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 equipment such as weapons or armour or into which certain items can be placed.

Mechanics

Item sockets can hold runes, soul cores, or talismans, which add an enchantment to the item. They will 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, the item cannot be removed, but can be overwritten by another socketable item.

Sockets can be increased through the use of an Artificer's Orb. Body armours and two-handed weapons can have up to 2 maximum sockets, while other types of armour and 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 Orb, bypassing the usual limit.

Version history

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Version	Changes
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.