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→How to Find Socketed/Socketable Items
To find socketed items you want to kill a lot of [[monster]]s while wearing as little [[Magic Find]] % as possible.
The key is to not have any [[Magic Find]], since the more of that you have the more likely items dropped will be [[magic]]al or better ([[Rare]], [[Set]], [[Unique]]). Zero [[MF]] is best for finding socketed items, but if you can't avoid a small % bonus, it won't make much of a difference. The best characters for this are probably [[Sorc]]s for the [[Bloody Highlands]] high-level areas in hell mode and [[Javazons]] for the Cow level, where each can kill at a tremendous pace.
There are rumours of the quest reward varying the number of sockets further but these rumours are completely unfounded. Its likely that minions on a borderline area level dropped a white item that was thought to have a lower ilvl. The number of sockets from a quest reward is always the maximum possible based on the ilvl and item type (assuming its a white item).
If you need a number of sockets that [[Lazurk]] won't provide (most likely 5), then you'll have to try and the cube recipe which adds a random number of sockets or find that item with the number of sockets you want, for a specific [[RuneWord]], generally. Trade for it if you have to, or ask in games, most people don't save socketed items, so you might ask as soon as you join, say you'll make 100k for a 5-socket [[Ogre Maul]], for example, or trade more if someone drives a hard bargain. If they aren't keeping it, they'll only get 35k at most for the sale, so shouldn't be too greedy.
==Sockets by Number==
