His level is far too low to start making runewords, he should just focus on finding good gems and items that beef up his mana regen and life regen, try to get some armor (helms, chest armor) and fill them up with perfect skulls.
Diamonds won't work well, they're useless in 1.11, but since all the enemies in Act 4 are mostly elemental, it may be your only choice, just don't expect to be using that shield in Act 5 (you have Lord of Destruction right?) because diamond filled items are about as useless in that act as anything.
What I usually do with helms and shields is pump them with gems I see fit that I need at that time. I call them my "expendable" armor, unless I find something really good, I just keep helms and shields to up my resistences and etc. they aren't very useful articles of armor anyway, since they don't add that much to your armor rating and later on the block for the shield is completely useless.
You're in Act 4, so if you can't find perfect diamonds, fill your shield with topazes, saphires, and rubies, the three main attacks they use in Act 4 are lighting (this is Diablo's primary element) cold (Diablo uses it to some extent, and most of the mage knights too) and fire (surprisingly, Diablo uses very little of this, but most of the monsters in Act 4 use alot).
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