Results from map farming ( currency drops ) ( 300 maps so far ) last update : 24.02.2016

I'd say "No, it wouldn't be so bad in my opinion."
A little correction though .. at the moment it's not 1 in 200 it's in 200

Oh i guess i should've clarified that. I do Unidentified Chaos recipe only.
I must also note that the results show that more than 50% of my accumulated wealth comes from selling every rare that drops ( resulting in huge amounts of alts ) + the unid chaos recipe ( which nearly triples my chaos orb income ).

If i was to pick only orbs and selling the uniques that dropped so far ( the uniques that are actually sellable at all ) the results would've been horrible.

Though i am interested to know why you consider the chaos recipe to be "Not very good to say the least."

P.S. From the uniques dropped so far i can make around 1 ex in total.

I understand what you are saying. What i'm getting at though is that yo are doing the chaos recipe ... well ... wrong. I already have a stash tab with unid rares ( pic below ) just waiting for that single ring or amulet ( usually ring ). To fill such a page pretty much means that i don't sell but stash the rares from a boss kill once every hour or so ( which takes the same amount of time as identifying and selling them ) and then i go on with my farming. When i hear that magical sound of a ring/amulet dropping ( thank you item filter ) i just pick it, wait until i fill my inventory and go back to my hideout ( which i already do with a full inventory ) sell the stuff, pick up the unid rares waiting in my stash and sell them all together. It takes no extra time for me to do that. No time wasted, no nothing.

I get the idea that picking up rares at all is time consuming ( pretty much increases the time it takes to clear a map with 30% ), but it's a certain profit... the alts pile up so fast that at this moment for these 200 runs they are responsible for almost 1/3 of the accumulated profit. If i was doing those 200 runs waiting for that T1 unique or actually any unique worth more than 10c ... well ... i would've still be waiting for it, the only thing that i would've gained is from the pure orb drops and my total amount of currency made would've been half of what is at the moment. Sure the time spent per map would be less .. but check the orb drops per run ( in the spreadsheet ) ... 0,51 fusings per run, not even 1 alch per run, the chaos orbs per run without the recipe are about 1 for every 3 fully cleared maps, most of the other orbs are a lot worse, only the jewelers are a bit better thanks to the 6s item drops. If you sum up the average gains per run without selling all rares and doing chaos recipes and then subtract 1 alch you'll see that the gains are extremely miserable.
Pic of the chaos recipe stash tab:



As for "top tier players" ( though that's a very subjective term ) not picking up rares and vendoring them ... well ... most of them play in a party and that's a huge game changer, especially when you play with a culler in your party, but even if you don't, you can't afford to pick up random rares and sell them because the portals are scarce or non-existent in full party. Overall there is a huge imbalance in party play vs solo play and huge difference on how you farm. Have you played solo this league or in a party ? The difference is insane.
Not to mention of course that many ( i say many because i can't say all for sure ... though in fact it's pretty much all ) "top tier players" have tons of other players, guild members etc. who do nothing but sell their stuff, flip their currency all day, etc. etc. and that's no secret and of course i can't say that there is something wrong with it. But by removing the time spent on trading your gear you gain insanely huge advantage because trading is one of the biggest time wasters.

Thanks mate, though i do urge you ( and everyone really ) to correct me if i've got something wrong. I can't and i will never claim to know it all and if i learn something new or understand something better that's only beneficial to me.

Guys, in other news, it's possible that i won't be able to spend much ( or even any ) time on PoE this weekend but most likely i'll be able to update the thread to 250 runs on Monday.