The Tortoise Creed is a piece of Demon Unique armor with no boss attached: it drops anywhere in Nightmare, most often from N5 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 Exalted Tortoiseshell Mail — step 6 of the Tortoiseshell Mail line, item level 80 and up.

It always rolls the same numbers: +96 Armor, +28 Ward, +436 Maximum Health, +113 Armor, +33 Ward, +50% Guard Power, +469 Ward and +492 Maximum Health.

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 Tortoise Creed — Your Special's wards are 50% thicker and last 30% longer, but you walk 6% slower (ward abilities only).

“Slow is fine. Slow lasts.”