Item

Items in Path of Exile are used to represent not just a character's equipment but a variety of other game features. Items can be moved around between locations using the mouse cursor, including the inventory, worn items, stashes, and others, as well as on the ground. Not all types of items can be moved to all item locations. Different item types take a different amount of space in grid based item locations such as inventory and stashes.

Depending on their type, items can have attributes such as rarity, quality, item affixes and item level.

Equipment

Main page: Equipment

Equipment includes armour, weapons, accessories, jewels and flasks. Their text colour by default is determined by their rarity (normal, magic, rare or unique).

Currency

Main page: Currency

Currency items are used to modify other items, and are also used for trading or gained from vendors for selling equipment. They have a light brown text colour by default.

Divination cards

Main page: Divination card

Sets of Divination cards can be exchanged for a certain item, and have specific drop locations. They have a light-cyan text colour by default.

Quest items

Main page: Quest items

Quest items are found on the ground like other items, or given as rewards for completing quests. They cannot be placed anywhere but in inventory or back on the ground. By default they have a bright green text colour.

Gems

Main page: Skill gem

Skills in Path of Exile are granted by gems which are treated as regular items. The skill can only be used when the appropriate gem is socketed in an equipment item being worn by the character. Skill gems, by default, appear in blue-green text when on the ground.

Prophecies

Main page: Prophecies

Prophecies can be sealed by Navali to make them tradeable. When sealed, they are treated like other items, and can be added to the player's prophecy screen by right-clicking it. By default, sealed prophecies have a purple text when on the ground.

Microtransactions

Main page: Microtransactions

Microtransaction cosmetic effects, when not applied to an item or character, appear as items in a microtransactions tab.

Decorations

Main page: Hideout#Decoration

Hideout decorations and crafting benches, when not in use in a hideout, appear as items in a hideout tab. They can be right clicked from this screen to add them to a hideout.

Summary

Item	Type	Dimensions	Quality	Default colour	Locations stored	Equipped in slots	Dropped	Vendored/traded
Currency	Currency	1×1		light brown	Inv, Stash
1h weapons	Equipment	1×3, 1×4, 2×3		by rarity	Inv, Stash	Weapon, offhand, alt. weapon, alt. offhand slots
2h weapons	Equipment	2×4		by rarity	Inv, Stash	Both weapons slots or both alternate weapon slots
Chest armour	Equipment	2×3		by rarity	Inv, Stash	Chest armour
Helms	Equipment	2×2		by rarity	Inv, Stash	Helm
Boots	Equipment	2×2		by rarity	Inv, Stash	Boots
Gloves	Equipment	2×2		by rarity	Inv, Stash	Gloves
Shields	Equipment	2×2, 2×3, 2×4		by rarity	Inv, Stash	Offhand or alt. offhand
Rings	Accessories	1×1		by rarity	Inv, Stash	Left ring or right ring
Amulets	Accessories	1×1		by rarity	Inv, Stash	Amulet
Belts	Accessories	2×1		by rarity	Inv, Stash	Belt
Quivers	Accessories	2×3		by rarity	Inv, Stash	Offhand or alt. offhand
Flasks	Flasks	1×2		by rarity	Inv, Stash	flask slots 1-5
Jewels	Jewels	1×1		by rarity	Inv, Stash	Passive tree
Divination cards	Divination cards	1×1		light-cyan	Inv, Stash
Sealed prophecies	Prophecies	1x1		purple	Inv, stash	Prophecy screen
Skill gems	Skills gems	1×1		blue-green	Inv, Stash	Sockets in other equipment items
Skill books	Quest items	2×2		green	Inv
Other quest items	Quest items	1×1 to 2×3		green	Inv
Microtransactions	Microtransactions	N/A		N/A	mtx stash
Decorations	Decorations	N/A		N/A	hideout stash