Marcus101RR
Master of Ravens
Hello Terrarians,
It has been a quiet week for me, and I am here to come up with a possible new idea to the advancement of Weaponry, Armory, and Accessories! The Gem Socket System will allow players to further improve the statistics of their prizes treasures. The socket system is not something you can craft on your own, it is earned, or grinded in a way to obtain the best value out of your weapon/armor/accessory!
The Socket System
Items you craft, mobs drop, or combine will spin a lottery to determine how many sockets they obtain. These items can obtain a total of 3 sockets maximum. However, you will never be lucky enough to get the highest socket value out of your item, therefore, grinding them or even repeatedly crafting them may push your luck further. The sockets are empty and have no gems inside them, you must talk to an NPC that can converge the socket with a gem of your choice. However, the Gem System alone is not as easy as it sounds. You must first purify those gems for usage, and understand their purpose in depending weapons/armor/accessories.
The Gem System
The gems we currently have in Terraria will be your importance, previously gems have very little value or usage. Now, they have some bit of usage, with this system they will be vital to your gear! Each gem has its own stats that it adds to the specific gear you choose to augment it into. So check below before thinking about what kind of adventure you have to go on in order to perfect your gear further.
The Refining Process
The raw gems you collect in Terraria will not be sufficient for sockets, you must first refine these gems into a higher quality for the stats to take effect. You can refine gems up to three times (Refined, Advanced, Super) for higher potency. In order to do so you must collect enough of each stage in order to advance to the next quality upgrade. You can upgrade your gem at any Hardmode Anvil.
In this figure you can see that the Stardust Dragon Staff has three sockets with Ruby (top), Diamond (middle), Emerald (bottom). The diamond increases both Gem Potency by 2, so +10% Damage and 10% Speed.
It has been a quiet week for me, and I am here to come up with a possible new idea to the advancement of Weaponry, Armory, and Accessories! The Gem Socket System will allow players to further improve the statistics of their prizes treasures. The socket system is not something you can craft on your own, it is earned, or grinded in a way to obtain the best value out of your weapon/armor/accessory!
The Socket System
Items you craft, mobs drop, or combine will spin a lottery to determine how many sockets they obtain. These items can obtain a total of 3 sockets maximum. However, you will never be lucky enough to get the highest socket value out of your item, therefore, grinding them or even repeatedly crafting them may push your luck further. The sockets are empty and have no gems inside them, you must talk to an NPC that can converge the socket with a gem of your choice. However, the Gem System alone is not as easy as it sounds. You must first purify those gems for usage, and understand their purpose in depending weapons/armor/accessories.
The Gem System
The gems we currently have in Terraria will be your importance, previously gems have very little value or usage. Now, they have some bit of usage, with this system they will be vital to your gear! Each gem has its own stats that it adds to the specific gear you choose to augment it into. So check below before thinking about what kind of adventure you have to go on in order to perfect your gear further.
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- This gem will increase Size (Melee), Velocity (Ranged), Mana Cost (Magic).
- Weapons Only
- This gem will increase Size (Melee), Velocity (Ranged), Mana Cost (Magic).
- This gem will increase Knockback (All).
- Weapons Only
- This gem will increase Knockback (All).
- This gem will increase Critical Strike Chance (All)
- All Weapons/Armor/Accessories
- This gem will increase Critical Strike Chance (All)
- This gem will increase Speed/Armor (All).
- Increases Speed on Weapons
- Increases Defense on Armor/Accessories
- This gem will increase Speed/Armor (All).
- This gem will increase Damage (All).
- All Weapons/Armor/Accessories
- This gem will increase Damage (All).
- This gem will increase Movement Speed.
- Accessories Only
- This gem will increase Movement Speed.
- This gem will amplify/multiply adjacent gem sockets.
- All Weapons/Armor/Accessories
- This gem will amplify/multiply adjacent gem sockets.
The Refining Process
The raw gems you collect in Terraria will not be sufficient for sockets, you must first refine these gems into a higher quality for the stats to take effect. You can refine gems up to three times (Refined, Advanced, Super) for higher potency. In order to do so you must collect enough of each stage in order to advance to the next quality upgrade. You can upgrade your gem at any Hardmode Anvil.
The quality types of gem are depending on your crafting amount. You can increase to these stages by following the material requirement. For some stats, only a percentage will be calculated, while other stats will be static increase. Damage, Defense, etc are increased differently depending on the gem used, and in what type of gear it has been placed into. Check above to make sure you are using the right gem in the right type of gear before expecting the wrong stat to increase (E.G. Refined Sapphire Gem in an Accessory increases 1% Critical Strike Chance while an Advanced Emerald increases +3 Defense in an Accessory).
NOTE: Please note that for Diamond Gems, these stats are multiplied by the value of 2 by any adjacent gem sockets. (E.G. 2 Super Ruby Gems with 1 Diamond Gem increases the stats to +20/20% rather than +10/10% (Max +15/15% possible with 3 sockets).
- Refined
- Has a potency of +1% or +1 additional stat.
- Requirement: To craft, requires 5 Gems.
- Has a potency of +1% or +1 additional stat.
- Advanced
- Has a potency of +3% or +3 additional stat.
- Requirement: To craft, requires 5 Refined Gems.
- Has a potency of +3% or +3 additional stat.
- Super
- Has a potency of +5% or +5 additional stat.
- Requirement: To craft, requires 10 Advanced Gems.
- Has a potency of +5% or +5 additional stat.
NOTE: Please note that for Diamond Gems, these stats are multiplied by the value of 2 by any adjacent gem sockets. (E.G. 2 Super Ruby Gems with 1 Diamond Gem increases the stats to +20/20% rather than +10/10% (Max +15/15% possible with 3 sockets).
In this figure you can see that the Stardust Dragon Staff has three sockets with Ruby (top), Diamond (middle), Emerald (bottom). The diamond increases both Gem Potency by 2, so +10% Damage and 10% Speed.