What exactly can you convert the 300 "coins" you get if you buy the early access of POE2?

Title says it all.

MTX - https://www.pathofexile.com/shop

It's heavily recommended to get some stash tabs from there.

I'd recommend getting stash tabs if you don't have them already. Particularly the Currency tab, which will be very useful in POE2. Div Card and Essence tabs also seem like a safe bet.

The Map and Fragment tabs carry a bit of a question mark due to Atlas and endgame changes.

https://www.pathofexile.com/shop

The 'coins' are PoE's premium/paid MTX currency. You can buy every MTX in the game with points/coins. If you're asking what the best purchases are, that depends on how new you are to the game and what you already own.

If the answer is 'brand new' and 'nothing'? Get a Premium Currency stash tab. The currency tab is the single most crucial Quality of Life upgrade in the entire game. I would also buy the Upgrade to Premium Stash Tab options that turn the four ordinary stash tabs you start with into Premium tabs. You'll need four Upgrade purchases to convert all four, but if you're big on organization it's worth it, and at least one Premium tab is required for in-game item trading.

Grinding Gear routinely runs Stash Tab Sales, generally once a month or so, where all Premium Stash options are discounted. I'd wait for one of those, then buy those stash tabs. The other Special Stash Tabs, i.e. Devle, Delirium, and such, are a lower priority though each one can be very helpful depending on your purchases. The Map tab is also generally considered a crucial QoL upgrade for an account, but I'm not sure if that will be as critical in PoE2. If you want to be ready to go? I'd get the Map tab, the Divination Card stash tab (those little buggers pile up real quick in PoE1), and possibly the Essence tab as well since those are gonna be a pretty big deal for crafting in PoE2.

Elsewise, save those points until you know the game better and identify stuff you'd really like to own. I'd definitely hold off on any sort of armor cosmetics, the PoE2 default skins are incredible, and a lot of the ancillary character MTXes are flashy but grow annoying over time. Ditto for skill effect MTXes. Stash tabs are the best bet for early purchases, and beyond that I personally like stuff like portal effects or finishers that are infrequent enough they don't wear out their welcome. Heh, nothing feels like it caps off a build quite like having the perfect portal MTX to match the build you're playing, though I admit that's probably a weird personal quirk rather than real advice.

I have played PoE since the closed beta, way before it was on Steam.
Still, i have never bought anything with real money in it, so there's that.

I supposed there'd be currency stash tabs again, but wasn't sure if they'll be the same as i've seen people use in PoE1, and also what the prices will be.

So basically, the "shop" is shared between the two games?

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Lyesainer#6273 wrote:

I have played PoE since the closed beta, way before it was on Steam.
Still, i have never bought anything with real money in it, so there's that.

Welcome back? I think?

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Lyesainer#6273 wrote:

I supposed there'd be currency stash tabs again, but wasn't sure if they'll be the same as i've seen people use in PoE1, and also what the prices will be.

So basically, the "shop" is shared between the two games?

We don't know what the precise functionality of anything in PoE2 will be, but yes - the shop is shared between the two games. You use the same MTX pool for both POE1 and PoE2. Grinding Gear has confirmed that stash tabs in PoE1 will work as close to their described effects as they can in PoE2, provided the mechanic the tab interacts with exists in PoE2.

One example is Delirium; the Delirium tab in POE1 stores Simulacrum shards and Delirium orbs, all the various Delirium junk, while the Blight stash tab stores your Oils and Blighted maps. In PoE2, Blight doesn't exist (saddest face) and Delirium has been given the Anointment system via those crystalized-emotion doodads. It is extremely likely that the Delirium stash tab will function differently between the two games, with the PoE2 version allowing you to store Anointment Juice the way the Blight tab does in PoE1.

Essentially, whatever the tab does in PoE1 as an overall job, it will do in PoE2. The Currency tab will store al your currency, the Map tab will store your Waystones, the Fragments tab will store your various whatever-GGG-deems-to-be-a-'Fragment', so on and so forth. How useful those tabs will be and whether they're worth more or less comparatively than their PoE1 equivalent, we don't know, but they'll all do the same core job they did in the first game.

Again - provided that job exists. My poor, poor Blight league....

Probably best to hold off buying stash tabs until launch weekend since they will go on sale on the Dec 6th and also we'll have a better idea which will be the most worthwhile for POE2

For starters, Stash Tabs. Wait for sales, they do them like twice a month. Also wait for POE 2 EA to launch so you know which tabs work there, some are shared between games, some only work in POE 1.

Don’t spend them. Trust me. Avoid viewing the RMT shop. Only spend when you absolutely 200% know you NEED something to progress efficiently. Once you spend them you need to buy more. I promise you my friend. Don’t view the shop and don’t spend mtx. First rule of games like this. Spend when you absolutely have to and that’s all. It’s predatory the way it’s designed. Netease runs the shop now and those are the guys who are behind the diablo immortal shop. Promise my friend. Don’t spend unless you NEED to.

Granted I bought a few cosmetics when I thought they would combine with PSN, but they forced me to buy more mtx and won’t allow my PSN mtx to transfer. Again predatory my brother.

Wait until the stash tabs go on sale - about every three weeks. $30 will not get all the tabs you'll end up wanting if you play long term.


in order of importance IMO

Currency
Map
div cards
Fragment
Quad
Essence
the rest