Tempering Items

Learn how to temper items in diablo iv Vessel of Hatred. Rare items get one affix, legendary items get two. Costs materials and gold.

A blacksmith can add new affixes to your gear via the Tempering service in diablo iv: Vessel of Hatred, allowing you to round out your arsenal beyond what natural drops and Enchanting would otherwise allow. Only rare and legendary items can be Tempered. Tempering costs materials and gold. You must find and read Temper Manuals to learn affixes to add via Tempering. One of several affixes is randomly applied from the selected affix recipe. Each affix has a random stat range. You can reroll unwanted affixes and bad stat rolls. The number of rerolls allowed are limited. Rerolling Ancestral gear is very expensive. Rare items can have one affix added via Tempering while legendary items can have two affixes added.

Visit any blacksmith and peruse their services and you should see the “Tempering” option, a novel way for blacksmiths to upgrade your gear. Tempering adds entirely new affixes to an item. Rare and legendary items can be Tempered (not normal, magical or unique items) and the former can have one new affix added to them, while the latter can have two. Tempering weapons will consume various resources depending on the type and quality of the item in question.

Tempering Item Costs

• All Items: Veiled Crystals
• Armor: Rawhide
• Armor (Item Power 350+): Coiling Wards
• Weapons: Iron Chunks
• Weapons (Item Power 350+): Baleful Fragments
• Jewelry: Iron Chunks
• Jewelry (Item Power 350+): Abstruse Sigils
• Ancestral Items: Forgotten Souls

Possessing the required materials and an item worth Tempering is a good start, but you’ll also need to acquire the affixes you wish to bestow upon said gear. To do this you’ll need to find Temper Manuals, which are obtained as most other sorts of loot are - as random drops. Kill enemies, open caches from the Tree of Whispers, Helltide chests, run Nightmare Dungeons, etc. Each manual will teach you a set of affixes which can then be selected during Tempering. These affixes are grouped into six categories: Weapons, Offensive, Defensive, Utility, Mobility and Resource, and certain types of gear can only select affix groups from specific categories.

Temper Affix Recipes by Item Type

• Helm: Defensive, Utility
• Chest Armor: Defensive, Utility
• Gloves: Offensive, Utility
• Pants: Defensive, Utility
• Boots: Utility, Mobility
• Weapon: Weapons, Offensive
• Amulet: Offensive, Defensive, Utility, Mobility, Resource
• Ring: Offensive, Resource

Once you have accumulated a library of affix recipes via Temper Manuals and acquire materials and gear worth upgrading, you’re ready to visit a blacksmith. Select the item you wish to Temper, and one of the eligible categories for it and you’ll be presented with a list of the affix recipes you’ve acquired. At this point you’ll choose a recipe that contains an affix (or affixes) you want and one of those affixes will randomly be applied to the chosen item. While some affix recipes have numerous affixes that you might be happy with, others do not, especially when it comes to boosting a specific skill or type of damage. Generally speaking, the more powerful and refined your build becomes, the harder it will be to get the exact affix you want. Fortunately you can spend more resources to reroll the affix applied by Tempering. Unfortunately, you only have a limited number of rerolls per item. It’s also worth noting that the affixes added via Tempering aren’t just randomly selected, but they also tend to have a stat range they can apply, so even if you get what you want, you may end up with a minimum roll that you may wish to reroll.