Larzuk tool might be bugged?

So I used the

Larzuk tool to calculate how many sockets a

Voulge would have in nightmare and i only got 3 instead of the 4 that the

Larzuk tool suggested. Take care with it. Although the tool is (for the most part) very good indeed. it does tend to make the odd mistake.

Are you sure the

Voulge was dropped in your nightmare game? Max sockets on a

Voulge should be 4 starting with ilvl 26 and all area levels in nightmare are 36+. So it shouldn't be possible to get a

Voulge in nightmare and then getting only 3 sockets from

Larzuk.

Are you 100% sure you found the

Voulge in Nightmare? For a

Voulge to have 4 sockets it needs to have an item level (ilvl) >=26.
A

Fallen in nightmare

Blood Moor has a monster level (mlvl) of 36. Items dropped from monsters typically have the ilvl = mlvl. So any

Voulge dropped in nightmare should have an ilvl greater than 36, meaning it should roll with 4 sockets.

Edit: Atari beat me to it

2nd Edit: The only thing I can think of is you cubed the

Voulge from a low-quality

Voulge? If so, that will result in the item having an ilvl = 1. So only 3 sockets even if you found it in nightmare.

Might there have been a misunderstanding in terms of what the difficulty selection actually means? The difficulty selection relates to where the item dropped (as Knappogue and Atari mentioned), but maybe the OP thought it relates to in which difficulty you used the quest reward?

Like has been mentioned, it’s impossible for a

Voulge that dropped in nightmare to roll 3 sockets from

Larzuk - unless it dropped as Low Quality (or Cracked/Damaged/Crude) and was “repaired” to normal quality with the cube recipe (low quality weapon +

Eld + chipped gem) - that would reset the item’s ilvl to 1 which would cause max sockets to be 3 in this case.

Depends on the iLvl os the

Voulge.

Probale or you dropped in an aLvl 25 or lower, or cubed a low quality

Voulge to turn to normal. The iLvl after the recipe is 1.

Max sockets iLvl 1-25: 3
Max sockets iLvl 26-40: 4
Max sockets iLvl 41+: 4