Socketing Items at Larzuk Larzuk is occasionally, if infrequently, a good choice for socketing a white item. Most importantly: Items need to have a certain ilvl to be able to hold more than the minimum amount of sockets.Īs you can see here: the maximum amount of sockets for a circlet is 3. The Horodric Cube recipes only work for non-superior items, which makes superior items with less than max sockets valuable, if they have the correct number for a popular item. The socketing cost is generally cheaper, so it's one of the most frequently used enhancements even in early and mid games. You can gamble a Unique Dagger cheaply with a level 1 character. You can make a Socket Donut from a Unique Dagger, if the gold is more precious than the time (ie. Superiority is always welcome because the repair cost of Superior items is very low in ES. Of course it's better to use non secret recipes for Low Quality items. Secret recipe 16 and 17 make sockets without removing these properties. Don't use the non-secret recipe to socket that +3 Frozen Orb / +3 Blizzard / +3 Cold Mastery staff you just found. Non Secret recipes rerolls the white items, which means all Ethereality, Superiority and Low Quality are removed.

White Weapons and Armor: The recipe can make any number of sockets. Rare Gloves, Belts and Boots: The recipe makes only 1 socket.Ĭrafted/Set/Unique Weapons and Armor: The recipe makes only 1 socket.

Rare Weapons, Helms, Body Armor and Shields: The recipe makes up to 2 sockets. Of course the socket number is capped at the maximum socket number of the base item. Magic Weapons and Armor: The recipe makes up to 3 sockets.

Diablo 2 cube recipes for socketing