However, there are a few ways to smooth out your leveling experience.
However, it is not explained in-game, so heres a quick breakdown for brand new players.
See the image below for an example.
The missing Blacksmiths Whetstone makes the recipe incomplete, so the only return is shards.
Use these recipes to smooth your progression through the first half of the campaign and beyond.
You wont be able to tack extra damage onto a Rare weapon using these recipes.
Use a Topaz ring for lightning damage, Ruby for fire, and Saphire for cold.
Adding some extra flat damage to your spells is a great way to boost their damage early on.
However, keep in mind that flat added damage will not affect most damage-over-time abilities.
Additionally, new players should note that spells and attacks are different subcategories of skills.
Added spell damage will have no effect on an attack skill such as Ground Slam or Burning Arrow.
Increasing gem level is one of the best ways to scale most spells in the game.
However, you are unlikely to find enough quality gems to use this recipe during the campaign.
This is a recipe to keep an eye on, especially in solo-self-found leagues.
This recipe actually works for all of the quality-enhancing currencies using their respective target items, e.g.
a 20% quality weapon will return a Blacksmiths Whetstone.
Most gems scale primarily off of level and gain smaller boosts from quality.
Of course, you dont want to drop a gem youre actively using to level 1 either.
This strategy is practically a must in solo-self-found leagues and can save trade league players some early currency.
Those are all of the most important vendor recipes for league start in Path Of Exile!
