

This is important to remember: magical items with mods that are desired by a player should not be crafted, as crafting them erases them. However, after the crafted item is made, the ethereal or socketed condition would be gone, as crafting an item gets rid of any preexisting mods. Any magical item can be used, including Ethereal Items, or items socketed due to a magical prefix such as Mechanic's.

All crafted items are made with Magic Items as the base items, and a variety of other items (most often perfect Gems, Jewels of any kind, and specified Runes).
