to spend a fortune respeccing later on or leveling another character, scour the official forums and find a build which is proven to work (preferably one without insanely expensive equipment requirements).

Tips and pointers are appreciated