Eternal Orb Speculation

from what i understand some people did not read the orb name. "ETERNAL orb". the ETERNAL part must have something to do with it so please no stupid ideas that dont coincide with the name.

the most viable idea so far is the link saver or the everlasting map just for xp.

that being said, if the orbs function is permanent upon 1 time use then yes it will be as rare as a mirror or even rarer... but if they are making the orb a 1 time use then reuse each time something is done to the item/map then the recipe they are including will be for the eternal orb,, making it probably slot in between alch/fusing - chaos orbs.. in value i mean.

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Inexium написал:

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tobes111 написал:

Makes a map permanent.

Like making infinite portals to a map ? Vaultz of atziri price would jump hiiiigh

if it is for maps then we can all rest assured it will not be able to be used on unique maps.

Traps players eternally inside an orb.

Gives you pants, forever.

I doubt it'd do what people are expecting, aka making all affixes on an item permanent.

Because that would make Exalts useless. If you made the 3 stats on an item permanent, you could just Chaos it, and have it roll 3-6 affixes. If it rolls 3, no change, but it can roll more than 3 as well..

A more likely possibility, which I also doubt, would be to make ONE RANDOM affix permanent.
(An item cannot have more than 1 permanent affix. Scouring twice will remove permanent affix.)

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dcndnts написал:

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khemintiri написал:

i can't fathom how people can't get orbs , i mean without any major drops you can make 1-2 exalts a day just out of chaos orb recipes and minor orb drops.

you really find 30-40 rings,amulets and belts a day? that's some serious farming.

well if you dont id them, and throw 20% quality on all your possible to quality items, you need to find about 10 belts, 10 ammys, and 20 rings.

How long till you run out of armorer scraps using 4 * 20 * 10 a day though...i dont know, gotta guess soonish though.






I am very curious about the eternal orb, the eternalized stats on a gear being pull back up with scouring is my favorite rediculously OP theory though, better than anything I came up with.

maybe the orb has something to do with a mechanic or item type that hasn't been introduced yet... perhaps introduced in 11.0.

Thus all of our speculation could be for naught ...?...!

Adds a random affix to a unique!
Max per unique: 1

I think this is the most likely scenario, as it ties together several GGG posts/concepts/announcements:
- Combine 20 scraps/stones into 1 eternal orb (covers new recipe posting and addresses the pain of scraping/stoning an item 20 times before trying to socket/link it to improve odds. This was suggested in the .11 patch teaser and responded to favorably by GGG)
- Apply eternal orb to weapon/armor and permanently improve it by 5/2/1 for white/blue/yellow or brown, just like stone scrap, but it's permanent.

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STRiCK9 написал:

I think this is the most likely scenario, as it ties together several GGG posts/concepts/announcements:
- Combine 20 scraps/stones into 1 eternal orb (covers new recipe posting and addresses the pain of scraping/stoning an item 20 times before trying to socket/link it to improve odds. This was suggested in the .11 patch teaser and responded to favorably by GGG)
- Apply eternal orb to weapon/armor and permanently improve it by 5/2/1 for white/blue/yellow or brown, just like stone scrap, but it's permanent.

Defeats the purpose of their Quality + Jeweller/Fusing change..

PS. It's Orange, not "Brown." How dare you possibly think the most beautiful of all colored items lying on the ground, could be BROWN?! o_0

Edit: Upon further reflection, I remembered that a grayed out Orange item appears Brown. Thus from a supreme-ninja's perspective, I could see how one would think they are Brown..