Highlights
- 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 second season of Diablo 4 has dropped, adding to the already vast ecosystem of Blizzard's darkly-tinged ARPG. With Season 2 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 in order 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.
8 Mother's Embrace
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.
7 Temerity
Like nearly all Unique items (with the major 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, 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.
6 Fists Of Fate
These gloves are quite "unique" in more ways than one. Their affixes, which rely heavily on chance, may turn some players off. Yet those who like to roll the dice so to speak and lean on Lucky Hits with their build will want to seek out the aptly named Fists of Fate.
These gloves have a chance to bring several perks on the offensive and defensive end, with moderate boosts in healing and restoring some resources, as well as Daze and Immobilize chances. With this single item, players are given great opportunities to gain an edge on baddies — provided their builds are laced with Lucky Hit chances.
Even those that don't utilize Lucky Hits, however, can take advantage of some randomly tacked-on damage with a whopping 300 percent ceiling.
5 Ring Of Starless Skies
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.
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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 Penitent Greaves
These boots are particularly rare; being useful on a practical level while also simply fun to use and admire. 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, Nightmare Dungeons — and especially by picking the "Boots" reward from the Tree of Whispers — for the best chance of getting them.
3 Andariel's Visage
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.
2 Harlequin Crest
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.
1 Doombringer
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.
