Updated 2 Oct 2026
Uniques/Main Hand/The Glacier's Shoulder

The Glacier's Shoulder is a Nightmare Unique greatsword with no boss attached: it drops anywhere in Hell, most often from H10 up (rarer below that home difficulty, never above it), and nowhere else. Every copy is item level 110, and there 0.2% of what falls comes up Unique. It is built on Sovereign Nightglacier Greatsword — step 6 of the Nightglacier Greatsword line, item level 80 and up.

It always rolls the same numbers: +192 Power, −8% Attack Speed, +5% Melee Lifesteal, +146 Power, +-8% Attack Speed, +9% Frost Damage, +15% Power, +42% Melee Damage, +42% Frost Damage and +10% Melee Lifesteal.

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 The Glacier's Shoulder — Heavy Cleave sweeps an 80° wider arc, shoves 1.5 units harder and applies Chill, but winds up 20% slower.

It leans into Chill.

Wearing it hands you Heavy Cleave and Groundbreaker.

“It does not swing. It moves, and things are elsewhere.”

Item text

as it reads in game
+192 Powerbase
−8% Attack Speedbase
+5% Melee Lifestealbase
+146 Power
+-8% Attack Speed
+9% Frost Damage
+15% PowerT10 · 14–16
+42% Melee DamageT10 · 39–44
+42% Frost DamageT10 · 39–44
+10% Melee LifestealT10 · 9–10
The Glacier's Shoulder — Heavy Cleave sweeps an 80° wider arc, shoves 1.5 units harder and applies Chill, but winds up 20% slower.

The numbers it locks in

the same on every copy
AffixTierValueNormal range
Power prefixT10+15%14–16
Melee Damage prefixT10+42%39–44
Frost Damage prefixT10+42%39–44
Melee Lifesteal prefixT10+10%9–10

The part the stats don't show

what makes it worth hunting
The Glacier's Shoulder
Heavy Cleave sweeps an 80° wider arc, shoves 1.5 units harder and applies Chill, but winds up 20% slower.
4 effects: slot, slot, status, slot

Plays with

what to build around it
StatusesChill

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