Biggin's Bonnet is highkey phenomenal on basically every speedrun. Free Health and Mana to start, and ED for melee chars as well as your mercenary.

@zacheryainsworth3825

4 ай бұрын

I see whirlwind barbs in classic wearing it late game.

@coryj1984

4 ай бұрын

I've been totally unimpressed by Biggin's every time I use it. Granted, required level is 3 so it's ok for roughly 10 (quick) levels, but I'm always happy to replace it with almost any of the other low-level helms - Coif of Glory, Duskdeep, or Wormskull all seem better to me.

@kristopherleslie8343

4 ай бұрын

Agreed bro🎉

@OriginalChrizum

4 ай бұрын

​@@coryj1984Biggin's Bonnet scales much better than the items you named, the more damage your weapon does the better Biggin's Bonnet gets. For melee characters and merc I probably always use it until I can wear a Peasant Crown

@SweetPhil

4 ай бұрын

Good call, I don't speedrun much (Never) so talking and thinking fast, I forgot the importance of those life and mana amounts early.

Pelta Lunata was the first Unique that ever dropped for me when I was a kid and I got it from an urn in Normal Mausoleum. Not knowing anything about the game or ARPGs in general I thought:"All right, urns drop insane golden items, let's do nothing else than to smash urns and restart once all urns are gone." 2 weeks I did nothing else than to smash all the inventory in the Mausoleum until I finally continued the story with a completely broken will :D

@lololreligion

4 ай бұрын

Haha same happened with hsarsu's iron heel. First green ever. Dropped from the super unique cold guy in the cathedral. Spent hours on end farming him to no avail.

The Hand of Broc is originally Leather Gloves, not Demonhide Gloves.

@Vbcjbb

4 ай бұрын

I was gonna mention that when I saw the level req I knew they were upped

@scottmichael7178

4 ай бұрын

i actually just found these the other day and have them in my stash LOL

When I played a lot of d2r I would keep some low level stuff like this because I knew I wanted to level some more characters and it was so much easier and more fun not needing to worry about checking junk drops, just wearing what I have and play.

Torch of Iro was one of those items I didn't find until D2R, it is also the coolest looking wand in the game.

Found Lenymo 20 years ago in LOD - forgot this one, so rare it is - thx.

Another armor i think should have made this list, despite being level 12 required is Blinkbats Form. Its a leather armor a lot of people have never seen and is pretty rare.

@jeffsaffron5647

4 ай бұрын

yea I miss that one as well lol

@bane9685

4 ай бұрын

Sounds made up

@russellcrowe187

4 ай бұрын

Its crazy that biggins is so rare invhel ive found like 20of em in hell difficulty mostly chaos

I am a poor player but I play hard core. Because I am so terrified of final death, I play slowly. Which has enabled me to find all of these and multiple copies of most.

@RestlessWandererOriginal

4 ай бұрын

Lenymo is my favourite unique sash, that color is so nice

@lawnbear5958

4 ай бұрын

@@RestlessWandererOriginal same

Dude , you are one of the best content creators of D2 in entire youtube. keep it commin! Thumbs up from Brazil

I swear back in the days i was the only one with "torch of iro" on my necromancer. My fave unique ever

Lenymo is a decent upgrade to get the 16 total potion slots, but beware, level requirement is 29.

Super nice topic. Haven't watched the video yet but I'm sure it's gonna be great. Phil's got great off the beaten path content

Torch of Iro, I used it to make a master mule which have a cube and giving the ability to merge runes or gems and not to go from char to mule and back. From Lvl5 to Lvl17 a +1 necro skill on main hand fits the challenge :) Thank you Phil, good day

I remember having rixot in my stash and using it to level every single mele build I've did. I'm lacking just high level items on my holy grail, and from lower stuff I was missing cow kings hooves, for a long time, but finally farmed normal cows for those. So "just" Templar's, Stormlash and Mangsong's Lesson left for me :D

I didn't get torch of iro or pluckeye until 96% thru grail. Found both a day apart in hell difficulty. Preciate you, rng!

I found biggins bonnet for the first time in S6. Never knew there was such a unique. Really helped my character starting out, and then merc. Cheers!

I started playing d2r about two months ago. I've found every single one of these items in that time. Pelta lunata dropped from corpsefire on my first character in this ladder, literally like 3 minutes after ladder start.

my brother found a pelta lunata once when we were playing the OG D2 back in 2000. he found it as a below level 10 paladin in tamoe highland. it was a big deal back then since drops on OG d2 discs were not really great (internet was really bad, not to mention very expensive, on our area back then so patches and updates weren't possible for us). yellow items are hard to come by, heck even mana potions can't be bought on town NPCs back then. he finished the game and have not found a replacement for that buckler. i have been playing d2 on and off for more than 20 years and i only managed to get a pelta lunata once back in 2004 when i was playing a sorc and this was on the expansion. i never got it again, even when i played multiple characters to hell on d2r. most of the items on this list though i've picked up multiple times throughout the years of playing d2lod.

some of those were BIS in classic. or BIS options.. lenymo or nightsmoke was used on sorc. hand of broc or frostburn(for cold dmg) was used on amazon. amazon sorc and necro had uniques for bis, but barbs and pallies all used rares. I've found all of those items quite a bit when I was playing classic in 2000. Mostly all gambled.. for fun, because they were cheap gambles, and uniques from gambling were super common back then. It's funny, that reminds me, I remember posting something about "iron Jang Bong" (expensive item in classic) on official diablo forums, and it censored the word "bong". wouldn't even let me say the name of the item in its own game.

Those Treasure Class 3 items are quite rare due to the Treasure Class drop calculations... I love to collect them also along with Treasure Class 87 / 84 items. Not alone the unique item, some set item of Treasure Class 3 is also quite interesting like Tancred's Boot which can give you 30% run speed along with 78% MF if couple with Tancred's Amulet which is quite a boost of MF during ladder start when War Traveller is not acquired. Also the Death belt and Death Glove together can give you IAS, high poison resist and cannot be frozen in very early stage.

I love me some good low level items. Will never forget my first Barb ever. Wore two unique weapons around level 11, not sure which ones, but that feeling... Like I could conquer the world, skip to the depths of hell and bring the light!

Lenymo was actually my first unique item I ever found on my first ever paladin when I got my pc in 2001. Somehow it stuck in my memory and even though I've been playing this game for 23 years, I would have sworn I haven't seen it drop more than a couple of times.

@scottmichael7178

4 ай бұрын

i found that a week or 2 ago haha.

Bane Ash, Death’s Fathom, and Tyrael’s Might are all that’s left on my grail.

@michaelcoffey6735

4 ай бұрын

I don’t think I’ve ever found a death web still.

@bane9685

4 ай бұрын

Bane ash one of my favs. Also gladiators bane

Every time I find Pelta, I get psyched. All my characters tend to be melee-focused so those powerups are just so clutch.

I love to run different characters through so I've seen all of these multiple times. Lenymo is nice on a necro early, since they don't get warmth. Greyform works for mercenaries, giving them resists and some life leech to keep them alive. Hand of Broc is godly for barbs for the dual leech and bonus mana. Match Biggin's Bonnet with Dimoak Hew and you'll be one shotting everything you come across for quite a while. Again with the barbs - you can dual wield two of those crushing blow items for some real boss killing fun. If you find torch of iro early it's not bad for the necro - +1 all skills is a nice boost along with the bonus mana and mana regen (again, no warmth on necros).

All these items are from TC3, the lowest level group (only blinkbat's form, hotspur and gull are missing here). Some of them are difficult to find even on normal. Those with item level 10 need to be farmed in catacombs from regular bosses, those with item level 7 are best sought from a cold crow (she has the best drop rates - rakanishu or treehead woodfist are far worse). Biggin bonnet, rixot keen or pelta lunata can be found even from corpsefire so they aren't as special as the rest. Scepter, short staff and wand are special items, so they have twice less chance of being dropped than regular ones, so despite being level 7, they are the rarest of them. We can say that iro torch is equivalent of dweb, bane ash is equivalent of mang song, and knell striker is equivalent of astreon on normal diff. In hell on lvl 85 areas this special trio is rarer than all TC87 uniques except tyrael's might. Generally drop of these TC3 items in hell is a big waste of RNG for holy grailers :/

@Dra-On

4 ай бұрын

Still missing that damned torch of iro and knell striker for my grail along with lenymo 🥲

As a magic finder, I can't believe you forgot the Gull Dagger! 100% magic find on a level 4 required item! I got one of these day 2 of ladder. Incredible find early on.

@ijustwanttonap

4 ай бұрын

Gull is rare? Wow, I seem to find it all the time.

Amazing topic. I have a greyform for early game A2 merc and hand of broc. Bane Ash is a new one for me!

Its amazing how rare some of these actually are. I have only found the gnasher and striker once in my d2 career. The others i have found multiples of but its so far spread out over the years, its always fun seeing them.

Found The Centurion armor the other day. It was pretty low level gear but I had never seen it that I recalled. I like Pelta Lunata and Biggins Bonnet which I seem to find both frequently.

A noble spirit embigguns the smallest man - Jedediah Springfield

Got biggins bonnet off hell Baal this season… super pog drop!!!

I finally got arcans valor for the first time. That was the armor back in the day. I wish they would revisit the uniques and set items.

I've had all these, some this season besides Greyform. I used Hand of Broc on my bowzon for quite a bit this season.

ive never seen greyform before!

From this list while im 3x lvl90-93 (P1 Online), found 3x Lenymo, 2x Gnashers, Hand of Broc i gambled yesterday (and its lvl5), Pelta Lunata, Bane Ash, Rixot Keen, Torch of Iro

holy shit i didn't know biggin's bonet was that rare, i've gotten two of those, both of which i vendor to charsi.

Hotspur also may be here in a list (not bad lowlvl unique boots) or early MFer's paradise - Gull dagger (reqlvl 4 and 100 MF, what?? 😱).. awesome one 👍

I Accidentally gambled a Hand of Broc at level 13, or so looking for gloves with mana for my sorc. Worked pretty good

Rixots King was my favorite unique as a kid. My Zealdin felt OP using one.

I found a greyform from the top seal boss(iirc) in hell chaos yesterday. I didn’t pay attention to the lvl req at the time. A little over 300mf hammerdin.

The only item from this list I have not personally seen drop in one of my games is the Greyform armor. I, actually, have The Gnasher and Torch of Iro in my stash right now because they dropped for me recently.

funny you would make this video since yesterday i just found "Stormstrike Short battle bow" and realized what an awesome design they had made for that bow

i remember when i got the gnasher playing diablo 2 demo, back in the 98 i believe

S2, necro found a Gull in Act I, "Okay, I guess we're going to play MF fishymancer." He still uses it off-ladder to this day, Ist'd.

I've found all of it but the Torch of Iro, this tricky wand is still missing from my grail, together with many-many of TC 87 uniques. That's so ironic!

Ive found Lenymo once and when I dentified it and saw what it was, it blew my mind because i didnt even consider there being a unique sash lol

I've been farming low level unique items for twinkiing a new toon and probably found ten pelta shields this week. I dunno what's going on but super lucky with that.

You forgot Hotspur boots! I was waiting since you covered all the other slots, but no Hotspurs. That fire resist is awesome at level 5!

i remember finding a biggins bonnet off corpsfire running the den on a ladder reset. that was the only drop in norm den i have ever found that i thought was worth keeping.

Keep up the great work Phil! Been playing since .08 you do a great job covering D2! Respect!

"The Gnasher" is a godly weapon , I may have socketed one wit a Ber, just in case a use case comes up, Eth rune in it also super viable.

Kind of making me want to boot up plugy and hero edit a barb with a full set of low level uniques, just to see how easy a p8 act 1 would be lol. Biggins and dual rixots must SLAAAAY

ive found all of those except for i think felloak and possibly the knell striker

Some of these rare low level items can also be very valuable (worth multiple high runes) when rolled perfectly. There are only a few on offer because most players just charsi them lol

Lenymo is so rare, he doesn’t even know how to pronounce it.

Felloak club was interesting weapon to me and have used it for the resistances mainly when doing a Larzuk Sorceress.

Pelta Lunata was the first unique I ever found while playing D2 (yes, not even LoD) and it was mind blowing because the art was so great and different from the standard buckler.

never seen greyform, or bane ash drop that i remember of, but i remember finding the others

I've actually found most of those, and all of them in normal difficulty WHILE actually useful. Torch of Iro I found in act 1 with my summoner necro for example, same with Lenymo. Might be super rare in hell, but not too rare in normal, I think :)

Don't think I've ever gotten Torch of...Iro(?) before, but I've had all the others at least once. The Hand of Brok would have been a second one I've never had before, but it dropped for me yesterday for the first time.

I just started a new character and my very first gamble in act 1 gave me a Biggin's Bonnet lol. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one before. Also first time ever getting a unique from gambling.

I found biggins bonnet in my recent javazon SP run really early in normal. Wore it for a while

Totally forgot about the Knell Striker!

I used to play a lot of D2 back in the day and these uniques weren’t unicorns to find.

Phil lmao that shirt is CRAZY.

I literally just found my first gull dagger since the original d2 20 some years ago

Torch of Iro should have like 20 light radius or something, that would be interesting.

Gotta toss a Ber in one of those CB early on weapons to pump it up!!

Gnasher is the go to axe for full sigons ! with the +8 to str

I found that Pelta Lunata buckler just last night in a s6 HC hell Baal run. When I ID it I stared at it for so long I lost my spot in the runs. I still have it. Edit: I think you can upgrade it to a defender to stay relevant longer in the game.

I have all those now but never saw them before

I actually found Bane Ash (Short staff) and used it till 30 lvl ), this season )

What is the best/most accurate drop calculator? I reset my single player game and have been starting my Holy Grail journy (68% done atm). Thinking about farming those lower level items on my Sorc since she can easily zoom through those low level area's and jsut target-farm certain units.

Huh, some of these items looks pretty good for lvl 9 PvP. I haven't gotten most of them, but at least some I have seen drop like Pelta Lunata or Torch of Iro.

I need half of these to finish a grail and only 18 items left to acquire. Even farming normal cows with 300MF hasn't produced them.

Indeed, I haven't found any of those in a very long time, but I swear they were easier to find in the early days of LOD. I might have missed it, but Hotspurs should be on this list. I remember back in the early days of LOD, I had a couple of those kept as starter kits and would transfer them from a new character to a new character. You will indeed outgrow those items fairly fast but they help nevertheless to speedup your progression.

Found an eth rixots keen and used it on new characters until it broke, was fun would do again/10

i found them all before :D im always excited to find higgis cap or hand of broc, because its boosting your normal playthrough..also i like to play my character till hell act 5,getting carried is kinda boring :D if you play like that even low level uniques can be awesome as hell :)

Knell atriker is the only one i cant remember finding, unique cap all the way though you find that in the cold plains your laughing

Ive found all of these in D2 lod and I remember some were different in D2 classic

Iv played d2 on and off for over a decade, over the time I’ve seen everything

I’ve used the Biggins Bonnet - way high on style points

I've found Lenymo but it was ethereal and it was ... late nightmare/early hell...

just take a look at this comment section and it's easy to understand why D2 has the best itemization in ARPG history. most items are incredibly impactful and/or rare, and have this "materiality" to them. even after those broken RWs came out, the magic of uniques and sets hasn't disappeared. yellows and blues are oftentimes even better than said RWs.

Biggin's Bonnet was the first Unique i found in D2R, Though mine doesn't have an open socket.

FoH/Hammer Build does this too. Maybe even better.

i've found 2 hand of broc gloves in terror zones the last few days lol

I found Pluckeye a couple weeks ago and I lold at the name

None of them I've never seen, but in D2R I'm still missing Torc of Iro as the only unique. Bear in mind, before LoD, uniques had NO level req, and still don't if you bring them forward from pre-LoD patches to non-LoD 1.07 through 1.14d. So you could equip 2x SoJ, Torc of Iro, Eye of Etlich and go nuts from lvl 1 if you had the items. Not sure about D2R classic. Also, Crushing Blow was more powerful back then, cutting current HP in half.

Biggin's Bonnet has dropped 3 times in HCL this season for me.

Knell Striker. Knell means the sound of a bell, especially when rung solemnly for a death or funeral.

How can you leave out Hotspur?

Heh, I've found multiple of those items because I'm playing through offline on players 8 so slowly 😂. For low levels they are nice.

Am I the only one who noticed him calling Tyreals "immortal kings"??? Phil you big troll 😅🤣

Just found a Lenymo in normal cows cool list!

incredible video!

Playing 20+ years never seen that bow either

theres no way biggins bonnet is a 1 in something million drop chance, i usually find that in act1 pretty fast, like off the zombie in the den if i remember correctly, i usually find 1 per season but that being said i usually farm that zombie untill something good drops, same with bishbosh

pluckeye is in D3, never knew it was an original d2 item! it is a shame how much runewords just obliterates uniques like these