Socket upgrading is a new system that lets you modify your items with sockets making them stronger than ever. Here is the full process of upgrading an item.

Components:

1. Seeds (some guides call it seal)

Seeds are jewels that are created at the Seed Master NPC. They are the core of the socket upgrade. There are 6 types of seeds all with different options - Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Lightning and Ice.

Sets & Shields - add Water, Wind, Earth Seeds
Weapons - add Fire, Ice and Lightning Seeds

2. Seed Options (click to view Seed Info)

3. Sphere

Spheres are empty containers drop anywhere (depends on server). A Seed needs to be combined with a sphere in order to be added to an item. There are 5 types of spheres:

1. Chipped
2. Flawed
3. Natural
4. Flawless
5. Perfect

The higher the rank of the sphere, the better the option you add to the item. A Seed combined with a Sphere produces a Seedsphere.

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click to view sphere

Creating and Upgrading

1. Creating A Seed

Components needed:
- 1 Excellent Item + 4 or more
- 1 Ancient Item + 4 or more
- 1 Jewel of Harmony
- 1 Jewel of Chaos
- 1 Jewel of Creation

2. Combining Seed Sphere

Components needed:
- 1 Seed (the one we created ion the previous step)
- 1 Empty sphere (higher type will produce better option)
- 1 Jewel of Harmony
- 1 Jewel of Chaos
- 1 Jewel of Creation

3. Seed Research

reference NPC

4. Mount Seedsphere

Components needed:

- 1 Item Season 4 with free Socket (the one you will upgrade)
- 1 Seedsphere (made in the previous step)

- 1 Jewel of Chaos

- 1 Jewel of Creation