Item socket

This page is about sockets on equipment. For other uses, see Socket.

Item sockets (also known as rune sockets) are slots found on weapons and armour into which socketable items can be placed to provide additional bonuses for equipping the item.

Mechanics

Item sockets can hold socketable items which add an enchantment to the item. Socketable items typically grant offensive modifiers to martial weapons, caster-related modifiers to wands and staves, minion-related modifiers to sceptres, and defensive modifiers to armour. Once socketed, a socketable item cannot be removed, but it can be replaced by another socketable item.

Socketable items

There are several types of socketable items, which can be placed into item sockets in any combination.

• Runes - can drop anywhere.
  • Exclusive runes can only be found in The Phaaryl Megalith unique map.
• Soul cores - obtained as rewards in the Trials of Chaos.
• Talismans - can drop from Azmerian wisp-possessed monsters.
• Abyssal eyes - obtained as rewards in the Abyssal Depths. Limited to 1 Abyssal eye.

Adding sockets

Sockets can be added to equipment through the use of Artificer's OrbsArtificer's OrbStack Size: 20Adds a Rune Socket to a Martial Weapon, wand, staff or ArmourRight click this item then left click a Martial Weapon, wand, staff or Armour to apply it. up to a limit. By default, body armours and two-handed weapons can have up to two sockets, while other types of armour and weapons can have up to one. Quivers and jewellery cannot have any sockets.

Exceptional items

In high level areas, normal and unique (including boss drops) rarity items have a very low chance of generating with an additional socket; these items will state "Exceptional" next to the base type until it is upgraded/identified. Note that this temporary affix is shared with items that drop with 21-30% quality above the default maximum of 20.

Some unique items may also have additional sockets beyond the normal limit, such as Morior InvictusMorior Invictus
Grand RegaliaArmour: 135
Evasion: 123
Energy Shield: 46
Movement Speed: -4.0%Requires Level 65, 41 Str, 41 Dex, 41 Int(200–300)% increased Armour, Evasion and Energy Shield
<3 random socket modifiers>
Has 4 Rune Sockets (Hidden)The Unblinking Eye did not cower and wail.
They stood against the end.. An additional item socket can also be added as result of corruption, such as using a Vaal OrbVaal OrbStack Size: 20Modifies an item unpredictably and Corrupts itRight click this item then left click an item to corrupt it. Corrupted items cannot be modified again., bypassing the usual limit. The additional sockets from exceptional items, hidden item modifiers, and corruption can stack, though the number of sockets cannot exceed the number of item slots the item takes up in the inventory.

Version history

Version	Changes
0.3.0	Items that can have a maximum of 2 Sockets now have a very low chance of generating with 3 Sockets in high tier Maps. Items that can have a maximum of 1 Socket now have a very low chance of generating with 2 Sockets in high tier Maps.
0.2.0f	Sceptres can now have sockets, and we've added a new set of Talisman modifiers for Sceptres to allow upgrades to your Minions at mid to late game.
0.2.0e	We have now finished adding all of the mods to runes for caster weapons. Desert, Glacial, Storm, Iron, Body, Mind, Rebirth, Inspiration, Stone and Vision runes all now work on Wands and Staves, with their own set of modifiers.
0.1.1	Socketables such as Runes can now be overwritten by placing another socketable item into the socket.
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.