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If you played Diablo II, then you'll understand the concept of socketed items fairly instinctively. Many of the pieces of armor that you'll find in Outland will have sockets in them, into which you can insert jewels, which we talked about in the Jewelcrafting section of the guide.
Unlike in Diablo II, though, every jewel you find is color-coded, as are all the sockets on items. You can put a jewel of any color into a socket of any color, so if you find a blue jewel and have an empty red socket, feel free to pop it in. However, most socketable items have a greyed-out stat boost. The only way to unlock and activate this stat boost is to ensure that all of the sockets on your item are paired up with jewels of the appropriate colors. If, theoretically, you found an item with three red sockets, then you'd need to find three red jewels to insert in those sockets to unlock the item's latent stat boost. You can, again, put any color jewels in these sockets, but if you use anything other than red jewels, you won't unlock the stat boost. For most items, though, these latent stat boosts are relatively minor, at least compared to the built-in stats and those you'll be netting from jewels.
Note that some jewels are multi-colored. If you find a jewel that counts as both red and yellow, it will be able to fit in a socket of either color and still count towards activating the hidden stat boost.
Also unlike in Diablo II, you can eliminate jewels from sockets after they're inserted, so you don't have to hold out for the perfect jewel for an item. If you fill up an item with jewels, then find another jewel that you'd like to put into it, go ahead and place it into a jewel slot. It'll destroy the jewel that was previously in the slot, so you won't be able to reuse or resell it, but you'll at least be able to upgrade your item with the new jewel.
In addition to jewels made through jewelcrafting (which we're going to guess are going to be relatively common on most servers), you can also find some powerful jewels on the boss monsters in some of the Outland dungeons. These are likely to be more powerful than anything that jewelcrafters will be able to create, and as such will no doubt make for some interesting loot discussions when your team gets a drop off of them.