Sockets allow you to enhance your gear with Custom Enchants, giving you a crucial advantage in the battles to come. Sockets can be found from multiple different loot tables and come with some specific necessities in order to work and be applied to gear.

Acquiring Sockets

Throughout the game, you can discover gear that already has sockets applied
These can be obtained through Adventures, Realm shops, etc
You can also obtain +1 Socket Expanders with varying success rates (25%, 50%, 75%, 100%)
Simply drag and drop them onto the piece of gear to attempt to add an extra socket.
If the attempt fails, the socket is lost, but your gear remains unaffected

Tiers and limitations

There are six different tiers of sockets:

Basic
Elite
Legendary
Godly
Heroic
Mythic

Each piece of gear can have one socket from each tier applied, with few exceptions explained below

There are special sockets that can only be applied to the specified armor tier!
- For Example, you can only apply an Elite Chain Socket to Chain Gear!
Each socket can hold one enchantment of the same tier or lower
- For Example, Basic sockets can only contain Basic enchants, while Mythic sockets can contain enchants from any tier

EX: Above showing a Elite Enchant Applied to a Goldy Socket

Socket Break Chance and Socket Scrolls

When applying Custom Enchants to a Socket, the socket may break upon unsuccessful application of an enchant. With this comes an Item that can protect your sockets from breaking. The Socket Scrolls. like many other items Socket Scrolls can be found in various loottables. different socket scrolls can be applied to different tiers of gear and different max socket protections.

Special socketed items

Certain high-tier loot additives, such as bosses, lootboxes, or high-tier Adventure Loottables can reward you with gear that has multiple sockets of the same tier