Updated 2 Oct 2026
Uniques/Relic/Drowning Current

Drowning Current is a Demon Unique relic with no boss attached: it drops anywhere in Nightmare, most often from N10 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 Eternal Torrent Relic — step 6 of the Torrent Relic line, item level 80 and up.

It always rolls the same numbers: +36 Power, +8% Ultimate Generation, +48 Power, +10% Ultimate Generation, +12% Power, +29% Cooldown Recovery and +55% Critical 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 Drowning Current — +30 Cooldown Recovery; Ultimate repeats +2.

It fires Arcing Spark on its own: Hits have a 20% chance to arc to a nearby enemy for 12% of the damage.

Wearing it hands you Soul Torrent.

“The current pulls down. Bring the enemy with you.”

Item text

as it reads in game
+36 Powerbase
+8% Ultimate Generationbase
+48 Power
+10% Ultimate Generation
+12% PowerT10 · 11–12
+29% Cooldown RecoveryT10 · 25–32
+55% Critical DamageT10 · 51–58
Drowning Current — +30 Cooldown Recovery; Ultimate repeats +2.

The numbers it locks in

the same on every copy
AffixTierValueNormal range
Power prefixT10+12%11–12
Cooldown Recovery suffixT10+29%25–32
Critical Damage suffixT10+55%51–58

The part the stats don't show

what makes it worth hunting
Drowning Current
+30 Cooldown Recovery; Ultimate repeats +2.
2 effects: stat, slot

Plays with

what to build around it
Relic effectArcing Spark

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