Awakener's Orb

Awakener's Orb is a currency item. Using it on an item destroys the item, and allows the player to apply the item's influence to another item of the same item class. The second item is then reforged as a rare item with both influence types and new modifiers.

Spending
Awakener's orbs are spent by right-clicking the orb, left-clicking a donor item, and then left-clicking a target item. The two items must be of the same item type, with different influences. The target item's base type, item level, sockets, and links are retained.

Influence is written/shown in a fixed order from left to right, regardless of the donor/target. In other words, a hunter item donating into a redeemer item arranges the icons the same as a redeemer item donating into a hunter item. The influence icon on the item follow the following order: Shaper > Elder > Crusader > Redeemer > Hunter > Warlord.

One signature mod (such as a "Shaper's" prefix, or an "Of the Elder" suffix) from each item is guaranteed to merge on the new item, except the case that the two mods are from the same mod group (see paragraph below). The retained mods can be both prefixes, suffixes, or a combination. If an item has two or more signature mods, one will be selected at random during the merging process.

Notably, some mods (such as Elder and Redeemer, Shaper and Redeemer , etc.) are mutually exclusive and one will be discarded at random. This exclusivity rule appears to depend on the ModGroup attribute found on datamined websites such as poedb.tw and POE wiki (e.g. all curse on hit explicit mods on ring are in group "CurseOnHitLevel" as shown in their wiki articles or the mod entries in the wiki that start with Modifier prefix), where the two merged mods cannot share the same ModGroup. It is unclear whether additional, non-ModGroup exclusivity rules exist as this information is not available within the game client.

Version history

 * Physical Damage taken as Chaos/Fire/Cold/Lightning modifiers are now mutually exclusive.
 * Curse on Hit modifiers (found on rings) are now mutually exclusive. This does not include ones obtained via item corruption.
 * (not in patch notes) Due to the changes, player no longer able to craft item with two curses on hit explicit mods, nor Physical Damage taken as elemental damages mods using Awakener's Orb or any dual influence base


 * The and  unique rings now grant both bonuses if your other ring is Shaper and Elder influenced.


 * Fixed a bug where the "x% reduced Mana Reserved" Redeemer influence modifier was able to be on the same item as the same modifier from Shaper influence or Fossils.


 * Awakener's Orbs now ignore Mastercrafting Metamods.


 * Introduced to the game.
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