How can you add sockets on objects in Diablo 2 Resurrected
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Some Diablo II items have sockets that can be magically infused gems jewels or runes can be placed in order to impart their magical powers on the item. These items do not provide any bonuses to the player.
Solcked Items can be difficult, mainly in the number of sockets and how to include sockets on existing items. There are three Cube methods to add them and the socket quest in Act V. Also items can be created with a different number of sockets. And the amount of sockets will depend on the monster that drops them, the item type and more.
You can never add sockets to items which already contains one or more sockets. This is true for any recipe or quest reward. There is a limited exception to this, the 3 chipped gems plus 1 recipe for a magical weapon that creates a unique weapon with new properties , and 2 sockets. This doesn't add sockets to the weapon, however because it's rolling up new mods to the weapon, which is essentially random.
Rare, Set, Unique, Crafted Items
The quest for sockets will add 1 socket to each of these types. Rares might appear with 2 sockets using the Mechanic's prefix, and some sets and uniques have at least one socket inherently and aren't able to have more sockets added. It is not possible to have more than one socket using the socketing quest on each of the items.
Rare items also come with sockets added through a Horadric Cube Recipe. This will require one Stone of Jordan + 3 Perfect Skulls plus one rare item. It's basically the same as adding the Rare item into the quest to socket it. It's not a possibility to use for items with sockets already.
Magical Items
Magical objects can have up to 4 sockets, based on prefixes used and the item's type as well as the item's type. You cannot add more sockets to an item that already contains one. For magical objects that do not have sockets, utilizing them in the quest reward for sockets will give you 1 or 2 sockets that are randomly selected.
Chipped Gems
There is a recipe to make magical weapons.
3 gems with chippings plus one magical weapon = magical weapon of the same kind with 2 sockets and an level of 25 for the item.
This results in a magical, socketed weapon that can be used again using chips, regular or perfect gems as often as you'd like. Weapons with sockets that cannot be used (like throw weapons) won't get any socket and those with a limit of one socket (like daggers or wands) have no chance for two sockets. The issue of possible affixes (or rewards to single abilities on orbs, wands, etc.) is beyond the scope for this post. It follows the typical rules of generating magical items. Refer to this tutorial on Item Generation Tutorial for details.
Normal Items
Normal items can have from 1 to 6 sockets. The number of sockets an item can have is up to the player in the case of most types of items however, the maximum can be restricted by the level of the monster who drops the item. It also depends on the item's type and when it comes to naturally spawning sockets , the difficulty level. They can only naturally appear with three sockets when they are on normal difficulty. 4 sockets on nightmare, and six sockets on hell. This restriction is only applicable to sockets that spawn by nature, not ones that are added via the cube recipe, or the socket quest. Take a look at the master table below and the specific Armor or Weapons pages for more information about how many sockets are available for specific types of items.
It is important to note that the number of sockets you get from the quest to find sockets isn't determined by the difficulty level and only by the level of the item which is determined by the amount of mlvl the monster drops the item. Your Clvl as well as the difficulty level of the quest reward has nothing to do with the number of sockets that you can get. You can take advantage of the Normal quest reward with the Crystal Sword and get 6 sockets, or you can use the Hell quest reward and earn 3sockets, based on the ilvl . of the swords that you are using.
There are rumors about the quest reward varying the amount of sockets. However, these rumours are not true. It's possible that minions on the borderline level dropped a white product that was thought to have the lowest ilvl. The number sockets of the quest reward is the highest amount of sockets that are possible based upon the item's ilvl and type (assuming it's an item with a white colour).
If you require a certain number of sockets Larzuk won't provide, then you'll have to look into the cube recipes which adds an undetermined number of sockets or locate the item with the number of sockets you need. The recipe for cubes has the same chance of adding one to 6 sockets to an item, with any socket count that exceeds the maximum sockets available being reduced to the maximum. The socket recipe for low-quality items.
Trade for it if you must, or inquire to trade it for in games. The majority of players don't keep socketed items in their inventory Therefore, you may want to make a request as soon as you join. You could say that you'll earn 100k on a 5-socket Ogre Maul as an example and then trade for more if someone drives a hard bargain. If they decide not to keep it, they'll receive 35k or less for the sale, so shouldn't be too reckless.
How to Obtain Socketed/Socketable Items
To find socketed items you must kill numerous monsters wearing as much Magic Find % as possible.
The key is to make sure you don't have an unintentional Magic Find, since the greater the amount of them you have, the more likely that the items you drop will be more magical or superior (Rare, Set, Unique). Zero MF is best for getting socketed items, however, even if you're not able to get some small percentage bonus however, it will not make much of any difference. The best characters to use for this scenario are likely Sorcs for the higher-level areas in hell mode, as well as Javazons that are for the Cow stage, where each can be killed at a rapid pace.
You want to be in the biggest multi-player game as you can. As such, more items will fall in the game, but this isn't always done too much. If you don't possess a power character and you're taking more time to kill the 8-player mode, you could fall to a 3 or 4 player and still get lots of items drop, all the but you'll be killing much more quickly that you actually get more items than taking twice as long in an 8 player game.
How to Unsocket an item
There's good news as well as bad news. Good news is that that you are able to remove gems, ranes and jewels socketed into an item. The downside is that you will lose the runes, gems and jewels but you will not lose the object, which means you are free to socket it once more.
To remove objects from sockets, put the following into the Horadric Cube:
1 Hel Rune and Scroll of Town Portal + Your Socketed Item
Cube Recipes
Many Cube Recipes were included in v1.10 to create socketed objects. Players are now able to transform objects of low quality into basic quality (white) items which are able to be socketed by the quest to socket, or through a cube recipe.