Path of Exile: Mirage is shaping up to be a quality-of-life heavy update for Path of Exile 1, with improvements aimed at the moments players repeat most: currency swapping, campaign progression, crafting clarity, and friction points in common league mechanics. Below is a structured breakdown of the announced changes, what they mean in practice, and how to take advantage of them efficiently.

This article focuses on gameplay impact first, but it also highlights where these changes can influence your planning around PoE currency usage, crafting costs, and early progression pacing.

Currency Exchange Improvements in Mirage

The currency exchange continues to evolve based on player feedback, and Mirage adds two practical upgrades that reduce clicks and context switching during mapping, crafting, and trading.

Favourite trades: one-click swaps for your most-used pairs

You can now set favourite trades on the currency exchange by selecting two currencies you frequently trade between. Once favourited, those pairs appear by default when you open the exchange, letting you execute common conversions with a single click.

• Why it matters: Most players repeatedly convert between a small set of staples (for example, chaos-equivalent currency into higher-value crafting/upgrade currency). Favourites reduce the “search and reselect” loop.
• Auto-suggest still applies: The exchange continues to suggest a ratio based on recent trade data, so favourites don’t remove price guidance.
• Best use cases: league start respec and gearing spikes, bulk rolling maps, and repeated crafting sessions.

From an economy perspective, this makes it easier to keep your crafting pipeline moving. If you’re the type of player who prefers to minimize downtime, this also pairs well with keeping a small reserve of Path of Exile currency for quick upgrades rather than liquidating everything at once.

Stash access while the exchange is open

Mirage also adds the ability to open and interact with your stash while the currency exchange window is open.

• Why it matters: It removes a major friction point where players had to close one interface to fetch currency, check totals, or reorganize stacks.
• Practical benefit: Faster bulk trading and less error-prone counting when you’re converting large amounts or splitting stacks for multiple trades.

Campaign Updates: Landmark Rooms Across All Ten Acts

Mirage continues the recent trend (noted since 3.24) of improving the campaign experience. This time, the patch adds over 20 landmark rooms scattered throughout all ten acts.

The intent is discovery and variety: new side passages, chests, encounters, and unexpected room layouts that can break up the “optimal line” through zones. Some landmarks also provide genuinely useful rewards, so it’s worth staying alert rather than autopiloting every area.

One showcased example is a small central island in the Karui Fortress. Enemies on the island will drop a basic tattoo when slain.

• Why it matters: Tattoos can represent real power early, especially when they align with your leveling needs (attributes, resistances, or other character-defining bonuses depending on what’s available).
• How to approach it: Treat landmark rooms as opportunistic power spikes. If the encounter is quick and safe for your build, clearing it can be more efficient than pushing onward undergeared.

Divination Card Turn-ins: Faster, Cleaner Reward Handling

Turning in a full set of divination cards will now automatically hand in and generate the resulting item. If you immediately turn in another set, the previous reward will be transferred directly to your inventory (assuming you have enough free space).

• Quality-of-life gain: Less manual dragging and fewer interruptions when you’re turning in many sets in a row.
• Practical tip: Leave a few inventory slots open before mass turn-ins so the “transfer to inventory” behavior doesn’t fail due to space.

This change is especially nice when you’re converting a farming session’s loot into upgrades. It also helps when you’re consolidating value for crafting, where clean inventory management reduces mistakes and misclicks.

Labyrinth Font: Choose Your Transfigured Gem Outcome

Labyrinth Font crafts that previously awarded a random transfigured gem now allow you to choose which transfigured gem of that type you want to receive.

• Why it matters: Targeting removes a major layer of RNG for players who are chasing a specific transfigured variant for their build.
• Economic impact: More deterministic access can shift demand and pricing for certain high-impact gems, since fewer runs are “wasted” on unwanted outcomes.
• Planning angle: If your build hinges on a particular transfigured gem, this update can reduce both time and orbs and resources spent on alternative solutions.

Take a look at: our breakdown of recent PoE 1 patch impacts on builds

Trade UI: Hoverable Asynchronous Sale History

The asynchronous trade item sale history is now hoverable, showing full item descriptions of what sold.

• Why it matters: Better record-keeping without spreadsheets. You can quickly verify exactly which roll or variant sold, which helps you price future drops more accurately.
• Who benefits most: Players listing many similar rares, cluster jewels, jewels, or crafted items where small mod differences dramatically change value.

Divine Orbs: Clearer Information on What Can Be Randomised

When using Divine Orbs, you can now see exactly which modifiers can be randomised.

• Why it matters: It’s easy to waste expensive rerolls if you misunderstand which stats are locked (implicit, crafted modifiers, certain special mods) versus rollable ranges.
• Crafting efficiency: This reduces “feel-bad” divining where you later realize the mod you wanted to change was never eligible.

In practical terms, this helps you decide whether to commit a high-value reroll or pivot to another crafting step. For players managing tight budgets, it can reduce the number of times you burn premium crafting currency unnecessarily.

Ritual gets multiple usability upgrades aimed at preventing missed value and improving pacing during maps.

Ritual icon glow and completion pop-up

The Ritual icon will glow if you have significant unspent tribute in an area and all Rituals are complete. A pop-up will also appear after the final Ritual completion.

• Why it matters: It reduces the chance you finish the last Ritual, get distracted by loot, and leave without spending tribute.
• Efficiency gain: More consistent tribute spending means fewer “lost” rewards over long sessions.

Quick use Vessels on completed Rituals

You can now quick use Vessels on completed Rituals.

• Why it matters: Vessel interactions can be fiddly when you’re trying to keep mapping momentum. Quick use lowers friction and helps you maintain a steady farming rhythm.

Shrine Click Priority: Less Misclicking in Combat

Shrines now take priority over monsters when clicking in overlapping areas. This addresses a long-standing annoyance: trying to click a shrine surrounded by enemies and repeatedly targeting monsters instead.

• Why it matters: More reliable shrine activation in dangerous packs can be a real survivability boost, especially in higher density content.
• Practical impact: Fewer deaths to “I clicked it, why didn’t it activate?” moments, and less time wasted repositioning for a clean click.

Take a look at: this league-start survival guide for early progression planning

How These QoL Changes Affect Progression and Budgeting

While Mirage’s announcements are not a direct balance manifesto, quality-of-life improvements often translate into measurable gains: faster throughput, fewer wasted crafting steps, and smoother campaign pacing. Here’s how to think about the changes in terms of progression and resource management.

• Currency exchange favourites + stash access: Less downtime between maps and fewer interruptions during crafting sessions. This can indirectly improve your mapping PoE currency generation simply by keeping you in content longer.
• Landmark rooms: Slightly more variance in campaign routing, with occasional reward spikes. If you’re underpowered, a helpful landmark can save you from spending extra time farming a previous zone.
• Lab Font gem choice: More targeted outcomes means fewer runs needed for key gem variants, which can lower early build setup costs.
• Divine Orb clarity: Better information reduces mis-spends, which matters when upgrades start costing enough that each reroll is a meaningful decision.

If you’re the kind of player who likes to accelerate into endgame quickly, these changes also make it easier to keep your character’s upgrade curve steady without constantly pausing to reorganize. That’s helpful whether you’re self-farming or supplementing with PoE orbs you already have on hand.

The announcement notes that more Mirage changes will be detailed during the livestream on February 26th. Based on the scope of what’s already revealed, it’s reasonable to expect additional usability tweaks, possibly more campaign/crafting clarifications, and further iteration on trade and exchange systems.

If you plan to push early progression hard, it’s worth re-checking your league-start checklist after the full reveal: which currencies you’ll convert most often, how you’ll handle early crafting, and which campaign detours are worth taking for power.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do favourite trades work on the currency exchange?

You pick two currencies you want to swap between frequently and mark that pair as a favourite. Those favourites show up by default when you open the exchange, with ratios still suggested from recent data.

Can I use my stash while the exchange window is open?

Yes. Mirage adds stash interaction while the currency exchange is open, which helps with splitting stacks and managing bulk conversions.

Are the new campaign landmark rooms mandatory for efficient leveling?

No. They’re optional discoveries across all acts, but some provide useful rewards. If a landmark is quick and safe for your build, it can be worth the small detour.

The game now shows which modifiers can be randomised when you use Divine Orbs, helping you avoid spending valuable rerolls on stats that can’t change.

Does Ritual have any changes that improve farming consistency?

Yes. The Ritual icon will glow when you have significant unspent tribute after all Rituals are done, and you can quick use Vessels on completed Rituals, which helps maintain efficient PoE 1 farming loops.