Socket problem

[Daimoth]

Says on arreat that if I socketed a plain broad sword, Larzuk-style, I get four sockets. I socketed a superior one (no other mod, white item, etc), in hell and got three. Why?

[evev]

I believe when it comes to Larzuk-socketing grey/white items you have something like a 50/50 chance of getting either 3 or 4 sockets.

[Nimbostratus]

I believe when it comes to Larzuk-socketing grey/white items you have something like a 50/50 chance of getting either 3 or 4 sockets.

Wrong. It always gets the max sockets for its level. The 50/50 thing is for magic items getting 1 or 2 sockets. Rare, crafted, set, and unique get 1.

The sword had too low an ilvl (item level). Get one from nightmare or hell difficulty.

[evev]

Wrong.
lolwut? (http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/281/nimbostratuswrongwp3.jpg)

OP - you might still want to hang on to that sword, although IDK if there are any 3 slot weapon runewords.

[humblegar]

Some links to OP: Sockets (http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Sockets), there is an ilvl entry for broad sword there. And there is a list of area levels here (http://strategy.diabloii.net/news.php?id=551).

Seems like you need ilvl 26+. I guess that you found it in normal.

[Daimoth]

Alright, that's helpful, folks. Didn't know that.