I just took a crystal sword dropped from normal cows (found in private game) to larzuk and only 3 sockets wtf!

should not have happened, area level and monster levels are in the range to grant the correct ilvl for 4 sox. suspect a user error until more people report a similar problem (maybe the item was swapped with an already existing one or something, idk)

maybe you opened a chest or something and the sword popped out

alvl and mlvl are high enough so no matter if dropped from cow or from popable they will get 4
you sure it didn't drop with 3 sox already?

i think you confused urself, should always be 4

Without a vid, we will never know

Sell as base for crescent moon and buy a 4 soc one

Was confusion from using a "mod" it bugged out the sockets saying only 3 when it was in fact 4 lol. I just had to disable the mod.

screenshot or it didnt happen...

maybe s1 was trolling u and drop a sword found in a lower aeria