The Third Blade

Unique · Weapon · Sword · Barbarian

The Third BladeUnique Sword

+[1 - 2] to Core Skills

Your Weapon Mastery Skills are now also Core Skills that have 100% Cooldown Reduction but cost Fury, dealing [140 - 160%] of normal damage.

+ random affixes from the 1 it can roll, listed below

"Restraint, mercy, honor...these are shackles, forged by the weak and the conquered." -Hephasto, the Armorer

Barbarian only

Numbers in brackets are the range a copy can roll at the top item power bracket, from the game files. Yours rolls somewhere in it; a Greater Affix is 1.5 times the top of its range.

Versions

Unique
Ancestral Unique
Crafted Mythic
Unique Charm

Ancestral copies drop in higher Torment, take two tempered affixes, and are the only copies that can become Mythic.

Upgrade and reroll it

TemperBlacksmith

Adds a tempered affix from a tempering recipe that fits this slot. Ancestral copies take two. Rerolls spend Tempering Charges; a Scroll of Restoration gives one back.

Step by step

MasterworkBlacksmith

Once fully tempered. Raises its affixes rank by rank in Obducite and gold; one affix becomes a Greater Affix, and Neathiron rerolls which.

Step by step

EnchantOccultist

Replaces one affix. Allowed on Uniques since patch 3.1.

Step by step

SocketJeweler

Adds a socket for a gem or rune.

Step by step

Unique Power RerollHoradric Cube

Rerolls the numbers in its Unique power.

1 Attuned Primordial Dust + 100 Raw Primordial Dust

Step by step

Affix Value RerollHoradric Cube

Rerolls the values of its base affixes. Leaves Greater, tempered, enchanted and transfigured affixes alone.

1 Attuned Primordial Dust + 100 Raw Primordial Dust

Step by step

RecycleHoradric Cube

Three copies of this Unique become a new copy with new rolls.

Step by step

Upgrade to MythicHoradric Cube

Ancestral copies only. Makes it Mythic, keeps every property and gives it the Crafted tag: you can equip only 1 Crafted item.

5 Resplendent Spark

Step by step

Craft Unique CharmHoradric Cube

Turns this item into its Unique Charm.

1 Enhanced Primordial Dust + 50 Raw Primordial Dust + 100 Infused Horadric Resin

Step by step

TransfigureHoradric Cube

A random big modification. Very high chance to make it Unmodifiable, so do it last.

1 Volatile Primordial Dust

Step by step

Cannot take: Add Affix (Legendary and lower only) · Remove Affix (Common to Rare only) · Focused and Chaotic Reroll (Magic, Rare and Legendary only) · Upgrade to Mythic on a non-Ancestral copy (Ancestral only)

Open it in the Horadric Cube

Random affixes it can roll 1

The tooltip lines are on every copy; the rest roll from these. Open a group for ranges and odds.

Defensive1

+[526 - 632] Life On Hit100%

Ranges are at the top item power bracket, from the game files. The percentage is how often one random roll lands on it. A Greater Affix is 1.5 times the top of its range.

Where to find it

Astaroth An Escalation Sigil: a run of Nightmare Dungeons that ends in Astaroth's LairBarbarian table

Target it at that boss. It is also a world drop at its level.

Boss loot tables for Season 15, checked against several published lists. Hoard keys from the game files (Lair Keys). Seen it drop somewhere else? Tell us below.

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Item data from d4data and Blizzard.

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