PoE Vaal Orb Ultimate Guide: Skills, Recipes and Corrupting Strategies You Need To Know (2024)

Today we dive deep into the art of using Vaal Orbs for corrupting items in Path of Exile, 2024. Unlock the secrets of Vaal Orbs in this article Path of Exile! Read our guide to learn how you can make cheap items and gain a lot of currency by doing corruption. Reveal strategies to potentially turn items into currency powerhouses and More. Well then, let’s get started!

Vaal Orb: Information

What are Vaal Orbs? These are a form of money used in Path of Exile. It is used primarily to corrupt items so that they become unpredictable but may result in high profits. Generally speaking, Vaal Orbs trade at about two per Chaos Orb.

1. Basics: Since it can potentially alter an item’s properties, a Vaal Orb will add some uncertainty to your equipment.
2. Probabilities: It has 25% chance that it does nothing or adds white sockets turns the item rare or even adds or changes implicitly.
3. Risks involved: Remember once an item has been corrupted, there is no going back — it becomes as unchangeable as rock.

Vaal Skills

1. How does it work? When you socket a regular gem together with its vaal one gives you access to both versions
2. Double the fun! A single gem slot will give you access to vaal version and the regular version — thanks to Vaal gems.
3. Soul Collection: Gather enough souls from slain foes before unleashing the vaal skill variant which typically packs more punch (like continuous damage zones).

Vaal Orb Recipes & Risks

1. Vaal Orb can make items into something completely different; changing socket colors or improving unique items.
2. Once corrupted, an item cannot be modified anymore so think twice before you vaal it!
3. Unique Jewels: Some unique jewels, like Self-Flagellation, can only be gotten with Vaal orbs. Be careful!

Corrupting Items

Understanding the Item Corruption:
- No change: the item is corrupted as it is.
- Mod alteration: All mods can change and thus rerolling the item.
- Socket changes: There is a chance that sockets become white.
- Adding implicit: Your corruption might add some powerful implicit modifiers to your items.

Crafting with Corrupted Items: You can still alter socket colors and numbers by using the crafting table but at additional costs in Vaal Orbs.

Corrupting Specific Items

1. Jewels: For instance, “Corrupted Blood cannot be inflicted on you” right corruption could make them shoot up in value.
2. Unique Items: Depending on the item, correct implicit modification would greatly increase its value.

Items to Consider:
The Vigil — A 1c jewel which can have multiple ex-worth depending on the right corruption
Frozen Trail — From a 1c to 3c jewel that skyrockets to 5+ ex if it has ‘Corrupted Blood’.
Pyre Circle — A common appearing ring which can leap in value through the right kind of corruption.

Corruption Maps

Potential Outcomes: When you corrupt a map, there are four possible results:
- No Change: This means that the map stays the same but gets a corrupted status.
- Unidentified Map: The corruption makes the map unidentified.
- Mod Changes: It is possible for the mod on the map to change into new ones.

Tier Upgrade: There is a chance of upgrading the map to a higher tier
Remember: You cannot alter a corrupted map any further.

Corrupt Skill Gems

Outcomes of Corrupting Gems:
- Level Change: It could gain or lose levels.
- Quality Change: The quality can go down or up by 10%.
- Transformation: Regular gems can be changed to Vaal gems.

Tip. Always consider how important the gem is before it’s corrupted.

Corruption Strategies

1. Know Your Odds: Always know your odds and potential outcomes before you use Vaal Orb.
2. Wise Choices: Use Vaal Orbs where potential upside outweighs risk on items.
3. Crafting Bench Magic: Just remember, at a higher cost you can still change socket colors and links on corrupted items using the crafting bench.
4. Iron Rings and Amulets: Potentially valuable from an influence standpoint, Vaal Orbing an iron ring or an amulet may turn out to be more than profitable for crafting purposes.
5. When to Vaal: Think about items that even though already good, would profit from a strong implicit roll.
6. Calculating Risk: Always remember corruption always entails high stakes; one should not corrupt anything dear to oneself.
7. Vaal Orbs on Jewels: Experiment with unique jewels using Vaal Orbs which will give unpredictable results.