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, defensive modifiers to armour, and caster-related modifiers to wands and staves. 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 OrbArtificer's OrbStack Size: 20Adds a Rune Socket to a Martial Weapon, wand, staff 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 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
0.2.0e	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.