Updated 2 Oct 2026
Uniques/Main Hand/Gavelfall

Gavelfall is a Demon Unique zweihander with no boss attached: it drops anywhere in Nightmare, most often from N1 up (rarer below that home difficulty, never above it), and nowhere else. Every copy is item level 100, and there 0.3% of what falls comes up Unique. It is built on Sovereign Ruin Zweihander — step 6 of the Ruin Zweihander line, item level 80 and up.

It always rolls the same numbers: +204 Power, −12% Attack Speed, +5% Melee Lifesteal, +24 Power, +12% Stone Damage, +14% Power, +44% Critical Damage and +36% Stone Damage.

One Unique drop in 40 is a Mythical copy: the same item carrying 15–25% Mythical Energy that boosts every stat on it and can never be changed; the 15% floor is 10 times as common as the perfect 25%.

On top of that it carries Gavelfall — Your Main deals 60% more damage over a 30 degree wider arc, but winds up 35% slower.

Wearing it hands you Charged Overhead and Whirlwind.

“The Gate held court exactly once.”

Item text

as it reads in game
+204 Powerbase
−12% Attack Speedbase
+5% Melee Lifestealbase
+24 Power
+12% Stone Damage
+14% PowerT9 · 13–14
+44% Critical DamageT9 · 41–47
+36% Stone DamageT9 · 33–38
Gavelfall — Your Main deals 60% more damage over a 30 degree wider arc, but winds up 35% slower.

The numbers it locks in

the same on every copy
AffixTierValueNormal range
Power prefixT9+14%13–14
Critical Damage suffixT9+44%41–47
Stone Damage prefixT9+36%33–38

The part the stats don't show

what makes it worth hunting
Gavelfall
Your Main deals 60% more damage over a 30 degree wider arc, but winds up 35% slower.
3 effects: slot, slot, slot

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