Summary
- Diablo 4's best general Unique items offer various useful perks and affixes that aid in one's skirmishes.
- Mother's Embrace, Temerity, Fists of Fate, Ring of Starless Skies, Penitent Greaves, Andariel's Visage, Harlequin Crest, and Doombringer are among the best general Unique items in Diablo 4.
- These items provide boosts to stats, resource cost reduction, healing, critical strikes, lucky hits, crowd control, damage reduction, and more, making them highly sought after by players.
The anticipated fourth season of Diablo 4 has dropped, adding to the already vast ecosystem of Blizzard's darkly-tinged ARPG. With Season 4 bringing various changes and additions — including some new Unique items — it seemed like a good time to highlight Diablo 4's best general Unique items already established. This is drawing from a pool of countless items already released.
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These items take the form of extremely scarce and sought-after pieces of gear, which any class can utilize to instantly boost their build. Most of these items offer various useful perks and affixes that aid in one's skirmishes on some level, making these the best of the best.
Updated June 30, 2024 by Stephen LaGioia: Blizzard balanced the scales somewhat with its season 4 "Loot Reborn" update, adding loads of content and features while also simplifying key areas (namely the item/gear system) which many felt were needlessly complex. Players can now make heads or tails of item affixes more easily with the smaller, but more impactful effects that now exist.
Helltide fans were also happy to hear of the tweaks and additions made to this thrilling feature. But despite the QoL changes and more streamlined system, the game boasts a near-overwhelming amount of great items — some of them seeing a rise or fall in stock. As such, it's time to refine and flesh out this guide of the best Unique items any class can use.
11 Temerity
Pants Perfect For Potions
Like nearly all Unique items (with the exception being the Butcher's Cleaver), landing this scarce pair of pants requires much plundering through World Tier 3 (Nightmare difficulty) or higher. Players will want to fight their way through the menacing Nightmare Dungeons, and Helltides, or join with others in epic World Bosses to increase their odds of getting this gear.
This is a survivalist's piece of gear first and foremost, though tanky and offensively-tailored builds should still find the pants useful to weather onslaughts, with their potion and healing perks. Not only are overall life and healing increased by a hefty amount, but players will have a better chance to collect more potions which can be saved up for intense fights later on. This extends further, as healing beyond full health rewards players with a potent Barrier lasting eight seconds.
10 Penitent Greaves
Gliding Over All
While their stock has dropped greatly of late, the Penitent Greaves are still plain fun to use. The coveted Penitent Greaves excel in mobility and escaping danger; bringing moderate boosts in Cold resistance, movement speed, and Slow duration reduction. They reward evading by yielding an added 50 percent movement speed for one second.
They also go a "step" beyond, extending things offensively with added Crowd Control duration. But the "coup de grace" is their ability to Chill foes in their path by leaving a sleek trail of frost. Complementing this is an up to ten percent damage perk on Chilled enemies.
Players will want to focus on Helltides, and Nightmare Dungeons — and especially by picking the "Boots" reward from the Tree of Whispers — for the best chance of getting them.
9 Mother's Embrace
A Ring Of Protection And Crowd Control
Despite the long road required to obtain this Lilith-themed trinket, there are better Unique options when it comes to the ring called Mother's Embrace. Still, given that it's a guaranteed drop yielded by beating Lilith, it's worth seeking out for most players.
In addition to the overall perk of mildly boosting all stats, the item is also useful for those who favor AoE (area of effect) and Overpower Skills on hordes of foes. This is because the player is rewarded with the useful resource cost reduction if a Core Skill hits five or more enemies.
This ring is also somewhat balanced out by focusing on more direct hits too, with decent boots in Lucky Hit chance and critical strike damage.
8 Tyrael's Might
Mighty Armor In Many Aspects
While not considered to be in the overall top-tier of items, this potent chest armor is close, and its stock has risen dramatically of late. It's especially great for survivalists, as the armor brings a nice boost for all skills, triggering a divine barrage that deals ample damage when this condition is met.
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Beyond this fun perk, players are granted moderate boosts to all stats, and damage reduction in a few areas — generally speaking, as well as elemental damage.
7 Paingorger's Gauntlets
Offense And Stat-Boosting
These pain-inflicting gauntlets are quite hard to find, as players need to hunt in World Tier 3 to have a chance to pick them up, and even then, it's tough. Still, they're worth plundering for, as they can boost all stats up to a whopping 18 each. This alone would be impressive, but they're also capable of boosting basic damage nearly 40%. The DPS gets dialed up further with up to a 10% lift in attack speed and up to an 8% potential boost in dealing a critical strike.
Those who prefer non-basic skills will find an even more massive boost with the legendary affix, which brings up to a 200 % increase damage if such a skill is used, as it'll mark the enemy. Following this, players can hit the marked target with a basic skill, which triggers that skill's damage being echoed to all marked foes and brings this increased damage. This allows players to spread and pump out quite a bit of DPS on many targets.
6 Banished Lord's Talisman
A Skillful Gem In Battle
For players lucky enough to get this useful, highly-scarce amulet in World Tier 4, they'll find it quite easy to overwhelm and Overpower enemies when using skills liberally.
The jewel is essentially crafted to help players get an offensive edge on many targets, with a bump in resource generation up to 12%, a maximum of 42% Overpower damage, and a small lift for critical strike chances. Core skills are also given the ability to Overpower after merely spending a few hundred of one's primary resource.
Triggering a combination of these perks at once — critical strike and Overpower — rewards the player with up to 60% increased damage. Offensive skills are vital in Diablo 4 and frequently used, and since this amulet leans on perks in this area, it's very effective in battle.
5 Ring Of Starless Skies
Battling The Elements
This trinket truly lives up to its epic name, with various affixes that boost (or yield a chance to boost) damage in different ways. The commonly-used Core Skill damage receives a moderate boost, as does critical strikes. Meanwhile, the ring yields small chances for critical strikes and Lucky Hits as well.
The Starless Skies also shines in terms of resourcefulness, with each consecutive Core Skill trimming one's costly Resources a bit, capping at a hefty 40 percent. And this all doesn't even factor in the ring's highly potent Item Power.
4 Andariel's Visage
Poison And Power
This "Uber Unique" helm boasts sky-high armor and Item Power, while offering boosts in several key areas. Players can enjoy up to plus-18 in all stats, attack speed (up to ten percent), and a slight chance at Life Stealing.
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Poison's pesky DoT (damage over time) is also mitigated with up to 45.5 percent poison resistance, making it a good option for traversing Hawezar. The Visage even turns the poison tables around on the enemy. It offers up to a 20 percent chance to summon a strong poison nova, which hits those in the area with ample poison damage for several seconds.
3 Harlequin Crest
A Highly Resourceful Headdress
A rehash of the fan-favorite "Shako" from Diablo 2, this Ancestral helm has fast become a coveted item in the latest Diablo entry, and for good reason. Harlequin's Crest is an instant shot in the arm for virtually any build, yielding up to a 28 increase in all stats and well over 1,000 in maximum life.
This assassin's helm also thrives on an economical level, with moderate boosts to Resource generation (up to 12 percent) and cooldown reduction (up to seven percent). But the most significant boost is its damage reduction affix, which brings a whopping plus-four to all Skills.
This comes at great cost, though. Players must be at least level 85 and reside in World Tier 4 (Torment) for even a small chance to find the "Uber Unique" Harlequin Crest.
This level 85 and Torment requirement applies to Andariel's Visage as well.
2 Doombringer
An Ancient Sword That Lives Up To Its Name
This intimidating sword is quite distinct; being a potent and highly rare weapon that can be used by any class. As of now at least, the vast majority of weapons require certain classes to wield, making this one stand out. The Doombringer balances survivability with raw power, bringing hefty boosts in damage, Core Skill damage, and maximum life (the latter being up to a cool 26 percent).
The sword is an even bigger asset to Lucky Hit builds in various ways. It yields a small chance to heal, and up to a 25 percent chance to deal thousands of Shadow damage to foes in the area, while reducing their damage done by a hefty amount.