
These recipes randomly pick a number from 1-6 and give the item a number of sockets equal to the number picked, or as many sockets as it can hold (whichever is lowest). There are Horadric Cube recipes which will add sockets to a Non-Magical (white) item.Set Items (green), Rare Items (bright yellow), Unique Items (pale/faded yellow), and Crafted Items (orange) will all receive 1 socket.Magic Items (blue) receive 1 or 2 sockets with a 50% chance for either.
(the maximum sockets an item can hold is based on its ilvl and the item type)
Non-Magical Items (white) receive the maximum amount of sockets that they can hold. Depending on the item you use with this quest reward, it will have the following effect: This is a one time (per difficulty, so a total of three times) reward which does not have to be used immediately and can be saved for later. In Act V ( Lord of Destruction expansion), if you complete the quest Siege on Harrogath for Larzuk, he will reward you by adding socket(s) to an item of your choosing. Adding sockets to an item:Īdding sockets to an item which does not already have sockets can be achieved two ways: The higher the number designated in the chart, the higher the quality of items that will drop from those areas. To help determine where you are more likely to find appropriate quality items, refer to this chart ( a higher alvl typically means better quality loot, including higher base bonuses to class-specific items): Hell difficulty (or lower if you want lower quality items) Cow Level is good for finding socketed items because you can kill many monsters quickly (with a good character, build, and gear), and they tend to drop lots of high quality Non-Magical (white) items. If you want lower quality items, look in lower level areas.Īs you mentioned, having a low Magic Find will increase the number of Non-Magical (white) items that you find which is important if you want to use runewords on them. If you want to find high quality items with open sockets (or without sockets if you are planning to add them later), the best thing to do is kill high level ( Hell difficulty) monsters and hope for a good drop. Note that if you want to make runeword items, you can only make runewords using non-magical (white) items (no unique, rare, set, crafted, or magic items). To the best of my knowledge, there is no specific area/monster(s) that drop more class-specific items instead of regular items. Note that you cannot add additional sockets to an item that already has sockets. It is possible to create socketed items from non-socketed items.
The drops are completely random, but I've included some tips below. There is no surefireway to find socketed items via drops. ( Everything written here applies to both regular and class-specific items.)