A fast weapon can become much more valuable when every strike creates another opportunity to trigger effects and maintain pressure during combat.
Frequent attacks naturally complement bonuses that reward Critical Strikes and Lucky Hits, especially when fighting enemies that survive more than a few hits.
Pattern follows this approach with a Dagger Runeword that combines reliable offensive bonuses with additional defensive value for close-range combat.
How to Get Pattern?
Pattern is obtained by crafting its hidden Runeword recipe instead of finding the completed Unique as a regular enemy or activity drop.
You will need to collect a compatible Common base item and each of the Runes required before the Runeword can be created.
Once the necessary materials are available, they can be combined in the Horadric Cube to obtain Pattern.
How to Craft Pattern?
Pattern requires a Common Dagger as its base along with three specific Runes that must be combined to complete the hidden Runeword recipe:
- Tal
- Ort
- Thul
Place the Common Dagger and all three Runes into the Horadric Cube before transmuting them to create Pattern.
The Runes must be combined in the correct recipe, while the base must specifically be a Common Dagger for the transmutation to work.
Pattern Effects
Pattern provides the following effects:
- 30% Block Chance
- x50% All Damage Multiplier
- +10% All Stats
- Lucky Hit: Up to a 40% Chance to Deal Poisoning Damage over 10 seconds
- Increased Critical Strike Chance
- Resistance to All Elements
Several values can scale with the resulting item, including its Critical Strike Chance, Poisoning damage, and Resistance to All Elements.
This gives Pattern a mixture of direct damage, defensive bonuses, and additional Poisoning without requiring the entire build to revolve around one effect.
Lucky Hit Poisoning
Pattern gives attacks a Lucky Hit effect that has up to a 40% chance to inflict Poisoning damage over 10 seconds.
The actual frequency depends on the Lucky Hit Chance of the skill being used, making some attacks more effective at triggering it.
Skills that land frequent hits can create more opportunities to activate the effect and maintain Poisoning against enemies during longer fights.
Critical Strikes and Damage
The All Damage Multiplier provides a broad damage increase that can benefit attacks without restricting Pattern to one particular damage type.
Its additional Critical Strike Chance creates another offensive layer, helping frequent attacks produce Critical Strikes more consistently throughout combat.
These bonuses work without requiring a specific trigger, allowing Pattern to provide reliable damage throughout regular encounters and longer boss fights.
Defensive Benefits
Pattern provides Resistance to All Elements alongside an inherent Block Chance, giving the Dagger defensive benefits that most offensive weapons lack.
Its All Stats bonus further improves several character attributes while contributing additional benefits based on the class using the weapon.
This combination can help balance survivability and damage without dedicating another equipment slot entirely toward defensive bonuses.
Best Classes and Builds
Pattern works best with classes and builds that can equip Daggers while taking advantage of frequent attacks, Critical Strikes, and Lucky Hits.
Rogue builds are a natural match, particularly when using fast melee skills that repeatedly create opportunities to trigger the weapon’s Poisoning effect.
Necromancer, Sorcerer, and Warlock builds capable of using Daggers can also consider Pattern when its broad bonuses complement their chosen skills.
How to Make the Most of Pattern?
Pair Pattern with attacks that hit frequently to create more opportunities for both Critical Strikes and its Lucky Hit Poisoning effect.
Increasing Lucky Hit Chance can further improve its consistency, although the effectiveness still depends on the Lucky Hit Chance of each skill.
Its broad damage and defensive bonuses also make Pattern easier to incorporate when a build does not require another weapon-specific Unique.
Is Pattern Worth Using?
Pattern provides several useful bonuses without demanding rare high-tier Runes, making it one of the more accessible Legacy Runewords to craft.
Its combination of damage, Critical Strike Chance, Poisoning, resistance, and blocking gives compatible builds several benefits from a single weapon slot.
More specialized weapons may eventually provide greater value, but Pattern remains useful when its broad bonuses complement the rest of a build.
Verdict
Pattern offers a balanced Dagger option for builds that benefit from frequent attacks while still gaining additional protection during close-range combat.
Its inexpensive Tal, Ort, and Thul recipe makes it easier to craft without consuming the rarer Runes needed for stronger Runewords.
Fast attacking builds can make particularly good use of its Critical Strike bonuses and repeated opportunities to inflict Poisoning.
