If you want lower quality items, look in lower level areas.Īs you mentioned, having a low Magic Find will increase the number of Non-Magical (white) items that you find which is important if you want to use runewords on them. If you want to find high quality items with open sockets (or without sockets if you are planning to add them later), the best thing to do is kill high level ( Hell difficulty) monsters and hope for a good drop. Note that if you want to make runeword items, you can only make runewords using non-magical (white) items (no unique, rare, set, crafted, or magic items). To the best of my knowledge, there is no specific area/monster(s) that drop more class-specific items instead of regular items. Note that you cannot add additional sockets to an item that already has sockets. It is possible to create socketed items from non-socketed items. The drops are completely random, but I've included some tips below.
There is no surefireway to find socketed items via drops. ( Everything written here applies to both regular and class-specific items.)
