What can a Vaal Orb do to a weapon?

A Vaal Orb in Path of Exile 2 acts as a high-risk currency that irrevocably corrupts a weapon, preventing further crafting. It can add a new implicit modifier (e.g., added damage or attack speed), add an extra socket, randomize numerical values, or do nothing. In PoE2, it acts as a "divine," potentially rerolling damage ranges.
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Can Vaal Orbs ruin items?

A Vaal Orb can boost an item beyond normal limits, but it can also ruin the item, rerolling high rolls into low ones, replacing valued modifiers with useless ones. Or it can achieve nothing besides adding the 'Corrupted' tag.
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What does using a Vaal Orb do?

Using a Vaal Orb on a piece of equipment will corrupt it and apply one of four possible outcomes. Each outcome has an equal chance of occurring. The item may gain a corruption implicit modifier. If the item already has an implicit modifier, it will be replaced by the new corruption implicit modifier.
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What happens if I use a Vaal Orb on a skill gem?

One of the most commonly used skill gems in the entire game is Vaal Discipline. This is often created by using a Vaal Orb on a Discipline skill gem. Using a Vaal Orb on a skill gem has a chance to change its level by one. If you level a skill gem up to the cap of 20 and use a Vaal Orb on it, it might become level 21.
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Is it worth using a Vaal Orb?

Yes, using a Vaal Orb can be worth it for high-risk, high-reward plays, especially on items you can afford to lose, like backups, cheap uniques, gems, or maps, as it can grant powerful implicit modifiers, extra sockets, or better stats, but it can also brick the item by downgrading or ruining its stats, making it a gamble for late-game upgrades or a cheap way to get specific corruption outcomes. 
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What does Vaal Orb do to uniques in PoE2?

Vaal Orb Results

From what I can tell, with the exception of Glimpse of Chaos, Vaal Orbs cannot turn unique items into rares in PoE2. (Unrelated to this topic but good to know: Using a Vaal Orb on magic/rare items can reroll existing prefix/suffixes with completely random ones, effectively utterly bricking the item).
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Is Vaal Orb rare?

Vaal Orbs are uncommon currency items that can be dropped by slain monsters, chests, and destructible containers. They also drop from Arcanist's Strongboxes.
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What is the most valuable orb in Poe?

Mirror of Kalandra

Mirror is the rarest and most valuable currency item in the game, but you can obtain it by drops, chest and destructible containers (very low chance). 1 Mirror cost more than 150 Exalted Orbs.
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What happens to corrupted gems?

Some corrupted Gems are imprisoned in objects (such as the Pyramid Temple's gemstone or Lapis's mirror) which also prevents them from regenerating. Corruption also seems to strip Gems of some of their basic powers.
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What does vaal mean in English?

"Vaal" (from Dutch/Afrikaans) primarily means pale, grey, or faded, often used for colors or the muddy water of the Vaal River, but in Indian cuisine, "vaal" refers to field beans or lima beans (like butter beans). So, the English translation depends heavily on context: color/geography vs. food.
 
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Should I save orbs of augmentation?

Both. Because of their limited usefulness, especially late game, I'd say just use them now if you need to fill early item slows with magic gear.
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Do ancient orbs work on jewels?

Ancient Orb reforges a Unique item as another of the same item class. For example, a Unique Leather Belt will become another Unique Leather Belt, and so on. Unique Jewels, Flasks, or Maps cannot be re-rolled. It re-rolls sockets and links in the item.
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Is it worth it to corrupt items in PoE2?

Corrupting an item can add stats, sockets, or wreck the item. Just make sure you fully upgrade the item first. Jeff Cook *if it's worth the cost to upgrade. Sometimes I corrupt a meh item to try to turn it into something interesting.
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Can you 6 link a corrupted item?

Corrupted Six Links

Items corrupted by a Vaal Orb can randomize into rare items with random modifiers. These don't six link often, but they will do so much more often than Orbs of Fusing do.
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Why was Chaos Orb banned?

Tournament use

Rumor has it that a player almost won a tournament by tearing a Chaos Orb into pieces in order to destroy all of their opponent's permanents, the judge declared this illegal because the deck was now missing cards.
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How much is 1 exalted orb worth in PoE?

i.e. 1 exalt = 80 Orb of Transmutation. Therefore you would pay . 2 of 80 or 16 Orb of transmutation for that item.
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How to farm Vaal Orbs?

You'll be able to obtain Vaal Orbs around Act Three of the main campaign. At this stage, you'll be seeing the Vaal more often, so enemies can drop them at any time. That being said, random drops seem to be quite rare, so your best bet is to target special enemies and bosses.
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Can vaal gems be transfigured?

Overview. Transfigured gems that have been corrupted to grant a Vaal skill will provide the transfigured base skill and Vaal skill. Vaal versions of skills do not have transfigurations.
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Can a Vaal Orb make an item worse?

These powerful Vaal Orbs modify items in unpredictable ways, leaving them irrevocably Corrupted in the process. Corruption can make your item better by adding special modifiers or enhancing affixes. It can also make an item worse by removing, weakening, or rerolling existing modifiers.
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Is Orb of Chance 50/50?

The trade-off for using an Orb of Chance is there's a 50/50 shot of the item turning into a unique or being destroyed altogether.
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What uniques to keep poe2?

PoE 2 Best Uniques
  • The Deepest Tower.
  • Prism Guardian.
  • The Bringer of Rain.
  • The Hammer of Faith.
  • Headhunter.
  • Ingenuity.
  • Olroth's Resolve.
  • Svalinn.
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