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Crashnburn: /* Appearance */

2019-12-28T12:25:43Z

‎Appearance

Gigaclon: Splitting out the Legendary Archive from the main page

2015-05-22T13:51:18Z

Splitting out the Legendary Archive from the main page

WitchDoctor: Formatting modifications, tweaks.

2015-01-26T05:25:08Z

Formatting modifications, tweaks.

Flux: /* The Rarest Legendary Items */

2015-01-12T15:48:05Z

‎The Rarest Legendary Items

Chapapote at 19:36, 30 December 2014

2014-12-30T19:36:52Z

Flux at 03:29, 29 December 2014

2014-12-29T03:29:47Z

Flux: /* The Rarest Legendary Items */

2014-12-29T02:17:28Z

‎The Rarest Legendary Items

Flux: /* Legendary Drop Weighting */

2014-12-28T21:14:44Z

‎Legendary Drop Weighting

Flux at 15:23, 25 July 2014

2014-07-25T15:23:55Z

Flux: /* Legendary Items List */

2014-06-02T18:16:55Z

‎Legendary Items List

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−	Ancient items look identical when ~~the~~ drop; there is no way to tell if an item has rolled ancient until it is ID'ed. Once identified, Ancient items have an orange border (green for set items) around the outside of the item tooltip, and say "Ancient" in the item name.	+	Ancient items look identical when they drop; there is no way to tell if an item has rolled ancient until it is ID'ed. Once identified, Ancient items have an orange border (green for set items) around the outside of the item tooltip, and say "Ancient" in the item name.

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 * [[Legendary 2H Swords]]: [[Cam’s Rebuttal]]
 * [[Legendary 2H Maces]]: [[The Furnace]]
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 '''Legendary''' (AKA "leg") items are the (potentially) highest quality items in Diablo 3 and Reaper of Souls. Legendary items are orange in color and announce themselves when dropped by 1) creating a loud *clang* sound effect, 2) sending up a beam of orange or green light, and 3) creating a star or asterisk icon on the minimap. [[Set Items]] are another type of legendary item and act just the same, except their beam coloration is green and they appear as an asterisk * on the minimap.
-Legendary gear (legendary or set or crafted) is designed to be [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzard-releases-diablo-3-items-blog] the top quality of gear in [[Loot 2.0]] (the system operational in [[D3v2]] and [[Reaper of Souls]]). Back in [[Diablo 3 vanilla]], rare items could spawn equivalent or better than legendaries in many slots. This is no longer true and Legendary items are now always better at the top end, when found with a good combination of [[affixes]] on the item.
+Legendary gear (legendary or set or crafted) is designed to be the top quality of gear in [[Loot 2.0]] (the system operational in [[D3v2]] and [[Reaper of Souls]])[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzard-releases-diablo-3-items-blog]. Back in [[Diablo 3 vanilla]], rare items could spawn equivalent or better than legendaries in many slots. This is no longer true and Legendary items are now always better at the top end, when found with a good combination of [[affixes]] on the item.
 Most characters wear a mixture of rare and legendary gear while leveling up, but once they reach the [[end game]] at level 70, the goal becomes finding or [[crafting]] legendary or set items for every slot, since legendaries have higher potential stat rolls, special [[legendary affixes]], and set bonus properties that make better than any Rare items can possibly be.
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 ===Frequency===
 A small % of level 70 legendary items from all sources found on Torment 1 or higher will spawn as Ancient.
-* Ancient items can come from all sources; monster or chest drops, [[gambling]], [[Horadric Cache]]s,  or [[crafting]]. (Crafting can produce Ancient, including an Ancient [[Hellfire Ring]] or [[Hellfire Amulet]].)
+* Ancient items can come from all sources; monster or chest drops, [[gambling]], [[Horadric Cache]]s, or [[crafting]]. (Crafting can produce Ancient, including an Ancient [[Hellfire Ring]] or [[Hellfire Amulet]].)
 * The odds increase on higher levels of Torment, from around 1.5% on Torment 1 up to 10% on Torment 6 (from monster drops).
 ** It's not yet known how the odds of an item being ancient are set for Gambling or Crafting, since if they were tied to difficulty level, players would just create Torment 6 games to do their gambling and crafting.
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 ===Legendary Pity Timer===
-Blizzard has tweaked the legendary drop rate repeatedly during testing, most impactfully in the "doubled it" buff noted above. The game (in D3v2 and RoS) also has a [[Pity Timer]] that ensures a player never goes more than about two hours without finding a legendary item. Travis Day spoke about it in January 2014:[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/travis-day-weighs-travis-day-weighs-in-on-reaper-of-souls-legendary-item-drop-rates]
+Blizzard has tweaked the legendary drop rate repeatedly during testing, most notably in the "doubled it" buff noted above. The game (in D3v2 and RoS) also has a [[Pity Timer]] that ensures a player never goes more than about two hours without finding a legendary item. Travis Day spoke about it in January 2014:[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/travis-day-weighs-travis-day-weighs-in-on-reaper-of-souls-legendary-item-drop-rates]
 <blue>The fact that some people claim to go for 10+ hours without finding a legendary is not only not our intent, but should in fact be impossible. We added a system in the expansion that tracks the amount of time you spend fighting creatures without finding a legendary and after a certain period of time will slowly start increasing the legendary drop rate. Once a legendary drops for you, actual item not crafting recipe or material, we reset that timer. This is meant to be a safety net so that the random can never be too extreme to the negative end. If players are legitimately going 18+ hours and not seeing a legendary it’s possible that there are some bugs floating around that need to be identified.
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 <blue>First the clarification, the timer system that works behind the scenes is meant to be exactly that, behind the scenes. No you can’t afk the system, there are a lot of moving pieces to it and we talked about it extensively before we implemented it to guarantee its not exploitable. At it’s heart Diablo is a game about slaughtering demons and getting random cool rewards. The system that is in place should never be experienced by 99% of the population, it’s there for the 1% who just get really bad random rolls for an excessively long period of time. If we want you to get a legendary every 2 hours, the system basically says “ok it’s been like double/triple that period of time, just help the guy out!”</blue>
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 * [[Legendary 2H Swords]]: [[Cam’s Rebuttal]]
 * [[Legendary 2H Maces]]: [[The Furnace]]
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 '''Legendary''' (AKA "leg") items are the (potentially) highest quality items in Diablo 3 and Reaper of Souls. Legendary items are orange in color and announce themselves when dropped by 1) creating a loud *clang* sound effect, 2) sending up a beam of orange or green light, and 3) creating a star or asterisk icon on the minimap. [[Set Items]] are another type of legendary item and act just the same, except their beam coloration is green and they appear as an asterisk * on the minimap.
-Legendary gear (legendary or set or crafted) is designed to be[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzard-releases-diablo-3-items-blog] the top quality of gear in [[Loot 2.0]] (the system operational in [[D3v2]] and [[Reaper of Souls]]). Back in [[Diablo 3 vanilla]], rare items could spawn equivalent or better than legendaries in many slots. This is no longer true and Legendary items are now always better at the top end, when found with a good combination of [[affixes]] on the item.
+Legendary gear (legendary or set or crafted) is designed to be [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzard-releases-diablo-3-items-blog] the top quality of gear in [[Loot 2.0]] (the system operational in [[D3v2]] and [[Reaper of Souls]]). Back in [[Diablo 3 vanilla]], rare items could spawn equivalent or better than legendaries in many slots. This is no longer true and Legendary items are now always better at the top end, when found with a good combination of [[affixes]] on the item.
 Most characters wear a mixture of rare and legendary gear while leveling up, but once they reach the [[end game]] at level 70, the goal becomes finding or [[crafting]] legendary or set items for every slot, since legendaries have higher potential stat rolls, special [[legendary affixes]], and set bonus properties that make better than any Rare items can possibly be.
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 Gambling with [[Blood Shards]] is always "Smart" and characters will never get random legendary items that way.
-Prior to [[Patch 2.1.2]], all items were weighted as 1/1, 1/2, 1/5, or 1/10 odds to drop from a Smart Drop. The following items were all the rarest, at 1/10th chance of dropping. This was relative odds to other items of that type. See the Hand Crossbow drop odds in the table to the right for an example. [[Calamity]] was weighted at 1/10, [[Natalya's Slayer]] and [[K'Mar Tenclip]] were weighted at 1/2, and all the rest were 1/1 (There were no hand crossbows set to 1/5 drop rate.)
+Prior to [[Patch 2.1.2]], all items were weighted as 1/1, 1/2, 1/5, or 1/10 odds to drop from a Smart Drop. The following items were all the rarest, at 1/10th chance of dropping. This was relative odds to other items of that type. See the Hand Crossbow drop odds in the table to the right for an example. [[Calamity (Item)|Calamity]] was weighted at 1/10, [[Natalya's Slayer]] and [[K'Mar Tenclip]] were weighted at 1/2, and all the rest were 1/1 (There were no hand crossbows set to 1/5 drop rate.)
 The following items were all the rarest to drop, all set to 1/10th rarity, prior to [[Patch 2.1.2]], which boosted all the drop rates of these items to the next tier at 1/5. (One exception: [[The Star of Azkaranth]] was initially set to 1/50 drop rate, the only item with such scarcity in the entire game.)
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 * [[Legendary Swords]]: [[Rimeheart]], [[Shard of Hate]]
-* [[Legendary Hand Crossbows]]: [[Calamity]]
+* [[Legendary Hand Crossbows]]: [[Calamity (Item)|Calamity]]
 * [[Legendary Bows]]: [[Kridershot]]
 * [[Legendary Crossbows]]: [[Chanon Bolter]]

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 [[File:Legendary-drop-triple.jpg|thumb|300px|Legendary boots and 2 leg crafting plans drop.]]
-'''Legendary''' (AKA "leg") items are the (potentially) highest quality items in Diablo 3 and Reaper of Souls. Legendary items are orange in color and announce themselves when dropped by 1) creating a loud *clang* sound effect, 2) sending up a beam of orange light, and 3) creating a star icon on the minimap. [[Set Items]] are another type of legendary item and act just the same, except their beam coloration is green.
+'''Legendary''' (AKA "leg") items are the (potentially) highest quality items in Diablo 3 and Reaper of Souls. Legendary items are orange in color and announce themselves when dropped by 1) creating a loud *clang* sound effect, 2) sending up a beam of orange or green light, and 3) creating a star or asterisk icon on the minimap. [[Set Items]] are another type of legendary item and act just the same, except their beam coloration is green and they appear as an asterisk * on the minimap.
-Legendary gear (legendary or set or crafted) is designed to be[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzard-releases-diablo-3-items-blog] the top quality of gear in [[Loot 2.0]] (the system operational in [[D3v2]] and [[Reaper of Souls]]). Back in [[Diablo 3 vanilla]], Rare items were equivalent to legendaries in many slots and could be better with a very good roll. This is no longer true and Legendary items now always better at the top end, though it can be difficult to find or craft legendaries with great rolls.
+Legendary gear (legendary or set or crafted) is designed to be[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/blizzard-releases-diablo-3-items-blog] the top quality of gear in [[Loot 2.0]] (the system operational in [[D3v2]] and [[Reaper of Souls]]). Back in [[Diablo 3 vanilla]], rare items could spawn equivalent or better than legendaries in many slots. This is no longer true and Legendary items are now always better at the top end, when found with a good combination of [[affixes]] on the item.
 Most characters wear a mixture of rare and legendary gear while leveling up, but once they reach the [[end game]] at level 70, the goal becomes finding or [[crafting]] legendary or set items for every slot, since legendaries have higher potential stat rolls, special [[legendary affixes]], and set bonus properties that make better than any Rare items can possibly be.
-Legendary items in Reaper of Souls and [[D3v2]] are all [[Bind on Account]] and can not be traded, sold, or given away except to other players in the game when the item was found. (The [[legendary trading exception]].)
+Legendary items in Reaper of Souls and [[D3v2]] are all [[Bind on Account]] and can not be traded, sold, or given away except to other players who were in the game when the item was found, or for up to 2 hours after the game ends. (The [[legendary trading exception]].)
 * All [http://diablo.incgamers.com/diablo3/items/legendary Diablo 3 news about Legendary items].

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 * See the [[Magic Find]] article for more details on changes to that property over time.
-==Legendary Drop Weighting==
+==Legendary Item Drop Tables==
-Some items drop more often than others. This was true in Diablo 1 and Diablo 2, and it's always been true in Diablo 3, though the developers have never shared the exact stats or weighting. That changed to a considerable extent in early May 2014 when [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-legendary-drop-rates-revealed Diablo.IncGamers.com revealed] the weighting for each legendary item.  The stats were allegedly leaked by a Korean site and while they were not confirmed by Blizzard, most players felt they reflected the in-game reality of which items they found more or less often.
+Some items drop more often than others. This was true in Diablo 1 and Diablo 2, and it's always been true in Diablo 3, though the developers have never shared the exact stats or weighting. That changed to a considerable extent in early May 2014 when [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-legendary-drop-rates-revealed Diablo.IncGamers.com revealed] the weighting for each legendary item, revealed via datamining by a Korean gaming site.
 The full list of more than 500 items is far too large to include in this page but can be viewed in forum posts:
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 * [http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?858144-Legendary-Drop-Rates-Data-Smart-Loot Legendary Drop Rates: Smart Loot]
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	<blue>Josh Mosquera: I come bearing exciting news. Due to the overwhelming popularity of our Anniversary buff we have decided to keep the increased Legendary drop rate once the Anniversary celebration ends. Once the buff is disabled tomorrow morning, you will find that the new base line drop rates for Legendary items will be the same as those you have all enjoyed for the last week.</blue>		<blue>Josh Mosquera: I come bearing exciting news. Due to the overwhelming popularity of our Anniversary buff we have decided to keep the increased Legendary drop rate once the Anniversary celebration ends. Once the buff is disabled tomorrow morning, you will find that the new base line drop rates for Legendary items will be the same as those you have all enjoyed for the last week.</blue>
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		+	Blizzard has tweaked the legendary drop rate repeatedly during testing, most impactfully in the "doubled it" buff noted above. The game (in D3v2 and RoS) also has a [[Pity Timer]] that ensures a player never goes more than about two hours without finding a legendary item. Travis Day spoke about it in January 2014:[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/travis-day-weighs-travis-day-weighs-in-on-reaper-of-souls-legendary-item-drop-rates]
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		+	<blue>The fact that some people claim to go for 10+ hours without finding a legendary is not only not our intent, but should in fact be impossible. We added a system in the expansion that tracks the amount of time you spend fighting creatures without finding a legendary and after a certain period of time will slowly start increasing the legendary drop rate. Once a legendary drops for you, actual item not crafting recipe or material, we reset that timer. This is meant to be a safety net so that the random can never be too extreme to the negative end. If players are legitimately going 18+ hours and not seeing a legendary it’s possible that there are some bugs floating around that need to be identified.
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		+	And before anyone responds saying TWO HOURS IS TOO LONG! let me say that we know as time goes on and we patch content or players get better gear and find better specs that will not be the reality. Higher difficulties do in fact increase your chance to find legendary items, coupled with people playing in coop also increasing the rate that everyone overall finds items, etc. Our final target is roughly in the 90 minute range for advanced players. This doesn’t factor in crafting items, trading with friends in coop or any of the other means that we already know players can use to accelerate their legendary acquisition rate.</blue>
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		+	A comment the next day confirmed that the pity timer does not run all the time and can not be exploited by standing in town. It only counts when players are triggering "could have dropped a legendary" events, such as killing monsters and opening chests.
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		+	<blue>First the clarification, the timer system that works behind the scenes is meant to be exactly that, behind the scenes. No you can’t afk the system, there are a lot of moving pieces to it and we talked about it extensively before we implemented it to guarantee its not exploitable. At it’s heart Diablo is a game about slaughtering demons and getting random cool rewards. The system that is in place should never be experienced by 99% of the population, it’s there for the 1% who just get really bad random rolls for an excessively long period of time. If we want you to get a legendary every 2 hours, the system basically says “ok it’s been like double/triple that period of time, just help the guy out!”</blue>
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+| <font size="-2"> '''Legendary Armor:'''
 * [[Legendary Amulets]]
 * [[Legendary Rings]]
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 * [[Legendary Sources]] - {{c_slate|Wizard}}
 * [[Legendary Quivers]] - {{c_slate|Demon Hunter}}
-* [[Legendary Mojos]] - {{c_slate|Witch Doctor}}
+* [[Legendary Mojos]] - {{c_slate|Witch Doctor}}</font>
+| <font size="-2"> '''Legendary Weapons:'''
 * [[Legendary Axes]]
 * [[Legendary Daggers]]
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 * [[Legendary Follower Items]]
 * [[Legendary Health Potions]]
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