Help with Chaos Orbs Farming

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Hello everyone,

I need some help on how to farm Chaos Orbs in Path of Exile. I'm relatively new to the game and would like to know what the best strategies are for obtaining these orbs efficiently. Which maps or areas are recommended? Is there any specific technique or item I should use to increase my chances?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Would also love to hear more about this. First char for me, on maps now, and I've seen a grand total of 25 chaos orbs. Zero Exalted and Divine.

Early on, you can do the chaos recipe https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Vendor_recipe_system#Full_Rare_Sets where you turn in an unidentified set (one of every equipment) and get chaos orbs from vendors.

Selling stuff to players is another way to get chaos orbs more quickly than waiting for them to drop.

The drops of orbs themselves pick up in higher level maps, also I believe using chisels on your maps and alching them to make them rare will increase the item quantity/quality which should also improve your odds of better drops (chaos orbs included)

That's a great suggestion. Most people don't use this currently because its time consuming and there are more efficient ways, but vendor recipe is a staple way to get some if you are struggling to get them.

In trade, basically any of the content types will convert to chaos, harvest materials for example can be sold. I would say expedition is probably one of the best for getting them directly. They show up very regularly in Tujen's shop, and are inexpensive. Heist is also pretty good. Sanctum is also very good, though this might be difficult for new players, since it's kind of a side game and a bit build dependent.

Currently there are mod's on the necropolis lantern that relate to chaos orbs. You can get a massive amount of chaos drops in your map with the right variables. Like about 30c as a base line but well up into the hundreds with the right combinations. They are not that rare to get. If you have an excess of maps it is possible to spam open them until you find one you want to run, and avoid the bad ones. Otherwise just keep any eye out when running them normally, and try to set it up optimally when you get one. You can also get other types of currency like vaal orbs etc. You will need a small amount of knowledge, when you find one, you want the mod to be on high density packs, and having a good allflame applied will increase the amount of drops. Atlas setup also plays a part, but even with a non-optimal atlas it should work fine. This will likely only work in the current league, but upcoming league will probably also have some way of farming currency.

In general just playing more efficiently will result in more drops, if you are able to clear area's faster, or with more content packed in, it will result in more drops. There's some information here about drops: https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Drop_rate
Basically for currency you want quantity. I would suggested having a good build is the first step. If you have some gear that increase quant and can fit it into you build it might help, but probably not at the cost of making your build worse. If you are clearing slower to fit on quant gear, it might be detrimental overall. Extra quant from rolling your maps is also a good suggestion from the above poster.

Direct DIV and EX drops are fairly rare if you are a new player. Trading is a good way to get things, though it gets a bit more difficult deeper into the league with the economy inflating. Things like scarabs, harvest materials etc. are probably still being traded regularly, but many unique items are probably not going to be worth much. In a fresh league it might be easier to find something to trade early on.

I'll pursue the vendor recipe. Selling is pretty much worthless for me. I don't play every day, and I play for short sessions (very casual, obviously). Have gotten ONE whisper to buy something, and I was in a labyrinth (couldn't leave without losing my progress), and the buyer was offline when I got out.

The current system for selling completely sucks for casual players.

Is there a place where people arrange trades offline, so that trades can then be scheduled and done when the players are online? That would be the only way I'll ever end up selling anything.

There's a trading section on the forum, I only use the trade site but there are some other platforms like tft and discord groups. You could also try in game chat, there's general and trade channels. People might be able to give you an idea if what you have will sell, don't trust them necessarily but it might be a good sounding board. If you post what you are trying to sell here people might be able to advise. If it's not selling either price is too high or it's something not many people are looking for. Trade is more lively at the start of the league.

Hey there, happy to try and help here, but highly suggest watching some youtube videos. Try searching for stuff like "how to make currency in path of exile".

Disclaimer:
As previously mentioned in someones reply, if you are playing in necropolis league, trade is very dead/stagnant, especially at the entry to maps tier of gear. Necropolis league ends the last weekend of July.

So this run down is based on league start/mid league economy.

The main way -most- players make currency is by selecting a atlas farming strategy.

Once you have completed campaign, you will start unlocking your atlas passive tree. This opens up the ability to choose what game mechanics you engage with. Highly suggest doing some research on these independently. Maxroll.gg website has a section for farming strategy guides for all tier levels.

Examples of league start mechanics:

Expedition
Betrayal
Essence
Heist


If you are not done with campaign yet, dont worry too much about currency or gear. I know it feels wrong, but it really doesnt matter. You can finish campaign in garbage gear. Just upgrade your stuff using natural drops. As you learn whats good you can list extra decent stuff you find or outgrow for sale, but when you are new and dont know what's what, its justa crap shoot whether you guessed right thats its worth trying to sell.

MOST IMPORTANT: Get a loot filter configured. Search youtube for filterblade guide POE.

Tips:
1. Finish a enough of your atlas to meet the minimum effective point requirement for the farming guide you pick. All strategies are going to use at least 60 points, probably closer to 110 pts.

2. Given the first statement, you should still use your passive points as you go. For a first timer, pick a beginner strategy, and apply your points towards that. Just dont focus on rerunning maps and optimizing the farming. Run your maps for atlas completion and engage with the mechanic you have chosen as you go.

3. Commit to a strategy. It is common to feel like you are missing out if you don't engage with a mechanic you see. It's important to realize that most mechanics are only profitable/worth the time if you spec into their atlas points/use their scarabs. The amount of time it takes to run a harvest grove that popped up in your expedition ma, you could have run another expedition map.

4. Exceptions to 3 are:
If you think it is fun, just do it anyway.
If you are playing SSF
If you are are very league start and it has 1-time benefits. Example, betrayal provides crafting recipes to your crafting bench the first time you unveil a mod. Worth doing those at league start just to have the recipes.

5. Accept that strategies require investment to be efficient. "takes money to make money". Chisel your maps, use scarabs, buy supplies. Of course you can gather all your own supplies, but like we talked about in number 3, if you arent specialized into it, its not very effective.
Example: If you dont have any atlas points towards finding additional maps, why would you try and farm them yourself?

6. Understand the desired outcome and how it is profitable. Some strategies will give you raw chaos orbs (heist, sanctum, exarch alters), but many will give you other resources for you to sell/trade for chaos orbs. If you arent willing to engage inactive trading, pick your farm accordingly. (or better yet, play SSF)

7. Use external tools. POE is super complicated and layered. Search yourtube videos on POE 3rd party tools/websites.

- Awakened POE: trade add-on. allows you to price check easily, has macros for inviting/whispering, holds regex.

-Filterblade: Loot filter web-tool

-Craft of Exile: Design your crafts, tricky to wrap your head around at first but invaluable long term.

-POE Ninja: website that list current average sale price. Also lets you creep on public profiles and see what other people are using n their builds similar to yours.

- POE Wiki: the offical unofficial guide everything in POE. If you dont understag a item tag or mechanic, just google its name followed by "POE wiki".

8. If you can afford it, but some stash tabs. Yes, the game is F2P, but unless you are punishing yourself on purpose or don't have access to a credit card, spend the 10-40 bucks and get the stash tabs.

- they do stash tab sales like once a month.
- get a currency and map tab at a minimum.
- Get at least 2 premium tabs if you plan to engage in trade. Your currency generation potential is very much limited by the amount of things you can list for sale at once.

Hope this helps.

/Pious

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inisfree1952 wrote:

Would also love to hear more about this. First char for me, on maps now, and I've seen a grand total of 25 chaos orbs. Zero Exalted and Divine.

Even at the end-game juiced strategies, exalts and divines are fairly uncommon drops in maps. (exceptions abide of course).

As you progress to the point of needing multiple divines for gear upgrades and supplies, you'll be able to run strategies that produce items or resources that you can trade for these rarer currency. Example:

Heist: Blueprints have loot cases at the end of the mission. They occasionally contain stacks of chaos/divine. But more often contain armour and jewelery. The top-tier heist amulet loot sells for over 600 divine. (its 300 ea, but you split it in half for 2 from 1)

Harvest:

Drops almost no currency. But you get lifeforce. A stack of 50k yellow lifeforce is currently like 28 divine.