As a new seasonal mechanic exclusive to Diablo 4 Season 10, you can equip both Chaos Perks and Chaos Armor in battle to boost your combat effectiveness by expanding your build crafting options.
We've already covered Chaos Perks in other articles. Like the seasonal mechanics of previous seasons, they offer additional power. Think of Chaos Armor as a more powerful version of regular armor.
So, how much Chaos Armor is available to obtain and equip in Season 10? What are its functions? Let's find out.
Chaos Armor Overview
Chaos Armor is essentially a more powerful version of the unique armor already available in Diablo 4. Available categories include helms, chest armor, gloves, pants, and boots.
These special armor pieces offer enhanced effects over vanilla armor, always guaranteeing the highest value within the affix range, rather than randomly generating a value within the affix range. Furthermore, Chaos Armor always has at least one high-level affix.
Note that when equipping Chaos Armor, you can only place it in any slot that doesn't conflict with the corresponding vanilla armor. You can't equip both the regular and Chaos versions of a piece of armor at the same time; you can only choose one.
While this may seem restrictive, it actually broadens your Diablo 4 build crafting possibilities. For example, Fists of Fate, which is originally a glove, can now be used as a helm, allowing you to pair it with more regular gloves.
How To Obtain Chaos Armor?
Whereas ordinary armor is a unique item, mostly obtained by farming lair bosses, Chaos Armor only drops through three channels.
1. Complete Chaos Rifts Event
This event is also exclusive to Season 10. Throughout the season, these items will spawn randomly in Helltides and Nightmare Dungeons, each with different dungeon affixes. Like Chaos Perks, these events also come in four rarities.
Completing events not only rewards Chaos Armor, but also Diablo 4 gold, Obducite, gem fragments, and more. Furthermore, successfully sealing rifts unlocks Chaos Blessings as additional benefits.
If you're lucky, you might also encounter Mythic Chaos Rifts. These offer a more challenging challenge, but also offer richer rewards, increasing your chances of receiving Chaos Armor.
2. Participate In Infernal Hordes
This event is one of Diablo 4's core endgame mechanics and has been enhanced in Season 10. You can earn Burning Aether through regular wave battles, which can then be redeemed in chests to receive Chaos Armor.
3. Defeat The New Boss, Bartuc
This is actually part of Infernal Hordes, as Bartuc is the final boss. Consume Burning Aether to summon him and defeat him to receive Chaos Armor and other random rewards.
We also recommend defeating Bartuc on higher difficulties whenever possible, as this will earn you additional Chaos Armor fragments.
What Chaos Armor Is Available?
All available Chaos Armor is divided into general and class-specific types, and we'll list them one by one.
New Unique Items
Season 10, like previous seasons, adds a new unique item for each class (six in total). Each of these has a Chaos Armor version, so we've listed them separately.
- Saber of Tsasgal (Barabarian): Each damaging skill you equip grants you 6.0% damage, and each skill grants you an additional 12.0% damage for 15 seconds.
- Kilt of Blackwing (Druid): Your summoned ravens deal 120.0% increased damage and can transform into different forms or summon additional companions.
- Gospel of the Devotee (Necromancer): Damaging an enemy with your basic skills increases their damage taken by 36% for 10 seconds. Other benefits include increased Reap attack speed and faster corpse spawning with Decompose.
- Orphan Maker (Rogue): Casting basic and core skills with this gear allows you to reload, increasing damage dealt by 360% and doubling the bonus to skills reloaded per second.
- Galvanic Azurite (Sorcerer): Your lightning damage output magnetizes enemies for 4 seconds, increasing all lightning damage they take from you by 72.0%.
- Hesha e Kesungi (Spiritborn): Allows you to invoke The Protector at range and pull it inward, increasing Gorilla skill damage taken by enemies within range by 60%. Damage is doubled if the enemy is knocked down or becomes a boss.
General Chaos Armor
These armors are available to all players, regardless of class.
- Banished Lord's Talisman
- Crown of Lucion
- Endurant Faith
- Fists of Fate
- Flickerstep
- Godslayer Crown
- Locran's Talisman
- Mother's Embrace
- Paingorger's Gauntlets
- X'fal's Corroded Signet
Class-Specific Chaos Armor (Excluding New Unique Items)
Even if you already have the original versions of some of these armor pieces, you still need to farm them if you want to equip their corresponding Chaos Armor.
Barabarian:
- Battle Trance
- Gohr's Devastating Grips
- Hooves of the Mountain God
- Mantle of Mountain's Fury
- Overkill
- Rage of Harrogath
- Ring of Red Furor
- Ring of the Ravenous
- Tuskhelm of Joritz the Mighty
- Ugly Bastard Helm
- Unbroken Chain
- Ramaladni's Magnum Opus
Druid:
- Airidah's Inexorable Will
- Earthbreaker
- Fleshrender
- Greatstaff of the Crone
- Hunter's Zenith
- Malefic Crescent
- Mjolnic Ring
- Rotting Lightbringer
- Tempest Roar
- The Basilisk
- Vasily's Prayer
- Dolmen Stone
Necromancer:
- Black River
- Bloodless Scream
- Deathless Visage
- Deathspeaker's Pendant
- Ebonpiercer
- Lidless Wall
- Orphan Maker
- Ring of Mendeln
- Ring of the Sacrilegious Soul
- The Hand of Naz
- The Mortacrux
- The Unmaker
- Mutilator Plate
Rogue:
- Beastfall Boots
- Condemnation
- Cowl of the Nameless
- Deathmask of Nirmitruq
- Grasp of Shadow
- Pitfighter's Gull
- Saboteur's Signet
- Scoundrel's Leathers
- Shroud of Khanduras
- Skyhunter
- Word of Hakan
- Scoundrel's Kiss
Sorcerer:
- Axial Conduit
- Blue Rose
- Esadora's Overflowing Cameo
- Flamescar
- Fractured Winterglass
- Ophidian Iris
- Raiment of the Infinite
- Staff of Endless Rage
- Staff of Lam Esen
- Starfall Coronet
- Vox Omnium
- Esu's Heirloom
Spiritborn:
- Balazan's Maxtlatl
- Band of First Breath
- Harmony of Ebewaka
- Jacinth Shell
- Loyalty's Mantle
- Peacemonger's Signet
- Ring of the Midday Hunt
- Rod of Kepeleke
- Sunstained War-Crozier
- Sepazontec
- Wushe Nak Pa
- Sunbird's Gorget
That's all the information we've provided about Season 10 Chaos Perks. We hope it helps you enjoy the new season!
