Any class is capable of adding cogwheels to these sockets as long as they have the engineering skill to do so.Ĭurrently the only known items that have cogwheels are the epic helms crafted by engineers with 75 skill points in Cataclysm or Pandaria engineering. Cogwheel sockets are engineering -only sockets first introduced in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Prismatic or uncolored sockets are the default socket found in any item with gem sockets.Īny gem except meta gems may be placed in them.
Gems may be placed by anyone into a socketed item via a drag-and-drop interface, invoked by shift-right-clicking the weapon or piece of armor you want socketed. The gems are then dragged into the slots, and the 'Socket Gems' button is pressed to apply the gems. Gems can be added to sockets in the 'Item Socketing' window, which can be opened by holding shift and right clicking on a socketed item. You can place another gem in the same socket, but doing so will destroy the existing gem much like overwriting enchants. There is currently no way to remove a gem once it has been placed into a socket.
A socket is a special slot on an item into which gems can be inserted to provide bonuses similar to those gained from enchanting.
