what is the best way to obtain good items?

[The Mandarin Skyrush]

so i started playing a new character, after stopping playing this game for almost 2 years. once again, i realized how fun this game is. anyway, right now i just finished act 3 with my new character, and im at the high gate. however, i'm in a desperate need of new weapons. currently the weapons which I possess have too few sockets, i must acquire better weapons which come with more sockets to utilize all the gems i have.

[Lagwin1980]

Craft more socket onto the item(assuming their item level is high enough)

Other than that...divination cards (google search poe divination cards) which have set areas to farm and once you get the required amount of cards you can trade it in for an item( not all fo which are going to be good, magic and rares)

Or maybe find an area and grind.

Though really if you are in act 4's town normal? then i'd just use some jewelers orbs and some fusings, particularly if you have been doing the masters quests and have their crafting benches

[falk]

First two difficulties are a cakewalk, so just rush through to the 3rd difficulty, end of act 3, and start doing maps. Most things you are going to find before that, are usually not as good as what you´ll find when you do maps. Except for some uniques of course.

[Lagwin1980]

Originally posted by Kidoh:

First two difficulties are a cakewalk, so just rush through to the 3rd difficulty, end of act 3, and start doing maps. Most things you are going to find before that, are usually not as good as what you´ll find when you do maps. Except for some uniques of course.

Maps are not the be all and end all, you don't get better items from them...you just get to control a bit of how much drops and if you get more magic/rare/unique items.

You could easily find good items just farming areas...the only problem there is that the drops can't be altered outside a magic find build