Corrupting jewels

Ok. So Ive heard its close to 50/50 that the item bricks, or remains the same. And a small chance, something like 1 to 8 or that it adds an implicit.

Ive been corrupting ALOT of jewels this leauge, and I feel like close to 70% of my jewels are bricking.

When I vaal-orb gloves for instance, it bricks very rarely compared to jewels.

Are jewels for some reason insanely hard to vaal without bricking it? Do we have any stats on this?

From the Wiki:

No effect (other than adding the corrupted property).
Add a special Vaal implicit mod.
Turn it into a rare jewel with the same base item.
Turn it into a Vaal-exclusive unique jewel with the same base item.

1/4 chance.

Feeling something to be true and something being true are two different things.

If you want a good study I would say buy 500 random unique jewels, corrupt them and document the results (videoing the entire ordeal would be good too).

If this experiment could be repeated and verified then you would have an argument that something is wrong with the corruption outcome percent or ggg is unknowingly giving weight to the brick outcome.

This is absolutely true I have corrupted about 22 Magic Jewels using the vaal orb and only 5 survived nas in no outcome or implicit , all the other 15 turned rare or into uniques.
It was frustrating loosing about 40-60 divine worth of jewels.
Most likely I will use the alva double corrupting chamber from now on.
Last 9 Jewels I used vall orb simply turned rare or unique.
Very very frustrating , also faced a similar situation with level 3 Enlighten Jewels out of 18 only one became level 4.

it's 50/50, you either get your desired outcome or you don't.
Source: trust me bro

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Rickeomg wrote:

Ok. So Ive heard its close to 50/50 that the item bricks, or remains the same. And a small chance, something like 1 to 8 or that it adds an implicit.

Ive been corrupting ALOT of jewels this leauge, and I feel like close to 70% of my jewels are bricking.

When I vaal-orb gloves for instance, it bricks very rarely compared to jewels.

Are jewels for some reason insanely hard to vaal without bricking it? Do we have any stats on this?

Well....even from your anecdotal evidence...it fits exactly with what the real % chance is.

50% brick
25% stay the same
25% implicit

And you say about 70% brick. Likely, given that you absolutely did NOT keep track of every corrupt on a spreadsheet, and therefore are also likely conflating "staying the same" with bricking (because all you REALLY care about is the implicit).....30% chance is actually BETTER than the actual ratio.

And even if you kept meticulous records, and not writing with any kind of exaggeration.....a LOT of jewels is probably, what? less than 50? When hundreds of thousands or even millions are corrupted each league? Come back to me when you've personally corrupted at least 1% of the total jewels and then lets check the odds.

I kept track of 300 jewels and I got exactly one implicit. just saying.

Vaal orbs are extremely boring honestly.

actually, no one know why there are 4 outcome and wiki assume the weighting is equally split so that it wrote 1/4 chance.....

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I kept track of 300 jewels and I got exactly one implicit.

(3/4)^300 is near to zero so that either 1/4 is wrong or your dataset is wrong

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DoubleU wrote:

From the Wiki:

No effect (other than adding the corrupted property).
Add a special Vaal implicit mod.
Turn it into a rare jewel with the same base item.
Turn it into a Vaal-exclusive unique jewel with the same base item.

1/4 chance.

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Almost every outcome in POE is weighted in some fashion especially gambles like this. So, the guess that it is 1 in 4 is simply a guess and a bad one if you know the history of POE corruptions.