People like to do this with Charms to see if they can get anything good as well as with Amulets to see if they can get one for +2 to Skills. To explain what this recipe does in a better way, it basically just rerolls the stats on an item. When you hear about gambling in Diablo 2 with Magic Items most people are probably talking about this recipe.

This process works for every type of Gem along with Skulls.ģ Perfect Gems (Any Type) + 1 Magic Item = New Magic Item of Same Type Horadric Cube Upgrading Weapons & Armor Horadric Cube Gambling for Socket Recipes

In addition to the basic recipes to upgrade your lower quality gems there are a few more recipes that use gems too that this page is going to mention. To give you an example of what I am talking about, 3 Chipped Topaz make 1 Flawed Topaz. If you want to upgrade the gem you have then you'll need 3 lower quality gems of the same type which you then place into the Horadric Cube and combine. Transmuting gems in the Horadric Cube works the same way (for the most part) as transmuting runes.

Diablo 2 cube recipes remove sockets