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eznpc Guide Can You Cube a 4 Socket Crystal Sword in D2 - Storm - 27.02.2026

Back in Diablo II: Resurrected, a Crystal Sword can look like a blank cheque for runewords, right up until you realise sockets don't work the way you hoped. If you're coming from newer loot habits—or you've been browsing Diablo 4 Items  and thinking everything's flexible—you'll hit the same wall: once a Crystal Sword already has sockets, the Horadric Cube can't "re-roll" them, add more, or change the count. Four holes means four holes, forever, and the game won't let you transmute your way into a different number.
What The Cube Actually Does
The famous socket recipe (Ral + Amn + Perfect Amethyst) only applies to plain white, unsocketed weapons. It's picky. Throw in a sword that already has 1, 2, 3, or 4 sockets and you'll get nothing—no secret upgrade, no reroll, just wasted ingredients and that familiar "nope" moment. People mix this up with the unsocketing trick, too. Yes, a Hel rune plus a Town Portal scroll will clear out runes or gems, but it doesn't erase the sockets themselves. The holes stay, and you're still locked into that original socket count.
Getting Four Sockets Without Regret
If you're hunting a Spirit base, the most reliable play is to start with the right drop, not the right recipe. Item level is the hidden rulebook here, and it decides the maximum sockets an item can have. That's why the Normal Secret Cow Level is such a sweet farm: a plain white Crystal Sword from there usually sits in the range where the cap lands on four sockets. Take that clean, unsocketed sword to Larzuk in Act V and he'll punch in the maximum allowed every time—so, in that scenario, you get four, guaranteed. It's clean, it's fast, and you don't burn time gambling.
When You Feel Like Gambling Anyway
Plenty of players still use the Cube because they want to save Larzuk for something rarer. Fair enough. The Cube rolls a random number of sockets, and on paper a Crystal Sword could roll higher than four. But the game clamps the result down to what that specific item level allows, so in those Normal-difficulty sweet spots you'll often land on four even if the roll tries to go bigger. The risk is obvious, though: you can still end up with fewer sockets, and then you're stuck. There's no "fixing" a 3-socket Crystal Sword into a 4-socket one—at that point, you're back to farming another base and hoping the next drop plays nice, maybe while topping up runes or trading through eznpc  if you'd rather spend less time scraping for essentials and more time actually building characters.

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