Exalted Orb

An Exalted Orb is a currency item that can be used to enhance a piece of rare equipment with a new random affix. It is one of the four orbs most commonly used as currency to exchange items between players, the other three being (much lower value), (slightly higher value) and (much higher value).

Vendor recipe

Exalted Orbs can be obtained from the following vendor recipes:

Result	Recipe
2× 5× 1×	1×
1x	Item with implicit (from a random outcome)

Exalted Orbs are rare currency items that can be dropped by slain monsters, chests, and destructible containers. They also drop from Arcanist's Strongboxes and doing beastcrafting recipe, etc. There is a not-profitable vendor recipe to acquire Exalted Orbs by downgrading , the rarest currency of the game. However, players can also obtain Exalted Orbs indirectly from vendor recipe by acquiring , and then combine the shard into an orb. However, that vendor recipe may be not profitable either, since the ingredients were Influenced item, which may worth more than the value of Exalted Shards in trade leagues.

Lastly, players can farm the from Azurite Mine. There is roughly 1000/23011 chance to have an implicit that sell for 1 , by using that fossil to craft an item. However, currently the selling price of the item is hidden (in specific, the price from that implicit is hidden only), as a hotfix for an exploit.

Spending

Exalted Orbs are high-value currency that play a crucial role in the in-game economy. Their primary purpose is to craft high-end rare items. Because of this, it is regarded as the "gold standard" currency for trading between players, with many trade deals listed in terms of Exalted Orbs. Since the average player does not have the means to craft high-end items, the average player typically trades Exalted Orbs for other valuable equipment instead of consuming them.

For powerful or wealthy players looking to use Exalted Orbs on powerful rare items, there are two primary methods to consume them. The first is through direct use of the orb, adding a random affix to a rare item that does not already have six affixes. The other is to add high-end affixes through Crafting Bench by paying a fixed amount of Exalted Orbs. The latter method grants crafters access to the special meta-crafting mods which cannot be rolled naturally.

See also: Currency creation and trading

Version history

Version	Changes
3.15.0	Quality from catalyst no longer affect the spawn weight thus the help text of this currency has also changed.
3.9.0	(not in patch notes) Help text revised to reflect the interaction with catalysts.
1.0.5	The art for Exalted Orbs has been updated.
0.6.8	Introduced to the game.