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Welcome new Exiles! I’m here to share some Path of Exile tips for beginners regarding Vaal Skill Gems, Vaal Orbs, and the Corrupted modifier. Any items, including skill gems, that are Corrupted may have unique, implicit modifiers that can’t be applied by other PoE currency orbs, such as the Orb of Augmentation, the Orb of Transmutation or Chaos Orbs Chaos Orbs. In Path of Exile, active skills (i.e., skills that you use on command) are itemized onto "Skill Gems". These gems confer an active skill to the player when they are socketed into equipment and gain experience as the player slays enemies.

1) Skill gem

Active skill gems and support skill gems are usually referred to as skill gems. Skill gems must be equipped in item sockets before their use. Active skill gems grant an active skill for the player to use and are further augmented by linked support skill gems. There are currently 194 different active skill gems and 107 support skill gems in the game, for a total of 301.

Skill gems are not to be confused with passive skills, which provide constant stats and mainly earned through character levelling.

2) Obtaining gems

There are several methods of obtaining skills and support gems:

Earned through a quest reward (see quest reward gems).

Purchased from town vendors once a certain quest is complete.

Vendors in Acts 1-4 sell leveled skill gems. The available gems are based on the character's class.

Siosa in Act 3 sells all unleveled skill gems that can be received as quest rewards, across all classes.

Lilly Roth in Act 6 sells all unleveled skill gems after completing the Act 6 quest "Fallen from Grace".

Vendor recipe (see vendor recipe system).

Random drop from monsters, chests and strongboxes.

Random offer from a master (master skill gem list).

Vaal skill gems come from Vaal Vessels in corrupted areas.

Divination cards

3) Gem experience

When a gem is close to levelling up, a bar pops up at the right hand side of the screen, showing the experience progress of that gem.

Socketed gems gain 10% of the experience your character earns, calculated before any level penalties.

The number of gems you have equipped has no effect on the rate of experience gain.

Gems do not lose experience when you die.

Items with +experience% gain do affect gems.

Gems socketed in inactive weapon slots do gain experience.

Gems may be traded like normal items and they will retain their experience.

Once a gem has enough experience to level up, it will stop gaining experience and a level–up icon will appear on the right of the screen and in the inventory menu. Left–clicking it will level up the gem, right–clicking the icon will hide it on the side of the screen, but it will still be accessible in the inventory menu. Not levelling up a gem is useful in some situations.

As gems level up, the abilities they grant get better, but the requirements to equip them also increase, as well as the mana cost for active skills. Each gem level, the exile must have both the attribute corresponding to gem colour and a character level high enough to meet its increased requirements. If a gem gains enough experience to level up, but the exile currently does not meet the requirements, the level–up icon will appear greyed out and not be useable until the requirements are met.

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Vaal Orbs are a currency item that will corrupt an item, causing unpredictable and possibly powerful results. Once an item is corrupted, it can no longer be modified by any other currency. The question is, how do items in the game become corrupted? Simple: with Vaal Orbs. Let’s dive into this Path of Exile currency Guide!

1) The Effect of Vaal Orbs

One of POE’s currencies is the Vaal Orb. You can earn them by killing monsters, opening chests, Arcanist’s strongboxes, and destructible containers. Vaal Orbs are available through the vendor recipe system, where players have to give vendors a semi-specific set of items in exchange for another. For Vaal Orbs, it’s Vaal skill gems and one Sacrifice Vaal Fragment for one Vaal Orb. Lastly, Divination Cards are tradable for Vaal Orbs in the following way:

Three of The Catalyst for one

Five of Emperor’s Luck for five

Six of The Inventor for ten

Although there are no two orbs that have the same effect, Vaal Orbs are unique. Unlike other orbs, whose items they modify can be modified once more by another orb, the Vaal Orb “corrupts” the item it alters. It means that the item isn’t customizable afterward. With this special effect, it’s essential for players who are using Vaal Orbs to choose wisely which items they’re going to use it on because it could either make it better or worse.

2) What to Use Vaal Orbs

So, how do you use Vaal Orbs? Well, if you want to play it safe, choose not to use it and sell it instead. You could earn currencies in exchange, and you don’t risk losing anything.

For starters, you can use it on items that you don’t mind losing. A good example is cheap but unique items that have useful modifiers but aren’t your primary gear. It’s not recommended to use it on the latter because of the unpredictable and unchangeable result of the Vaal Orb. One wrong outcome can make it unusable. That’s why a lot of players, especially rich ones, prefer to stock up on lots of items first before using Vaal Orbs since they have a chance to gain significant items in a single sitting.

Another use of the Vaal Orb is with the strongboxes. By doing this, players get a chance to gain rare corrupted items after killing the monsters inside of it.

3) How to Make POE Vaal Skill Gems

A popular use of Vaal Orbs, however, is in converting skill gems to Vaal skill gems. Unlike their regular counterpart, they have a soul counter and require a certain number of souls before you can utilize them. For example, the Vaal Glacial Hammer can have up to 24 soul counters and spends 1 soul counter every time the skill is in action.

To charge these soul counters, players have to kill monsters. The Vaal skill gem whose soul counter gets charged is at random, so if you have more than one Vaal skill gem socketed, so you’ll have to take note which ones get charged. Besides, the charges return to zero when you move to another map and gain more max charges as you progress in the story. Completing Act 5 increases the max charges by 150% while completing Act 10 increases the max charges by 200%.

While Vaal skill gems are more powerful than their default iterations, it’s more difficult to get quality Vaal skill gems, as you cannot use a Gemcutter’s Prism on them. To get around this problem, some players find quality skill gems first before corrupting them.

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