Item socket

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

Item sockets are slots found on equipment such as armours or martial weapons into which certain items can be placed.

Mechanics

Item sockets can hold runes or soul cores, which add an enchantment to the item. Both runes and soul cores grant offensive modifiers to martial weapons and defensive modifiers to armour. Once socketed, runes and soul cores cannot be removed, but they can be overwritten by another rune or soul core.

Sockets can be increased through the use of an Artificer's OrbArtificer's OrbStack Size: 20Adds a socket to a martial weapon or armourRight click this item then left click an armour or martial weapon to apply it.. Body armours and two-handed weapons can have up to 2 maximum sockets, while other types of armour and martial weapons can have up to 1. Some unique items have additional sockets beyond the normal limit.

An additional item socket can also be added as result of corruption, such as using a Vaal OrbVaal OrbStack Size: 20Corrupts an item, modifying it unpredictablyRight click this item then left click an item to corrupt it. Corrupted items cannot be modified again.
Shift click to unstack., bypassing the usual limit.

Version history

Version	Changes
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.