Tainted Chromatic Orb | Tips | Farming Tainted Chromatic Orb |
Example | Crafting Bench Recipe | List of Tainted Orbs |
It is a currency item. Stack Size: 20. Shift click to unstack. The price of Tainted Chromatic Orb is about a Chaos Orb. Right click this item then left click a corrupted socketed item to apply it.
PoE 3.19 Changes: The new Beyond monsters can now occasionally drop the Scourge league's Tainted currency items that allow you to modify corrupted items. The Scourge have taken over the realm of the Beyond demons. Summoning monsters from Beyond will now summon Scourge monsters and bosses. |
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Tainted Chromatic Orbs are primarily used to change the colours of sockets on a corrupted item.
Tainted Chromatic Orb has restrictions on where or how it can drop. The drop level is 2. Tainted Currency have a chance to drop from Beyond monsters, and is guaranteed to drop several random Tainted Currency from Beyond bosses.
This item can be acquired from the following monsters:
In the following example, it reforges the color to three blue and one green.
If one either wants to avoid randomness, or wishes to obtain a specific colour combination that is unlikely on a certain corrupted item, one can instead use the Crafting Bench recipe.
Crafting Recipes | Cost | Unlock Locations | Description | NPC |
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At Least One Red Socket | 4x Chromatic Orb + 4x Vaal Orb | Core Map | Socket Colours - 1 or 2 Colours | Niko |
At Least Two Red Sockets | 25x Chromatic Orb + 25x Vaal Orb | Core Map | Socket Colours - 1 or 2 Colours | Niko |
At Least Three Red Sockets | 120x Chromatic Orb + 120x Vaal Orb | Moon Temple Map | Socket Colours - 3 Colours | Niko |
At Least One Green Socket | 4x Chromatic Orb + 4x Vaal Orb | Core Map | Socket Colours - 1 or 2 Colours | Niko |
At Least Two Green Sockets | 25x Chromatic Orb + 25x Vaal Orb | Core Map | Socket Colours - 1 or 2 Colours | Niko |
At Least Three Green Sockets | 120x Chromatic Orb + 120x Vaal Orb | Moon Temple Map | Socket Colours - 3 Colours | Niko |
At Least One Blue Socket | 4x Chromatic Orb + 4x Vaal Orb | Core Map | Socket Colours - 1 or 2 Colours | Niko |
At Least Two Blue Sockets | 25x Chromatic Orb + 25x Vaal Orb | Core Map | Socket Colours - 1 or 2 Colours | Niko |
At Least Three Blue Sockets | 120x Chromatic Orb + 120x Vaal Orb | Moon Temple Map | Socket Colours - 3 Colours | Niko |
At Least One Red and One Green Socket | 15x Chromatic Orb + 15x Vaal Orb | Core Map | Socket Colours - 1 or 2 Colours | Niko |
At Least One Red and One Blue Socket | 15x Chromatic Orb + 15x Vaal Orb | Core Map | Socket Colours - 1 or 2 Colours | Niko |
At Least One Green and One Blue Socket | 15x Chromatic Orb + 15x Vaal Orb | Core Map | Socket Colours - 1 or 2 Colours | Niko |
At Least Two Red and One Green Socket | 100x Chromatic Orb + 100x Vaal Orb | Moon Temple Map | Socket Colours - 3 Colours | Niko |
At Least Two Red and One Blue Socket | 100x Chromatic Orb + 100x Vaal Orb | Moon Temple Map | Socket Colours - 3 Colours | Niko |
At Least Two Green and One Red Socket | 100x Chromatic Orb + 100x Vaal Orb | Moon Temple Map | Socket Colours - 3 Colours | Niko |
At Least Two Green and One Blue Socket | 100x Chromatic Orb + 100x Vaal Orb | Moon Temple Map | Socket Colours - 3 Colours | Niko |
At Least Two Blue and One Green Socket | 100x Chromatic Orb + 100x Vaal Orb | Moon Temple Map | Socket Colours - 3 Colours | Niko |
At Least Two Blue and One Red Socket | 100x Chromatic Orb + 100x Vaal Orb | Moon Temple Map | Socket Colours - 3 Colours | Niko |
Currency | Drop Level |
Description |
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1 | Randomises the quality of a corrupted armour. The maximum random quality is 29%. |
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1 | Randomises the quality of a corrupted weapon. The maximum random quality is 29%. |
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35 | Can be placed in the Divine Font to allow enchantment of corrupted gloves, boots, helmets or belts. |
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12 | Unpredictably either reforges a corrupted rare item with new random modifiers or removes all of its modifiers. |
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2 | Unpredictably reforges the colour of sockets on a corrupted item. |
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68 | Unpredictably raises or lowers the tier of each modifier on a corrupted rare item. |
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35 | Unpredictably adds or removes a modifier on a corrupted rare item. Rare items can have up to six random modifiers. |
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8 | Unpredictably adds or removes a socket on a corrupted item. |
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2 | Unpredictably either upgrades a corrupted item to unique rarity or destroys it. Cannot apply to Maps. |
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50 | Unpredictably adds or removes a link to the largest group of linked sockets on a corrupted item. |
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1 | Can be combined with other Oils at Cassia to Enchant Corrupted Rings, Amulets or Blighted Maps. |