Path of Exile Jeweller's Orb

Effect: A currency item that can be used to re-roll the number of sockets on a weapon or piece of armour.

Obtaining

• Obtained from slain enemies or found in an Artisan's Strongbox.

• Selling 2 Orbs of Alteration to Yeena.

• Selling an item with 6 sockets to any vendor for 7 Jeweller's Orbs.

Item acquisition

Spending

Jeweller's Orb can be used to randomly change the number of sockets on a weapon or piece of armour. And maximum number of sockets is still limited by the type of equipment and item level. If an item has some quality, each 1% quality improves the result by 1%. The sockets of an item reforged by a Jeweller's Orb also come with random links and colors. A Jeweller's orb will always roll a different number of sockets then the item had originally, but will not reroll an item with maximum sockets.

In general the exact chances of obtaining a given number of sockets is unknown, but in the case of weapons the following is known:

*These chances are specifically for weapons.

If one is risk-averse and wants to avoid randomness, one can instead use the Artisan's Bench provided by Vorici. Using the Artisan's Bench to craft sockets overrides the item level socket restrictions (i.e. it is possible to craft 6 sockets on an item level 1 body armour).