Item Farming Guide

A key element of Diablo 4 is item farming. Searching for that elusive piece of gear to opitmise you build and character.

Nightmare Dungeon Drops

Players are more likely to find the more powerful hear by tackling Nightmare dungeons. Players are more likely to find the following:

Unique Items
Sared Items
Ancestral Legendary items
Rare and Legendary Paragon Glyphs

What players really want to know is where a specific item is more likely to drop and what drops it, especially when it comes to uniques. This is where targeted farming comes into play.

Targeted Farming of Items

In Diablo 4, specific monster types are more likely to drop specific items types, Players targetting a specific prieve of gear may want to farm specific areas as indicated below.

This table has been compiled through community testing^[1] since the game released and is ongoing.

While knowing what monster is likely to drop specific item types, it's more important you know where to farm as once you are at the location, specifically dungeons, you will tear through it killing everything and hoping for the drop you are looking for.

Note: If any further information becomes available regarding monster families, drop types, and locations, please add it to the table below. This table will be updated regularly as more information is tested.


Items	Monsters	Likely Drop Locations
Boots	Drowned, Wildlife, Bandits, Snakes	Ruins of Eridu Flooded Depths Putrid Aquifer Mariner's Refuge Maulwood Open World Raethwind Wilds Renegade's Retreat Witchwater Serpent's Lair Shadowed Plunge
Bows	Ghosts Vampires	Kor Dragan Barracks Earthen Wound Guulrahn Slums Lost Archives
Chest Armor	Beasts, Spiders	Aldurwood Blind Burrows Abandoned Mineworks Ferals' Den Whispering Pines Guulrahn Canals
Crossbows	Bandits, Skeleton	Aldurwood Demon's Wake Ferals' Den Kor Dragan Barracks Whispering Pines Black Asylum Maulwood Renegade's Retreat Sunken Ruins Zenith
Daggers	Bandits, Cultists	Conclave Cultist's Refuge Maulwood Renegade's Retreat Serpent's Lair Shadowed Plunge Dark Ravine
Focus	Spiders	Abandoned Mineworks Blind Burrows Ferals' Den Guulrahn Canals
Gloves	Spiders	Abandoned Mineworks Blind Burrows Demon's Wake Ferals' Den Guulrahn Canals Lost Archives
Helms	Cultists, Cannibals	Blind Burrows Cultist's Refuge Conclave Dark Ravine Earthen Wound Guulrahn Slums Serpent's Lair Shadowed Plunge
One-handed Axes	Fallen, Cannibals, Goatmen	Demon's Wake Earthen Wound Ruins of Eridu
One-handed Maces	Bandits	Maulwood Renegade's Retreat
One-handed Swords	Skeletons, Beasts, Snakes	Aldurwood Black Asylum Demon's Wake Ferals' Den Kor Dragan Barracks Serpent's Lair Sunken Ruins Whispering Pines Witchwater Zenith
Pants	Drowned, Werewolves	Open World Flooded Depths Ghoa Ruins Mariner's Refuge Putrid Aquifer Sunken Library Ruins of Eridu Vault of The Forsaken
Scythes	Drowned, Zombies	Open World Guulrahn Canals Onyx Hold Ruins of Eridu Shivta Ruins Sunken Ruins
Shields	Skeleton	Black Asylum Demon's Wake Kor Dragan Barracks Sunken Ruins Zenith
Staves (Druid)	Fallen, Goatmen	Champion's Demise Demon's Wake Hoarfrost Demise Ruins of Eridu Wretched Delve Shivta Ruins
Staves (Sorcerer)	Fallen, Goatmen	Anica's Claim Champion's Demise Hoarfrost Demise Komdor Temple Oldstones Shivta Ruins
Totems	Goatmen, Spiders	Champion's Demise Ferals' Den Guulrahn Canals Hoarfrost Demise Whispering Pines
Two-handed Axes	Cannibals, Skeletons	Champion's Demise Earthen Wound Guulrahn Slums Hoarfrost Demise Kor Dragan Barracks Oldstones Shivta Ruins Sunken Ruins Zenith
Two-Handed Maces	Bandits, Drowned, Werewolves	Aldurwood Open World Ruins of Eridu
Two-handed Polearms	Snakes	Witchwater Serpent's Lair
Two-handed Swords	Spiders, Vampires	Abandoned Mineworks Blind Burrows Ferals' Den Guulrahn Canals Kor Dragan Barracks Witchwater Zenith
Wands	Ghosts, Vampires	Abandoned Mineworks Black Asylum Broken Bulwark Buried Halls Earthen Wound Haunted Refuge Kor Dragan Barracks Lost Archives Guulrahn Slums Zenith