Crafting and Currency: How to Spend Your Orbs Wisely in POE 2

[Jerry]

Managing your orbs wisely in Path of Exile 2 is essential to crafting powerful gear without wasting valuable currency. The crafting system revolves around using different orbs to upgrade, modify, or reroll affixes on items, but each orb has a specific role and cost, so strategic use is key.

Start with a Good Base

Crafting begins with selecting a desirable base item. White (uncrafted) items are rare and valuable since you cannot revert a Rare or Magic item back to white due to the absence of Orbs of Scouring. Most players start with Magic or Rare items that already have some affixes, saving time and currency compared to building from scratch.

Use Orbs to Progressively Upgrade Your Item

* **Orb of Transmutation** turns a Normal item into a Magic item with one affix.
* **Orb of Augmentation** adds an additional affix to Magic items.
* **Orb of Alchemy** upgrades a Normal item directly to Rare with several affixes.
* **Regal Orb** upgrades a Magic item to Rare, adding one affix.

Early crafting often involves these orbs to build up your item’s rarity and affixes step-by-step, balancing cost and risk.

### Modify Affixes Carefully

* **Chaos Orbs** reroll one random modifier on Rare or Magic items, useful to improve or replace undesirable affixes but with some risk.
* **Orb of Annulment** can remove a random modifier, allowing you to eliminate unwanted affixes, though it’s a gamble since it might remove a good one.
* **Exalted Orbs** add a new random affix to Rare items, but they are expensive, so use them only when your item already has good affixes worth enhancing.
* **Divine Orbs** reroll the numeric values of affixes, helping optimize stats without changing the affix types.

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Finalize with Corruption and Quality

* **Vaal Orbs** corrupt items with unpredictable effects and prevent further crafting, so use them only as a final step when you’re satisfied with your item. Corruption can add powerful enchantments or sockets but can also ruin the item.
* Adding quality to gear improves base stats and can be done via crafting benches or specific currencies.

Additional Tips

* Avoid wasting expensive orbs on low-potential items. Focus your crafting currency on items with good base stats and desirable affixes.
* Use vendor disenchanting to recycle unwanted Magic or Rare items into crafting materials, supplementing your orb supply.
* League-specific crafting mechanics may offer alternative ways to modify items, so stay informed about current league tools and currencies.

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Spend your orbs progressively: start by upgrading item rarity, then carefully add or modify affixes, and only invest expensive orbs like Exalted and Vaal Orbs when you have a solid base. This approach minimizes waste and maximizes your chances of crafting valuable gear.et me know if you’d like this formatted as a visual guide or turned into a crafting cheat sheet!