Diablo 4 Boss Lair Rewards List

Bossing is one of Diablo 4 Endgame Activities, and this guide covers everything you need to know to get the most benefit from them and their drops.

What Are Boss Lairs

What was previously called Endgame Bosses or Ladder Bosses is now being changed to Boss Lairs. These Lairs are restructuring the Endgame system to expand it and update their mechanics.

Boss Lairs are broken into three Tiers: Initiate, Greater, and Exalted. These tiers generally reflect the access to, difficulty of, and rewards of the boss.

Initiate Boss Lairs consist of The Beast in Ice, Grigoire, Lord Zir, Varshan, and Urivar. Each Boss of this tier has a chance to drop either a Lair Key for a Greater Boss Lair, or a Stygian Stone, which can be traded in for any Greater Lair Key of our choice.

Greater Boss Lairs consist of Andariel, Duriel, and the Harbinger of Hatred. Defeating these bosses has a chance to spawn a secondary boss encounter that results in an Exalted Lair Boss Key.

Exalted Boss Lairs only consist of Belial, Lord of Lies, at the current time.

How to Access Boss Lairs

All Boss Lairs become accessible starting at Torment 1 Difficulty. This means we’ll need to be Level 60, and have completed Tier 20 of The Pit of the Artificers.

Unlike the previous Boss Ladder system, Boss Lairs do not require a key to enter or initiate the encounter. Instead, these bosses can be freely challenged at any time for no cost other than your time, allowing you to practice an encounter. However, you will need Boss Lair Keys to claim their proper rewards.

Below is a table detailing where each boss Lair is located.

Tier	Boss	Location
Initiate	Beast In Ice	Glacial Fissure, Southwest of Kyovashad in Fractured Peaks
Initiate	Grigoire	Hall of the Penitent, South of Ked Bardu in Dry Steppes
Initiate	Lord Zir	The Darkened Way, East of Kyovashad in Freatured Peaks
Initiate	Urivar*	Fields of Judgement, West of Kichuk in Nahantu
Initiate	Varshan	Malignant Burrow at the Tree of Whispers
Greater	Andariel	Hanged Man’s Hall, East of Tarsarak in Kehjistan
Greater	Duriel	Gaping Crevasse, East of Gea Kul in Kehjistan
Greater	Harbinger of Hatred*	Harbinger’s Den, Southeast of Kurast Docks in Nahantu
Exalted	Belial, Lord of Lies

* These Bosses are only available with the Vessel of Hatred Expansion.

Boss Lair Keys

With Boss Lair Keys no longer being required to initiate the fight, they’ve instead taken on the role of accessing the rewards of the encounter. This doesn’t remove their old prerequisites of having to defeat lower-tier bosses, however.

This, unfortunately, means that Lair Boss Keys are still interwoven with each other, but thankfully, we have a handy graphic that simplifies this web quite nicely, but we’ll provide further clarification

Obtaining Lair Boss Keys

Each of the Lair bosses has their own required key (shown above) to claim loot from their Boss Hoard, or the special reward chest that appears after felling the bosses.

Depending on which Lair Key we’re after, we’ll want to consider different activities as means of acquiring them quickly.

Key	Drops From	Required for
Distilled Fear	Nightmare Dungeons**	Beast in Ice’s Hoard
Living Steel	Tormented Gifts in Helltide**	Grigoire’s Hoard
Exquisite Blood	Blood Maidens in Helltide**	Lord Zir’s Hoard
Judicator’s Mask*	Kurast Undercity in Nahantu**	Urivar’s Hoard
Malignant Heart	World Boss or Legion Events**	Varshan’s Hoard
Stygian Stone	Chance from Any Initiate Hoard	Any Greater Boss Hoard
Pincushioned Doll	Beast in Ice or Lord Zir’s Hoard	Andariel’s Hoard
Shard of Agony	Grigoire or Varshan’s Hoard	Duriel’s Hoard
Abhorrent Heart*	Urivar’s Hoard	Harbinger of Hatred’s Hoard
Betrayer’s Husk	Belial Ambush after any Lair Boss is defeated	Belial, Lord of Lies

* These Bosses are only available with the Vessel of Hatred Expansion.
** These are recommended activities, Initiate Lair Keys can drop anywhere in smaller quantities.

Boss Lair Reward Lists

When opening a Boss Hoard they will generate several Uniques, based on our Class, Difficulty, and Party Size.

The first Unique dropped this way will always be from the Bosses’ respective Boss Pool, or a smaller subset of uniques that will have a higher chance of dropping from them. In Torment 3 and 4 Difficulty, the first two Uniques will always roll from the Boss Pool.

All other Uniques that drop after the guaranteed Boss Pool rolls will have a 50/50 chance of rolling from the Boss Pool again or a General Unique Pool that seemingly includes all Uniques and Mythics.

Below are tables detailing each boss’s known drop tables, updated for the current Season.

Beast in Ice

Opening the Beast in Ice’s Hoard requires 12 Distilled Fear. Nightmare Dungeons are the quickest way to obtain these, but they can drop randomly as well.

Barbarian

Ancients’ Oath
Hellhammer
Ring of the Ravenous
Mantle of Mountain’s Fury

Druid

Storm’s Companion
Unsung Ascetic’s Wraps
Stone of Vehemen
Gathlen’s Birthright

Necromancer

Ring of Mendeln
Mutilator Plate
The Unmaker
Indira’s Memory

Rogue

Windforce
Eaglehorn
Beastfall Boots

Sorcerer

Gloves of the Illuminator
The Oculus
Starfall Coronet

Spiritborn

Scorn of the Earth
Wound Drinker
Harmony of Ebewaka

All Classes

Fists of Fate
Tassets of the Dawning Sky
Paingorger’s Gauntlets

Grigoire

Opening Grioire’s Hoard requires 12 Living Steel. Opening Tormented Gifts in Helltides is the quickest way to obtain these, but they can also drop randomly.