Chromatic Orb

A Chromatic Orb is a currency item that can be used to re-roll the colour of sockets on a weapon or piece of armour.

Like most currency items, Chromatic Orbs can be dropped by slain monsters, chests, and destructible containers. They also drop from Arcanist's Strongboxes.

One can also obtain Chromatic Orbs directly from vendors. The first town NPC who sell the orb is Yeena of Act 2.

Chromatic Orbs can also be obtained by vendoring an item with one socket of each colour (red, green, blue) linked together. This is one of the most common ways to obtain Chromatic Orbs. In particular this means you can get some Chromatic Orbs cheaply (typically for about one each, or less) by buying such linked items from the Vendors.

Yet another source of Chromatic Orbs is Beastcrafting, if you have captured Saqawine Rhoa. Speak to Einhar, Beastmaster or visit The Menagerie.

Spending

Chromatic Orbs are primarily used to change the colours of sockets on an item. Sockets are more likely to roll a colour corresponding to the attributes of the equipment being altered. The higher the attribute requirements, the more likely it is to roll the relevant color: red sockets for Strength, green sockets for Dexterity, and blue sockets for Intelligence. It's only possible to get red, blue or green sockets using this orb; for white sockets it's necessary to use a .

If one either wants to avoid randomness, or wishes to obtain a specific colour combination that is unlikely on a certain item (e.g. getting all red sockets on an item requiring high intelligence), one can instead use the Crafting Bench recipe found in the Delve mine. When obtaining socket colours that an item is already biased towards (e.g. obtaining red sockets on a chest piece requiring high Strength), using Chromatic Orbs manually is less costly than using the Bench. On the other hand, for obtaining a socket colour that an item is biased against (e.g. obtaining green sockets on a chest piece requiring high Strength), using Chromatic Orbs manually is typically much more costly than using the Bench.

Effect		Cost
At Least One Red Socket		4x
At Least Two Red Sockets		25x
At Least Three Red Sockets		120x
At Least One Green Socket		4x
At Least Two Green Sockets		25x
At Least Three Green Sockets		120x
At Least One Blue Socket		4x
At Least Two Blue Sockets		25x
At Least Three Blue Sockets		120x
At Least One Red and One Green Socket		15x
At Least One Red and One Blue Socket		15x
At Least One Green and One Blue Socket		15x
At Least Two Blue and One Red Socket		100x
At Least Two Blue and One Green Socket		100x
At Least Two Red and One Green Socket		100x
At Least Two Red and One Blue Socket		100x
At Least Two Green and One Blue Socket		100x
At Least Two Green and One Red Socket		100x

These recipes can also be applied to corrupted items at the cost of using one for every Chromatic Orb required. This is currently the only way the colours of sockets on a corrupted item can be modified.

External links

Chromatic orb Calculators:

• Evil4Zerggin's Chromatic orb calculator
• Siveran's chromatic orb calculator

Version history

Version	Changes
3.5.0	Masters, including Zana, no longer have Reputation levels. Features such as crafting bench options are, as a result, no longer unlocked by grinding master missions, and are instead unlocked by encountering specific locations, situations or completing specific objectives. (not in patch notes) The crafting bench recipes that change the colour of the sockets, are now located inside Delve mine
0.9.3	Added new currency item - Chromatic Orb: Rerolls the colours of sockets on an item.