
Outward Definitive Edition | War Was Imperative
Often times what drives the price of a single currency tends to be how rare it is, what does it do, and even what is the max the current market can even afford to pay for something. As the most valuable one is worth more than I’ve collected total in my entire time playing this game.
If you are a league player like myself where you start fresh every couple of months from having nothing to leveling up a character and earning currencies. What would be a 1: 1 trade in the first hours of the game because no one has enough yet to make a better offer could be worth well over 100 of that same currency just a couple of weeks later. There even one currency in particular where you would not sell it in the first couple of days because no one has enough yet to make a decent offer on it.
Since this is rather long most players keep an eye out for things like: Orb of Alchemy, Chaos Orb, Cartographers Chisel, Sextants, Exalted Orb and if you ever have a Mirror of Kalandra drop go buy yourself some lotto ticks because the RNG gods are on your side!
I’ve broken down everything into the following categories: fragments, Utility Scrolls, Quality Increment, socket, mapping, item crafting mod and rarity upgrading, and other.
To start the game off when you are fresh there are a couple of currency fragments that drop that auto combines into something that can be used. While I’m not quite sure why we still have them as they are more or less worthless and not worth players times outside of the first couple of minutes of gameplay. This only includes standard currency drops and not something league specific.
While having little sell value they are a necessity for getting around and seeing what item you got.
A place to buy from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Clarissa in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one at cost of three Scroll of wisdom.
Currently, in Flashback Event, there are only 3 people even trying to buy these. One guy is buying 399 for 10 Chaos Orbs and another buying 100 for 1 Chaos Orbs. Making 1 Chaos Orb worth between 39.9 to 100 Portal Scrolls (1.)
Currently, there is only one buyer and he is willing to buy 399 scrolls for 4 Chaos Orbs. Which means 1 Chaos Orb is worth 84.75 scrolls of wisdom (1.)
These aim to increase the quality of the specific item. While many have similar mechanics some are a little different so I break them down indecently. Currency that increases quality is: Armorer’s Scrap, Blacksmith’s Whetstone, Glassblower’s Bauble, Cartographers Chisel, and Gem Cutter’s Prism.
A place to buy from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Hargan in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one at the cost of three Blacksmith’s Whetstone.
A place to buy from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Hargan in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one at cost of three Armorer’s Scrap.
There is a vendor recipe to get these you sell 40% worth of quality in flasks at an NPC. Why would anyone do this? I have no idea there’s not even a single person trying to buy any at this time. While I know they can be worth more than where I’ve ranked this. It’s hard to find a buyer so I’ve given it this low ranking.
A place to buy from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Hargan in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one for eight Blacksmith’s Whetstone.
Increase quality of a map. Covered further in Mapping Currency section
A skill gem itself can go up to 20% quality and is only increase by 1% per use at a time. What it effects on that skill gem is dependent on that item. On top of that, since players are corrupting skill gems to get them to level 21 and have desired effect on them, they need to increase quality first on that skill gem as afterword’s they cannot.
These you ever rarely see drop and the best way to get one is by selling to vendor gems that have quality on them as 40% total in gems will get you one of these.
Another trick some players will use is rendering there level 20 skill gem of choice with Gem Cutter’s Prism. The result will be a level one skill gem they have to level up again but it will be at 20% quality.
Unlike all the currency before this one that was selling at or below the value of 1 Chaos Orb. This one in Flashback Event is selling for as high as 1.2 Chaos Orbs each. With many still trying to get a 1:1 Or below.
This currency lets you change the colors of sockets on your items so you can fit the different color of skill gems in that socket (red, blue, or green).
In usage, it has RNG that is determined by the stat of the item in what your chances are for getting a certain color. For instance, an intelligence item will favor blue sockets. Strength will favor red sockets. Finally, Dexterity item will favor green. This does not mean an intelligence-based item can’t have green sockets it’s just harder to get them. This, however, can be countered by using Forsaken Master Vorici’s Artisan’s Bench where you can make an item have 2 green sockets at the cost of 25 Chromatic Orbs.
While you can acquire this as a normal drop you can also do a vendor recipe selling a 3-linked red, blue, and green socked item to get 1 Chromatic Orb.
A place to buy from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Clarissa in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one at cost of three Jeweller’s Orb. You can get a better deal if you’re willing to buy more if you have Forsaken Master Tora if you have high enough reputation.
Currently, in Flashback Event, there are over a dozen buyers offering to buy 90 of these orbs for 10 Chaos Orb (1.) Making 1 Chaos Orb worth around 9 Chromatic Orb.
Expect with very few exceptions the following can be expected. Levels of the item also impact the max number of sockets. Such as level 1 having 1 socket, a level 25 item could have 4, and a level 50 could have up to 6 sockets with the following rules. One-handed weapons and offhand items can have up to 3. Helm, gloves, and boots and have up to 4. Two-handed weapons and body armor can have up to 6.
The usage of this is another RNG based one. Once you get up to the max number of sockets an item can have the system will at least tell you so there no need worrying about losing the max number if you are spamming these too fast. Forsaken Master Vorici’s Artisan’s Bench for example also lets you add four sockets onto an item for 10 Jeweller’s Orb or if you have high enough reputation with him 6 sockets onto a body armor or 2-handed weapon at cost of 350 Jeweller’s Orb.
A place to buy from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Clarissa in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one at the cost of two Orb of Alteration. You can get a better deal if you’re willing to buy more if you have Forsaken Master Elreon if you have high enough reputation.
Currently, in Flashback Event, there are over a dozen buyers offering to buy 83 or more of these orbs for 10 Chaos Orbs(1.) Making 1 Chaos Orb worth 8.3 Jeweller’s Orb.
You can use the Forsaken Master Vorici’s Artisan’s Bench if you have him high enough reputation to 6-link an item for 1500 Orb of Fusing. Otherwise, you can try your luck maybe you get it in the first try, the 800th, the 2,000th or the RNG gods have cursed you and you have now uninstalled the game out of range going 5,000 deep and not getting a 6-link. I prefer to go with a sure thing here my RNG is rotten eggs level of epicenes.
A place to buy from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Clarissa in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one at the cost of four Jeweller’s Orb. You can get a better deal if you’re willing to buy more if you have Forsaken Master Voric if you have high enough reputation i.
Due to the amount of required, this can be a very sought after currency. In the Flashback Event Selling 2 Orb of Fusing for 1 Chaos Orb would be a decent deal (1.)
These improve the quality of a map by up to 20%. On a white map, they will increase it by 5% and on a rare only 1% at a time. As such it is best to chisel up your map before hitting it with an Orb of Alchemy to make it a rare map. It has an effect on Item Quantity.
Because of this many players choose to increase the risk in cost per map by using these. While they do drop you can also craft for them. If you found a lower level map that has 20% quality that you are not going run. If you happen to find a 20% quality gavel you can also vender that long with a map. It has been ages since I’ve even bothered with any of these methods.
A place to buy from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Zana In your hideout will sell you twenty Cartographers Chisels for twelve Chaos Orbs if you have high enough reputation.
In Flashback Event people are buying 270 chisels for 100 Chaos Orbs along with 85 chisels for 30 Chaos Orbs. One Chaos Orb is around 2.5 to 2.8 Cartographers Chisel (1.)
Sextant’s add modifiers to your map and can overlap as they have a range of influence as shown in the red circle in the screenshot. The downside is they do have a limited number of runs before a new one needs to be applied. They also not too long ago added a requirement to unlock having more than one on your map. To further unlock more you need do things like complete all objectives for white, yellow, and red maps.
There are 3 different kinds: Apprentice (up to level 5 maps), journeyman (I so did not forget what map level this goes up to I hope 10!), and Master (can be run on any map.) This entirely plays on the risk to reward style of gameplay. While an Apprentice Sextant could only cost you 1 Chaos Orb. A Masters will run around 5 Chaos Orbs in Flashback Event.
This is used to upgrade white maps into yellow maps. Discussed further in another section.
The biggest section as these will roll stats/mods onto an item, remove them, or even upgrade something from normal item to rare. I’ve listed these from least valuable to most. While what they are worth will always change for the most part an Orb of Transmutation won’t be worth more than an Orb of Alchemy. These include: Orb of Transmutation, Orb of Augmentation, Orb of Chance, Orb of Alteration, Orb of Alchemy, Blessed Orb, Orb of Scouring, Vaal Orb, Regal Orb, Chaos Orb, Divine Orb, and Exalted Orb
A place to buy Orb of Transmutation from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Clarissa in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one for one seven portal scrolls.
Currently, in Flashback Event three are only 3 people even trying to buy these raining from 239 Orbs for 6 Chaos Orbs to 100 Orbs for 1 Chaos Orb. This item really not something people even thinking about outside of the first couple of hours of the game in there being a shortage. Hence 1 Chaos Orb right now could get you 39 to 100 Orb of Transmutation.
A place to buy from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Clarissa in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one at the cost of four Orb of Transmutation
The market as well is not very impressed with this one. You have a couple of people trying to buy these from anywhere 179 Orbs for 6 Chaos to 90 Orbs for 1 Chaos. Making 1 Chaos Orb worth between 29 to 90 Orb of Augmentation.
Places to buy Orb of Chance from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Clarissa in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one for one Orb of Fusing.
Currently, in Flashback Event, you have a handful of buyers from one trying buy 400 Orbs at price of 40 Chaos to many trying to buy 70 Orbs for 14 Chaos (1.) Making 1 Chaos Orb worth 10 to 14 Orb of Chance. I’m not even sure what people are using these for this league. Must be something worth a gamble I can only think flasks.
A place to buy from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Clarissa in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one for four Orb of Augmentation. You can get a better deal if you’re willing to buy more if you have Forsaken Master Haku.
Currently, in Flashback Event, you can sell 101 or more of these for 10 Chaos Orbs (1.) Making 1 Chaos Orbs worth 10.1 Orb of Alteration. Most don’t even bother picking these up.
The item itself turns a normal item into a rare item. It has quite a few applications from gear, maps, strongboxes. While these do drop quite often and they need to for the high demand of them people will bulk buy these things.
Vendor worthless unique into alchemy shards can help make these if you are running low or can’t afford them. The game developers have been known to play around from time to time on the drop rates on this currency in partial to watch the effects it has on the overall economy.
Places to buy Orb of Alchemy from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Clarissa in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one for one Orb of Regret. You can get a better deal if you’re willing to buy more if you have Forsaken Master Vagan if you have high enough reputation.
Right now you have quite a few people trying bulk buy these anywhere form 294Alchemy for 50 Choas Orbs to 61 Alchemy for 10 Chaos Orbs (1.) One Chaos Orb is worth 5.88 to 6.1 Orb of Alchemy.
People who understand that different and what this even is could take what should have been a very expensive item that got a bad implicit roll and try again. It also is just nice to know when you are looking up an item in search filters.
While these do not drop very often many people also do not use them. People who are more of a perfection in wanting to have that “perfect” item will use one of these.
As such In Flashback Event the price ranges quite a lot since there not many looking to buy. 1 Chaos Orb could be worth 2.5 to 4 Blessed Orb (1.)
If you find yourself in need of reducing a skill gem level by 1 level at a time. The vendor that skill gem along with one Orb of Scouring will reduce it by 1 level. Often useful if you accidentally level up a gem you lack the stats for or want to upgrade gear but now don’t have enough say Dexterity to use that gem anymore.
You can also vender one Orb of Scouring along with 3 Apprentice Cartographer’s Sextant and turn it into a Cartographer Seal that lets you remove a map from your Atlas map.
A place to buy from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Clarissa in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one for four Orb of Chance. You can get a better deal if you’re willing to buy more if you have Forsaken Master Catarina.
Currently, in Flashback Event, there are a few people trying to buy this from 24 orbs for 10 Chaos and many similar trades (1.) Chaos Orb is worth 2.4 to 3 Orb of Scouring.
Many people will use this trying to turn a level 20 skill gem into a level 21 while others might be trying to get a +1 to skill gems on a Tabula Rasa. You can also corrupt maps trying to get more mods on them. This can bring great value to an item or limit future use of it.
This one is very close to a Chaos orb in value. On a good day, you could even get a 1:1 exchange with another player (1.)
You can also vender a full set of rare with item level 75 or higher to quite one of these. An actual example of what I mean by this will be shown in Chaos Orb as that use uses lower level items.
It is quite common in Flashback Event to get these on a 1:1 exchange for Regal Orbs for Chaos Orbs (1.)
The currency itself lets you reroll new stats on a rare item. This can often be used to reroll an expensive map that has a nasty mod on it like reflect or chains. Crafters also like to use it trying to make a higher level item be worth more.
If you were wondering does this have a 1:1 exchange in the player market? Nope, there are a bunch of crazy people trolling or trying scam people with silly things like 1 Chaos Orb for 30 (1.) The guy never contacted me back. I guess I can’t trade him my 1 for his 30. What a shame.
The item's description is also very suspect. Did that help any at all? I don’t think so unless you play this game a lot than what are you doing reading this! Basically, it changes the values of explicit if it has a range of numbers. I’ve never been much of a crafter so my deeper understanding of this Item is limited as I’ve not explored myself and can’t further comment on it.
When a 6-link item drops and it has very little market value left you can could just vender it for one of these. Most times that is a very bad idea if it’s a good item but at some point, the market on lower 6-link becomes flooded with these. People don’t always know this. It can also drive down the price of Divine Orb which is something to keep in mind.
In Flashback Event 1 Divine Orb is going for around 10 Chaos Orbs (1.)
This item is a self is only ever used by the top of crafters if even that. It adds a new random mod onto a rare item. With how rare these are and expensive I don’t know anyone who personally uses these in the manner. I’ve only just got one the other morning during Flashback Event.
So how much are one of these worth? Well since most players can afford it I’ll share the details on that. A few days ago you could buy one of these in the mid 70’s range in cost of Chaos Orbs. Today they are starting off with 92 Chaos Orbs and I’m sure soon enough they will be exceeding 100 (1.)
Finally, there is the silver coin, Orb of Regret, and Mirror of Kalandra that did not fit so well into other categories. In addition, most often leagues have their own special currency as well as them. Far too many to want to think about.
In May Flashback Event there are 12 different leagues possible. You have nets from bestiary, breach fragments from Breach (ok so I skipped over those), a bunch of currency fragments from Harbinger, coins from Perandus. I know there were a bunch of other ones that are not even in this event as well!
The only way to get these is as an item drop or out of a strongbox that states they are an added bonus. One Chaos orb right now can get you around 3.5 to 4 Silver Coins 1.)
It also has many other uses. If you find yourself needing to reset a skill gem to the level one you can vender the game along with one of these (if you just want to reduce a skill gem a couple of levels use an Orb of Scouring instead.) If you also made a mistake when choosing your bandit choice or simply want to change it 20 of this vendor with the correct amulet will allow you to change that decision.
Places to buy Orb of Regret from an NPC if there are not better options in the player market. Clarissa in Act 3 Sarn Encampment will sell you one for two Orbs of Scouring. You can get a better deal if you’re willing to buy more if you have Forsaken Master Leo if you have high enough reputation.
Currently, in Flashback Event, you have one person trying buy 120 of these for 48 Chaos and many others wanting to buy 27 for 10 chaos. Giving one Chaos Orb the value of 2.5 to 2.7 Orb Of Regret (1.)
What does it do? Oh, it only allows you to mirror (copy) an item. Which if you think about it will only be best items ever in the game.
Currently, in Flashback Event someone is willing to buy one of these for 130 Exalted Orbs. Is that a good deal? I’m not quite sure I guess it depends if you really need the money. In Bestiary League someone is trying to buy one for 187 (1.) In standard, the price is 265 Exalted Orbs! Come to think about it that 130 does not quite sound like a great deal.
130 Exalted Orbs would be:
Screenshots taken and content written by @enjar. Screenshots are from a game called Path of Exile.