Chaos orbs not dropping anymore?

it can be considered bad luck, depends..

natural drops are rare during acts, just because low monster density and no quantity bonus. I dont remember how many dropped to me, not many, maybe 5, but I got at least 15 from league mechanics

OP: If you are doing a lot of chaos recipe, you should use those chaos and just buy better gear. Don't worry about fixing your current gear. Are you following a build guide or is this your own creation? Do you need help with making your character more effective?

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TemjinGold wrote:

OP: If you are doing a lot of chaos recipe, you should use those chaos and just buy better gear. Don't worry about fixing your current gear. Are you following a build guide or is this your own creation? Do you need help with making your character more effective?

I follow this guide : https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3146104
The clearing is quite good, but I need some advice for gear, because that is not in the guide. Getting chaos by recipe goes very slow. Have now 8.
Maybe by crafting? I think the helmet I have is the only thing that is for map starting ok. All res are 75; block is 32; dam reduction 56%.

Thank you.

I'm a fairly experienced totem player and can tell you that that build is quite frankly terrible. The author's goals are admirable but they do not work in practice.

Scion (being a hybrid) is generally strong either for stat stacking or for builds that don't make full use (all 8 points) of a pure ascendancy class (so you can take the half that works and pair it with a half from someone else). Neither of these are the case for either Chieftain or Hiero, so Scion is strictly worse than either of those two for totems.

The premise of combining the +1 totems from Hiero with the leech of Chieftain sounds great on paper. In reality, the Scion's totems are much weaker than the Hiero's and the leech is practically worthless because the character has ~5k life but with no defenses beyond resistance (little armour, no evasion, no significant block, etc.) Basically a classic example of trying to do everything at once resulting in doing none of it well.

If you enjoy spell totems, I would recommend rolling a pure Hiero. Chieftain is straight up harder to make good for spell totems and there isn't really a payoff either (he's more of an attack totem guy).

Can you advice on of the totem builds on this site for the Hiero? One that is not too expensive...
I tried the first time totem build, (tried already a lot other builds), but I like the way it goes.
I am quite surprised that with the crap gear (and bad build) the clearing is still good, and i survive still t5 maps quite good.

So I am quite interested in a good totem build!

Thank you very much for your time and replies.

This is a strong totem build:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2685450

So- quick response/perspective from a sort of noob- it's only my second league. I haven't really had an issue with Chaos drops and I'm running a less-than-optimal minion/skellie build at level 85'sh at the moment and barely into the bottom of the atlas.

I just roll em yellow if they're white before I run em, am wearing a few pieces that crank my rarity find up, and I pack-rat as much yellow set items from off the ground as I can to sell sets to vendor for 2 chaos each. I also nab as many 3-color/link crap as I can see drop to bring back for chromos. Last night in 6 hours of playing I made over 50 chaos from just heisting with vinderi and pack-ratting yellow set stuff. With the orbs I already had saved added to what I got I was able to buy the 2 Cluster gems and Fortress Cov. jewel I needed for my build.

And I'm new! And still learning tricks.