Socketing superior items with larzuk

Someone on fb said superior is always 5 sockets

When I asked where does it say they they didn’t give more info other than search google
That didn’t help


If I have a superior Colossus Voulge
Will it give 4 or 5 sockets?

When search here cv says 4 max sockets

The only way to get sockets in a superior item is Larzuk, as the cube recipe does not work with superior (or inferior) items.

And Larzuk will always give the maximum number of sockets, which with polearms is 6.
But only, if 6 sockets is possible.
For a Colossus Voulge 6 is not possible, as their maximum number of sockets is 4. (Look here: https://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/i ... arms.shtml)

(There might be exceptions to that rule concerning normal and exceptional items, which has to do with item level, but with elite items, especially when found in hell difficulty, this is no problem.

So, yes, if you bring your Colossus Voulge to Larzuk, he will put 4 sockets on it.


(From what I know, the only way to break that rule with elite items is upgrading inferior elite items with the cube recipe:

For example you find an inferior Monarch shield in hell difficulty. You remember that there is a cube recipe, that let's you remove the inferior status and upgrade the shield to "normal" White item Monarch shield.
Then you bring that shield to Larzuk with high hopes that he puts 4 sockets in it so that you can have your Runeword Spirit in it.
But - surprise surprise - you only have 3 sockets and you wasted a Larzuk quest... -.-
That is, again, from what I know, because inferior items upgraded to "normal" White items with this before-mentioned cube recipe can NEVER have more than 3 sockets, no matter the maximum number of sockets they could normaly get.)

number of sockets given by Larzuk depends on the item level

Larzuk will give the max allowed:

https://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Sockets

Yes an item being superior has nothing to do with the sockets Larzuk will give, only the base item and the item level

That’s what I thought
Thanks

ShadowHeart wrote: 26 minutes ago

richhtx wrote: 1 hour ago

Someone on fb said superior is always 5 sockets

Don't trust random people on FB. They don't know anything.

Larzuk gives max allowed, as others have said. What the max is depends on the item type. Some items have max = 1, some have max = 2, some have max = 3, etc. And the max also depends in the ilvl (not generally applicable to elite items though, you normally don't need to worry about ilvl for elite items).

I once wasted a Larzuk quest on a Burnt Wand thinking I'd get 2 but I got 1 socket. Not my brightest moment.

I didn’t because they couldn’t back up the claim


But all my items I’m looking to socket are high enough they will get the max that’s listed here on this site


Speaking of non bright moments

I never knew you couldn’t have more than 1 item equipped with a protectors Stone on you
So yeah that one stung when I realized why it wouldn’t go back on for me

My df had the protectors frost but I wanted another for my nightwings lol