I suggest rework of this page and vendor recipes. It would be helpful to have all information grouped together to quickly see how to obtain currency. How could this look like - currency items could remain the same they are now, possibly with another column "rarity". (most rare orb has 1. Other orbs have numbers how often they drop from monsters vs the rare one). Possibly separated for "quality" items and "other". Sortable by name and by rarity. On click on any orb, another table with all the known recipes is expended (just under the orb; collapsable). That table could look like vendor recipes table + contain vendor prices.
Advantage vs vendor recipes page would be to also contain drop rarity of the item and vendor prices to buy the item + be faster to search if you want to check how to obtain a specific orb (no need to dig through 100 recipes, just press on the orb you are interested in). Advantage vs this page would be the whole list how to get that orb. --Zizy (talk) 18:39, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
- Its useful to have some (small) additional informations about the orbs inside the recipes list (as I made it on the de.* page after a mate's hint), but I dont see the need for more at this place - thats where the Currencies page is for; or maybe additional pages for each orb's mechanics (but these could also be added as one section to the mechanics page. what I'd prefer) --Mr.Cee (talk) 08:17, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Usefulness
You know, if I wanted this information, I would have checked the game. The information on this page is barely helpful at all. What I expected to see was detailed information on how some things work, like chromatic orbs, chaos orbs, blessed orbs, orbs of alchemy, orbs of fusing and so on. I came here with many questions and was able to answer none.
For example :
- Chromatic orb : How are the socket colors determined? Is it random? If so, how can the odds of getting a color be calculated?
- Orb of fusing : What are the chances of getting x links between y sockets? Is it even possible to get 3 sockets linked or is that only possible on dropped items?
- Jeweller's orb : What are the odds of getting 1, 2, 3 or more sockets on an item?
- What is the difference between the orb of alchemy and the orb of chance?
- Chaos orb : When using one, is the number of properties present on an item kept?
- Orb of regret : Does one have to use the respec point right away?
- Orb or augmentation: How many times can one be used on an item?
- Blessed orb : Exactly what properties does it affect?
I would like to know more about the mechanics of the game.