Materia and Soulbinding

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How do I add sockets to a piece of gear? Say a piece has 2 spots for materia and I want to add 2 more sockets. How do I do that? Will adding the extra sockets risk me losing the whole piece of gear or just the materia I'm trying to add?

@ftw2177: Thank you for that informative reply. That will very much help me out with my materia melding.

@HiirNoivl Thanks for clearing up the socket part. Was wondering if it would be like wow where a jeweler can just add sockets. At least the materia can still be added. That is what matters.

[ftw2177]

How do I add sockets to a piece of gear? Say a piece has 2 spots for materia and I want to add 2 more sockets. How do I do that? Will adding the extra sockets risk me losing the whole piece of gear or just the materia I'm trying to add?

Heard about this on mr happy's you tube channel. apparently there is a forbidden materia quest that allows you to bind two extra slots. the only stated risk involved was to the materia itself and the reagent used could be destroyed if it failed.

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How do I add sockets to a piece of gear? Say a piece has 2 spots for materia and I want to add 2 more sockets. How do I do that? Will adding the extra sockets risk me losing the whole piece of gear or just the materia I'm trying to add?

You can affix max 5 materia to an item. The number of slots of materia an Item has is the number of materia you can 100% it then it becomes forbidden materia.

Exemple a helmet has 2 slot, then the first 2 materia will be 100% success if you try more they have a chance to fail. But in ARR if you fail a meld you only loose the materia and the matter you do not loose the gear anymore

Also note you need at least 1 materia slot to be able to affix materia
Also please not that each gear got max stats so before melding, make sure that the materia will be used as his full potential