Orb of Scouring

An Orb of Scouring is a currency item that can be used to remove all random modifiers from a magic or rare piece of equipment. Implicit modifiers, quality, sockets, and links are not removed, as well as affixes protected by meta-crafting mods.

Obtaining
Vendoring a rare item with only two explicit modifiers will result in an Orb of Scouring. Such an item can only be crafted by using a on a magic item with one explicit modifier.

It can also be bought by using 4x, see Vendor Currency Exchange Chart.

Version history

 * Reduced the drop rate of Orbs of Scouring, Scrolls of Wisdom and Portal Scrolls (scrolls can easily be obtained from vendors now.)


 * Increased the drop rate of Orb of Scouring by 25%.


 * Changed Orb of Scouring, Jeweler's Orb, Orb of Fusing to only drop in level 12+ areas because they were too complicated for early players.


 * Increased Orb of Scouring stack size to 15.
 * Increased relative drop rate of Armour Shards, Orbs of Scouring, Jeweler's Orbs.


 * Increased rarity of Orb of Scouring currency item.


 * Added item Orb of Souring: converts an item into its plain base type
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