Orb of Augmentation

An Orb of Augmentation is a currency item that can be used to enhance a piece of magic equipment with an additional random affix. This can only be used on an item with one affix, since magic items can have at most one prefix and one suffix.

Vendor recipes

Orbs of Augmentation can also be obtained using the following vendor recipes:

Result	Recipe
1×	item with six affixes
1×	1 x normal, 1 x magic, 1 x rare item of the same base type
2×	1 x normal, 1 x magic, 1 x rare (all unidentified) of the same base type

Spending

Orbs of Augmentation are most often used to add an additional affix to a magic item with only one affix. Unlike its much rarer cousin the , Orbs of Augmentation are commonly and frequently used by all players, often in conjunction with an and . At low levels or in races, they may be used to quickly craft useful magic items before stronger rare items can be found to replace them. They are also used on strongboxes to potentially improve the items dropped. At high levels, Orbs of Augmentation are used in conjunction with to craft magic items with top-tier affixes as the first step in a long crafting process to produce a high-end rare item. They are also used to craft desirable affixes on maps.

Orbs of Augmentation can be used to purchase certain low-level magic items directly from vendors. One can also sell 4 Orbs of Augmentation to Nessa in exchange for an . They also are used in the following vendor recipes:

Result	Recipes
Magic Boots with 10% increased Movement Speed ×1	White Boots ×1 Any rarity Quicksilver Flask x1 1×
Magic Boots with (X+5)% increased Movement Speed ×1	Magic Boots with X% Movement Speed ×1 Any rarity Quicksilver Flask x1 1×
Weapon with x added damage ×1	Weapon ×1 or Weapon with x added damage ×1 ×1 ×1 (Physical Damage) or ×1 (Fire Damage) or ×1 (Cold Damage) or ×1 (Lightning Damage)
Ring or amulet with +x to Chaos Resistance ×1	Ring or amulet ×1 ×1 ×1

Lastly, Orbs of Augmentation are used for a very large number of crafting bench recipes.

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
2.3.0d	Fixed a bug where Orbs of Augmentation and Exalted Orbs could be used on unidentified maps, providing information about the number of mods on that map.
0.6.0	Made orbs of augmentation stackable
0.5.9	Fixed bug with Orb of Augmentation adding multiple prefixes