Socket question

Hi, I have looked around the net for information about adding a socket to an item and I'm not sure I found the right answer or just don't like the answers I found lol. I have a nice Superior Phase Blase White I want to add sockets too. Is there a way to insure how many sockets you can add to it? I am trying to use it for Grief and would like 5 sockets of course. I know the cube is random but is there a guaranteed way to get a certain number from the socket quest?
Thanks in advance

Superior items cannot be socketed with cube recipe. You can only socket that to 6 sockets with

Larzuk. When socketing with

Larzuk, he will give max number of sockets that item can have. If it wasn't superior you have a 1/6 chance of it being 5os with the cube recipe

Cashtiger wrote: 3 years ago

Hi, I have looked around the net for information about adding a socket to an item and I'm not sure I found the right answer or just don't like the answers I found lol. I have a nice Superior Phase Blase White I want to add sockets too. Is there a way to insure how many sockets you can add to it? I am trying to use it for Grief and would like 5 sockets of course. I know the cube is random but is there a guaranteed way to get a certain number from the socket quest?
Thanks in advance

Captincorpse is absolutely correct.

Larzuk socket quest will simply give you the maximum sockets based on item and the item level. And the socket cube recipe does not work on superior items. If you want a 5 socket

Phase Blade you have to find it out in the wild already with 5 sockets or find a plain White

Phase Blade and use the cube socket recipe hoping for 5 sockets.

Thank you both so much. That is what I found on the web. I just found out about using the cube for sockets a few days ago. No luck so far. Now I can either make a six socket PB I for maybe MF and look for an ED 5 socket for Grief. Thanks again.

you also need to be aware where you found the

Phase Blade.

for example, a White

Phase Blade from a cow level in normal will give you always 100% 4 sockets from

Larzuk. you need to have it from an area with a higher itemlevel if you want 5 or 6 sockets respectively.

Larzuk will always give you the max amount of sockets and he checks the itemlevel for the item you bring.

Crispin wrote: 3 years ago

[...]
for example, a White

Phase Blade from a cow level in normal will give you always 100% 4 sockets from

Larzuk.
[...]

You cant find elite item in normal. The game will never give you that.

yeah, think they meant

Crystal Sword from norm cows get 4 soc from socket quest

yep,

Crystal Sword. my bad.

If you know the alvl of the area the item drops in, you know the mlvl of the monster that dropped it.

If you know the mlvl of the monster that dropped it, you can work out how many sockets

Larzuk will give to it (by visiting the item's page in the database here and viewing the 'sockets by ilvl' block).

Crystal Sword for example: