Make Vorici sockets permanent

Ever since Betrayal league, I've done various Vorici research slams of various tiers, expecting 1-X white sockets. *Every* time, the result has been (the wrong) 1.

And every time, this has meant blowing more time, chaos and chroma's just to be able to play the build I have been planning. This is not fun. I guess GGG is aware of this, because they're dropping the whole flawed colored socket system in PoE2.

In the meantime, why not make Vorici white sockets unchangeable? Meaning: even if you get just one white, using a chroma on that item changes all sockets but the white one(s). That would mean Vorici provides meaningful progress (which has never been the case for me these past few years) AND it would make the colored socket system a lot more bearable.

Just to clarify: I am fully aware it's best to plan builds using as little off-colour sockets as possible. Sometimes that is not possible, which is a PITA every time. Gaming should be fun!

Its not a flawed system, White sockets are a luxury which was only obtainable via CORRUPTING stuff previously.

If you equip an item with the wrong sockets don't blame the game, What should happen here is you continue to use your working gear and chrom the new piece until its in a workable state or buy it in the correct colors outright.

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SilentSymphony wrote:

Its not a flawed system, White sockets are a luxury which was only obtainable via CORRUPTING stuff previously.

If you equip an item with the wrong sockets don't blame the game, What should happen here is you continue to use your working gear and chrom the new piece until its in a workable state or buy it in the correct colors outright.

I'm sure that Amplifiction understands how it currently works. He's just proposing a change. This is the Feedback and Suggestions forum afterall.

If you think the change is bad then the argument might be something like, "I like the way it currently works. This proposal would make getting all white sockets too easy and remove some fun challenge."

As for my opinion, it sounds like an interesting proposal but I really doubt that GGG will be interested in changing something like this when PoE2 will just do away with the whole mechanism.

I overlooked something important: the grove recipes that turn non-R/G/B sockets into an R/G/B socket. A few of these could have actually helped.

While this somehow alleviates my problem with the socket colour system as it is, I still consider Vorici in research to be pretty useless in the current state. Maybe the change I proposed needs to happen, maybe the chance that the resulting number of white sockets is greater than one needs just to increase, maybe something else entirely.

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Turtledove wrote:

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SilentSymphony wrote:

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I'm sure that Amplifiction understands how it currently works. He's just proposing a change. This is the Feedback and Suggestions forum afterall.

If you think the change is bad then the argument might be something like, "I like the way it currently works. This proposal would make getting all white sockets too easy and remove some fun challenge."

As for my opinion, it sounds like an interesting proposal but I really doubt that GGG will be interested in changing something like this when PoE2 will just do away with the whole mechanism.

Also, cool answer.

I apologize my previous post was rather hostile, I don't want white sockets to lose value and at the same time also don't want older methods of obtaining things to be erased from the game so i tend to post a lot against stuff like that.

Still disagree on them being permanent, I rather enjoy syndicate and it offers good reason to keep running it though i have felt the pain of chasing more than 1 white socket in a number of leagues.

honestly +1

Also I would go so far as to add a +1 white socket recipe on the bench for like 50 chrom or something. Coloring is so stupid since the stats of the gear largely influence the probability of what colors you get. This system doesn't mesh with the fact that most people need offcolor gems in a specific combo to make their skills work. It is just busy work that makes corrupted items worth less, and just a pain in the ass to fix.

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