Socketing

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Armor and weapons may come with sockets, which can be imbued with gems, an act the player base calls "sharding". Different gems are empowered with different attributes. They can raise physical attack, magical attack, physical defense, magic defense, accuracy, evasion, Health and more. Sharding also causes unique glow or sparkle effects to appear on the armor and weapons.

Gems can be bought dropped from monsters, rewarded from quests, bought from other players, obtained from Token Packs, game events and more. Gems can be combined into higher level gems at Jewelcraftsmen located in every town.

Socketing Costs

Armor can be equipped with 4 sockets and weapons can be equipped with up to 2 sockets maximum. Sockets can be added using socket stones, a cash shop item, at the PW Boutique Agent. Higher level and legendary weapons or armor require more socket stones. See the table below for the amount of socket stones needed:

Weapon Grade Socket 1 Socket 2 1 5 10 2 10 20 3 15 30 4 20 40 5 25 50 6 30 60 7 35 70 8 40 80 9 45 90 10 50 100 11 500 1000 12 1000 2000 13 4000 8000 14 6000 12000 15 8000 16000 16 10000 20000

Armor Grade Socket 1 Socket 2 Socket 3 Socket 4 1 1 2 3 10 2 2 4 6 20 3 3 6 9 30 4 4 8 12 40 5 5 10 15 50 6 6 12 18 60 7 7 14 21 70 8 8 16 24 80 9 9 18 27 90 10 10 20 30 100 11 100 200 300 1000 12 200 400 600 2000 13 800 1600 2400 8000 14 1200 2400 3600 12000 15 1600 3200 4800 16000 16 2000 4000 6000 20000

Socketing Accessory Costs

Accessory can be equipped with 4 sockets maximum. Sockets can be added using accessory socket stones, a cash shop item, at the PW Boutique Agent. All Grade Accessory require same amount of accessory socket stones. See the table below for the amount of socket stones needed:

Number Of Socket Number Of Accessory Socket Stone For 100% Chance Price Of 100% 1 3 1,800,000 gold coin 2 15 9,000,000 gold coin 3 36 21,600,000 gold coin 4 75 45,000,000 gold coin

Sharding Results

By adding shards (a.k.a. "soulgems") to sockets you can modify the appearance of armor, if you meet certain requirements. Here's a list of what shards are required and what the results are:

Two grade 5+ HP shards (Citrine) = purple glow

Two grade 5+ MP shards (Turquoise) = blue glow

Two grade 5+ physical defense shards (Garnet) = orange/reddish glow

Two grade 5+ magic defense shards (Sapphire) = white glow

Two grade 5+ evasion shards (Amber) = yellow glow

Two grade 5+ elemental shards (Alabaster, Aquamarine, Amethyst, Ruby, or Topaz) = green glow

Two grade 5+ shards of different types = sparkles

Four grade 8+ HP shards (Citrine) = lightning effect

Four grade 8+ MP shards (Turquoise) = blue crystal effect

Four grade 8+ physical defense shards (Garnet) = burning fire

Four grade 8+ magic defense shards (Sapphire) = strong white mist

Four grade 8+ evasion shards (Amber) = bigger/stronger yellow glow with sparkles.

Four grade 8+ elemental shards (Alabaster, Aquamarine, Amethyst, Ruby, or Topaz) = strong green glow with sparkles

Four grade 8+ shards of different types = sparkles

(Grade 5 shards are "Average" and grade 8 shards are "Immaculate".)

Note: You cannot put shards into sockets if the gem's grade is higher than the armor's or weapon's grade. This means that a grade 4 armor cannot be made to glow, because it cannot be sharded with grade 5 shards.

Weapons glow for a different reason:

Three-star (purple name) = Blue glow. Obtained from a few quests, boss drops, or rarely (10% chance) from weapon manufacturing.

Legendary (gold name) = Gold glow. Obtained by using materials and a mold (dropped from dungeon bosses) at a Legendary Weapons forge.

Twilight (green name) = Usually a green glow (there are a few blue glowing ones). Obtained by using Twilight Temple materials at a Twilight Weapons forge.

Frostcovered (green name) = Glow green like Twilight Temple weapons. Gotten from Frostcovered City drops.

Frostcovered (gold name) = Red lightning effect on some weapons. Made from "The Past of Frostcovered City" items or Frostcovered Sign·Force (Token Pack items).

Sage and some level 100 weapons (red name) = Red glow. Sage weapons are obtained from Messenger of the Sages, which requires Rank 6 (35,000+ rep) and all 7 badges. The level 100 weapons either require Rank 8 (200,000+ rep) or four level 99 souledges and other high level items.

Nirvana = vary in glow and color. Created in the Nirvana Forges from other weapons.

So, weapons glow based on their type, and you cannot make a non-glowing weapon glow.

However, if the weapon is grade 7 or better and has two sockets, you can add two concentric rings of sparkles that circle around the hand(s) holding the weapon(s) by sharding with two grade 7 or higher shards. The shards and their resulting sparkle colors are:

Grade 7+ HP shards (Citrine) = purple sparkles

Grade 7+ MP shards (Turquoise) = blue sparkles

Grade 7+ physical attack shards (Garnet) = red sparkles

Grade 7+ magic attack shards (Sapphire) = white sparkles

Grade 7+ evasion shards (Amber) = yellow sparkles

Grade 7+ elemental shards (Alabaster, Aquamarine, Amethyst, Ruby, or Topaz) = green sparkles

(Grade 7 shards are "Flawless".)

So, for example, if you have a grade 7+ weapon with two sockets and you add a grade 7+ Citrine and a grade 7+ Sapphire, you would get purple sparkles and white sparkles that rotate in concentric circles around your hand(s) when you equip that weapon.

For a complete list of the gems that can be put in sockets and the bonuses they give to armor and weapons, see: Shards

See also: Myths and Misinformation - Elemental Sharding for Magic Weapons for info on what not to shard in a weapon.