Question on Socket quest

ShadowHeart wrote: 1 month ago

If you look at the

War Pike database page (click its name in your own post), you will see the sockets per ilvl ranges.

Max sockets iLvl 1-25: 3 *
Max sockets iLvl 26-40: 4 *
Max sockets iLvl 41+: 6

And there's a comment saying:

* This item's qLvl of 85 is higher than these iLvl ranges. Therefore it'll never spawn within the marked iLvl ranges, unless cubed to iLvl 1.

This is important. It means that a

War Pike will always be in the highest iLvl range (41+) when it drops, because monsters that are level 40 or lower cannot drop it . The only way to have a

War Pike at a lower iLvl is if you have a Low Quality

War Pike and you use the cube recipe to turn it into Normal Quality, then the iLvl will be reset to 1, and the max sockets would be 3. But it's entirely impossible to have a base (white/grey)

War Pike with an iLvl in the middle range (26-40) because it cannot drop at those iLvls, and there's no way to manipulate the iLvl of a base item besides the Low Quality > Normal Quality recipe (which sets iLvl to 1). The fact that the max socket at that iLvl range is listed on the database page is mostly a curiosity.*

* a Magic

War Pike can technically be given an iLvl of 25 or 30 with the cube recipes

Recipe: Socketed Magic Weapon ilvl 25 and

Recipe: Socketed Magic Weapon ilvl 30 respectively, but this is irrelevant for max sockets because these cube recipes automatically give the item 1-2 sockets, never more.

tl;dr

Your

War Pike will get 6 sockets from

Larzuk.