Wailing Shell
UniqueShieldSpirit WardBarrier identity
Your barrier reflects 30% of the damage it absorbs.
How it drops
Wailing Shell is a unique for the shield slot, always on a Spirit Ward base. Power grade 2 of 5: it falls 1.5× as often as a standard unique. Uniques fall from the Risings; a floor drop is one only once in 100,000. Inside each tier a grade 5 falls 8× less often than a grade 1. Only one copy of a unique can be worn at a time.
Stats
Uniques roll a fixed set of affixes chosen to serve the power; only the values roll, from the depth the item drops at and its quality. Below is Wailing Shell exactly as the game rolls it at quality 100, at three depths.
| Quality 100 | d 100 | d 1,000 | d 10,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barrier | 1,082 | 58,880 | 5,455,388 |
| Block Chance (implicit) | +5.6% | +5.6% | +5.6% |
| Block Strength (implicit) | +4.2% | +4.2% | +4.2% |
| Health Regen (implicit) | +48 | +2,613 | +242,103 |
| Barrier | +320 | +17,420 | +1,614,020 |
| Block Chance | +8% | +8% | +8% |
| Elemental Resistances | +8% | +8% | +8% |
| Thorns (% of Armor) | +8% | +8% | +8% |
| Item score | 179 | 9,738 | 902,288 |
Percent affixes are fixed at a given quality; flat ones grow with depth. Quality runs 50–125% and multiplies every line.
Builds it belongs to
It lives in the Barrier identity family of uniques, alongside Silks of the Warlock, Soulglass Robe, Heart of the Null, Martyr's Plate. Stacking uniques from one family is how a mechanic is pushed past what affixes alone allow.
Other shield uniques
Glacier Ward · The Grounding Spire · Bulwark of Screams · Thornwall · Aegis of the Deep · Ward of False Dawn · Hellmaw Bulwark · The Yielding Wall
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