Chromatic orbs are bullshit.

I have to agree they are weighted too heavily. Sure, maybe my skill gems are blue but man, those support gems seem to want to be all colors of the rainbow.

The ES chest have very high probability to get blue sockets. It is the same with pure EVA or pure AR chest with green and red.

I'm not sure, but if I remember well I read somewhere that probability of colours fore pure gear is 80% for their main color, and 10% for each of the other two colors. Probability are more uniform in mixed gear.

This means that with ES gear you have

26.2% to get 6 blue (105 out 400)
39.3% to get 5 blue (157 out 400)
24.6% to get 4 blue ( 98 out 400)
8.2% to get 3 blue ( 33 out 400)
1.5% to get 2 blue ( 6 out 400)
0.15% to get 1 blur ( about 1 out 400 (actually a little bit less))


You have been quite unlucky, you should have obtained 6 times 2B. However with small probability is very usual to obtain results which is different from standard.

I can only suggest yuo to continue.

Is it even possible to get all off-color?

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HellGauss wrote:

I'm not sure, but if I remember well I read somewhere that probability of colours fore pure gear is 80% for their main color, and 10% for each of the other two colors. Probability are more uniform in mixed gear.

If this isn't technically true, it's at least very close to being true. And I'm inclined to agree that it is bullshit.

If I was doing it, it would be like this...
* mono defense: 2/9 chance off color (2 options), 5/9 chance on-color (1 option)
* hybrid: 1/9 chance off color (1 option), 4/9 chance on-color (2 options)

I'd also do this:
* mono classes: start with 40/16/16 attribute point distribution (5:2:2)
* hybrid classes: start with 32/32/8 attribute point distribution (4:4:1)

Off course it is, it frequently happens on 3 socket items. It's just borderline impossible for 6 sockets. If the 10% figure is good, it would mean 0.0064% to get 6 random off colors.

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PoE is all about build diversity and not being able to do different builds becouse you cant roll right colour sockets is bad design.

Thing is, op can do his build easily with like 20 or 40 chromes tops : he just has to use a hybrid chest. Sure, he will have less total ES. That's why it's the easy way. Can't get the top results with easy means.

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Evlesoa wrote:

Is it even possible to get all off-color?

By taking my hypothesis, you would have 0.2^6=0.0064% , i.e. 1 over 15625. You have to collect *many* chromes.

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Evlesoa wrote:

Is it even possible to get all off-color?

Actually this just happened to me; I was chroming a 5L bow trying to get GGGRB, and by some freak luck I got RRRRR. I almost stopped to sell it as-is, but I realized there's no active skill a bow-user would put in the red slot, so I just chromed over it.

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Dawmz wrote:

Who cares about the fact there are 120 colors combos ?!
Everybody knows chromatic results are artficially weighted towards the armor type, it's not like it's a hidden fact or something, op's results are not surprising, they are the _expected_ results.
Oh and I forgot a third solution for op : reduce his build to a 5L or even a 4L since 6L is a luxury.

That's already on the table (the part about reducing build to 5L.)

But it requires the colors to be in a certain position relative to the links. For 5L I would need 2R2G1B. Which means If both blue colors are in the center of the chest rather than corner positions, it cannot be done.

5L is relatively easy to get. I have probably 5L'd over a hundred items. 6L I have done twice and I do consider it a luxury.

In this case the coloring is so hard I decided to do it BEFORE the linking process, that way if I have a situation where say, both blue colors are on the bottom...I could keep going until I got a 5L in the correct orientation (or a 6L)

That's right, the coloring process is so fucking hard I'm doing it before linking, because I would rather break links than the colors I am looking for.

5L is really not hard compared to coloring.

However, starting with the right colors means if I ever want to continue with the build, I can. I've gotten off on the wrong foot before with builds, and this time I'm not letting that happen.

The problem is you never realize how big the chromatic roadblock is until you try to directly tackle it. It's insane.

Let's say I 5L'd it first. Instead of going for 4 off colors on a 6S, I would be going for four specific off-colors on a 5L, which would be SUBSTANTIALLY harder. It would kind of like be trying to go for a 5L on a 5S, or something. Not very smart.

the chances for a 2/2/2 chest ain't so bad

if the 10% for a specific off-color is correct
it's: 0.8*0.8*0.1*0.1*0.1*0.1 * number of permuatations those colors can appear (6! / (2!*2!*2!) = 90)
so it's 1 in 174

the chances to the 5 off-color he really wants on the other hand would be 1 in 2083

if there wouldn't be a color-bias it'll be 1 in 9 for 2/2/2, to get pure colors on the other hand then would be 1 in 774 - there is always someone crying, no matter how you do it.

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Buchsbaum wrote:

the chances for a 2/2/2 chest ain't so bad

if the 10% for a specific off-color is correct
it's: 0.8*0.8*0.1*0.1*0.1*0.1 * number of permuatations those colors can appear (6! / (2!*2!*2!) = 90)
so it's 1 in 174

I don't believe these odds. If this was the case I'd be getting 4 off colors once every ~35 chromatics.

Since there are five different configurations to get 4 off-color combinations and you are claiming the odds of getting a specific one are 1/174.

That is so far removed from reality that it is almost silly.

1/35 chance to get 4 off-color? ABSURD.

Your math is definitely wrong.