trade you can find a lot of cheap path of exile items
Definitely. As someone who has avoided standard for quite some time and only played temp leagues: I was baffled by the prices when I played standard last week. If you use poe. trade you can find a lot of cheap items, but most of them are inactive users (not saying they quit, but often stopped playing for weeks).
If you're trying to buy stuff from online players like in challenge leagues you're going to pay exorbitant prices for average rares (the worst thing are gems. People want EXALTS for ~level 15-17 gems).
I assume the post I made sounds worse than I intended it to sound.
I wanted to try several CoC setups because I never played them, so I tried to buy level 15+ Arc/Ice Spear/Cold Snap/some other gems. While in general there are many people selling them for ~1 chaos, most of them were not online (and often offline for way more than one day). When I searched for them I was unable to find Ice Spear/Cold Snap for <1 exalt from someone that is currently online, searching for several hours while playing.
I just redid my search and the cheapest level 15+ Cold Snap that is currently online was listed for 5 chaos, with a total of 7 gems <1 exalt (to be fair, the rest are mostly 20Q gems, but that wasn't the case the last time I searched. Arctic Breath shows similar results).
When you actually take your time and search stuff over some time/PM a lot of offline traders you probably could get them cheaper, but when you're trying to trade instantly like in challenge leagues/the 1 month league it appears to me to be a lot more expensive

Mar
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Nov
The new Exile Mods would have to be significantly better than the current
therefore, the current perfect gear will always be better, unless GGG decides to add gear that you can use less than 300 chaos on.

Dec
Path of Exile Rarity bonuses can actually affect the rarity of the uniques you get
No what this means is you run a map and pay 4 poe chaos orbs or whatever it is to apply nemesis from zanas map device.

Jan
A lot of people will try to defend Path of Exile as not beeing P2W
As for me, I feel Grinding Gear Games is one of the few companies out there who deserve the extra money they get with their free to play model. They do a really good job of providing updates and new content on a regular basis

Nov
New Path of Exile players will be unable to drop eternals to compete
The value of eternals will skyrocket, helping only those who already own them. New players will be unable to drop eternals to compete.

Nov
New Path of Exile league starts Friday
New league starts Friday. Hope you have a great time playing Path of Exile, but beware, you might get addicted.