currency strategies are an interesting topic in Path of Exile because unlike build guides where within a league the power of the build typically stays the same even if the like cost and efficiency of it possibly doesn't currency strategies are constantly changing there's this kind of theory that's going around that I've wanted to push back on a little bit that tier 17s are pricing people out of being able to do strategies and that like tier 16 farming strategies essentially just don't exist then you can't make money elsewhere even up to the last couple of days I personally have been running some tier 16 strategies which still make plenty of currency but of course they aren't making as much as tier 17 however I kind of think this is a good thing because tier 17s are significantly harder than tier 16s and they're much much more balanced this league the thing that I want to talk about more is streamer or content creator strategies a large portion if not all of the vocal minority in the peee community is probably a very a large consumer of Pue content they've followed or subscribed essentially every single content creator that could ever post a video strategy about anything and there's this one glaring issue with content creator strategies that I kind of want to go over in this video if you're enjoying this content make sure to give it a like so that you see more videos like this and consider subscribing to the YouTube channel as well to stay up to date with all my latest content without further Ado let's talk about why streamer currency strategies don't work now this is a problem that I've known about for a very long time and I want to preface this by saying say that I think there are very few if any content creators who are maliciously doing this so let's not go on any witch hunts about you know like content creators ruining the economy or anything like that they're just trying to help but unfortunately there's a problem with the help now one of the biggest things that I've noticed under like the comment sections on YouTube about currency strategy videos is a lot of people will see a video say hey 30 50 60 80 Divine per hour they try it themselves and they get a fraction of that so let's talk about what a currency strategy is so every currency strategy is going to have two main components there's the investment portion which is known as juice this is going to be things like scarabs this is going to be things like delirium orbs so these here this is juice that you're going to be putting into your map typically the logic has always gone that you put more juice into your map and you get more out of it that's not always the case but if you are doing it properly that is typically how it goes and then the other half of a currency strategy is going to be the gross amount of currency that you made when I say gross I don't mean disgusting I just mean the total amount of currency this is the loot that you get this is going to be things like raw currency or divination cards or things like that right there's some specific strategies that'll drop things like specific fragments or harvest juice or things now when you take the amount of juice that you spend on a map and you subtract it from the gross amount that you obtained by doing the map this is where you get your net or the actual profit that you're making people assist as divines per hour U most of the time they use a tool like wealthy Exile so for example this is my wealthy Exile um I have just spent a ton of money as you can see like I was up at like 100 Divine and it's kind of just like tanked and I'm making a little bit back here but people will track this you can take snapshots and see how much currency that you're making per hour is a pretty common thing among like content creators and such this all is kind of the basics of what a currency strategy is you put a certain amount of juice in you get a certain amount of Loot and when you do the math between those things you get how much profit you're getting per hour or per map however you want to go about it so here's where the problem comes in so a streamer makes a video right like say any content creator says hey I'm doing this strategy and it's working really well I'm making 50 divines an hour you should try it too there's two particular kind of issues that happen whenever a content creator makes a video so as we said before if we go and look at something like scarabs there are going to be some particular scarabs that get these like insane rise and cost that you can see here ones that just suddenly Skyrocket by 50% 60% 100% And you'll see these really giant scales up like this typically when this is happening this is something that someone is saying hey here's this cool new strategy you should try it and immediately the desire for this currency or the demand for this juice goes way through the roof now this isn't really that big of a deal because typically you can supply the juice pretty easily like yeah the price is going to go up but people are be like oh well I need to go farm those things right say delirium orbs get super expensive people are like okay well I'm going to go farm delirium orbs and sell them to those people so it kind of evens out a little bit say for example the juic to start a map starts at like 20 chaos per map or so and that content creator releases a video and it spikes up to 40 chaos after a few days uh it'll probably start to come back down a little bit and it'll land somewhere in like the 25 to 30 C per map right a little bit higher than it was previously cuz more people are aware about it but not the huge uge giant Spike that it was at this is typically what you'll see with situations like this where you have this giant upward curve and then it just kind of slowly goes down over time the problem is on the other side the problem is on the loot so what ends up happening is that not only does the demand for the juice increase the supply of the loot actually increases quite a bit as well there's a lot more people running that strategy and depending on what that loot is you can have situations where the loot Supply is suddenly massive and there's not really anybody to buy it so the price just keeps going down down down down down down now in the most extreme circumstances we've seen currency strategies absolutely tank the cost of just generic items in the game like it's tanked the cost of divine orbs before it's just completely tanked the cost of basically all scarabs except the ones that people were using at the time like right now Ambush scarabs are the big thing right now Ambush scarabs are way up here like if we look at just Ambush 170 209 these three scarabs are super useful and you can see that these giant spikes are happening cuz people are starting to realize it so the problem you run into is that this huge supply if it's not of just generic currency if it's certain fragments or it's certain like League mechanic stuff like they're is just going to be this falloff in the actual amount of loot that you're getting and what it does is it kind of moves the two sides together of like the amount of loot that you're getting and the cost of investing in it until it gets to the point where it kind of prices everybody out and some something that's happening here is that people are thinking that tier 17s are the problem but realistically the issue is that the sides are coming closer and closer and the only thing that's keeping them from meeting is the fact that doing the strategy in tier 17s tends to be a little bit better because in general tier 17s are more rewarding so yeah some of the most extreme examples are only going to be profitable in tier 17s but that's not everything for example a strategy that I was doing a couple of days ago involved delirium orbs what a lot of people don't realize is that these divers delirium orbs they changed these when they did the Stacked deck change a little bit ago and no longer do they just give you uh like a random amount of things these always give you one stacked deck per delirium orb that you use on a map every single time so the idea is that you can set up something where you're doing tier 16 Maps whatever they might be and you are just trying to Brute Force as many rewards as you possibly can and get out of the map there was a setup that I was doing with four divers delirium orbs and I was putting like breaches and Beyond on my map device zooming through the map killing as many things as I could as quickly as I could getting to like 17 rewards and then just dipping just trying to get my maps per hour as high as I possibly could and I was making a ton of money in tier 16s yeah they were 80% delirious but you know I was doing it on just a random bow character it wasn't that invested and I could zoom through those Maps currently Diner's delirium orbs are about 5 chaos I was buying these for 15 to a Divine and when I was buying them at 15 of these to a Divine I was making a pretty good amount of currency like3 Divine per map and the problem that we run into now is that a bunch of you are like oh I kind of want to try that strategy can you show me even by me just talking about this diver's delirium orb there's probably going to be a noticeable uptick in the price of this just for making this video depending on how popular it gets so the problem here is that I could give you that strategy and maybe I'll make a video about the strategy but the problem is is that it immediately is going to be worth less but this is kind of the effect that I think a lot of people are seeing is that the demand for the juice is going up meaning that the cost of it's going to go up and the supply of the loot is also going up meaning the cost of that is going to come down it moves those two sides closer together and it makes the strategy less viable the margins which is what that's called like the amount that you can make the profit that you can make are getting Slimmer and Slimmer and Slimmer this is what pushes people into to these tier 17 strategies because just in general tier 17s drop more currency they drop more scarabs they drop more loot I've talked a lot about what the actual problem is and let's talk about some ways or some strategies that you can fix it first off strategies that aren't affected realistically here these are things that are kind of insulated to that giant swing there's really only three things that I could think of one is just going to be the mechanic itself is unpopular think about how many Heist videos that I've made and I've never seen the price of heist type loot like the currency per hour fluctuate very much at all cuz people try out the heist mechanic and they're like man I really just don't like this and then they stop and that's all there is to it something like rolling flasks where you're just sitting in Hideout being a hideout Warrior are absurdly boring no one really wants to do this so yeah the profits are going to be huge because you're sitting there doing something awful and boring and then last one this is also the most interesting one is that very difficult content Gates some people out of doing it which means that there's more profit to be had there because there's less people doing it there are a couple other reasons that you're probably not making the same Divine per hour it's not always the content Creator's fault and I'm going to uh put these under something I like to call skill issue there is a pretty big chance that you are not playing the game as efficiently as fast or as well as the content creator is they probably do it for a living they probably play 12 to 16 hours a day and they most likely are just going to be better than you so yeah your div per hour is probably not going to be the same maybe you've got the wrong atlas tree you're not using the correct juice or you're just doing it wrong like you're only getting five Maps per hour instead of the 10 that the content creator is doing or maybe you don't know how to sell your items properly or you're spending too much time selling items instead of just like bulk selling all of them at once there's a bunch of different things that you could be doing wrong but if you improve your skills a little bit there's a pretty decent chance that you could get some better currency and the last thing is I kind of want to talk about how you can actually make more currency even with using these strategies be aware of what's going on this one is a little hard because you have to kind of be like terminally Poe brained but if you check a video or even better see the streamer doing it before they make a video about it you've got a big head start on starting that strategy where you have enough time to be able to make a whole bunch of currency from it so if you get in early you're going to have a better time even 6 to 12 hours after a strategy goes live you can lose a lot of the potential margins that you would have had before and on the flip side of that you got to know when to stop doing a strategy if the margins get too Slim if you're trying one strategy and all of a sudden you're like making only one or two Divine per hour cu the margins have just gotten so razor thin stop and look for something else and what you can do in those moments is you can try to find an older strategy that isn't as popular anymore go think of all the league mechanics that you liked doing in the past and see if there's anything that you can figure out like maybe I can do rituals or maybe I can do some delirium stuff or harvest or anything else that's not like the current meta strategy of farming strong boxes in tier 17 content and then as I said improving your efficiency just getting more Maps per hour done this is just going to get you more currency almost no matter what you're doing if you just play faster and play more you're obviously going to make more money and then the last thing and this is the one that I want to talk about the most is actively trying to get better at the game and actively trying to improve your character or earning currency for a better character is going to allow you to do harder content this is the number one thing if you've watched this entire video and you want to take away one point that's going to make you just significantly better at making money is you need to just invest into your character you need to make your character stronger and you need to learn how to play more difficult content you would be surprised how straightforward it is that you can go from absolutely nothing to doing Giga Juiced tier 17 maps you could do it in a couple of days absolutely it's possible you just have to work on making your character stronger and actively trying to improve yourself at the game not just playing and you know like seeing what happens try to figure out why why are you dying so much why are you not doing enough damage is there something I can do to make my character stronger if you figure those things out you're probably going to have a better time and that's going to be it for the video notes are always down in the description and remember boys if you enjoy this content make sure to give this video a like subscribe to YouTube channel hit that notification Bell to stay up to date with all the latest videos and stay safe out there in Ray class and I'll see you guys in the next video [Music]