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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 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 greenand 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 rare items were could spawn equivalent to or better than legendaries in many slots and could be better with a very good roll. This is no longer true and Legendary items are now always better at the top end, though it can be difficult to find or craft legendaries when found with great rollsa 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 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].
==Ancient Items==
[[Ancient Items]] were added into the game in [[Patch 2.1.2]] after extensive testing on the [[PTR]]. These are level 70 Legendary Items with a special "Ancient" designation which grants higher values to most of the affixes on the item, including the damage roll on weapons. Ancient Legendary Items can be big upgrades over non-Ancient versions of the same item since they will have higher values to most affixes, but ancient items are not guaranteed to be better since they might not roll with ideal affixes for a specific character or build.
===Appearance===
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.
===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]].)
* 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.
===Affix Values===
Not all affixes are affected by Ancient. Those that are will always roll with higher numbers on an Ancient item. Examples:
* [[Mainstat]] or [[vitality]] rolls at 500-750 on normal [[legendary gloves]] and 751-1000 on Ancient legendary gloves.
* [[Mainstat]] or [[vitality]] rolls at 416-500 to normal [[legendary rings]] and 501-600 on an Ancient legendary ring.
* [[ResAll]] rolls 80-100 on normal armor and rings, and 101-120 on Ancient armor and rings.
===Not Ancient Boosted===
Some affixes are not boosted by occurring on an Ancient item, and these include many of the most powerful affixes in the game. Affixes not affected by Ancient include:
* [[Critical hit Chance]]
* [[Critical hit Damage]]
* [[Attack Speed]]
* [[+Elemental Damage]] % to a single element.
* [[+Damage to Elites]]
* [[Socketed]] (There are not additional sockets nor better odds for an ancient item to be socketed.)
* All special [[Legendary Affixes]] are unchanged by Ancient items.
===Value by Item Type===
One major point of debate concerning Ancient Items during their PTR testing was the varying utility by item slot. An ancient item of the same type with good affixes was always a big upgrade, but since Ancient items are as random as all other items, in the game, they were more or less likely to be useful depending on the item slot.
'''Ancient weapons''' were the most useful, with guaranteed much higher damage than on any non-Ancient item.
'''Ancient Armor''' was sometimes a big upgrade, with potentially much higher rolls to mainstat and vitality and resistance, but with so many potential affixes on armor it's quite rare to find an ancient piece with bonuses to the properties a character requires. For instance, a typical build would require shoulders with +mainstat, +vitality, +res all, and +%damage to a specific skill. A non-ancient item with all of those would never be improved upon by an ancient version of the same item with only 2 or 3 of those properties.
'''Ancient Jewelry''' is the least improved by Ancient, since most of the best modifiers on jewelry, including crit hit, crit chance, +elemental damage, attack speed, and socket, are unaffected by Ancient. The only likely boost on top end jewelry is to the +mainstat, which is nice to increase with Ancient, but is only worth a couple of hundred points to stat, and thus never worth using at the expense of any of the other affixes. Few players on the PTR testing of [[patch 2.1.2]] were able to find ancient versions of jewelry that were upgrades over non-ancient jewelry, since players found at least 10x more non-ancient legendary jewelry items and it usually takes dozens of pieces of jewelry to find one with close to ideal stats.