Getting chroma and fusing orbs

I'm fairly new to PoE, and just started exploring skill combinations. Currently a big problem for me is the lack of proper socket colors and links on the items that I find. My findings so far - jeweller orbs aren't plenty, but the real problems are chroma and fusing orbs. Well, the lack of them.

It seems that per evening of playing (3 hours), I get 2-3 chroma orbs and about 1 fusing orb. In the first weeks I didn't use any of them, then I discovered support gems, and lately trigger gems, and the need for correctly colored and linked socket rose. And my supply of those orbs shrunk.

Now I see some threads mentioning things like "It takes less than 1000 chroma orbs to get the diresired colors on a 5 socketed ...". Oh indeed, only 1000? I had, like, 40 or so over the five weeks of playing.

So I'ma asking - how to get more chroma and fusing orbs?

Any items with 3 links that are one of each (Red, Blue, Green) will get you a chrome at the vendor. If you have an item filter (strongly recommend getting one, there are a lot here advertised on the forums), they will be highlighted since they are very useful. You should also check vendors every time you level as they might sell them (or even 6 socket items once you get past A3Cruel).

I'm not sure how high level you are, but eventually you will find a lot of chromes while playing. In the 1 month, not playing a lot I have over 600 chromes in my stash, not counting the hundreds I've used.

As for fusings, there is no vendor recipe for it, but you will get a lot of jewelers from the 6 socket items and then you purchase fusing at 4:1 at the vendor (better ratio once per day from Vorici).

Lastly, you can always trade for them. A lot of players will exchange currency and fusings/chromes are common enough currency exchanged.

For chromatics pick up any RGB linked items which drop quite often, those sell for 1 orb each to vendors. I've played for about 35 hours and I've got around 200 of them so far.

Chromatics are easy. Just collect all items with 3 linked sockets with RGB (+ any other if more than three sockets are linked).
If you're using item filters, you can use this piece of code
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Show
Rarity Normal
SocketGroup RGB
SetTextColor 0 255 255
[/code]
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If you remove the "rarity" part, it'll also highlight rare and magic items with this RGB sockets. Since you probably collect all rares anyway, there's no need for that. You might want to include magic items, though. If so, change Rarity Normal to Rarity < Rare.

There is no vendor recipe for fusings, though. So you'll just have to buy jeweller's orbs with alteration orbs (Act II, Yeena and I think Act III and IV vendors have them as well) and then buy fusings with the jeweller's orbs.

Once you have Vorici at level 6, you can buy 20 Orbs of Fusing from him for 64 Jeweller's Orbs after you have done his daily quest.
Then there are the Divination Cards "Emperor's Luck", which might give you 5 fusings (but it's random - can be five of any currency), "Lucky Connections", a full set of which will give you 20 fusings, or "Loyalty", which gives you 3 fusings.

You can farm "Loyalty" in The Den (Act II, where the White Beast lives, Cruel and Merciless difficulty), "Lucky Connections" in Docks, Wharf Map, Pier Map and Shipyard Map.

Loyalty seems to drop quite frequently, from my observation.

Good luck.

Finally you can trade. Have a look at poe.trade for offers and costs.

One very important part about getting the right socket colors is the base item you have. Let's say you need 4 green sockets for a bow skill. If you try to roll 4 green and 2 red sockets on a pure strength based armor like a glorious plate this will bankrupt you. (It takes like 2300 on average without master crafting.) But if you use a Triumphant Lamellar (which is a dexterity and strength base item) it will only take 4.

vs.
Glorious Plate . . . . . . Triumphant Lamellar

Here is a very handy tool to do the math for you:
Vorici's Chromatic Calculator
http://siveran.github.io/calc.html

Look at your armour, enter strength, dex int requirements and the number and color of sockets you want. The calculator will find you the cheapest average to get them. Keep in mind that it is still based on RNG luck. It can take more chroms or you can get it in 1.

If something looks really expensive it might pay off to trade for it instead.

The get more fusing, you need to ID every yellow item you find and sell it to a vendor for alteration shards. Then once you have many alterations, sell them to the vendor for jewelers orbs, then sell those for fusings. This is not be any means efficient, yet it is more efficient and guaranteed than simply waiting for fusing to drop.

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Mikrotherion wrote:

Chromatics are easy. Just collect all items with 3 linked sockets with RGB (+ any other if more than three sockets are linked).
If you're using item filters, you can use this piece of code
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Show
Rarity Normal
SocketGroup RGB
SetTextColor 0 255 255
[/code]
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Thanks for the filter. But these items do not drop very frequently either. Last evening I found two, the evening before I found 3. Both evenings together it totalled to 11 chroma orbs.

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KimchiGirlx3 wrote:

The get more fusing, you need to ID every yellow item you find and sell it to a vendor for alteration shards. Then once you have many alterations, sell them to the vendor for jewelers orbs, then sell those for fusings. This is not be any means efficient, yet it is more efficient and guaranteed than simply waiting for fusing to drop.

I've started to do that. It seems, grinding for these orbs is really slow, at least the way I play.

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Col_Jessep wrote:

One very important part about getting the right socket colors is the base item you have. Let's say you need 4 green sockets for a bow skill. If you try to roll 4 green and 2 red sockets on a pure strength based armor like a glorious plate this will bankrupt you. (It takes like 2300 on average without master crafting.) But if you use a Triumphant Lamellar (which is a dexterity and strength base item) it will only take 4.

Yes, I had read about the "off color" sockets on the Wiki. I've been trying to use base items which are likely to give me the right colors.

Conclusion: Same problem as in D2 - I'm a slow player and/or can't invest so much time in a game as others do, and what appears "easy" or "quick" to others is really time consuming for me :/

Thanks for all the feedback. This gives me some comparison.

If you are specifically grinding for orbs from vendor scrap try swapping out your gear for some with some Increased Item Rarity. You don't need that much to make a difference in finding rares for alt scraps and RGB's for chromes. My TS Ranger has about 85% or so (just because the iir came along with the other mods I wanted) and I find probably about 10 chromes worth in around 2-3 hours and countless alt scraps worth.

I don't know if you have hit maps yet but once you do grinding changes pretty dramatically and so does your wealth. Although I have found that there is a wall when you first hit maps that lasts into the character's mid 70's. If you haven't been playing long you probably are under geared and, if you are running maps for the first time, you also probably don't have a lot currency. But if you stick it out and grind through some low level magic maps and do Dried Lake runs for a while you'll get geared and orbed up before long.

And definitely use a loot filter. It really does make a big difference. Check out the stickied loot filter guide in the forum. I'm using the basic one with a couple of my own changes and it works wonders.

Good luck!

Wolf

Vendors in towns "reset the stock" with each of YOUR level-up.
Buy R-G-B items and sell them back immediately; "fast chromatics".
Everytime i levelup - i spend 5 minutes looking for R-G-B linked items at each vendor

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Wolf287 wrote:

If you are specifically grinding for orbs from vendor scrap try swapping out your gear for some with some Increased Item Rarity. You don't need that much to make a difference in finding rares for alt scraps and RGB's for chromes.

Well, I'm just playing through the quest line, trying to level, find items and also generally power up, which lead to the question how to get orbs, since I was missing those. It's my third character overall, the first was abandoned at level 43, the second worked better, was retired at level 63, and now I try to build an even better one.

I was just curious if there are shortcuts, since some messages said "takes only" and then a few hundred to a few thousand orbs. Which seemed to say, considering my experiences of getting ~60 orbs in 6 weeks, that I must play a few years to collect that many orbs, and it seemed I am missing something. "A few years" and "only" seemed to be too contradictionary.

So far the only thing really missing is the loot filter, I guess there slipped some RGB items which I haven't seen. Other than that, I am under the impression that the responses either indicate that people spend more time per day on the game and/or kill mobs faster than my characters do.

The latter will change once I found some better items, the former rather is the other way round for me. The past week I spent at least double the time per day on the game than what I can on average. So even that winter is coming, I can't (and shouldn't) spend more time on PoE than I already did in the past days. So it will rather be the other way round, less progress per day.