Anyone who has crafted equipment in Path of Exile 2 must have a love-hate relationship with Chaos Orb. This currency always replaces the best affix of the base equipment with a garbage affix, turning your equipment into junk. Equipment with perfect affixes is the winner of countless gambles, but this situation can be changed in patch 0.2.0.
Do players of Path of Exile 1 still remember Fracturing Orb? This currency can fix an affix of an item so that it cannot change, and then you can use other currencies to modify the item. Now that Fracturing Orb has been officially added to the game after patch 0.2.0, it will become an indispensable currency in advanced crafting.

What Is Fracturing Orb?
- Effect: Destroy a random explicit modifier on rare items with at least four modifiers, and lock this modifier so that it cannot be changed by other currencies.
- How to use: Right-click Fracturing Orb, then left-click a rare item to apply it.
Limitations:
- Item requirements: It can only be used on rare items with at least four explicit modifiers.
- Not applicable items: Fracturing Orb cannot be used on already Fractured items.
Modifiers locked by the Fracturing Orb cannot be modified by currency such as Chaos Orbs or Orbs of Annulment, nor can the values on the modifiers be modified by Divine Orbs. Therefore, before you use Fracturing Orb on an item, make sure that the affixes you want to lock do not need to be optimized.
Fracturing Orb can work very well with many currencies, and in the next patch, Fracturing Orb will become as valuable as Divine Orb. This currency cannot be obtained in the early game. If you want to use it in the early game, you need to buy POE 2 Currency for it.
How To Get Fracturing Orb?
In Path of Exile 1, Fracturing Orb was a very valuable currency, usually obtained from Harbingers or Harbinger-related rewards. Its rarity and usefulness made it a valuable item in Path of Exile 1.
Some players have tried farming Fracturing Orbs in POE 1 and found that the drop rate of this currency is very low. In Path of Exile 2, the drop rate of POE 2 Fracturing Orbs is slightly higher, but if you plan to farm Fracturing Orbs, it will still be a waste of time.
Fracturing Orbs are associated with Corrupted biome of Atlas, which is the red area you see on the endgame map. In the center of this area is Corrupted Nexus. You can trigger a special boss encounter here. As long as you kill the boss, the Corrupted biome will be purified and new monsters will spawn.
Monsters in cleansed biomes have a chance to drop a Fracturing Orb, but the chance is actually low. Remember to set your loot filters to avoid missing Fracturing Orb.
How To Use Fracturing Orb?
General Usage
The minimum requirement for using Fracturing Orb is a rare item. The item must have four or more explicit modifiers, not including implicit modifiers.
Since Fracturing Orb locks modifiers randomly, there is a three-quarter chance that Fracturing Orb will lock on a modifier you don’t want. As long as you try more, you will eventually succeed in locking on a good modifier.
Next, Chaos Orbs will come in handy. You can use POE 2 Chaos Orbs on the item repeatedly until a good affix is randomly generated, and then use Exalted Orb to add two additional affixes to it. If you still have extra Divine Orbs, then as long as you can randomly assign these affixes to a value that satisfies you, you will have crafted a top-level item.
Advanced Usage: Omen
Omen can assist many currencies, and when combined with Fracturing Orb, it will be even more effective.
Omen is very valuable in the game and is very rare. It is almost impossible to get a lot of Omen as a single player, so it is based on trading with other players.
Omen can affect the production results of currencies. For example, if you have an item with a bad prefix but a good suffix, you can use Omen to help you remove the unwanted prefix while keeping the suffix you want.
Omen of Dextral Annulment can interfere with POE 2 Orb of Annulment to only remove the suffix. If you have locked one suffix with Fracturing Orb in advance, Orb of Annulment has a greater chance of removing the suffix you don’t want.
Similarly, Omen of Sinistral Annulment can cause Orb of Annulment to only remove the prefix. As long as you restrict other currencies with Omen and Fracturing Orb, item modifications will be less random.
In Patch 0.2.0, the drop rate of Omen has doubled. The value of Omen will not change, however, and you will still only find it as a drop from level 80+ monsters.
Fracturing Orb will undoubtedly become an important part of high-level item crafting, but it will also be very valuable. Players who first master its use will benefit from it.

















