How to Identify Items

Magic, Rare, and Unique equipment found on the ground can be unidentified. Its final modifiers are hidden until identification. Currency, quest items, and many other item classes do not use this equipment-identification step.

• Look for Unidentified on the item.
• Do not confuse a hidden modifier with an empty modifier slot.
• Keep the item in the character inventory for an NPC to identify it.

Right-click a Scroll of Wisdom, then left-click the unidentified item. The Scroll is consumed and the item's modifiers become visible. Scrolls can drop anywhere and are useful inside an area when returning to town would interrupt the run or consume a Map portal.

• Right-click the Scroll first.
• Apply it to one unidentified item.
• Read the revealed modifiers before equipping, crafting, selling, or discarding the item.

Complete Sorrow Among Stones in Act 1 to make The Hooded One available in campaign towns. Speak to him and choose Identify Items to identify every eligible item in the character inventory for free. On mouse and keyboard, Ctrl plus left-click on The Hooded One performs the identification directly.

• Complete Sorrow Among Stones.
• Move unidentified items from the stash into the character inventory.
• Use Identify Items or Ctrl plus left-click.

Doryani takes over the identification service after the campaign and can identify the full inventory. Since version 0.3.0, The Hooded One cannot be placed in the Hideout and remains available in towns, while Doryani continues to provide identification in the Hideout.

• Use Doryani for endgame inventory batches.
• Use The Hooded One only from a town.
• Carry Scrolls when identification is needed before returning to the Hideout.

After identification, compare the modifier tiers, item level, requirements, sockets, quality, and build relevance. Identification reveals what already rolled; it does not reroll or improve the item. Identified modifiers can also be used by item-filter rules after the item is dropped again.

• Separate implicit, explicit, enchantment, and socketed effects.
• Check modifier tiers against the item's item level.
• Use the crafting tool only after recording the current affixes.