I came into this video expecting either to not understand a damn thing or at least not learn anything that's really within my grasp at the moment. Thankfully this was all stuff I've already started dipping into to some extent. But, I didn't know that quality was tied to having an easier time socketing and linking. Thanks for the video, man. You may well have saved me some much-needed currency because I'm far from efficient and need every bit I can.
subbed. dude. you have a real talent for helping us learn something so mundane and stat heavy in a way that is easy to listen to. you sound like you want to help people and it comes across. i know you have already found success doing this, but i hope you know that you have a real gift, bro. i'm sharing this video
Hey big ducks this is my first league I’m using your creeping Frost occultist and I’m having a blast.. I’m tearing through content that most brand new players can’t do.. The build is great and has so much room for improvement with some investment. I’m having a really good time with it
I know this is an older vid but I just discovered your channel and you have some great poe content man. You're great at explaining things and you have a chill demeanor. Thanks for the vids
More videos like this please of crafting things from scratch most crafting guides try to explain the concept but don't actually show you the process step by step in slow time which is what dumb asses like me need. I'd love to see you say exactly what you are going for and how you know which base item to start with and watch it turn into something really powerful and specific with each step shown and explained. Also a sort of ingredients list of exactly what it took to make the craft would be cool
also dont forget that you can reroll only prefix or suffix with harvest (maybe beast too), and remove one prefix and add suffix and such with beast, so you dont have to spend annul + exalt for this too. Use poe craft to know what can roll, helps a lot to target specific affix with fossils, and one of the best advice that helped me a lot : block certain slot (like the last prefix or suffix) or even mods with crafts, that you can remove to get what you want later. Also if you happen to have the mod you want but not the tier you wanted, harvest offer you to reroll the item with increased chance to get the same modifier, very powerfull too. Also you can still craft with harvest with influence item, just not augment a mod on it.
@@BigDucks ei! I'm new to the game and i would like to know if when i'm crafting an item it will automatically stop applying the socket orb if you get to 6 or it will continue. Do i need somethibg for it to stop applying? Same as the links ones i really would like to know
i'ven't read all the comments but i "discovered" something - i REALLY hated to fossil-craft because the splitting of the resonators is so annoying! If jo take up the whole stack and hold shift and click then on a position 1 resonator will be placed there, so you can split them up just by holding shift and click then ... thats WAY more comfortable! :D
You forgot about one thing - sometimes it's better to use bench socket crafting options to hit for example 6x off-colour sockets Vaal Regalia. Otherwise you will spend A LOT of currency for chromatics to colour them lately or try a luck with white sockets craft Vorici from Betrayal (which is kinda expensive).
With the new league, once you hit mapping I can highly recommend saving armor that you could potentially use and crafting them when you harvest through chaos rolling or augmenting. The new league makes it much easier to cap your resistances, which is a necessary step to get into more profitable high tier maps.
the sped up speed of slamming fusings is my normal 2 finger speed. I think I should slow down and go at your speed, because in SSF i've had 8k and not had a 6L b4 :(
Thx for the video, but I have a question How many fusing in average will it take to get 6L on a 48% quality item? 400? It seems like CraftOfExile cannot simulate jeweller and fusing, so I cannot check it on my own.
How is it possible to limit crafting on max benefit like 6 sockets or 6 linked. & how do u craft infinity with the jeweler's orb i have to right-klick em every time
Big Ducks. 08:30, Why just hit it with a regal orb? I mean, u can do a aug and then a regal, so u have 3 modifiers, then multimod it.. =4 .. +2 crafted mods = 6? Or u scared, that u hit with the aug or the regal a double mod? So, just regal, multi, and then ex slam one time?
Because depending on the initial mod that you rolled you may want to save the open slot so that you have enough suffixes or prefixes to craft enough. You can get away with Aug and then regal but you may end up with a bad mod that you then cant craft.
It's pretty easy, you just have to right clic your orbs (it works with all currency) then hold Shift button while left clicking to apply the orb to your item :)
New to poe this league. Came here to learn. Left more confused as usual. Makes me wonder how many decent items I sold to vendor because I thought only 4-6 sockets were valuable. Rip.
I've payed off & on for years now, many leagues. Never really devoted myself to the game or it's mechanics, don't be too stressed or hard on yourself. Being an average player and a top tier player is so much different in this game than most - Understanding a lot of aspects of the game is just extremely tedious. It's a very fun game to casually play and chill though :)
@@zenith3528 I found my first exalt from harvesting seeds which brought me a huge gear upgrade. Maybe I need to not be so stingy and buy chisels, alchemys, and scarabs for my red maps. The highest I've done so far is T12. But around T12 maybe 13 is where my gear is crapping out. I made a chieftain fire cyclone.
Wondering if you get a +1 to spectres chest and you remove this prefix. are you able to reforge it into the same armor? a bit unrelated question. but sure many people here know the answer :)
Very informative, thank you for the video! Just got into PoE and a month ago and just made it to prequel and this will help to make a more rounded resist so I don't get one shot by casters.
Hello, thank you for your video ! I started playing POE a couple weeks ago and I just made a new armour tonight, but while crafting it I lost the "8% increased maximum life and mana" that it had, when I bought it. Is there an easy way to get it back or do I have to start all over again? :( Thank you !
just now getting into poe, this might not even get replied too but i tried this and used over 30 serrated, am i doing something wrong or am i just that unlucky?
It's insane how much currency you can do by crafting. ZiggyD has made a video about it where all his wealth came from crafting. It requires a lot of knowledge tho but even I tried it and it worked. I crafted a 20ex worth of Elusive Boots with +80 life and 100% total resistances and 30% mvs with the cost of 4 exalted orbs. Depending on what Item you're crafting and how large the demand is you could basically farming currency by crafting items. Edit: I crafted with only 2 fossils and I needed 30 attempts
Yup take most basic craft like flasks, you can craft that at no expense and turn it into 20c. At start of league you can sell bunch of these and get couple of ex and then craft further.
Literally made a 6 link +1 support gems armor with 115 life and 3 res while watching this just to try, literally less than 20c worth of stuff sitting around no fossils. its not on the best base, but for a trial ill take it.
Yup, it works well. But has some issues with background processing and flickering when tabbing which wouldnt be good for streaming. Otherwise its great!
what was the whole point of taking it to 18% quality and like 40 something overall quality to then reset everything and start over ??? I'm new to the game
I did some light crafting recently since I had just hit maps and was desperate for gear. The crafting system should be more streamlined epically with old leagues adding there own crafting. I would also hardly call it crafting more like gambling. Though it serves as a good built in money sink.
It's a lot of repetition with a little research per new league for a few weeks. Then just pay attention to poe.trafe casually. It gets much easier the more you play. A lot of its autopilot for me now and it's do fun cause I can focus on immersion
So here's something you didn't mention - why start with the "Hunter" base? As a noob who joined mid 3.9, I realize these boss level ones are better, but I don't fully know why and haven't seen a clear explanation of that.
@@ChrisMeirose watch 4 or 5 videos on YT and do some small crafting of your own if you have the resources and it can pay off tremendously because most dont wanna bother learning. Also there are sites that tell you the prefixes/affixes possible for each item and ilvl.
@@jessefay4984 I've done minor/entry level crafting. Just not up near the 1ex range or anything like that. I think I've had 6ex total thus far in 3.10 and invested most of that in gear for my second build. Slowly learning, this game has a ridiculous learning curve.
@@ChrisMeirose the more you learn the more you can earn and use in this game. 6ex in this league is not that much.. And with 6ex I wouldn´t craft items because they can be really expensiv in the further. Just use your Currency which you can afford for crafting. I only use fossils and maybe one time a Exalt when I feel lucky. So I got a 100ex dagger. Keep playing and learning and you will find many ways to make currency or just craft your own things! :) gl
i came here for a poe video not a completely new game =( so confused and lost hahaha also how do you have that kind of tab in your stash that looks super helpful?
I got yelled at for saying this in general chat once... But I wish Perandus coins were the "gold standard" currency instead of chaos orbs. Because although the coins can be used for something, the coins could stay in circulation and be a more precise exchange rate. Instead of saying 3.2 exalts.... How many chaos is that? Nobody knows, because it changes every league. :p
keep in mind that linking is allways RNG and nothing alse, i had several items that vent over 4k fusings with 45%+ quality... average on 45%+ quality from my testings is 800fusings ( did several sesions of testings with 150-200k fusings )
Great video. I'm very surprised that you linked the base yourself rather than buying a 6L base though. Early league prices, you spent like 300c just on the jewellers and fusings to 6 link it. Is that really worth it Vs buying a linked base? And isn't it a huge pain to buy all the fusings? Or did you get them from Yeena?
You are incorrect on multi-mod subject, it's limited to 3 mods now (so selection out of 2 actually). This recipe has been updated way before this video was created. You should always go with alt+aug+regal if you want to multi-mod.
When you know how to farm maps (T16) you get plenty. Same with delve and keep in mind that you get plenty of six socketed armors that you can vendor for 7 jeweler orbs those you vendor for fusing orbs.
nothing said about ilvl, which is sad. most of the bases should be ilvl86 to be able to roll T1 affixes (T1 life, T1 % es, T1 WED, 35% MS, etc). in this case, ilvl85 = juicy T2 life. some bases, like pdps foils, should be below ilvl86 (to minimize affixes pool). poedb and craftofexile are amazing sources of info, use them. if its not a league-start, strongly consider buying beast-duped 6L ilvl86 base (or ilvl100 from a dapper prodigy card) instead of crafting your own. PS - actually i've never paid attention to jew orbs description, and thought that item quality only affects linking chances xD
I came into this video expecting either to not understand a damn thing or at least not learn anything that's really within my grasp at the moment. Thankfully this was all stuff I've already started dipping into to some extent.
But, I didn't know that quality was tied to having an easier time socketing and linking. Thanks for the video, man. You may well have saved me some much-needed currency because I'm far from efficient and need every bit I can.
subbed. dude. you have a real talent for helping us learn something so mundane and stat heavy in a way that is easy to listen to. you sound like you want to help people and it comes across. i know you have already found success doing this, but i hope you know that you have a real gift, bro. i'm sharing this video
The more you know. Playing PoE for quite a while now, but hardly dared to craft for much currency. I didn´t know the quality trick. So thx Big Duck :)
what quality trick
@@buttman7830 That you have more chance for a 6 link the higher the quality of the item
This is just what I needed to begin to try a little more with crafting. Thanks man!
This is just what I needed to never try crafting. I've been cursed by a witch when I was 5 and my luck is BAD
Finally, the crafting resource I've been looking for! 10 out of 10!
Hey big ducks this is my first league I’m using your creeping Frost occultist and I’m having a blast.. I’m tearing through content that most brand new players can’t do.. The build is great and has so much room for improvement with some investment. I’m having a really good time with it
I know this is an older vid but I just discovered your channel and you have some great poe content man. You're great at explaining things and you have a chill demeanor. Thanks for the vids
More videos like this please of crafting things from scratch most crafting guides try to explain the concept but don't actually show you the process step by step in slow time which is what dumb asses like me need.
I'd love to see you say exactly what you are going for and how you know which base item to start with and watch it turn into something really powerful and specific with each step shown and explained.
Also a sort of ingredients list of exactly what it took to make the craft would be cool
"only 400 fusing"??? i only have one
I ave zero 😭
3:13 What do you press on your keyboard to craft so fast like that?
shift
@@kc9118 thanks
I like your guides. Very clear and to the point.
4:20 Does it autolock fuses like with socket numbers? Or can you accidentally pass a 6-link and be forced to commit sudoku?
You're completely safe. Spam away, mate.
You mean forced to do a number puzzle?? 😂😂😂
Nice video in my homepage, I sure hope I can still do this kind of deterministic craft in 3.20!:D
"These are not the modifiers you're looking for."
"I understood that reference!"
How dare you infiltrate my post. You scammers!
Excellent video. By the way, was the [Attribute] + Quality crafting recipe removed? Couldn't find it.
damn i'm playing poe since 2016 and never seriously interacted with crafting, well I guess this league is the best time to start xD
Same. Crafting is by far the biggest learning curve of poe imo.
@J W very true, playing this game seriously would be like a full time job imo
also dont forget that you can reroll only prefix or suffix with harvest (maybe beast too), and remove one prefix and add suffix and such with beast, so you dont have to spend annul + exalt for this too. Use poe craft to know what can roll, helps a lot to target specific affix with fossils, and one of the best advice that helped me a lot : block certain slot (like the last prefix or suffix) or even mods with crafts, that you can remove to get what you want later.
Also if you happen to have the mod you want but not the tier you wanted, harvest offer you to reroll the item with increased chance to get the same modifier, very powerfull too. Also you can still craft with harvest with influence item, just not augment a mod on it.
A must see video. Good job man.
Your room looks like a motel room with that purple light, I like it.
Thanks for the video, it's a bit too advanced for me, but it shows a few things. What the best way to build up a supply of orbs and such?
Is there any tricks to get a unique 6 linked since you can’t up the quality past 20%?
Oh my god, thank you for making a crafting video I can finally understand!
That's the goal!
@@BigDucks ei! I'm new to the game and i would like to know if when i'm crafting an item it will automatically stop applying the socket orb if you get to 6 or it will continue. Do i need somethibg for it to stop applying? Same as the links ones i really would like to know
hey why does your stash Big Duck look like that ?
i'ven't read all the comments but i "discovered" something - i REALLY hated to fossil-craft because the splitting of the resonators is so annoying!
If jo take up the whole stack and hold shift and click then on a position 1 resonator will be placed there, so you can split them up just by holding shift and click then ... thats WAY more comfortable! :D
What's the linking trick?
Apparently there's a way to use an orb of fusing with your scroll wheel.
What key combination activates this?
This was really well put together. Thank uou
why do you put quality on it with the bench, when it gets removed when you scour it?
@Bloody Lyrics oh shit i didnt know this... and i linked many items...
Is it worth looking for a ilvl 100 as a base?
What to do with uniques? Kintsugis for example?
Wow, first time on your channel. Awesome video, tyvm! Liked, subscribed.
I love how you get it onto the camera being calm and going straight. Gl
how do you get the exact color sockets that you want?
hey, im coming from the future. There will be a league where you will block mods to get exactly what you want :D
Damn, I was watching this waiting for him to take it to the Harvest bench OUCH
yep LUL
you can still block mods using craft bench
@@avenshmit66 lol
You forgot about one thing - sometimes it's better to use bench socket crafting options to hit for example 6x off-colour sockets Vaal Regalia. Otherwise you will spend A LOT of currency for chromatics to colour them lately or try a luck with white sockets craft Vorici from Betrayal (which is kinda expensive).
With the new league, once you hit mapping I can highly recommend saving armor that you could potentially use and crafting them when you harvest through chaos rolling or augmenting. The new league makes it much easier to cap your resistances, which is a necessary step to get into more profitable high tier maps.
Im newbie, can i use this guide to craft evasion body?
Which fossils would I need for a "supported by x lvl cast on crit" shaper mod?
Awesome video man! Suuuuuper helpful!
Thank you for this nice guide and tips. Crafting is really an art in this game.
Hey - this is very useful, thanks BigDucks.
the sped up speed of slamming fusings is my normal 2 finger speed. I think I should slow down and go at your speed, because in SSF i've had 8k and not had a 6L b4 :(
13:55 that staff tho, Sol = Sun, then + Call, on a fire staff, really fitting name
Thx for the video, but I have a question
How many fusing in average will it take to get 6L on a 48% quality item?
400?
It seems like CraftOfExile cannot simulate jeweller and fusing, so I cannot check it on my own.
How is it possible to limit crafting on max benefit like 6 sockets or 6 linked.
& how do u craft infinity with the jeweler's orb i have to right-klick em every time
love that background music
nice, but how to get that '+3-craftings'-modifier?
From the pale court map..but is expensive craft..
@@Freedom-kl8rt TY!
Big Ducks.
08:30, Why just hit it with a regal orb? I mean, u can do a aug and then a regal, so u have 3 modifiers,
then multimod it.. =4 .. +2 crafted mods = 6?
Or u scared, that u hit with the aug or the regal a double mod? So, just regal, multi, and then ex slam one time?
Because depending on the initial mod that you rolled you may want to save the open slot so that you have enough suffixes or prefixes to craft enough. You can get away with Aug and then regal but you may end up with a bad mod that you then cant craft.
What program are you using to 6 socket and link the chest?
Help a newbie: how does he do the part where he doesn't have to manually right click the fusing orbs and drag them over the item?
It's pretty easy, you just have to right clic your orbs (it works with all currency) then hold Shift button while left clicking to apply the orb to your item :)
@@TheMc1808 ohhh cool! thanks mate!
Thanks alot for the guide, so i have some understanding for fossil craft
i didnt know that item quality affects rolling 6 socket and 6 links. thanks a lot
Where does one get the freaking benchcraft to quality and dex from? I have no idea.
How do you click so fast and are able to stop at 6 sockets/ 6links. I always accidentally click again when I do this
You can't unlink a 6-link with orb of fusing.
@@24milleniums same with adding sockets?
@@kyleguy2305 yes, if you look closely at the chat after he hits 6 sockets and 6 links, it says "Failed to apply item" when he continues clicking.
worry not, my homie, for you cannot de-link a sixlinked once it has been sixlinked.
This was added as a quality of life improvement at some point, but it hasn't been always like this.
wait theres a maximum link protection so your not able to use another fusing? wow is that new? cause i dont remember that being a thing
Very informative! Thank you bro!
great explanation! Thanks!
New to poe this league. Came here to learn. Left more confused as usual. Makes me wonder how many decent items I sold to vendor because I thought only 4-6 sockets were valuable. Rip.
I've payed off & on for years now, many leagues. Never really devoted myself to the game or it's mechanics, don't be too stressed or hard on yourself. Being an average player and a top tier player is so much different in this game than most - Understanding a lot of aspects of the game is just extremely tedious. It's a very fun game to casually play and chill though :)
@@zenith3528 I found my first exalt from harvesting seeds which brought me a huge gear upgrade. Maybe I need to not be so stingy and buy chisels, alchemys, and scarabs for my red maps. The highest I've done so far is T12. But around T12 maybe 13 is where my gear is crapping out. I made a chieftain fire cyclone.
Wondering if you get a +1 to spectres chest and you remove this prefix. are you able to reforge it into the same armor? a bit unrelated question. but sure many people here know the answer :)
Great video! Tyvm
This was very helpful. Ty
What to do with belts which have no quality?
can you get cracked influenced gear?
Very informative, thank you for the video! Just got into PoE and a month ago and just made it to prequel and this will help to make a more rounded resist so I don't get one shot by casters.
Finally it all makes sense
Hi! Does it make a diff crafting on a rare with the same quality?
Nuub here - how did you get that stash tab to look like that (organized)? I bought a pack and have tons of tabs, none look like that :)
it's called currency stash
so i'd like to know whats up with all these mirrored 6 link ilvl 85+ astral plates in the beginning of a league?
Hello, thank you for your video ! I started playing POE a couple weeks ago and I just made a new armour tonight, but while crafting it I lost the "8% increased maximum life and mana" that it had, when I bought it.
Is there an easy way to get it back or do I have to start all over again? :(
Thank you !
thanks, great video
well done...subbed!!
Best crafting guide ever. Thank you for the video. Sub and watching on twitch....
just now getting into poe, this might not even get replied too but i tried this and used over 30 serrated, am i doing something wrong or am i just that unlucky?
These guides are amazing! Thanks so much!
Mans over here with like 1500 fusings and that might be more fusings than i've had in the entire time i've played this game so far.
ye would be happy to 6 link with 400 fuses, last one took me 3k fuses to 6 link on 46% quality
how did you get 3k fuses? trading?
@@dreed100 well heist is loot explosion so....
@@dreed100 run sextant maps with nemesis mods and bounty mods
11:30 how do you get the tiers to show ? sry im new
Press alt
Theres an option under UI that says something like "show advanced mods". It has to be enabled manually.
Should have buyed uninfluenced, do the 6l, then split, then hunter exalt..
It's insane how much currency you can do by crafting. ZiggyD has made a video about it where all his wealth came from crafting. It requires a lot of knowledge tho but even I tried it and it worked.
I crafted a 20ex worth of Elusive Boots with +80 life and 100% total resistances and 30% mvs with the cost of 4 exalted orbs.
Depending on what Item you're crafting and how large the demand is you could basically farming currency by crafting items.
Edit: I crafted with only 2 fossils and I needed 30 attempts
Yup take most basic craft like flasks, you can craft that at no expense and turn it into 20c. At start of league you can sell bunch of these and get couple of ex and then craft further.
Sorry for being late to the party, but can you specify which video are we talking about? Can't seem to find it
I can't subscribe any harder Big Daddy Ducks :(
Very good tips, now i can start use my materials for craft :)
I like how he says if u get this roll early in the who has that much resource early in a league
thanks Mr teacher!
Literally made a 6 link +1 support gems armor with 115 life and 3 res while watching this just to try, literally less than 20c worth of stuff sitting around no fossils. its not on the best base, but for a trial ill take it.
I already have a six sockets chest but I spent like 70+ orbs of fusing and still cant get a 6L. Should I just keep trying?
Well, I spent more 1300 orbs of fusing. So you need to keep it’s going.
Average is 1200 based on math
Hey big d, thanks for the video. Have you tried the new renderer?
Yup, it works well. But has some issues with background processing and flickering when tabbing which wouldnt be good for streaming. Otherwise its great!
RIP THIS VIDEO.
How do you know when to stop spam clicking to get the 6 link lol there’s no way you can react to that when you’re clicking that fast?
The game stops you when you hit max sockets and produces an error. :)
@Arcturus Blake i recognise my error
Me and my adhd having spaced out a long time ago everytime you said right?: right
what was the whole point of taking it to 18% quality and like 40 something overall quality to then reset everything and start over ??? I'm new to the game
It makes the chances that you get the mods you want higher and makes higher amounts of sockets and links easier to obtain.
I did some light crafting recently since I had just hit maps and was desperate for gear. The crafting system should be more streamlined epically with old leagues adding there own crafting. I would also hardly call it crafting more like gambling. Though it serves as a good built in money sink.
Man this game is not for casual players, i already had a headache looking and figuring stuff out
It's a lot of repetition with a little research per new league for a few weeks. Then just pay attention to poe.trafe casually.
It gets much easier the more you play. A lot of its autopilot for me now and it's do fun cause I can focus on immersion
So here's something you didn't mention - why start with the "Hunter" base? As a noob who joined mid 3.9, I realize these boss level ones are better, but I don't fully know why and haven't seen a clear explanation of that.
Only certain influenced pieces can roll the mods were looking for. So +crit is only on hunter base or elder or whatever it is.
@@jessefay4984 This is part of why I haven't been crafting yet. As Ducks says, it's often easier to buy... But it is fun learning.
@@ChrisMeirose watch 4 or 5 videos on YT and do some small crafting of your own if you have the resources and it can pay off tremendously because most dont wanna bother learning. Also there are sites that tell you the prefixes/affixes possible for each item and ilvl.
@@jessefay4984 I've done minor/entry level crafting. Just not up near the 1ex range or anything like that. I think I've had 6ex total thus far in 3.10 and invested most of that in gear for my second build. Slowly learning, this game has a ridiculous learning curve.
@@ChrisMeirose the more you learn the more you can earn and use in this game. 6ex in this league is not that much.. And with 6ex I wouldn´t craft items because they can be really expensiv in the further. Just use your Currency which you can afford for crafting. I only use fossils and maybe one time a Exalt when I feel lucky. So I got a 100ex dagger. Keep playing and learning and you will find many ways to make currency or just craft your own things! :) gl
i came here for a poe video not a completely new game =( so confused and lost hahaha also how do you have that kind of tab in your stash that looks super helpful?
I got yelled at for saying this in general chat once... But I wish Perandus coins were the "gold standard" currency instead of chaos orbs. Because although the coins can be used for something, the coins could stay in circulation and be a more precise exchange rate. Instead of saying 3.2 exalts.... How many chaos is that? Nobody knows, because it changes every league. :p
keep in mind that linking is allways RNG and nothing alse, i had several items that vent over 4k fusings with 45%+ quality... average on 45%+ quality from my testings is 800fusings ( did several sesions of testings with 150-200k fusings )
my average is infinte. I've wasted thousands of fusings across several leagues and never ever 6 linked...
Thx for the sharing, it helps a lot
@@TheSadLittlePanda yea shure
Great video. I'm very surprised that you linked the base yourself rather than buying a 6L base though. Early league prices, you spent like 300c just on the jewellers and fusings to 6 link it. Is that really worth it Vs buying a linked base? And isn't it a huge pain to buy all the fusings? Or did you get them from Yeena?
You are incorrect on multi-mod subject, it's limited to 3 mods now (so selection out of 2 actually). This recipe has been updated way before this video was created. You should always go with alt+aug+regal if you want to multi-mod.
I understand!
Brasil love you Chanel Bro i play on server PC and psn
400 fusing is "not too bad"
wtf
When you know how to farm maps (T16) you get plenty. Same with delve and keep in mind that you get plenty of six socketed armors that you can vendor for 7 jeweler orbs those you vendor for fusing orbs.
The average is 1500
400 is really not bad
On SSF, I get 2k about every 1.5 days if I'm slammin maps nonstop(most of them from 6sockets).
nothing said about ilvl, which is sad. most of the bases should be ilvl86 to be able to roll T1 affixes (T1 life, T1 % es, T1 WED, 35% MS, etc). in this case, ilvl85 = juicy T2 life. some bases, like pdps foils, should be below ilvl86 (to minimize affixes pool). poedb and craftofexile are amazing sources of info, use them.
if its not a league-start, strongly consider buying beast-duped 6L ilvl86 base (or ilvl100 from a dapper prodigy card) instead of crafting your own.
PS - actually i've never paid attention to jew orbs description, and thought that item quality only affects linking chances xD