July 11, 2023: We detailed Diablo 4’s six rarest items in our uniques list.
What are all the Unique items in Diablo 4? You can find Unique items while defeating tough monsters on the higher world tier Nightmare and Torment campaign difficulties. They are as rare as they are powerful, making them the hardest to find, and hardest to catalog, items in the game.
Luckily though, we’ve been able to put many hours in Diablo 4‘s Sanctuary seeking out these hard-to-come-by items. If you’re looking to take the best Diablo 4 class into the game with your ultimate Diablo 4 build, make sure to check our extensive D4 Unique item guide before jumping in.
What are Diablo 4 Unique items?
Diablo 4 has five different rarity levels for equipment: Normal, Magic, Rare, Legendary, and Unique. By far, the rarest and most powerful of these are Unique items.
In-game, they appear as goldish brown text, not to be confused with a Legendary item’s orange hue. As their name suggests, they feature a unique effect called an affix, and have an appearance that you won’t find anywhere else. They also come with four overpowered regular affixes applied to them.
According to Blizzard, many of these items will have such powerful affixes that they will define end-game builds. Most of them correspond to a specific class. However, several Unique items can be equipped by any class.
Several aspects of Unique items are, sorry, unique. Only one can be equipped at any time. Their affixes cannot be changed and are always the same. Affixes also cannot be removed and enchanted onto other items. However, the number values of affixes can be different, along with the damage output and defense ratings. One Butcher’s Cleaver, for instance, might have higher damage per hit and a greater chance to strike fear into enemies than another. You can upgrade these four times as opposed to the standard three.
How do I get Diablo 4 Unique items?
Here’s how to get Unique items in Diablo 4:
- Clear the Cathedral of Light Capstone Dungeon on world tier two.
- Select the third or fourth world tier difficulty.
- Defeat World Bosses throughout Sanctuary, complete Nightmare Dungeons, or open Helltide chests with Aberrant Cinders.
- Repeat until a Unique item drops.
Unique items will only drop on the Nightmare and Torment world tiers, which unlock after you beat the campaign on either the Adventure or Veteran tiers. Then, you must then clear the Cathedral of Light Capstone Dungeon in Kyovashad on the Veteran tier. This dungeon is recommended for characters above level 50, so it takes a while to get to the point where Unique items will begin to drop for you.
On Nightmare and Torment, Helltide events, Nightmare Dungeons, World Boss fights, and other special enemy encounters will have a small chance to drop a Unique item. In true Diablo fashion, you will need to do defeat foes repeatedly to stand a chance of getting Unique items. The Butcher, for instance, has a low chance of dropping The Butcher’s Cleaver. Furthermore, The Butcher appears randomly in dungeons, making it a difficult item to obtain.
Expect most World Bosses to have a Unique item tied to them. Do note that this early in the game’s lifespan, we do not know if there are other methods to obtain Unique items, but we will update here if we discover them.
In addition, according to a tweet from Adam Jackson, lead class designer of Diablo 4, there is a pool of six extremely rare Unique items that require your character to be at least level 85. You can otherwise find them anywhere you’d find a regular Unique item, but they’ll always drop at 820 item power.
All Diablo 4 Unique items
Below is our ever-expanding list of Unique item locations in Diablo 4. All of the Unique items in the game were datamined by the Diablo 4 Database during the beta, thus, they’re subject to change or may not feature right now. Until we confirm otherwise, Unique items yet to be found in-game will be labeled unconfirmed. We’ve only included the Unique affix and its effect on the unconfirmed items for brevity’s sake.
Non-class-specific Uniques
Here are the non-class-specific Unique items in Diablo 4:
| Unique item | Item type | Location | Effect | Confirmed |
| Andariel’s Visage | Helm | Ultra rare random drop at Level 85+ | Up to a 15-20% chance to trigger a poison nova that applies 10,077 poisoning damage over 5 seconds to enemies in the area. | Confirmed |
| Doombringer | Sword | Ultra rare random drop at Level 85+ | Up to a 15-25% chance to deal 5,822 shadow damage to surrounding enemies and reduce their damage done by 20% for five seconds. | Confirmed |
| Fists of Fate | Gloves | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Your attacks randomly deal 1% to 200-300% of their normal damage. | Unconfirmed |
| Frostburn | Wand | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Lucky hit: Up to a 15-25% chance to freeze enemies for two seconds. | Unconfirmed |
| Harlequin Crest | Helm | Ultra rare random drop at Level 85+ | Gain 10-20% damage reduction. In addition, gain +4 ranks to all skills. | Confirmed |
| Melted Heart of Selig | Amulet | Ultra rare random drop at Level 85+ | Gain +30% maximum resource. In addition, when you take damage, drain 3-8 resource for every 1% of life you would have lost instead. | Confirmed |
| Mother’s Embrace | Ring | After the final Lilith boss fight in the campaign | If a core skill hits 5 of more enemies, 20-40% of the resource cost is refunded. | Confirmed |
| Penitent Greaves | Boots | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | You leave behind a trail of frost that chills enemies. You deal 7-10% more damage to chilled enemies. | Unconfirmed |
| Razorplate | Chest Armor | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Gain XXXX thorns | Unconfirmed |
| Ring of Starless Skies | Ring | Ultra rare random drop at Level 85+ | Each consecutive Core Skill cast reduces the Resource cost of your next Core Skill by 8-12%, up to a maximum of 40%. | Confirmed |
| Temerity | Pants | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Effects that heal you beyond 100% life grant you a barrier up to 40-80% of your maximum life that lasts for eight seconds. | Unconfirmed |
| The Butcher’s Cleaver | Axe | Defeat The Butcher when he randomly appears in a dungeon. | When you critically strike an enemy you have up to a 100% chance to fear and slow them by 40-75% for four seconds. | Confirmed |
| The Grandfather | Two-handed sword | Ultra rare random drop at Level 85+ | Increases your critical strike damage by 60-100%. The other properties on this weapon can roll higher than normal. | Confirmed |
Barbarian Uniques
Her are the Barbarian Unique items in Diablo 4:
| Unique Item | Item type | Location | Effect | Confirmed |
| Ancients Oath | Two-handed axe | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Steel Grasp launches 2 additional chains. Enemies hit by Steel Grasp are Slowed by 55 – 65% for 3 seconds. | Unconfirmed |
| Battle Trance | Amulet | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Increase Frenzy’s maximum stacks by two. While you have maximum Frenzy, your other skills gain +10 – 20% increased attack speed. | Unconfirmed |
| Fields of Crimson | Two-handed sword | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | While using this weapon, damaging at least one enemy with rupture creates a blood pool that inflicts X bleeding damage over six seconds. Enemies standing in the pool take X% increased bleeding damage. | Confirmed |
| Ghor’s Devastating Grips | Gloves | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Whirlwind explodes after it ends, dealing 50-70% of the total base damage dealt to surrounding enemies as fire damage. | Unconfirmed |
| Hellhammer | Two-handed mace | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Upheaval ignites the ground burning enemies for an additional X damage over three seconds. | Unconfirmed |
| Overkill | Two-handed mace | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Death Blow creates a shockwave, dealing 16-30% of its base damage to enemies. Enemies who die to this effect also reset Death Blow’s cooldown. | Unconfirmed |
| Rage of Harrogath | Chest armor | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Lucky hit: Up to a 20-40% chance to reduce the cooldowns of your non-ultimate skills by 1.5 seconds when you inflict bleeding on Elite enemies. | Confirmed |
| Ramaladni’s Magnum Opus | Sword | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Skills using this weapon deal 0.1-0.3% increased damage per point of fury you have, but you lose 2 fury every second. | Unconfirmed |
Necromancer uniques
Here are the Necromancer Unique items in Diablo 4:
| Unique item | Item type | Location | Effect | Confirmed |
| Black River | Scythe | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Explosion consumes up to four additional corpses around the initial corpse, dealing 122-130% increased damage and with a 21-25% larger radius per additional corpse. | Unconfirmed |
| Blood Artisan’s Cuirass | Chest armor | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | When you pick up 5-10 blood orbs, a free bone spirit is spawned, dealing bonus damage based on your current life percent. | Unconfirmed |
| Bloodless Scream | Two-handed scythe | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | When you pick up 5-10 blood orbs, a free bone spirit is spawned, dealing bonus damage based on your current life percent. | Unconfirmed |
| Deathless Visage | Helm | Unknown | Bone Spear leaves behind echoes as it travels that explode, dealing X damage. | Unconfirmed |
| Deathspeaker’s Pendant | Amulet | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Blood Surge casts a mini nova on your minions, dealing X damage. Damage is increased by 10% per target drained by the initial cast, up to 50%. | Unconfirmed |
| Greaves of the Empty Tomb | Boots | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Create desecrated ground beneath your sever specters as they travel, damaging enemies for X shadow damage over two seconds. | Unconfirmed |
| Howl from Below | Gloves | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Instead of detonating immediately, Corpse Explosion summons a volatile skeleton that charges at a random enemy and explodes. Corpse Explosion’s damage is increased by 30-40%. | Unconfirmed |
| Ring of Mendeln | Ring | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | While you have seven or more minions you gain lucky hit: up to a 10% chance to empower all of your minions, causing the next attack from each to explode for X physical damage. | Unconfirmed |
Sorcerer Uniques
Here are the Sorcerer Unique items in Diablo 4:
| Unique item | Item type | Location | Effect | Confirmed |
| Esadora’s Overflowing Cameo | Amulet | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Upon collecting crackling energy, there’s a 10% chance to release a lightning nova, dealing X lightning damage. | Unconfirmed |
| Esu’s Heirloom | Boots | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Your critical strike chance is increased by 15-25% of your movement speed bonus. | Unconfirmed |
| Flamescar | Wand | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | While channeling Incinerate, you periodically shoot embers that are attracted to enemies, each dealing X fire damage. | Unconfirmed |
| Gloves of the Illuminator | Gloves | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Fireball now bounces as it travels, exploding each time it hits the ground, but its explosion deals 65-75% less damage. | Unconfirmed |
| Iceheart Brais | Pants | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Enemies that die while frozen have an 11-20% chance to unleash a Frost Nova. | Unconfirmed |
| Raiment of the Infinite | Chest | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | After using teleport, close enemies are pulled to you and stunned for 2-3 seconds, but teleport’s cooldown is increased by 20% | Unconfirmed |
| Staff of Endless Rage | Staff | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Every third cast of Fireball launches two additional projectiles. | Unconfirmed |
| Staff of Lam Esen | Staff | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Charged bolds pierce but deal 30-40% less damage. | Unconfirmed |
Rogue Uniques
Here are the Rogue Unique items in Diablo 4:
| Unique item | Item type | Location | Effect | Confirmed |
| Asheara’s Khanjar | Dagger | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Hits with this weapon increase your attack speed by +4-6% for four seconds, up to X. | Confirmed |
| Condemnation | Dagger | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Your core skills deal 20-40% increased damage when spending three combo points. Your basic skills using this weapon have a 30% chance of generating three combo points. | Unconfirmed |
| Cowl of the Nameless | Helm | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | You gain 15-25% increased lucky hit chance against crowd-controlled enemies. | Unconfirmed |
| Eyes in the Dark | Pants | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Unless it hits a boss or player, Death Trap will continue to re-arm itself until it kills an enemy. However, Death Trap’s cooldown is increased by 15-30%. | Unconfirmed |
| Grasp of Shadow | Gloves | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Damaging a vulnerable enemy with a Marksman or Cutthroat skill has a 20-30% chance to summon a Shadow Clone that mimics your attack. | Confirmed |
| Skyhunter | Bow | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | The first direct damage you deal to an enemy is a guaranteed critical strike. If you had maximum stacks of the precision key passive when you cast the skill, gain 5-25 energy, this can only happen once per cast. | Unconfirmed |
| Windforce | Bow | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Hits with this weapon have up to a 10-20% chance to deal double damage and knock back the target. | Unconfirmed |
| Word of Hakan | Amulet | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Your Rain of Arrows is always imbued with all imbuements at once. | Confirmed |
Druid Uniques
Here are the Unique items for Druids in Diablo 4:
| Unique item | Item type | Location | Effect | Confirmed |
| Greatstaff of the Crone | Staff | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Claw is now a storm skill and also casts Storm Strike at 120-150% normal damage. | Unconfirmed |
| Hunter’s Zenith | Ring | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events |
Gain a bonus when you kill with a shapeshifting skill: Werebear: Your next non-ultimate Werebear skill costs no resource and has no cooldown. Werewolf: Your next Werewolf skill will heal you for X when damage is first dealt. |
Unconfirmed |
| Insatiable Fury | Chest armor | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Werebear form is now your true form, and you gain +2 ranks to all Werebear skills. | Unconfirmed |
| Mad Wolf’s Glee | Chest armor | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Werewolf form is now your true form, and you gain +2 ranks to all Werewolf skills. | Confirmed |
| Storm’s Companion | Pants | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Your wolf companions are infused with the power of the storm, dealing lightning damage and gaining the Storm Howl ability. | Unconfirmed |
| Tempest Roar | Helm | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Storm skills have up to a 15-25% chance to grant four spirit. Your base storm skills are now also Werewolf skills. | Unconfirmed |
| Vasily’s Prayer | Helm | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Your Earth skills are now also Werebear skills and fortify you for X. | Unconfirmed |
| Waxing Gibbous | Axe | World Boss/Nightmare Dungeon/Helltide events | Gain stealth for two seconds when killing enemies with shred. Breaking stealth with an attack grants ambush which generates critical strikes for 1-2.5 seconds. | Unconfirmed |
And…breathe. While there are a lot of Unique Diablo 4 items to find throughout your adventure, there are also plenty of opportunities for them to drop, including dungeons and during the Diablo 4 ending. Before you head out around Sanctuary, though, you’ll want to ensure you’re as well-prepared as possible for those higher world-tier difficulties.