Armorsmith Archive

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moody628 wrote:

Sockets are assigned to the item BEFORE experimentation, so it's safe to say experimentation has nothing to do with sockets. It's a random pull during assembly for sockets, but there is some evidence to show that the better the assembly success, the more likely you are to get higher sockets.

The thing I think it's important to keep in mind is the significant number of schematics that do not allow any sockets, regardless.

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The secret is that it is a secret!

Tailors have their big test that says one thing (customization, I think), some say it's resources, other's say assembly, yet other's say it's random.

Personally, I sacrifice wookiees to the the socket gods before crafting.

But you have a higher chance of getting sockets in a crafted item if you have a higher assembly. Based on tests I've done, experimentation does not seem to be taken into account in relation to sockets.

It's all in how you hold your mouth.

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pykescylla wrote:
It's all in how you hold your mouth.

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he he QFE... but i think the position of your tongue is important too .....

having said that,i have to admit, i have noticed an uncanny result from making sure i get a smithy buff prior to making a suit, recently made a few custom suits and out of a health capped RIS, a bh armour a marauder and a ubese i seem to have managed much better sockets the following day, with the same group of suits, may just be coincidence but the second day with a buff made a big differance the worst I achieved was 4 sockets from cap.

In my experience its a matter of assembly, resources and pure random luck. I must be doing something right tho, as I'm pretty consistantly high with my sockets over a full suit.

It's random. I have checked the results of thousands of armor parts during my time as AS and haven't found anything that says resources, exp etc affects it.

heh, noobs

everyone knows that you simply have to make sure that the square root of your OQ,SR and DR on resource A are an odd number, and on resource B an even number, and that when you add these two together you get a prime number greater than 17..

DUH

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Wombatula wrote:

heh, noobs

everyone knows that you simply have to make sure that the square root of your OQ,SR and DR on resource A are an odd number, and on resource B an even number, and that when you add these two together you get a prime number greater than 17..

DUH

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my gut told me the same, but i wasnt quite certain.

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moody628 wrote:

Sockets are assigned to the item BEFORE experimentation, so it's safe to say experimentation has nothing to do with sockets. It's a random pull during assembly for sockets, but there is some evidence to show that the better the assembly success, the more likely you are to get higher sockets.

The thing I think it's important to keep in mind is the significant number of schematics that do not allow any sockets, regardless.

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I find that if just after assembly if I click on the picture to "speed up" the results of the assembly I tend not to get 4 sockets. When I wait for those extra 5 seconds for the picture and stats to update I tend to get 4. Just a little superstition that I've picked up.