'''==Rare/, Set/, Unique/, Crafted Items''': The Socketing quest adds 1 and only 1 Socket to any of these types. Rares may spawn with 1-2 sockets from the Mechanic's prefix, and some sets and uniques have sockets inherently, and can't have more added. You will never get more than 1 socket added using the socketing quest on any of these items. Rare items can also have a socket added by a [[Cube_Recipes| Horadric Cube Recipe]]. This requires 1 Stone of Jordan + 3 Perfect Skulls + One Rare Item. It's basically the same as putting that Rare item in the socketing quest reward. It can't be used on an item with sockets already.==
The Socketing quest adds 1 and only 1 Socket to any of these types. Rares may spawn with 1-2 sockets from the Mechanic's prefix, and some sets and uniques have 1 or more sockets inherently, and can't have more added. You will never get more than 1 socket added using the socketing quest on any of these items.
'''Magical Items''': Magical Rare items can also have a socket added by a [[Cube_Recipes| Horadric Cube Recipe]]. This requires 1-4 sockets, depending on the prefixes and Stone of Jordan + 3 Perfect Skulls + One Rare Item. It's basically the same as putting that Rare item type, and you can never add more to those. For magical items without sockets, using them in the socket socketing quest reward will add 1 or 2 sockets, with equal chance at either. Itcan's entirely luck if you get 1 or 2 t be used on them, so cross your fingersan item with sockets already.
'''Chipped Gems''': There is a recipe for magical weapons. 3 chipped gems + ==Magical Items==Magical items can have 1 magical weapon = magical weapon of -4 sockets, depending on the prefixes and the same item type, with 1-2 and you can never add more sockets and to an item level of 25. This results in a magical, socketed weapon that can be rerolled again with chipped, normal already has one or flawless gems as many times as desiredmore. Weapons which cannot have For magical items without sockets (like throwing weapons) won't get any , using them in the socket and those with a maximum of quest reward will add 1 socket (like a few daggers and wands) have no chance for two of them. The issue of possible affixes (or bonuses to single skills on wands, orbs etc.) is beyond the scope of this article. It follows the normal rules for the generation of magical items2 sockets, see the [[Item Generation Tutorial]] for detailsselected randomly.
===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 ==Chipped Gems== There is to not have any [[Magic Find]], since the more a recipe for magical weapons. * 3 chipped gems + 1 magical weapon = magical weapon 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 % bonussame type, it won't make much of a difference. The best characters for this are probably [[Sorc]]s for the highwith 1-level areas in hell mode 2 sockets and [[Javazons]] for the Cow an item level, where each can kill at a tremendous paceof 25.
This results in a magical, socketed weapon that can be rerolled again with chipped, normal or flawless gems as many times as desired. Weapons which cannot have sockets (like throwing weapons) won't get any socket and those with a maximum of 1 socket (like a few daggers and wands) have no chance for two of them. The issue of possible affixes (or bonuses to single skills on wands, orbs etc.) is beyond the scope of this article. It follows the normal rules for the generation of magical items, see the [[Item Generation Tutorial]] for details.
You want to be in as big a multi-player game as possible, so more items will drop, though this can be taken too far. If you don't have a power character and it's taking you much longer to kill in an 8-player, you could drop down to a 3-5 player and still have lots of items dropping, while killing so much faster that you actually got more items than you would taking twice as long in an 8 player game.
==Normal Items==
'''Normal Items''': Normal items can have from 1-6 sockets. How many a given item can get is random for most item types, but the maximum is always limited by the [[mlvl]] of the monster that drops the item, item type and in the case of naturally spawning sockets the difficulty level. Items can only naturally spawn with a maximum of 3 sockets on normal difficulty, 4 sockets on nightmare and 6 sockets on hell. This limitation only applies to sockets that are spawn naturally, not ones which are added through the cube recipe or socket quest. Check the master table below, or the individual [[Armor]] and [[Weapon]]s pages for info on how many sockets are possible on given item types.
The number of sockets from the [[socket quest]] is not affected by the difficulty level, only by the [[ilvl]] of the item, which is based on the [[mlvl]] of the monster that drops it. '''Your [[Clvl]] and the difficulty level of the quest reward has nothing to do with the number of sockets you get.''' You can use the [[Normal]] quest reward on a Crystal Sword and get 6 sockets, or the [[Hell]] quest reward and get 3, depending on the ilvl of the swords used.
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.
==How to Obtain 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 high-level areas in hell mode and [[Javazons]] for the Cow level, where each can kill at a tremendous pace.
You want to be in as big a multi-player game as possible, so more items will drop, though this can be taken too far. If you don't have a power character and it's taking you much longer to kill in an 8-player, you could drop down to a 3-5 player and still have lots of items dropping, while killing so much faster that you actually got more items than you would taking twice as long in an 8 player game.
===Cube Recipes==
Several [[Cube Recipes]] were added in v1.10 to make socketed items. Players can now turn low quality items into base quality (white) items which can be socketed via the socketing quest, or via a cube recipe.
==Sockets by Number==
The master list, with items sorted by Ilvl and alphabetically.
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