What are the best Diablo 4 Aspects? Diablo 4 is bringing a lot to the table in terms of character and gear customization. One thing to pay the most attention to is Aspects, which you can extract from specialized equipment to provide buffs to any character or specific classes and abilities.
We’ve tested these for hours – as you can get a sense of in our Diablo 4 review – to find the right combinations. Aspects can be powerful tools for making the best builds for all Diablo 4 classes in both early and endgame activities throughout Diablo 4. Hunting these down will be quite a task to build up a good collection, but it’s worth the effort. We’ve got the lowdown on how to get Aspects and some of the best Aspects to extract for both general use and specific classes.
What are the best Diablo 4 Aspects?
Here are the best Diablo 4 Aspects:
| Aspect | Type | Class | Bonus |
| Accelerating Aspect | Offensive | Any | Critical strikes with core skills increase your attack speed by 20-40% up to three seconds. |
| Aspect of Might | Defensive | Any | Basic skills grant 25% damage reduction for 2-8 seconds. |
| Aspect of the Crowded Sage | Defensive | Any | You heal for 2.1-8.4 life per second for every close enemy, up to 42 life per second. |
| Aspect of Ancestral Echoes | Offensive | Barbarian | Lucky Hit: damaging enemies with leap, upheaval, or whirlwind has a chance to summon an Ancient to perform the same skill. Can only happen once every five seconds. |
| Aspect of Bul-Kathos | Offensive | Barbarian | Leap creates an earthquake that deals physical damage over several seconds. While standing in earthquakes, you gain increased damage reduction. |
| Aspect of the Prickling | Offensive | Barbarian | Damaging an enemy with a core skill has a chance to grant thorns for five seconds. |
| Skullbreaker’s Aspect | Offensive | Barbarian | Stunning a bleeding enemy deals a percentage of their total bleeding damage to them as physical damage. |
| Aspect of Metamorphic Stone | Offensive | Druid | Boulder is now a core skill and costs spirit and deals normal damage. |
| Aspect of Quicksand | Utility | Druid | Damage from earth skills slow enemies by 25-50% for five seconds. |
| Aspect of the Dark Howl | Utility | Druid | Debilitating Roar is now a werewolf skill. In addition, Debilitating Roar will immobilize poisoned enemies for 2-4 seconds. |
| Aspect of Bursting Bones | Offensive | Necromancer | When a segment of bone prison is destroyed or expires, it deals damage in an area around itself. |
| Aspect of Explosive Mist | Offensive | Necromancer | Blood Mist triggers corpse explosion on surrounding corpses. When Blood Mist detonates a corpse, its cooldown is reduced. |
| Aspect of Hardened Bones | Defensive | Necromancer | When you have X or more minions, your minions gain increased damage reduction. |
| Aspect of Arrow Storms | Offensive | Rogue | Lucky Hit: your ranged skills have up to a 10% chance to create an arrow storm at the target’s present location, dealing 216-270 physical damage over three seconds. You can have up to five active arrow storms. |
| Aspect of Lethal Dusk | Defensive | Rogue | Evading through an enemy affected by Shadow Imbuement grants stealth for several seconds. Breaking steal with an attack grants you X maximum life on kills for X seconds. |
| Frostbitten Aspect | Utility | Rogue | Chilled enemies hit by your grenade skills have a chance equal to double your critical strike chance to be instantly frozen for X seconds. This effect can occur once only every X seconds. |
| Aspect of Concentration | Resource | Sorcerer | Your Mana regeneration is increased by X% if you have not taken any damage in the last X seconds. |
| Aspect of Control | Offensive | Sorcerer | You deal 30-40% more damage to immobilized, stunned, or frozen enemies. |
| Aspect of Seared Flesh | Utility | Sorcerer | Every five times you deal direct fire damage to an enemy, they are immobilized for X seconds. |
What are Diablo 4 Aspects?
Diablo 4 Aspects apply a special effect on equipment, buffing damage, class abilities, or passive effects. You can equip these on any rare or legendary quality item by visiting the Occultist in town.
Aspects are broken up into specific categories depending on what they do. These categories can include offensive, defensive, resource (your class-specific energy), utility, and mobility. You can only imprint specific legendary Aspects on specific gear, though.
Offensive Aspects
- Gloves
- One-handed weapons
- Two-handed weapons
- Rings
- Amulets
Defensive Aspects
- Helms
- Chests
- Pants
- Shields
- Amulets
Resource Aspects
Utility Aspects
- Helms
- Chests
- Boots
- Gloves
- Amulets
Mobility Aspects
How to find a Diablo 4 Codex of Power
You can find a Codex of Power after completing a dungeon in the open world during the main story.
When you finish the Diablo 4 dungeon, you will gain a new Aspect for your Codex that you can use back in town at the Occultist. Here you need to spend Veiled Crystals and gold to equip an Aspect using the Codex of Power.
After choosing which Aspect to equip to a specific piece of gear, you can then commit the changes. As you complete more dungeons in the world, you will gain more Aspects to choose from at the Occultist.
How to extract a Diablo 4 Aspect
To extract an Aspect in Diablo 4, simply drag and drop the equipment from your inventory at the Occultist and pay gold. The Occultist will extract the Aspect, allowing you to store it for later use.
If you come across an Aspect on a piece of equipment you don’t like or it’s not meant for your class, you can extract it at the Occultist in a major town using the Codex of Power. However, keep in mind that Aspects stored in the Codex of Power will always be their lowest possible roll on the percent that they buff something. For example, if you have an Aspect that has a range of 15-30% chance to deal thorns damage, the value at the Occultist will always default to only 15%.
How to imprint a Diablo 4 Aspect
To imprint an Aspect in Diablo 4, drag the item you want to enhance to the Occultist. You can choose to imprint an aspect from the Codex or Power or sacrifice an inventory item.
You can imprint Aspects onto rare or legendary gear at the Occultist, which effectively upgrades their quality. So if you imprint an Aspect on a rare-grade piece of equipment, it will become a legendary. Keep in mind that imprinting an Aspect will bind items specifically to your character, making the equipment unsellable for Gold. That said, you can still dispose of the item at the Blacksmith.
Once you’ve chosen the Aspect to be imprinted, commit the changes by hitting the Imprint Aspect button at the bottom of the window. Pay the fee of materials needed to complete the imprint and you are done.
Now that you know all there is to know about imprinting, extracting, and the best Aspects in Diablo 4, why not brush up on the loot you can find in the game, or check out the best Diablo 4 builds according to Blizzard and us.