

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.)
