PoE Chromatic Orb Recipe: Use Vendor Recipe to get more Chromatic Orbs

Path of Exile offers a vendor recipe to obtain Chromatic Orbs, a currency used to change item socket colors. Vendor recipe: an item with Linked red, green, and blue sockets. Reward: In exchange, the vendor grants you one Chromatic Orb. Chromatic Orbs are also commonly found by: Dropping from monsters, Trading with other players. This recipe is a reliable way to acquire Chromatic Orbs early in the game, especially when encountering linked sockets you don't need.

A Chromatic Orb Chromatic Orb reforges the colour of sockets on an item. Tainted Chromatic Orb Tainted Chromatic Orb reforges the colour of sockets on a corrupted item.

Socket colors may be either red, blue, green, or white. It’s only possible to get red, blue, or green sockets by using this orb; If you want to get white sockets, it is necessary to use a Vaal Orb Vaal Orb.
Chromatic Orb

1. PoE Chromatic Orb Recipe

Outcome Vendor Recipe
1x Chromatic Orb Chromatic Orb An item with Linked red, green, and blue sockets

Chromatic Orb Recipe

Sell an item with linked red, green, and blue sockets to any vendor in exchange for a Chromatic Orb. This vendor recipe is the simplest and one of the best ways to obtain Chromatic Orbs. Complete Chromatic Orb vendor recipe is a PoE Challenge.

In Path of Exile, you can sell any non-unique item with three linked sockets, one red, one green, and one blue, to any vendor for a Chromatic Orb. This is a very useful vendor recipe, especially early in the game, as Chromatic Orbs are used to change the colors of item sockets.

Here are some additional things to keep in mind about this recipe:

  • The item itself doesn't matter. It can be any armor piece, weapon.
  • The sockets only need to be linked, not necessarily in any specific order (red-green-blue or blue-green-red both work).
  • You can identify items with this configuration using a loot filter https://www.filterblade.xyz/. These highlight valuable items like these for easier identification.

So next time you're out adventuring in Wraeclast, keep an eye out for items with these linked RGB sockets! They're a great way to stock up on Chromatic Orbs.

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2. Farming Chromatic Orbs by slain monsters

The drop level of Chromatic Orb is 2 and its drop rate is around 5.508%. Like most currency items, it can be dropped by slain monsters, chests, and destructible containers. They also drop from Arcanist’s Strongboxes.

3. Buy chromatic orb from vendor

  • 1x Chromatic Orb Chromatic Orb = 3x Jeweller’s Orb Jeweller’s Orb
  • Yeena lives in Act 2(The Forest Encampment), selling a Chromatic Orb with the cost of three Jeweller's Orbs.

4. Trade currency items for Chromatic Orbs

You can exchange currency items for this item with other players. The following is the price list. In the currency trade marketplace, the price of a Chromatic Orb Chromatic Orb price is equal to 1/8Chaos Orb Chaos Orb.

5. Chromatic Orb Divination Card

Amount Divination Card General
Notes		 Drop Areas
1The Heroic Shot17x Chromatic OrbCan drop from Arcanist's Strongboxes.
5Emperor's Luck5x currency (random)The Imperial Gardens • The High Gardens • Courtyard Map • Orchard Map • Terrace Map

PoE 3.22: Omen of Blanching

Name Icon Description Note
Omen of Blanching Will be Consumed when you use a Chromatic Orb
on an item to make 1-3 Sockets become White		 Each player can only consume one Omen in each combat area.

How to use Chromatic Orb

1. Chromatic Orb Chances

Sockets are more likely to roll a colour corresponding to the attributes of the equipment being altered. The higher the attribute requirements, the more likely it is to roll the relevant color.

  • More Strength requirements mean more red sockets chances;
  • More Dexterity requirements mean more green sockets chances;
  • More Intelligence requirements mean more blue sockets chances;

If one either wants to avoid randomness or wishes to obtain a specific colour combination that is unlikely on a certain item (e.g. getting all red sockets on an item requiring high intelligence), one can instead use the Crafting Bench recipe that able to find in Delve mine. When obtaining socket colours that an item is already biased towards (e.g. obtaining red sockets on a chest piece requiring high Strength), using Chromatic Orbs manually is less costly than using the Bench. On the other hand, for obtaining a socket colour that an item is biased against (e.g. obtaining green sockets on a chest piece requiring high Strength), using Chromatic Orbs manually is typically much more costly than using the Bench.

2. Crafting Bench recipe(Niko - Socket Crafts): for a guaranteed result

The following is the crafting recipe unlock location and its cost.

Cost Option Unlock
4x Chromatic Orb At Least One Blue Socket Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
25x Chromatic Orb At Least Two Blue Sockets Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
120x Chromatic Orb At Least Three Blue Sockets Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
100x Chromatic Orb At Least Two Blue and One Green Socket Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
100x Chromatic Orb At Least Two Blue and One Red Socket Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
4x Chromatic Orb At Least One Green Socket Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
15x Chromatic Orb At Least One Green and One Blue Socket Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
25x Chromatic Orb At Least Two Green Sockets Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
100x Chromatic Orb At Least Two Green and One Blue Socket Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
120x Chromatic Orb At Least Three Green Sockets Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
100x Chromatic Orb At Least Two Green and One Red Socket Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
4x Chromatic Orb At Least One Red Socket Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
15x Chromatic Orb At Least One Red and One Blue Socket Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
15x Chromatic Orb At Least One Red and One Green Socket Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
25x Chromatic Orb At Least Two Red Sockets Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
100x Chromatic Orb At Least Two Red and One Blue Socket Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
100x Chromatic Orb At Least Two Red and One Green Socket Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
120x Chromatic Orb At Least Three Red Sockets Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine

3. Chromatic Orb downgrde vendor recipe

There is a Chromatic Orb downgrade recipe for obtaining Jeweller’s Orb. It is not recommended to use it.

Result Recipes
1× Jeweller’s Orb Jeweller’s Orb 1× Orb of Fusing Orb of Fusing,
1× Chromatic Orb Chromatic Orb

Vaal Orb and socket colour

1. White socket chance

Using a Chromatic Orb cannot get a white socket, while Vaal Orb corrupts an item have these chances:

  • No effect (other than adding the corrupted property).
  • Change one or more sockets to white sockets. This has a 1/4 chance of occurring, with a 1/10 chance for each additional socket (1/40 for two, up to 1/400000 for 6 white sockets).
  • Reroll the item into a rare item with randomized sockets, links, and six random affixes. If this result is chosen, there is a one in thirty-six chance the item will have the maximum number of sockets and links.
  • Change the implicit to a special Vaal Implicit, or adds a Vaal implicit if the item has no implicit by default.
  • Transforms certain unique items into a different unique item.

2. How to change socket color corrupted item

The answer is by using Crafting bench recipes. This is currently the only way the colours of sockets on a corrupted item can be modified.

The following is the crafting recipe(Niko - Socket Crafts) unlock location and its cost.

Cost Option Unlock
4x Vaal Orb At Least One Blue Socket Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
25x Vaal Orb At Least Two Blue Sockets Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
120x Vaal Orb At Least Three Blue Sockets Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
100x Vaal Orb At Least Two Blue and One Green Socket Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
100x Vaal Orb At Least Two Blue and One Red Socket Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
4x Vaal Orb At Least One Green Socket Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
15x Vaal Orb At Least One Green and One Blue Socket Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
25x Vaal Orb At Least Two Green Sockets Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
100x Vaal Orb At Least Two Green and One Blue Socket Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
120x Vaal Orb At Least Three Green Sockets Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
100x Vaal Orb At Least Two Green and One Red Socket Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
4x Vaal Orb At Least One Red Socket Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
15x Vaal Orb At Least One Red and One Blue Socket Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
15x Vaal Orb At Least One Red and One Green Socket Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
25x Vaal Orb At Least Two Red Sockets Azurite Cavity in the Azurite Mine
100x Vaal Orb At Least Two Red and One Blue Socket Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
100x Vaal Orb At Least Two Red and One Green Socket Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine
120x Vaal Orb At Least Three Red Sockets Ruined Chamber in the Azurite Mine

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