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Help with shields/runewords

Hi,

I recently started after 5 years or so but I never ever made a runeword in Diablo yet. I am confused as to which items to socket and which runeword to pick.

I am playing a lightning javelin amazon. Due to the graces of some good people both on here and in game, I have a good weapon and helmet. But I need to work on my other gear.

I read a guide and it said to use a runeword for shield or a unique shield.

So my choices are:

Rhyme
Spirit
Moser's Blessed Circle
The Ward
Tiamat's Rebuke

I was wondering which would be best considering I want resistances mainly since I want to do nightmare mode. I don't have much in means of trading except for a unique weapon but which would be good to use and easily get?

Also when you are socketing runes in an item, do you socket in any regular item or do you try to find better stuff to socket in?

Thank you.