Creating Sockets and What Gems to put in??

SafireSpirit - Heavens Tear

How do I create sockets??

and what gems are used to put in them??

Also, how do I upgrade the level of my item??

player470

SafireSpirit - Heavens Tear wrote: »

How do I create sockets??

and what gems are used to put in them??

Also, how do I upgrade the level of my item??

I have a socketed item but it won't let me imbue it ?????

Jestersig - Heavens Tear

The only way to add sockets to something is to use socket stones from the item mall. Most of the time the equipment dropped from monsters or that is player made already has a socket or 2 in it.

The gems you put in the sockets are called soulgems. You can buy them at a merchant and you can combine lower lvl soulgems to make higher lvl ones at a jewelcraftsmen. It takes 3 lvl 1 stones to make 1 lvl 2 stone and so on up till lvl 4, where it takes 4 lvl 4 stones to make 1 lvl 5 stone. I'm not sure how they progress after this.

To add gems to your equipment, the equipment must be the same lvl or higher as the gem. In other words you can only put lvl 5 gems in equipment that is lvl 5 or higher. Also note that 2 lvl 5 stones added to armor will make it sparkle if the stones are different types or the armor will glow if the stones are the same type.

I would recommend not putting lvl 5 stones to make your armor glow until upwards of lvl 40-50. The lvl 5 stones cost 60k each and at lower lvls your armor is going to become obsolete before you get too much use out of the stones you are putting in.

You can not upgrade an item from say lvl 3 to lvl 4 but you can refine the item or add bonuses to it. Refining the item gives it a +1 or +2 and so on next to it's name and adds extra damage or defense or something. Refining is done using mirage stones at an elder. It takes 2 mirage stones to ATTEMPT to refine a weapon and only 1 mirage stone to ATTEMPT to refine armor. Note that refining can fail. If you fail when trying to refine something to a +1 then you just lose the mirage stone. If you have something already +! and you are trying to refine to +2 and you fail then you can lose the +1 that you already had.

There are items you can buy from the item mall that increase the success rate of refining but these are often expensive.

SafireSpirit - Heavens Tear

Jestersig - Heavens Tear wrote: »

The only way to add sockets to something is to use socket stones from the item mall. Most of the time the equipment dropped from monsters or that is player made already has a socket or 2 in it.

The gems you put in the sockets are called soulgems. You can buy them at a merchant and you can combine lower lvl soulgems to make higher lvl ones at a jewelcraftsmen. It takes 3 lvl 1 stones to make 1 lvl 2 stone and so on up till lvl 4, where it takes 4 lvl 4 stones to make 1 lvl 5 stone. I'm not sure how they progress after this.

To add gems to your equipment, the equipment must be the same lvl or higher as the gem. In other words you can only put lvl 5 gems in equipment that is lvl 5 or higher. Also note that 2 lvl 5 stones added to armor will make it sparkle if the stones are different types or the armor will glow if the stones are the same type.

I would recommend not putting lvl 5 stones to make your armor glow until upwards of lvl 40-50. The lvl 5 stones cost 60k each and at lower lvls your armor is going to become obsolete before you get too much use out of the stones you are putting in.

You can not upgrade an item from say lvl 3 to lvl 4 but you can refine the item or add bonuses to it. Refining the item gives it a +1 or +2 and so on next to it's name and adds extra damage or defense or something. Refining is done using mirage stones at an elder. It takes 2 mirage stones to ATTEMPT to refine a weapon and only 1 mirage stone to ATTEMPT to refine armor. Note that refining can fail. If you fail when trying to refine something to a +1 then you just lose the mirage stone. If you have something already +! and you are trying to refine to +2 and you fail then you can lose the +1 that you already had.

There are items you can buy from the item mall that increase the success rate of refining but these are often expensive.

Just what I needed to know, thanks alot bro.

Reyanna - Sanctuary_1232900446

Excellent info. Thanks so much!

LongThan - Sanctuary

so if i have a +2 and try to refine to +3 it will downgrade the + to +1?

Livedeath - Heavens Tear

If you have +2 and fail. It will lose the +1 and go back to 0

chelseacraft

No one is saying what to do once you buy the socket stone from the mall (PW Boutique).

I have purchased the ONLY socket stone the boutiques sells. It says 15 beside it so I assume that is 15 sockets. I have it in my inventory now. Yes I paid real life money for it using ZEN turned into gold.

OK now what? No one ever says how to use the socket stone in any of the forums that I can find.

darkmethoo

so what does the socket gem look like or whats the description?

DuckTapez - Archosaur

epic necro yo

gems typically have a picture of...well, a pixelated gem (cant think of any other way to describe it)
its description will typically contain the words "a soulgem filled with ______" followed by a stat addon

one example out of the many, many different types of gems out there

chaoticshelly

Closed for necro.