MMO-Champion BlueTracker - What happened to the sockets?

2008-12-04 09:14:31

As I'm venturing around Northrend, collecting gear, and completing quests, I find my self asking: "Where are the sockets?"

I don't think I've found a single quest item/random drop that has sockets on it. Am I alone in this? Does it get better closer to 80? I have meta gems that are inactive because as I replace my gear, the new gear has no sockets.

Are jewelcrafters feeling this as well?

Dymontyris

2008-12-04 09:48:53

Re: What happened to the sockets?

Q u o t e:
As I'm venturing around Northrend, collecting gear, and completing quests, I find my self asking: "Where are the sockets?"

I don't think I've found a single quest item/random drop that has sockets on it. Am I alone in this? Does it get better closer to 80? I have meta gems that are inactive because as I replace my gear, the new gear has no sockets.

Are jewelcrafters feeling this as well?

Generally speaking it felt weird to have an item at a leveling up phase that had sockets in it so you'd be trying to get the gems and the cuts you wanted, get them in, then have it replaced one level later. You will start seeing the socketed items the higher level items after reaching level 80 so after getting the gems and cuts you have a better chance at hanging on to the item for awhile so that it means something.

Bornakk

2008-12-04 10:29:00

Re: What happened to the sockets?

Q u o t e:

As a Jewelcrafter, I'm a little surprised by this response.
What else are we supposed to do with the gems that we level on? Vendor them? I'd think they would be useful for people to use on items that they are getting while they level. Something to perk up their stats with. Instead they should wait until they get their socketed purples and we grind through our greens and blues to offer something worth-while later?

From what I have seen players tend to grab green gems to put in their gear quite often then sit down and think about what more-costly blue gems they want to put in. In almost every piece of socketed gear I have put in green gems first while debating on what blue gems to put in.

Bornakk