Vendor

A vendor is an NPC in any of the main towns across Path of Exile 2's Acts. They offer various items for sale with item levels comparable to the player's level, up to a cap. The player may also sell items to a vendor for Gold or disenchant items for currency shards.

Vendor types

Each vendor has three types of vendors:

A vendor that sells martial weapons and armour
A vendor that sells magical weapons, jewellry, flasks, charms, and Scrolls of Wisdom and can disenchant items
A gambling vendor, where you can buy equipment with random rarity

Some areas contain special vendors who have their own set of items to sell.

Items sold for Gold can be bought back from the Buyback tab, in case if they're accidentally sold.

Vendors will refresh some of their stock whenever you level up.

Disenchanting

Any non-Normal rarity items can be destroyed and disenchanted for crafting currency shards. This process is irreversible. The resulting currency shard is solely based on the disenchanted item's rarity:

Magic items give one Transmutation Shard
Rare items give one Regal Shard, or two if it has 6 modifiers
Unique items give one Chance Shard

Gambling

Gambling lets you buy an item base of a random rarity, from a choice of a random weapon, armour of each primary/hybrid attributes, or jewelery. You can only buy a limited number of items from gambling vendors. This amount increases whenever you kill a unique monster. You can store up to 100 purchases.

Merchant Maximum Item Level

The cost of gambling is based on the item class and item level of the item bought. The item level will be the same as your character level until hitting the merchant's maximum limit. The exact formula is unknown but non-linear.

Maximum Item Level per merchant
Act	Merchant	Maximum Item Level
Act 1	Finn	15
Act 2	Risu	32
Act 3	Alva	44
Act 1 Cruel	Finn	51
Act 2 Cruel	Risu	58
Act 3 Cruel	Alva	64
Endgame	Alva	71

Item Class Costs

There are eight different cost tiers. Note that quivers and jewellery have a different formula to armour and weapons. This is most stark when comparing belts to two-handed weapons.

Example costs
15 ilvl cost	Quiver-ratio	71 ilvl cost	Quiver-ratio	Item Classes
1512	1.00	7917	1.00	Quivers
771	0.51	9067	1.15	Gloves, Boots
785	0.52	9123	1.15	Shields, Foci, Helmets
867	0.57	10081	1.27	Wands, One Hand Maces, Sceptres, Bows
1099	0.73	12897	1.63	Staves, Two Hand Maces, Quarterstaves, Crossbows, Body Armours
2420	1.60	12668	1.60	Belts
3025	2.00	15835	2.00	Rings
4537	3.00	23753	3.00	Amulets

Locations

Act 1

In Clearfell Encampment:

Renly - Weapon/armour vendor
Una - Magical items & disenchanting vendor
Finn - Gambling vendor

Act 2

In the Ardura Caravan:

Shambrin - Weapon/armour vendor
Zarka - Magical items & disenchanting vendor
Risu - Gambling vendor (available after defeating Rudja, the Dread Engineer)

Act 3

In the Ziggurat Encampment:

Oswald - Weapon/armour vendor
Servi - Magical items & disenchanting vendor
Alva - Gambling vendor

Other vendors that can be found in Act 3 are:

Gwendolyn Albright (Jungle Ruins)
Sebastian Carroway (Infested Barrens)
Cauldron Keeper (Apex of Filth) - Sells magical items

Epilogue

Atlas

Nameless Seer (Moment of Zen) - Offers one Unique item of choice for free

Level cap

Items from all types of vendors will have the same item level as the player, up to a level cap for each act. Once that cap is reached, all items bought in that town will have item level equal to the cap.

Act 1 normal: 15
Act 2 normal: 32
Act 3 normal: 44
Act 1 cruel: 51
Act 2 cruel: 58
Act 3 cruel:

Version history

Version	Changes
0.1.0d	(Undocumented) The Disenchanting shop menu will properly display the amount of Regal Shards gained when disenchanting a Rare item with 6 modifiers.
0.1.0c	Disenchanting Rare Items with 6 Modifiers now provides 2 Regal Shards (previously 1). The value displayed will still show as 1 until a later patch.