Artifact Socketing

Sockets come with rarity — the Equipment article has the full table. A socketed artifact works only while its host item is equipped.

Socketing rules

• The same primary artifact effect cannot be equipped twice across your gear
• Unsocketing is free and returns the artifact to the inventory
• Swapping equipment swaps its socketed artifacts with it
• Merging into Rare or higher rolls the new rarity's socket count and keeps the better of that and the base item's; a merge never loses a socket
• Epic, Legendary and Mythic items (and older Rare ones with none) can reroll their socket count for diamonds; a reroll never lowers it