Vaal orbs wont be valuable at all

Granted that:

1. Once an item has been vaal'd, no further currency can be used on it; and simultaneously,

2. It's not guaranteed that vaal orb will improve the item;

It's like it counters itself. I don't see how that can be worth the hassle.

I'd like to know if someone thinks different.

Can't wait for SotV.

I agree.
Maybe worth as much as Alchs or Fusings, they're very niche, risky and aren't even that rare to begin with (Chris stated they're as rare as Chaos Orbs).

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IronSteel wrote:

Granted that:

1. Once an item has been vaal'd, no further currency can be used on it; and simultaneously,

2. It's not guaranteed that vaal orb will improve the item;

It's like it counters itself. I don't see how that can be worth the hassle.

I'd like to know if someone thinks different.

Can't wait for SotV.

Depends on what you define as valuable.

I think if they're around a chaos orb in value, they're valuable.

I think this is GGG's way of having a back door item sink.

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Idioticus wrote:

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IronSteel wrote:

Granted that:

1. Once an item has been vaal'd, no further currency can be used on it; and simultaneously,

2. It's not guaranteed that vaal orb will improve the item;

It's like it counters itself. I don't see how that can be worth the hassle.

I'd like to know if someone thinks different.

Can't wait for SotV.

Depends on what you define as valuable.

I think if they're around a chaos orb in value, they're valuable.

Chaos orbs are far more useful so I don't think they will be worth a chaos even though they drop as often. Its like divine orbs drop less often than exalts but are worth less than an exalt.

I would love them to be worthless.

I would easily trade them for exalts I rarely use anyway
and have some fun with my leveling gear.

I think their home lies with mid-tier leveling gear. Imagine you're levling to cruel dominus, you get some nice boots and you're like 'oh lets just Vaal Orb that shit maybe get a good stat on it'. Even if the result is bad, it won't matter because you will replace the boots later.

They're meant to be the currency orb to make pre-maps less of a bore because who cares if your level 40 item can't be re-modded. Also available to make some less useful uniques possibly better and for people to try and make halfway-good gear better. But with that being the case, the drop rate isn't that amazing. It's good to have an orb that isn't useful at endgame nor as spammable as eternal+exalt, as it allows for low level crafting without the fear of wasting your wealth. Instead only the base item which, if you know what to use it on, you can get a hundred more of anywhere.


Now, if the vaal orb were to be made useable at endgame, then I'd like it to be possible to un-corrupt an item through a vendor recipe. Possibly at the cost of a Sacrificial Garb. However, once un-corrupted it cannot be re-corrupted. So still only 1 chance per item and a heavy cost to it if you get a bad roll, but the item doesn't have to be permanently worse with no way to redeem it.