Crafting recipe 5 of same type and rarity w/ sockets

Hi guys.
Now about the sockets on item with recipe in title...
I've found you can use SIX items, and swap out one, get a different socket result, repeat with other 5.
But are the number of sockets relevant?
I can't seem to get a result better than 2 linked. And there's often one stinking green socket.
I'm a lvl 42 Templar, and wanted a full chain mail with a favorable number of linked sockets.

Anyone? It doesn't seem viable to expect a very good result on purpose as far as sockets go, but I thought I was on to something ( using 6, and swaping out 1)
Is using orbs and grinding RNG with orbs, the only way to get a good socket result?
I know about IL and number of sockets. But it seems 9/10 you just get crappy 1, or 2 sockets , unlinked or with undesirable colors.

Swapping out different items to roll for sockets is a decent way of doing it - each distinct combination is like a fresh drop of the item type - but may be dependent on the item level of the gear you're using for the recipe, so it may be worth checking on that if you're trying to roll on a lower-tier item.

If you've got the room, the strategy gets drastically better as you collect more copies to swap out.

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Skivverus wrote:

Swapping out different items to roll for sockets is a decent way of doing it - each distinct combination is like a fresh drop of the item type - but may be dependent on the item level of the gear you're using for the recipe, so it may be worth checking on that if you're trying to roll on a lower-tier item.

If you've got the room, the strategy gets drastically better as you collect more copies to swap out.

Gotcha. So I'm on the right track then.
Probably hoping for too many sockets too early in the game :P
thnx for the response.
Edit: I'm trying to craft IL 35 holy chain mail, etc. IL 35 can have 4 and even 5 sockets, but all the vender gives me is unlinked 3 sockets, or 2/3 of them are linked.
Grr...idk

Is the number of preexisting sockets relevant?
Example 6 items with only 1-3 sockets...can they possibly combo into a 5 socket?

Don't know for sure, but I'd expect not. I'm pretty sure I've heard someone on the forum do this to get a six-socket bow.

Granted, they amassed thirteen bows before they pulled it off, but the point stands.

Good luck with that.

I've got 7 rare thicket bows that I've rotated through every permutation (56) to try and get a 5 link or a 6 socket. Best I've seen has been a 4 link.

I have a feeling that the randomized number of sockets is very close to the same chances of using a Jewler's Orb. AKA you need to try hundreds to get to 5.

In order to get hundreds of permutations, you would need 9 items to choose from, that would give you 120 unique permutations.

In a single stash page you can fit 24 2x3 items (chest pieces) or 18 2x4 items (2h weapons/bows). 24 items would give you 42,504 unique combinations (good luck keeping track of those...) 18 would give you 8,568 combinations.

So, once you get more than a handful of items to try out the pick 5 recipe, you'll have more options than you can shake a stick at. The problem at that point is keeping track of which combinations you've tried and which ones you still need to try, since you can only carry 7 of them in your inventory at a time...

wow this sounds interesting, i have about 30 reaver swords i would like to try this with, but impossible to keep track of it. Suppose gotta get creative, and maybe you can make it happen easily to a degree. So do you stop at 6 sockets, then hope fuses do the trick? Or do it till you are lucky enough to get a 6 link, i imagine i have enough reavers if i got a 5 link i would stop and snag that one up immediately, then try more with the others, but sounds like a lot of time to do this all.

It's a task gagging to be scripted.

For manual exploitation it's a lot more practical for rolling amulets into perfect +20 onyx prior to alchemy.

However GGG are aware of the issue; hopefully they'll fix it at some point.

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I've got 7 rare thicket bows that I've rotated through every permutation (56) to try and get a 5 link or a 6 socket. Best I've seen has been a 4 link.

I think you meant 8 rare thickets?
You can only make 21 unique sets of 5 from a set of 7.

5 from 6 -> 6 combinations
5 from 7 -> 21 combinations
5 from 8 -> 56 combinations
5 from 9 -> 126 combinations
5 from 10 -> 252 combinations
5 from 11 -> 462 combinations
5 from 12 -> 792 combinations
5 from 13 -> 1287 combinations
5 from 14 -> 2002 combinations
5 from 15 -> 3003 combinations
5 from 16 -> 4368 combinations

To have a reasonable chance of getting a 6l from this method you should be looking toward the bottom of that list.

I do not mean to seem too noobish, but how is it that this recipe works?

I was not aware of recipes beyond the "trade in to get" list found in the sticky thread.


Alexis
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