In Path of Exile 2, currency items play a crucial role in customizing and enhancing your skill gems. Among these, the Jeweller's Orb stands out as a vital tool for players looking to optimize their skill setups. This guide delves into everything you need to know about Jeweller's Orbs, including their types, effects, pricing, usage, acquisition methods, and tips for maximizing your gains.
Jeweller's Orbs are PoE 2 currency items that add a gem socket to a skill gem with 2-4 sockets. Perfect Jeweller's Orbs are highly sought after due to their ability to add sockets to skill gems with four existing sockets.
| Name | Effects | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Lesser Jeweller's Orb | Adds a socket to a skill gem with 2 sockets | $ 0.12 |
| Greater Jeweller's Orb | Adds a socket to a skill gem with 3 sockets | $ 1.50 |
| Perfect Jeweller's Orb | Adds a socket to a skill gem with 4 sockets | $ 8.80 |

Using a Jeweller's Orb is straightforward:
This action will apply the orb's effect, adding an additional socket to the targeted skill gem based on the orb type.
Drop Location: Jeweller's Orbs can drop anywhere in the game, but certain biomes and atlas passive tree nodes can increase your chances:
Local Knowledge is a Notable on the Atlas Passive Points tree. It adds various effects to the different Biomes on the Atlas Map:
Jeweller's Orb is a type of Socket Currency. Grass Biome Maps have 40% increased chance to drop Socket Currency.
Running maps within the Grass Biome is an effective way to farm for Jeweller's Orbs. Below is a list of maps that feature the Grass Biome:
| Map | Biome | Base tileset | Boss | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Augury | Grass, Forest, Swamp | Contains 3 levers that need to be pulled to access the middle of the map which contains two rares (or the boss if the map has the modifier?) | ||
| Blooming Field | Forest, Grass | Hunting Grounds | The Black Crow | Open area layout |
| Canal Hideout | Grass | |||
| Decay | Grass | The Grim Tangle | The Rotten Druid | |
| Hidden Grotto | Mountain, Grass, Forest, Swamp | |||
| Savannah | Grass, Desert | Caedron, the Hyena Lord | Open area layout | |
| Steppe | Grass | Layout: open area. |
A biome is a region of the Atlas with a specific appearance and theme. This determines what maps can appear in that region. There are at least six different biomes found on the Atlas. The currently known biomes are: Grass, Swamp, Water, Mountain, Forest, Desert. The Atlas Notable Local Knowledge changes the effects the biomes have on the maps you open within them.
To effectively farm Perfect Jeweller's Orbs, consider the following strategies:
A Jeweller's Orb is a type of Socket Currency in Path of Exile 2 that allows players to add an additional gem socket to their skill gems. This can significantly enhance your character's abilities by enabling the use of more skill gems simultaneously.
A gem socket is a socket in a gem which can have another type of gem socketed into it to modify the original gem.
Skill gems can be socketed with support gems. Meta gems can be socketed with skill gems.
Skill gems can have 2-5 sockets. The number of sockets can be increased with Jeweller's Orbs. They may colloquially be referred to as "links" instead (terminology from Path of Exile), in which case they would be considered 3-6 linked skills or gems.