Socketing Manastones...

[Katlan]

took me 16'ish manastones to successfully put 4/4 crit +10 gem's in my Kromede Bow. I can only imagine the pain the +6 socket draedric gear would cause somebody.... I didn't even dare try to look awesome w/ +13 crit gems in that bow cause the failure rate would have cost me about 600k+ (and +12 crit stones aren't common enough yet unless willing to pay 20k+ per stone)... at 16 breaks.. 320k'ish, not sure the +8 crit diff is worth it)

[Man0warr]

Far as enchanting goes, it seems to have a system based on the level of the stone. White = 1+. Green = 5+. Blue = 10+. Orange = 15+. The number being the level of the stone over the item (or in the case of quest rewards, the level of the quest). The higher level you take over that minimum, I guess your success increases.

I'm not so sure, my level 25 blue crafted bow is only at +3, I've had L39-42 enchants fail on it, most success seems to come from ones around level 30.

What I suspect is each successive level of enchant takes higher enchants to be successful, so when you are trying to do +1-3, use enchants closer to the level of the item, as it gets higher use higher enchants. The high level enchants don't seem to be working though.