Rerolling and the Horadric Cube

[The Son Of Disaster]

I'm not sure if this would work, but if I wanted to make a godly Barb weapon, lets say I have an Rare ethereal Zerk Axe (dreaming) Is there a formula for re rolling rare mods? Does it effect the Eth-ness. What about socketes? If i reroll and get mechanics or whichever is 2 sockets, does 1 go away if i reroll again, do both go? Iv never been into the Cube thing so any help would be great. This is EscNL if that effects the results/recipe
Thanks in advance for any and all info.

[Damric]

rerolling it will lose the etherealness. you will have better luck crafting magic axes into blood weapons.

[CombatShrine]

yeah
just buy magic zerker axes from larzuk and craft them with a high level char.
i forget the recipe.

[Romasm]

Could turn into a very high ed weapon, only as stated above, it will loose its etherealness (its sucky). So they cant be a runeword killer. Rares can.