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As far as I know, there's no easy way. Larzuk will always put a maximum of 4 sockets in these shields. It might disappoint you if you get a wrong roll, but cubing seems to be the only way.
 
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my friend say to me, that the probability to open 4 sockets its hight, and if i cube in normal, the max. i get its 3 socks; he say to me to go to normal and cube, its that right ?
 
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I'm not sure about this, but if you do the cubing or larzuk in normal with a very low level char, 3 sockets is the max.

Don't take my word for it though, ask someone who knows for sure
 
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All paladin shields have a strict maximum of four sockets.

If the shield has an ilvl between 1 and 25 inclusive (it was dropped by a low level monster), then it will have three sockets as a maximum. Larzuk will always give an item its maximum number of sockets, regardless of difficulty or character level.

list of max sockets: http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Sockets

Your kurast shield almost surely has an ilvl greater than 25, so its maximum is 4 sockets. Larzuk (any larzuk) will give it 4 sockets. If you socket it in the cube, it has a 1/6 chance for 1 socket, a 1/6 chance for 2, a 1/6 chance for 3, and a 1/2 chance for 4. It doesn't matter where you do the socketing or what level the character is.

BTW, if wouldn't put any hrs in a shield with less than 40 res. And I'd try to get one with 42+.
 
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If you're willing to spend an hr on it already, try trading for a decent one.

Another option:

Pickip/buy a few cracked/damaged/low-quality paladin shields. Repair them in the cube with shield+el+chippie; when you repair, the defense is rerolled, the resists are rerolled, and the ilvl is reset to one - so it will get 3os from larzuk. The only problem is that you may have to repair a lot of shields before you get one with a good res mod.

Dream has a low +ed% mod and gives +150 to +220 defense, so the defense on the shield doesn't matter too much.
 
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SnickerSnack said:
If you're willing to spend an hr on it already, try trading for a decent one.

Another option:

Pickip/buy a few cracked/damaged/low-quality paladin shields. Repair them in the cube with shield+el+chippie; when you repair, the defense is rerolled, the resists are rerolled, and the ilvl is reset to one - so it will get 3os from larzuk. The only problem is that you may have to repair a lot of shields before you get one with a good res mod.

Dream has a low +ed% mod and gives +150 to +220 defense, so the defense on the shield doesn't matter too much.
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The maximum amount of res or ED from paladin shield automods is determined by the shield's ilvl, so you'd never get one with good res using the repair method.



 
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