Blizzard have detailed the six new Unique items coming to Season 9! Each class gets one, with powers ranging from Basic skill buffs to Werebear poison puddles, Skeletal Mage hordes, sacrificing HP for Flurry casts, Hydra overdrive, and poison Thorns!
Let’s take a look!
New powerful Unique Items enter the fray to amplify your ability to dispatch demons at fabled speed.
Barbarian
Hooves of the Mountain God (Unique Boots):
Affixes:
Inherent – Attacks Reduce Evades Cooldown by 2.5 Seconds
+17.5-23% Movement Speed
+16-25% Basic Attack Speed
+7-10 Fury Per Seconds
+2-3 Ranks to Belligerence
Unique Power
When reaching Maximum Fury, your Fury will rapidly drain until you run out and all your Basic skills now cleave and deal 70-100%[x] increased damage.
Druid
Noxious Spine-Breaker (Unique Two-Handed Weapon):
Affixes:
Inherent: 110% Damage to Poisoned enemies
14-18% Willpower
114-150% Poison Damage
26-35% Chance for Pulverize to Hit Twice
26-35% Resource Cost Reduction
Unique Power
Every 10 seconds, Pulverize forms a puddle that deals 200-400% of its damage as Poisoning damage over 6 seconds. Pulverizing the puddle splashes an additional 20-40% of the puddle’s total damage within the area and around it.
Necromancer
The Hand of Naz (Unique Gloves):
Affixes:
77.5-100% Skeletal Mage Damage
10.5-15% Attack Speed
+424-457 Maximum Life
+2-4 Skeletal Mage Mastery
Unique Power
Sacrificing both Skeletal Warriors and Golems grants an additional Skeletal Mage for each Minion sacrificed.
When a Skeletal Mage attacks enemies 25 times without dying it upgrades to a Skeletal Arch-Mage.
Skeletal Arch-Mages teleport to safety when attacked and their attacks occasionally shatter on impact dealing 50-100% increased damage to the target and up to 3 additional targets.
Rogue
Deathmask of Nirmitruq (Unique Helm):
Affixes:
+424-457 Maximum Life
+2-3 Skillranks to Flurry
+16-25 Movement Speed
+224-296 Armor
Unique Power
You can now overexert yourself while Casting Flurry, spending 10% life when you don’t have enough Energy. Spending life to Cast Flurry increases its damage by 30-50% and your Attack Speed by 50% for 5 seconds.
Developer’s Note: Flurry will fail to cast when the player has neither enough energy or health available.
Sorcerer
Ophidian Iris (Unique Amulet):
Affixes:
Inherent: +30% Resistance to all Elements
Inherent: Casted Hydras Have +2 Heads
+11.5-15.7% Intelligence
+5.2-6.0 Critical Strike Chance
+77.5-100% Pyromancy Damage
+1-2 to Devouring Blaze
Unique Power
Hydra is now a Core Skill and always Summons a 3-headed Hydra whose attacks explode on impact.
For each head above 3 that it would have had, the Hydra instead grows larger and deals 50-100%[x] increased damage.
Spiritborn
Balazan’s Maxtlatl (Unique Pants):
Affixes:
+107-121 Dexterity
+424-457 Maximum Life
+268-373 Thorns
+2-3 Ranks to Bastion
Unique Power
Each attack damages Close enemies for 200-300% of your Thorns and also deals 100% of this damage as Poisoning over 3 seconds.
Each time you’ve retaliated with Thorns, for 5 seconds the Poisoning damage is increased by 100%, up to 300%.
