0.4 Vaal Temple Feedback

Early campaign vaal Temple felt great because using the benches felt rewarding at the time they popped up. This diminished over time because exalting gear just isn't as impactful as earlier, artificer orbs are starting to drop, etc.

A solution to this could be to scale them with level using the greater and perfect versions of the respective orbs unlocked at key points. There are already moments for the league where things shift inside of the temple, Alva exploring it in act 3 and killing the architect at level 75. These 2 points are really good points where these changes could be made, listed below.

Act-1-3:

All as it currently is

Act 3 with Alva:

All benches in a tier 1 state are left as standard orbs, upgrading them to tier 2 will give you a greater version and a tier 3 will act as a greater version + a vaal orb corruption (with the omen active to ensure a change)

Augment benches could be made so that you have the option of quality or an augment scaling up to the same as above

Maps with architect level 75+ killed:

Standard version of benches is now a greater orb with a tier 2 scaling into perfect and a tier 3 acting as a perfect + a vaal orb with the corruption omen active

Augment benches at tier3 can be made to corrupt an item but add an additional socket (irregardless of prior socket amount), adding a deterministic way to corrupt a socket onto an item

Lastly there is one more point for the temple where things can change and thats after killing atziri.

Simply, allow omens to be active during any of these interactions.

After the removal of the homogeneousing exalt there's a lot more exalt slamming going on and this league could be an amazing way to craft gear as well. The time invested to make temples would mean that doing it purely for a perfect ex (can't remove maybe?) wouldn't be worthwhile as conventional mapping is faster for currency making to just buy the orb yourself.

There's a lot going on inside of the temple that many of us don't understand but if the rewards were better then I'm sure many would want to learn