


The odds of Ancient on an item found from a monster or chest starts at about 1% on Torment 1, and increases gradually.Ancient items can come from all sources monster or chest drops, gambling, Horadric Caches, Kanai's Cube, or blacksmith crafting.During PTR testing, this double bracket showed up even on items that hadn't been identified yet.įrequency of Occurrence Ī small % of level 70 legendary items found from monster/chest drops on Torment 1 or higher will spawn as Ancient. The appearance was given a fix in Patch 2.3, when Ancient items gained a. 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. On T6 the odds are 10%, and they increase higher on T7 - T10.ĭouble Brackets set off Ancients.Ancient items look identical when they drop there is no way to tell if an item has rolled ancient until it is ID'ed. The odds of Ancient items from all monster, chest, object, Cache, etc drops start at 1% on Torment 1, and increase steadily with the Torment level.Ancient occurs on about 10% of legendary items obtained via gambling, crafting, or Kanai's Cube recipes, with no increase by difficulty level.Ancient items look just the same lying on the ground, but once identified they have a colorful border on the tool tip display (orange on legendaries and green on sets) and show with double brackets around the item name in clan chat. (Or used from level 1 with a Gem of Ease or the Work of Cathan cube recipe.
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Ancient versions of all legendary and set items can be found, and these will almost always be a big upgrade over non-ancient versions of the same item.Īncient occurs only on level 70 items, though such an item may have a -clvl req modifier and be usable before 70. Ancient is a sort of item modifier, an enhanced version of an existing legendary or set item with higher values to most of the affixes found on the item. Ancient Items were added into the game in Patch 2.1.2 after extensive testing on the PTR.
