Compendium
Named, one-of-a-kind items with fixed stats (values at item level 1–20) and one or two powers that change how you play. You can channel 1 from level 5, 2 from level 10, 3 from level 20. Where they drop: Your first boss kill at level 5+ (a weapon for your class) · any foe from level 10 (bosses and elites far more often) · first kills of the Act III–V finales · rarely a Mystery Cache · Tavern Unique Contracts.
Line Breaker. Basic attacks sweep a wide arc, hitting every foe in front of you for 60–75% damage.
“Carried by a sergeant who held a bridge alone until the bridge gave out first.”
Deferred Wounds. You take 50% of each hit later, bled out over 5s. Each kill forgives 85–95% of what you still owe.
Answer in Kind. When struck, you answer with a free Whirlwind at 180–210% damage. Once every 3s.
“Every blow it took, it wrote down. Every debt, it collected.”
Eye of the Gale. Whirlwind becomes a storm that follows you for 4s, hitting for 62–72% damage twice a second. Its cooldown is 20% longer.
Gale Force. Each foe your skills strike grants +3% attack speed and +2% damage for 5s (up to +45% and +30%).
“Nine smiths quenched it in nine winds. The ninth wind never left.”
Dawnshield. Overhealing builds a Dawnshield (up to 18–22% of max health). When it breaks, it bursts for its full value as radiant damage.
“Its bearer swore to keep the dawn. The mace took the oath more literally.”
Sunward Charge. Radiant Charge hits for 200–230% damage, recharges twice as fast and leaves a trail of light that charges again 0.6s later.
Shared Faith. Shield of Faith also wards every ally within 5 tiles and lasts four times as long.
“The court met at noon, sentenced at noon, and carried out its sentences at noon.”
Lanternlight. A lantern of judgment hangs over you: foes within 2.5 tiles are Vulnerable.
Hour of Judgment. Every 8s in battle, pillars of light fall on the 3 nearest foes for 60–75% weapon damage.
“A hammer with a lamp in its head, for a war fought entirely after dark.”
Returning Edge. Basic attacks throw the knife 5 tiles and back, cutting every foe it passes, both ways, for 20–28% damage.
“The other eight are in the backs of people who laughed at a thief with one knife.”
Brimming Venom. Poisoned stacks up to 12 times on foes you poison (instead of 5).
Venom Bloom. A poisoned foe that dies bursts, passing all its Poisoned stacks to foes within 6 tiles.
“Wound with spider silk and dipped in something the spider was afraid of.”
Three Tomorrows. Your dashes hold 3 charges.
Parting Gift. Every dash ends in a free Fan of Knives at 70–85% damage.
“Its wielder was always somewhere else a moment later — usually behind you.”
Through the Thicket. Your arrows pierce every foe in a 9-tile line, hitting each for 40–50% damage.
“Strung with a bramble that grew straight through a hunter and kept going.”
Called Rain. Every 4th arrow that lands calls a free Volley on its target at 115–135% damage.
Hunter's Rhythm. Focus no longer regenerates on its own: each basic hit gives 5 Focus and each kill 12.
“Its arrows go up. Eventually, a great many come down.”
Settle the Sights. Stand still for 1s to settle: +8–11% damage and your bolts pierce. Moving breaks it.
Mark the Quarry. Foes you Mark are also Vulnerable.
“It has never missed. It has also never been in a hurry.”
Wick and Powder. Fire Bolt explodes on impact, burning every foe within 1.4 tiles for 10–13% of its damage.
“An apprentice's first wand, lit once in a moment of panic and never put out.”
Rimebound. All your damage becomes cold, and hits have a 20% chance to Chill.
Frostfield. Fireball leaves a freezing field for 4s that deals 38–44% of its damage each second and Chills.
“Seven winters were bound into it. The eighth is still looking for a way in.”
No Such Thing as Later. Your skills (except dashes) have no cooldowns, but cost 3× as much and Spell Points regenerate a third as fast.
Marginalia. Kills refund 25–30% of the cost of the last skill you cast.
“A wand carved with a spell nobody has finished writing. It fills itself in as you go.”
Answering Flame. Your healing spells also hurl a free Sacred Flame at up to 3 foes near the ally you heal, at 180% damage.
“Its bell calls the faithful home and the wicked to account, often in the same toll.”
Ringing Hymn. Every 3s in battle a hymn rings out: 230–265% weapon damage as thunder to foes within 3 tiles; allies there heal 7% of max health.
Unending Arms. Spiritual Weapon stays until destroyed or you leave the floor, but its cooldown doubles.
“Its head is an iron hymnal. The choir it leads is mostly screaming.”
Offering. Every 10 Spell Points you spend heals you and allies within 5 tiles for 9–10.5% of their max health.
Vigil's Pace. Each ally you heal takes 1s off all your cooldowns.
“Kept by the priest who stayed awake so the whole village could sleep through the siege.”
No Remedy But Red. You can't drink potions. Your lifesteal and life-on-hit are multiplied by 2.2.
“Its owner refused every remedy but one: the other fellow's blood.”
Again!. Leaping Slam's cooldown resets whenever it kills.
Landslide. Each Leaping Slam or dash landing adds Landslide: +7–9% damage and +7% area damage for 8s (up to 5).
“The warband crossed the river on what this hammer left behind.”
Boiling Over. Rage can climb to 200%. Above 100% you deal +45–52% damage, half that above 50% (the excess drains quickly).
Pain Is Fuel. Every 1% of max health you lose grants 3.5–5.5 Rage.
“Those who carry it don't stop when they're hurt. That's when they start.”
Heckler. Each basic hit also fires a free Vicious Mockery at another nearby foe for 62–75% damage.
“Every thrust is a line of verse. Every verse is an insult.”
Encore!. Your area songs play again at the same spot 1.2s later for 54–58% damage.
Verse. Each skill you cast adds a Verse: +5% attack speed and +2% move speed for 8s (up to 8).
“Its string plays every note twice: once for the crowd, once for the dead.”
Finale. Every 4th skill you cast is a Finale: a thunder burst around you for 45–60% weapon damage.
Standing Ovation. You and allies within 6 tiles deal +8% damage and move 8% faster.
“A blade tuned to a single note, the one every song is secretly building toward.”
Roots Remember. Entangle drags every foe caught in it to its centre.
“Plant it in the ground and the roots start singing. Nobody likes the song.”
Moonchaser. Moonbeam drifts after its target instead of staying put.
Wisp-Kindling. Kills have a 40% chance to free a moon wisp (up to 3) that fires motes for 90–110% weapon damage for 20s.
“Cut from the crescent moon on a night it wasn't looking.”
One Great Beast. Your summoning skills call a single great beast instead of a pack, with 2–2.2× the health and damage.
Grove Warden. Every 15s in battle an ancient treant uproots beside you and fights for 20s.
“Every forest that ever grew remembers the tree this was cut from.”
Ripples. Your basic strikes ripple on to 2 more nearby foes for 22–28% damage.
“Strike the water once and every shore feels it.”
Through, Not Around. You move through foes. Each foe you pass through takes 320–340% weapon damage (once every 2s per foe).
Twice the Wind. Your dashes hold 2 charges.
“The monk who carried it walked through a battle line. Not around. Through.”
Stillness. 20–30% of enemy projectiles that would hit you are turned back at their shooter.
Coiled Spring. Each dodge adds a Coil (up to 5). Your next basic hit releases them as a palm burst: 22–27% weapon damage per Coil.
“At the centre of every storm is a place that does not move. This staff lives there.”
Wild Barrage. Elemental Barrage fires 5 more bolts at 195–215% damage, and every bolt seeks a foe.
“It was a perfectly ordinary wand until its owner sneezed.”
Spectrum. Each cast turns your element: fire, then cold, then lightning. Hits have a 60–67% chance to Burn, Chill or Shock to match.
Refraction. Skills have a 22% chance to cast twice.
“Light goes in whole. What comes out has opinions.”
Heat. Sorcery Points become Heat: casting builds it, time cools it. +12–13.5% damage per 10% Heat. Full Heat: a 500% nova, then Silenced 1s.
“The blood of storms does not run in the veins. It runs hot, then it runs out.”
Forked Pact. Eldritch Blast leaps on to 1 more foe.
“Signed in ink, sealed in blood, and very much still binding.”
Imp Tithe. Kills have a 11–14% chance to call an imp (up to 4) that fights for 15s.
Brief Lives. Your summons explode when they die for 65–85% weapon damage within 2 tiles.
“A knife that speaks for your patron. It never says please.”
Event Horizon. Hunger of the Void moves with you and drags foes toward its heart.
Void Debt. Short on Pact Magic? Skills take the rest from your health: 0.8–1.2% of max health per missing point.
“Look into the glass and something on the other side looks back, hungrily.”
Homeward Bone. Bone Spear flies back to you after reaching its range, skewering everything again.
“It opens every tomb. It also opens whatever's standing between you and the tomb.”
The Flock. You can keep 6 more of each kind of summon.
Shepherd's Call. Below 70% health, your nearest summon crumbles to heal you for 95–100% of max health. Once every 10s.
“A shepherd's crook for a flock that follows you home no matter how many times you bury it.”
Ink of the Vein. Your skills cost health instead of Essence (0.4% of max health per point) and deal +45–52% damage.
Red Harvest. Each kill feeds the quill: +3% skill damage and +3% lifesteal for 8s (up to 10).
“A sword that writes its contracts in the signer's own ink.”
Frozen in Dread. Foes you Frighten don't run — they freeze in terror: Stunned and Vulnerable instead.
“It tolls once for every soul it takes. It has never once been quiet.”
Oathbound Dead. Kills have a 55–65% chance to raise the fallen as a skeleton soldier (up to 8) for 60s.
Shield of the Sworn. 50% of the damage you take is split among your summons instead.
“Every soldier it cut down swore an oath on its edge. Most of them kept it.”
Not Yet. Lethal damage can't kill you: for 6s you can't drop below 1 health and you heal 65–75% of damage dealt. Once every 60s.
Ruin Rises. Dropping below 70% health casts a free Avatar of Ruin, even if you haven't learned it. Once every 15s.
“Forged to end a dynasty. It ended three, and is still hungry.”
Front-line warriors who win by standing in the worst of it: Fighter, Barbarian, Dread Knight. Worn by Fighter, Barbarian, Dread Knight.
Ram's Landing. Your dashes end in a quake: 660–740% weapon damage around you, Stunning foes for 1s.
“The ram never went around a wall in its life.”
Scars. Hits taken add Scars: +10% damage reduction, +60% thorns each (up to 20). Your dashes release them: 95–100% weapon damage per Scar.
“Every dent is a story. None of them end well for the other fellow.”
The Sentence. Basic attacks execute ordinary foes below 40% health.
Next!. Kills have a 50–60% chance to reset your shortest running cooldown.
“They have never needed a second swing.”
Juggernaut. You can't be slowed, Rooted or knocked back, and walking into foes shoves them aside for 110% weapon damage.
Aftershock. Every 4s in battle the ground breaks around you: 200–220% weapon damage within 2.5 tiles, Stunning foes for 1s.
“Worn by a warlord who considered 'the way is blocked' a personal insult.”
Rally to Me. You and allies within 6 tiles deal +50–60% damage and take 30% less damage.
“A regimental banner cut down into a cloak by the last soldier standing.”
Unmoving. You can never dodge, but gain +30–38% max health, +60% control resistance, 6% damage reduction and 85 health regeneration.
“A mountain does not step aside. It does not need to.”
Breakwater. 45% chance to block 60% of a hit.
Breaker Wave. Blocking sends out a shockwave for 500–540% weapon damage that knocks foes back.
“The tide came in. The shield did not move. The tide went back out, somewhat smaller.”
Healers and wardens of light and root: Paladin, Cleric, Druid. Worn by Paladin, Cleric, Druid.
Searing Mercy. Your heals also sear foes near the ally you heal for 470–520% weapon damage and Mark them.
“On the seventh morning the light stopped asking permission.”
Martyr's Flame. Instead of dying, burst into holy flame for 360–400% weapon damage, heal allies 30%, and rise at full health. Once every 60s.
Kept Warm. Every 2s in battle the flame heals you and allies within 4 tiles for 5% of max health and burns foes for 95–105% weapon damage.
“The flame was tended for a thousand years. It will not go out just because you did.”
Transference. Your basic hits heal the most wounded ally within 6 tiles (or you) for 140–160% of the damage dealt, up to four times a second.
“Every blow they strike closes a wound somewhere else.”
Hallowed Road. You leave hallowed ground: foes on it burn for 8.5–10.5 radiant damage a second (more with level); allies on it heal 1.5% a second.
“The pilgrim never reached the shrine. The road she walked became one.”
Mender Spirits. When hit, 85–95% chance a mender spirit rises to heal you and nearby allies for 30s (up to 8). Once every 2s at most.
Hush. Foes within 3 tiles of you are Weakened.
“Woven from the quiet between one leaf falling and the next.”
Kept Vows. Each heal you cast adds a Vow: +25–28% damage and +16% skill damage for 10s (up to 5).
“Each knot is a promise. It has a great many knots.”
Sun-Guard. 35% chance to block 50% of a hit.
Judging Light. Blocking calls a pillar of light down on your attacker for 400–450% weapon damage.
“Raise it toward the dark and the dark steps back.”
Sanctuary. Dropping below 80% health raises a sanctuary (4 tiles, 4s): you and allies inside take 50% less damage. Once every 4–5s.
Unbroken Vigil. Every 2s in battle you and allies within 4 tiles heal 4% of max health, and foes there take 83–91% weapon damage.
“The saint never slept. The reliquary is just making sure it stays that way.”
Quick hands and quicker feet: Rogue, Ranger, Monk, Bard. Worn by Rogue, Ranger, Bard, Monk.
Shadowstep. Kills let you step through shadow to the next foe within 5 tiles and strike it for 660–740% weapon damage.
“You cast eight shadows. The ninth is the one that moves first.”
Something Sharp. Every dodge sprays 8 knives around you for 380–410% weapon damage each.
“Nobody has ever found the bottom of the ninth pocket. Several have tried.”
Busy Hands. Each basic hit takes 0.5–0.5s off all your cooldowns.
“The fingers move faster than the eye, and slightly faster than the owner.”
Momentum. Every tile you run adds +45–55% damage (up to +100%); once you stop, the bonus fades over 2s.
“The road never ends. That was always the point.”
Between Moments. While moving, every 1–1.2s you blink 6 tiles ahead; your first hit after a blink is a guaranteed critical hit.
“There is a second between every second. The cloak lives in it.”
Smoke and Mirrors. Potions throw smoke: allies within 5 tiles get +25% dodge for 4s; foes there take 380–420% weapon damage and are Stunned 1s.
Small Mercy. Dropping below 60% health throws the same smoke. Once every 5s.
“Twelve little vials, each one a very small miracle.”
Threefold. Every shot splits into 3 arrows in a fan for 46–54% damage each.
“Every arrow drawn from it remembers it was once three.”
The Nest Stirs. Every 6th arrow releases 3 hornet-darts that hunt the nearest foes for 75–93% weapon damage each and Poison them.
“Don't put your hand in. Just don't.”
Casters who bend resource and spell: Wizard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Necromancer. Worn by Wizard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Necromancer.
Second Thoughts. Every damaging skill you cast echoes at the same spot 1s later for 50–56% damage.
“Every mind it borrowed, it kept a little of. It is getting crowded in there.”
Starward Ward. 40–52% of the damage you take drains your resource instead (1 point soaks 3 health, more with level).
“Stitched with a constellation that only appears in the sky beneath the world.”
Last Sigil. When your resource runs low (below a third), release a nova for 480–500% weapon damage and refill 50% of it (once every 8s).
Overwritten. Your damaging skills cost twice as much and hit for 135% damage.
“Ninety-nine sigils for casting. One for when you've cast too much.”
Folded Step. Casting a skill while a foe is within 1.5 tiles blinks you 2–3 tiles away from it.
The Other Step. The step you don't take waits for you: every 1s, your next skill deals +175–205% damage.
“They take one step. You arrive two steps away. Nobody knows where the other step goes.”
Run-On Sentence. Each skill you cast adds a Sigil: +11–13% skill damage and +3% cooldown reduction for 8s (up to 6).
“A spell so long its caster died before the last word. The mantle is still saying it.”
Grimoire Familiar. A floating grimoire follows you, casting your class's first skill at the nearest foe every 2s for 400–440% damage.
“The familiar was bound into the sash. It reads over your shoulder constantly.”
Brimming. Your resource can climb to 150%; while above 100% your skills deal +135–150% damage, and half that above 50%.
“It answers six questions truthfully. Nobody has survived asking the seventh.”
Chorus. Your summons' hits trigger your legendary and unique on-hit powers at 90–110% strength.
Hollow Choristers. Every 5s in battle a hollow chorister rises beside you and fights for 20s (up to 4).
“Every page is a voice. Every voice is somebody you've raised.”
Everything Burns. All your damage becomes fire and deals 38% more, and hits have a 90–100% chance to ignite.
Wildfire. Burning foes that die pass their flames to foes within 3 tiles.
“A coal from the very bottom of the Depths. It has never once been cool enough to hold.”
The Hour Strikes. Every 2s a bell tolls: your next skill costs nothing and deals +400–450% damage.
“It tolls for whoever you point it at.”
Luck Runs Hot. Kills add Luck: +3–5% magic and gold find, +7% crit chance, +10% damage for 30s (up to 20). Elites cash in 1 item per 5 Luck.
“Its last three owners each won everything. Briefly.”
Twin. Every 5s in battle a mirror twin steps out of you for 10s, repeating every skill you cast at 140–160% power.
“One of the twins was lost to a mirror. The ring decides which one you are.”
Tangled Curses. Every status you inflict adds a random one (once a second per foe): Burning, Shocked, Poisoned or Bleeding, at 12–15% weapon damage.
Crossed Sparks. Skill hits have a 35% chance to throw sparks around you: 120% weapon damage, Shocking foes. Up to twice a second.
“A ring that can't keep its curses straight — which is exactly why it works.”
Undertow. Every 5th basic hit opens an undertow that drags foes within 3.5–5 tiles to your target and hits them for 170% weapon damage.
“Found on a drowned sailor's finger, still pulling.”
Rewind. Lethal damage rewinds you to where you stood, with the health you had, 4 seconds ago. Once every 60–70s.
“Everyone who wore it lived four seconds longer than they should have. Several times.”
