Arkaine's Valor is a Unique Balrog Skin in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.
With a high defense and a boost to all skills, Arkaine's Valor can also provide a nice bonus to Life with its growing Vitality boost for each level up.
In earlier versions of Diablo II, Arkaine's Valor gave a much larger boost to life (both to plain Life and the Vitality Attribute), thus made it a highly sought out and duped item. The life bonus was greatly reduced in subsequent patches though.
Very expensive if Hi-Roll and ethereal.
Stats[]
Arkaine's Valor
Balrog Skin
Defense: 1295-1450 (ethereal 1942-2175)
Required Level: 85
Required Strength: 165 (ethereal 155)
Durability: 30 (ethereal 16)
+150-180% Enhanced Defense
+1-2 To All Skills
+0-49 To Vitality (+0.5 Per Character Level)
30% Faster Hit Recovery
Damage Reduced By 10-15
(Only Spawns In Patch 1.10 or later)
Trivia[]
- Arkaine's Valor is one of the few Diablo I Unique Items which were also found in Diablo II. Still, it was not available before Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.
- As seen above, it is a Ring Mail in Diablo I, but an Elite Splint Mail in Diablo II. It is assumed that it was retconned because of its Diablo I image, which depicts that of an Armor similar to the Japanese Ō-Yoroi, a type of equipment unrepresented in the artworks available to Diablo II unique items/items in general.
Normal Body Armor — Greyform (Quilted Armor) • Blinkbat's Form (Leather Armor) • The Centurion (Hard Leather Armor) • Twitchthroe (Studded Leather) • Darkglow (Ring Mail) • Hawkmail (Scale Mail) • Venom Ward (Breast Plate) • Sparking Mail (Chain Mail) • Iceblink (Splint Mail) • Heavenly Garb (Light Plate) • Boneflesh (Plate Mail) • Rockfleece (Field Plate) • Rattlecage (Gothic Plate) • Goldskin (Full Plate Mail) • Silks of the Victor (Ancient Armor)
Exceptional Body Armor — The Spirit Shroud (Ghost Armor) • Skin of the Vipermagi (Serpentskin Armor) • Skin of the Flayed One (Demonhide Armor) • Iron Pelt (Trellised Armor) • Crow Caw - (Tigulated Mail) • Spirit Forge (Linked Mail) • Duriel's Shell (Cuirass) • Shaftstop (Mesh Armor)• Skullder's Ire (Russet Armor) • Que-Hegan's Wisdom (Mage Plate) • Guardian Angel (Templar Coat) • Toothrow (Sharktooth Armor) • Atma's Wail (Embossed Plate) • Black Hades (Chaos Armor) • Corpsemourn (Ornate Plate)
Elite Body Armor — Ormus' Robes - (Dusk Shroud) • The Gladiator's Bane (Wire Fleece) • Arkaine's Valor (Balrog Skin) • Leviathan (Kraken Shell) • Steel Carapace (Shadow Plate) • Templar's Might (Sacred Armor) • Tyrael's Might (Sacred Armor)