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[[File:Artisan-icon-socket.jpg|leftright|thumb|65px]]
Various items in Diablo III will often appear with sockets. Sockets are holes in an item that can be fitted with [[gems]] (and only gems), which add a wide-variety of bonuses to the item. There are 14 levels of gems, allowing the bonuses to grow quite large.
==Item Sockets==
[[Image:Socketing.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Sockets for gold]]
There are item sockets in Diablo III. [[Runewords]] are not returning, but gem sockets can be added to a variety of items regardless of quality of item so a rare or legendary weapon could have sockets added to it. Items types such as HelsmHelm, Bracers, Belts and Pants have been confirmed.
No {{iw|jewels jewels}} have been seen, and [[runes]] in Diablo III are for socketing into [[skill]]s, not items. Jay Wilson referred to sockets and "gem sockets" in the Gamescom [[Artisan Presentation]] video in August 2010 so perhaps that signals a definitive decision made as to what can be put into sockets.
A gem provides different stats based into which item it is socketed, for example, an emerald socketed into a shield will provide some Dexterity, whilst an emerald socketed to a helm will provide Damage Return.
* [[Boots]]
Other item types may be added, but these are all the D3 Diablo 3 team has yet confirmed.
::'''Jay Wilson: '''Not every single slot, but any item the [[blacksmith]] can add sockets to, about 6 different ones, he can do. It doesn’t matter the quality of the item. If you have legendary boots without a socket, he can add one.
::Also, sockets can appear on any type of itemitems. On D2 Diablo 2 they only appeared on white items. In D3 Diablo 3 a legendary, rare, anything, can have them. Sockets are treated like another affix.