Monday, March 30, 2015

POE : Alchemy Orb Recipe.

For this recipe  I've farmed hailrake in normal tidal island for a while. The idea was that because of his low level the amount of different items he can drop is very low too, so your chances to get the same item type are high. And he's easy to reach. 
What you need is lots of IIR (e.g. a Wondertrap setup), a ton of whetstones and scraps, and 5 five quicksilver flasks. And best set aside some stash tabs for the normal, magic and rare gear. If all that is no problem to you, you can get really a lot of alchs in a relatively short time.

That's a good idea. Another way is as a by-product of chancing for uniques; 20q, chance, then save sets to vendor on the fails (in my experience all of them lol).

For me, I pick up white Gavels from the ground and vendors. 4 Whetstones for 20%, then Chance. If blue, vendor with low level map for Chisel. If yellow, keep it and when I get another blue and white it's an Alchemy (20% normal Gavel + 20% magic Gavel + 20% rare Gavel = 1 alchemy). This only takes up 12 squares in your map stash tab.

Ideally I chance a Mjolner but I haven't yet.

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There is nothing wrong with farming Alts if everything else fails. Pick a boss at a level you are comfortable with and you can get to fast (cruel/merciless Hillock is seriously underrated for this) and whack away :-D. 
Merciless Tidal Island is also a great spot (for now, who knows after 2.0 with the progression changes) since every rare from Hailraike can be used for the Chaos recipe.
If you prefer a larger Zone like the Ledge, (or in general, actually) I would invest in a portal gem. Serious leap in convenience and you have all those extra Portal scrolls to turn into Wisdoms. :-)

Taking advantage of the Master's rates also helps speeding up getting significant/tradeable amounts of Orbs.

And I would try Trade chat, you can get some really good deals there since for a lot of people speed > best rate on the server.

Good luck :-)

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