Add chaos orbs to vendors sell list (1 regal per orb)

Disclaimer: I am lvl94 HC Perandus. My experience and view is based on temporary HC leagues. If you play different leagues your opinion might be different from mine.
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We currently have a following situation:
- People do regal recepie as soon as they reach t8+ maps
- Regals drop in price nearly 1:1 with chaos orb. (which is natural and I don't mind)

My personal problem is that nobody accepts payment in regals even 1:1, they all want it as chaos orbs. So I have been forced to add one ilvl74- Item to the recepie to make sure that I downgrade it to chaos outcome instead of regals. I think this is rediculous, but it kinda helped.

I think there should be a way to underline the regal value dominance over chaos (60-74 vs 75+).
Simply add a vendor selling chaos orbs for 1 regal each. This will have no effect on the economy but will allow players to downgrade their regals into chaos orbs.
Alternatively swap the vendor recepies for regals and chaos orbs: make regals 60-74 and chaos 75+
Otherwise your system makes no sence and I will keep tainting my regal recepie with a low lvl item to get chaos orbs.

Thanks GGG!

EDIT: I like the idea of raising the recepies to CHAOS=60-79 and REGAL=80+ think this would also work

+1

I think the recipe stems from a time when lvl 75+ items were much more rare, and rarity made Regal Orbs more valuable. Times have changed, so there should be some change there (or make the lvl requirement for the Regal recipe be lvl 80, which would bring back the value of Regal Orbs).

I feel that they should have increased the Regal Recipe by two levels when they increased the map levels (or maybe even 3, since maps are more avaible now as well).

Either solution works but I'd prefer the vendor approach.

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- Regals drop in price nearly 1:1 with chaos orb. (which is natural and I don't mind)

You want to set item on price for ever becasue it happened that now it is worth said ammont.

No, thanks.

I don't have this "problem", don't play that much... but the solution you mentioned is pretty simple. You can choose which one you want by adding a low level item, should get a few in a minute.

issue is the Regal itself

crafting.. transmute/alt-> regal (if bad, scrour) -> multimod -> master craft. this plus jewel crafting are 2 biggest (and most probably only) reasons to use Regal orbs

maps.. you alch and go (except high tier Zana metamod maps that you buy/augment/regal -> run)

out of these two second one is rather low intensity. even scion builds require max ~8 jewels - and it is the flask situation again: you do not need to roll them further if you have your set. also - buying them is easy and you can get 4mod jewels. exalting jewels is only for the big players.

multimoded weapons are.. barely worth the cost and most frequently you can buy them CHEAPER than the 2ex fee for the multimod. so why bother with crafting at all

other than these two (and a half) uses - there is no sink for regals (transmute/aug/regal on maps?.. doesnt sound right)

+1 to regal -> chaos recipe at vendor (act4).

I don't think it's actually that necessary. Most regals and chaos orbs come from the exact same source. (the vendor recipe)

And yes, the chaos recipe is easier to do. Sure, for those people doing only high-end maps, they'll all be for regals... But this is drowned out by the sheer number of runs of the level-67 Dried Lake being done. (as well as the level-68 Labyrinth)

If you want to get chaos instead of regals for your gathered rare items, all you have to do is swap in just ONE item that's between iLvl 60-74. Need one? Just quickly dash out into Dried Lake.

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kamil1210 wrote:

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- Regals drop in price nearly 1:1 with chaos orb. (which is natural and I don't mind)

You want to set item on price for ever becasue it happened that now it is worth said ammont.

No, thanks.

Can you please clarify this? Are saying that the chaos orb's value can never change because it will be worth the identical price of a regal orb? If so, that is simply not true. Chaos orb value in relation to Exalteds, fusing, and alts fluctuate all the time. Them having an identical price to another currency item wont change this.

@PhoenixFlame, I think you are missing the point of my argument. We are talking about the chaos orbs and regals from the vendor recepie. The problem is that regals are implied to be more rewarding than chaos orbs.

Pretty simple logic: you farm higher zone = better reward; you farm lower zone = worse reward. This relation of chaoses and regals is built into the game. Its forced by the recepies.

The problem here is that this foreceful implicit relation does not necessarily reflect the market desire. In other words I get a too-good-item from high zone and want to downgrade it.

You have to understand that I am not trying to trade one currency for another here. I am talking about a regal orb, as an upgrade of a chaos orb.(if you dont see it this way, then there is no point to argue here, end of discussion) In both cases you vendor the same rare items, just different ilvl. There is no change in your mapping/looting behaviour. In low map u get chaos, in high map u get regal. Its absolutely deterministic and has nothing to do with rng for currency drop. I just feel stupid, when i get something more rewarding in a lower area than in a higher area.