Use an Artificer's Orb on eligible equipment that is below its socket limit, then right-click a Rune or other Augment and apply it to the item. To change a normal Augment later, apply the replacement to the occupied socket; the old Augment is destroyed. To recover non Socket-Bound Augments, use an Orb of Extraction, but the equipment is destroyed instead.
- Keep the equipment, Artificer's Orb, and intended Rune or other Augment in the inventory.
- Read every target-specific effect on the Augment before choosing the equipment slot.
- Check whether the Augment is Limited, Ancient, or Socket-Bound.
- Decide whether the equipment or the old Augment is more valuable before replacing or extracting.
Body armour and two-handed weapons normally support up to two Augment Sockets. Other armour, shields, foci, and weapons normally support one. Quivers and jewellery cannot receive a socket from an Artificer's Orb by default. Exceptional drops, corruption, and Unique modifiers can create special exceptions.
- Count the equipment's current Augment Sockets.
- Identify whether the weapon is one-handed or two-handed.
- Read the item for hidden or special socket rules.
MechanicCheck the complete default socket table and special exceptions.
CurrencyReview the current tooltip and acquisition.
Right-click an Artificer's Orb, then apply it to eligible equipment below its applicable limit. The Orb adds one empty Augment Socket. It does not add a support socket to a Skill Gem.
- The target is an eligible weapon, shield, focus, or armour item.
- The item is below its applicable socket limit.
- An empty socket appears on the equipment after use.
CurrencyCheck the exact equipment targets and stack size.
DirectoryUse the separate gem system for Skill and Support sockets.
Open the Rune, Soul Core, Idol, or Abyssal Eye page and compare its effect for the exact target equipment type. The same Augment can grant a different enchantment to a weapon, helmet, body armour, gloves, boots, shield, focus, wand, staff, or sceptre.
- Match the effect to the exact equipment type.
- Check Limited to 1 and Ancient Augment restrictions.
- Check whether the item says Socket-Bound.
DirectoryCompare Rune effects and acquisition.
DirectoryCompare Soul Core effects and Trial of Chaos acquisition.
MechanicCheck effects that require Wisdom of the Maji.
Right-click the chosen Augment and apply it to the equipment. Select an empty socket to keep every existing Augment. Selecting an occupied socket replaces a normal Augment and destroys the previous one. The equipment remains.
- Choose the intended socket when the item has more than one.
- Confirm the old Augment may be destroyed before replacing it.
- Read the resulting enchantment on the equipment.
MechanicCompare filling, replacing, and extracting outcomes.
Replacing destroys the previous AugmentA normal Augment placed into an occupied socket does not return the old one to the inventory.
Extraction destroys the equipmentAn Orb of Extraction preserves eligible Augments by sacrificing the equipment that holds them.
Skill sockets are a separate systemAugment Sockets belong to equipment. Skill and Support sockets in the Skills menu use different items and rules.
MechanicCompare filling, replacing, and extracting outcomes.
DirectoryCompare Rune effects and acquisition.
DirectoryCompare Soul Core effects and Trial of Chaos acquisition.
MechanicCheck effects that require Wisdom of the Maji.
MechanicThe separate Runes of Aldur transformation system.
MechanicSocket corruption outcomes and modification rules.
CurrencyCheck the exact equipment targets and stack size.
CurrencyReview the current tooltip and acquisition.
DirectoryUse the separate gem system for Skill and Support sockets.
RuneCheck a current Socket-Bound Rune example.
MechanicUse the separate destructive process for socket shards and quality currency.
