There are some categories of items in Diablo 3. They are grouped by their quality. Almost the most valuable are Diablo 3 Legendary Items and we will explain them here.
A Legendary Item in Diablo III is highlighted in orange colour. It has a fifth level of quality and is similar to Unique items in Diablo II. You will also see that players name them Legendaries. Unlike Unique items, Legendaries have re-rollable modes so you can make them even better.
Also, Legendary Items can have affixes that normally are not allowed on that type of item (for example, Critical Hit Damage and Attack Speed on Belt, The Witching Hour). Many of them have re-rollable or non-re-rollable affixes that are unique to that item (for instance, SuWong Diviner Increases Acid Cloud Damage). Normal affixes on Legendary Items will roll significantly higher (and sometimes extremely high even compared to other Legendary Items) and amount to more than those on regular items of similar levels. Legendary Gems and Legendary Potions exist in-game as well, in addition to Legendary Equipment, that is to say.
You will see the re-rollable affixes marked in orange. There you’ll also see the margins of these rolls. Example (Gloves of Worship): Shrine effects last for 10 minutes.
Orange affixes are always Secondary, so they do not compete with Primary attributes of an item. Most of these affixes can be extracted into Kanai’s Cube. Note that all Legendary Rings and One-Handed Weapons are Unique-Equipped, meaning that a character can only equip one item of each type at a time, and even if the player manages to find two Stone of Jordan Rings, the character can still only have one equipped. However the only exception to this is that a character can still equip a pre-loot 2.0 version of that same item along with a post-loot 2.0 version of the very same item. This restriction was done to prevent characters from being too powerful.
All legendary items dropped since patch 2.0 are Account Bound, to an extent. The item will be tradeable for the next two hours of gameplay to any player that was in the same game when the item was dropped. After two hours of gameplay, the item will be bound to the player’s account permanently. Legendary items become account bound immediately if they are enchanted.
When salvaged, Legendary items will award one Forgotten Soul each. Crafting level 70 Legendary items will require two Horadric Cache materials each. Craftable Legendary items, unlike the normal Legendary items, award no Forgotten Souls, but rather one Reusable Parts, one Arcane Dust and one Veiled Crystal.
Set Items are, essentially, Legendary Items which come with additional bonuses for wearing more than one piece of the same set. In return, Set Items very rarely have unique affixes. While technically being Legendary Items, Set Items in Diablo III very rarely have unique affixes unlike Legendaries, as those are replaced with set bonuses. They can still have affixes that normally are not allowed on that item type, though.
Ancient Items are a special tier of items introduced in patch 2.1.2. These are identical to level 70 Legendary items, except that base attributes (damage or armor) and all affixes roll +30-33.3% higher values for both minimum and maximum possible rolls. An Ancient item’s increased rolls only affect base values that are expressed as absolute numbers; values expressed in % (such as Critical Hit Chance or increased damage dealt by skills) are not improved. Values related to resources (such as increased maximum Arcane Power) or yards are also not affected. As of patch 2.5, salvage rewards 3 Forgotten Souls for each Ancient Item.
Any level 70 Legendary or Set item dropped on Torment I difficulty or higher from any source will have a chance to be an Ancient item, with the chance increasing on higher levels of Torment (roughly 10% at Torment X). An item gambled from Kadala, crafted by artisans or transmuted in the Kanai’s Cube will always have a 10% chance to be Ancient, unless specifically stated otherwise.
As of patch 2.4, one can empower an Ancient Item via Kanai’s Cube: sacrificing a Legendary Gem of high rank will grant +5 primary attribute bonus per rank to the Ancient item of player’s choice.
As of patch 2.5.0, each Ancient Legendary or Set item has a much lower chance to drop as a Primal item. This does not count as different quality, and does not provide further increase to stat ranges of an item compared to Ancient items. Instead, all stats on the item (including variables in the legendary affixes) will gain perfect values: maximum possible numbers of the Ancient stat ranges. Salvaging a Primal item yields 15 Forgotten Souls.
Primal Ancients can drop from any source of Legendary item in the game, including Horadric Caches, Kadala, and Kanai’s Cube, but only after having completed at least a level 70 Greater Rift. This requirement must only be completed once per game mode (Hardcore vs. Non-Hardcore, or Seasonal vs. Non-Seasonal), which means that for Seasonal characters it will reset with every Season. However, once that requirement has been met, all characters in that game mode will benefit from it.
This is all you should know about legendary items in Diablo III.
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