trading / server choice

[cAipi_rInHa]

Hello, I have never played PoE. How will the trading system work? Is it dependent on the region you’re playing in? Can you play in other regions to trade within English-speaking communities? It’s probably not advisable to play on EU or NA servers from Asia due to latency issues, just to trade with English-speaking communities, right? Also how important is trading in PoE?

[Euphytose]

You can join anyone outside of China, I believe.

Since China's version of the game is very different.

Trading was a big part of POE1 so I'm assuming it'll be the same here.

[Buck D. Bumble (Sero)]

Important as in necessary to progress? Not at all.
But its a good way to make currency to support your builds.
There are no restrictions nor server select that gates you from a % of the population to trade with, unless you're playin' the Chinese version as the two don't mingle.

[The_Driver]

It's cross platform, cross language and so. As long as you're using the same realm - there'll be a tencent realm for China for example that differs - and same league you should be able to trade. Well aside from people that opt out of trading by their league choice (solo self found).

You'll dynamically switch to the servers of others to trade with them, if need be, and switch back.

That's why it's just called gateway and not realm or so.

[BadToast]

PoE accounts aren't locked to a specific region (Except China).

Trading, chat, and grouping can be done across all regions. If you group with a Korean player and go to their instance, it will be in Korea, so you'll have latancy.

Often in PoE1 when people are making groups for end-game content they will post what region they're in, so people can know what kind of latency to expect when joining the group.

You can run into language barriers, players from other regions that don't speak English may want to trade with you. It's largely automated, the trade site automatically translates trade messages, and I've found that the majority of the players do speak English anyway.

Trading can be pretty important, there are Solo-Self-Found (SSF) only realms, and some people play those to enforce no-trading, PoE2 is likely to be even easier for SSF, but if you want to advance quickly, trading is the best. But it also tends to change the focus of the game quite a bit, because if you want to trade a lot the game becomes about farming currency as efficiently as possible, rather than farming what you personally need which is how SSF is played.

[cAipi_rInHa]

Originally posted by BadToast:

Trading, chat, and grouping can be done across all regions. If you group with a Korean player and go to their instance, it will be in Korea, so you'll have latancy.

Great, that’s a relief. I was worried I’d never be able to trade with anyone English-speaking or would have to play with huge latency issues. Thank you!

Originally posted by BadToast:

Trading can be pretty important, there are Solo-Self-Found (SSF) only realms, and some people play those to enforce no-trading, PoE2 is likely to be even easier for SSF, but if you want to advance quickly, trading is the best. But it also tends to change the focus of the game quite a bit, because if you want to trade a lot the game becomes about farming currency as efficiently as possible, rather than farming what you personally need which is how SSF is played.

Understood. Thanks for the insight!

Originally posted by The_Driver:

You'll dynamically switch to the servers of others to trade with them, if need be, and switch back.

Thanks, sounds great!