How about instead of the items going in the rings, you get three slots much like the D3 cube. I mean thats basically what these are. Re-tooled cube extracts from D3. Just give us three slots on our chracter page, one of each color, and then you can put your gray whereever you want.
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This is a great idea, though I think it’s probably a little late for that. By the time they coded it the season would be over.
Please no, this is so casual. This will make the game even easier. Please god, no.
Scrap the colors for sockets, or make it possible to change socket colors. RNG is supposed to be obtainable. Not mythical.
Dev Team,
You guys had an amazing release with millions of happy players/customers. Dont destroy this one.
Please …
Working as intended. Not just rings/amulets, but loot is bad. I haven’t had a decent ring upgrade in over 10 levels…
I do agree its kind of frustrating but I don’t think they should change it. It’s just the rules set for this season take it or leave it.
OMG no not casual! Heaven forbid they cater to the MAJORITY of the player base who don’t have time to be “hardcore”. 
Fine. Then, by that logic. Please give us all end game gear at level 1 and be able to solo Uber lilith. You happy now? This is your idea.
LOL. One of the reasons I stopped playing POE was i coud not stand the fact of having to have the right color sockets, linking them, number of sockets etc.
Then D4 on the first season rips them off with color socketed hearts.
P.S. if your gonna rip off another game…rip off the good parts of that game…not the bad parts.
Having more restrictions and limits on gear makes the game better for everyone. What makes these restrictions even better is if they are randomly generate. -Said no one ever.
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I say this. Otherwise the game is too easy.
What exactly do you find difficult about socket colors? How are they tied to difficulty at all?
OP is upset that he got a good ring, but it doesn’t match the heart he has.
I think, on thing is missing there, there should be another tab available on the jeweler in town, where you could spend ressources (monster parts / ore / gems for exemple) to craft base jewelery like amulet with a selected affixes, this one would always be maxed roll, with threshold based on difficulty and level, the higher you are, the cheaper it is, it always would be rare and never legendary
that way you could at least try to get colors you need on rings / amu, you could even make conditions like rubies to have red slot, and so on
With more ressource you would be able to select another affix but it would be random value, that way you could get rid of giant pile of unused materials that we will never be used otherwise, and craft some missing items, it would’nt be usefull all along because of prohibitives prices
but I guess it will never happen ^^
I’m confused why you think arbitrarily making it more difficult to find upgrades equates to more difficulty.
D4 is way too easy. Having to put more hours into the easy game just to find upgrades doesn’t increase difficulty. It’s just tedious.
Finding upgrades in RPGs is what keeps people playing. If people have to spend spend 50, 60, 70 hours to find a new upgrade with the right socket color on it, the vast majority of sane people are going to quit long before they reach that upgrade.
Exactly, I’d gladly increase my odds by going to WT5 or 6 if they existed.
So making it hard to find something doesn’t mean it’s difficult???
As someone else pointed out, you’re confusing tedious and difficult. Its not hard, by any means = its not difficult. Its tedious.
Like, simp harder for bad game design so you can live this -fantasy- that you’re “hardcore”. Nothing about this game is hardcore. Literally… nothing.
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Killing a difficult boss in Elden Ring is hard and you get the dedicated drop with 100% drop chance.
Farming mid tier NM dungeons is not hard and you approach 100% after years of repetition.
In both cases you might say that getting the item is “hard” but the “difficulty” of finding items that aren’t trash doesn’t make the game itself any difficult.
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Except getting Ring Aspects is one of the biggest RNG things there is in the game almost. To find something with 3 of 4 correct Affixes, with the right color Socket, and having enough Ring Aspects banked is slim to none.
This is seasonal content and will end up expiring at the conclusion of S1. They should absolutely not have different color Sockets.
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