Diablo 4 Thorns

The Diablo 4 Thorns Stat Explained, what the Thorns Stat does. We also list every Aspect, Unique Armor and Weapon, Skill, Paragon that affects the Thorns Stat.

How does Thorns work in D4

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Thorns Effect
Stat	Effect
Thorns	Deals damage to attackers when hit by direct attacks. Excludes attacks that are entirety damage over time. Damage dealt is affected by the Skill damage increase from your Intelligence.
Equipment that can have Thorns	Chest Armor Pants Amulet Shield

Best Unique Weapons and Armor That have Thorns

The best unique equipment to use with the Thorns stat in D4 is Rage of Harrogath, which is a Unique Chest Armor.

Rage of Harrogath

Barbarian • Unique Chest Armor

Good Synergy

Physical Damage
Physical Critical Strike Chance Against Elites
Damage Reduction From Bleeding Enemies
Thorns

Lucky Hit: Up to a [20 - 40%] chance to reduce the Cooldowns of your Non-Ultimate Skills by 1.5 seconds when you inflict Bleeding on Elites.

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Ring of Mendeln

Necromancer • Unique Ring

Good Synergy

Cold Resistance
Shadow Resistance

Lucky Hit Chance
Minion Attack Speed
Minion Health
Thorns

While you have 7 or more Minions you gain: Lucky Hit: Up to a 10% chance to empower all of your Minions, causing the next attack from each to explode [X] Physical damage.

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Razorplate

All • Unique Chest Armor

Necromancer • Unique Shield

New

Good Synergy

Block Chance
Blocked Damage Reduction
Main Hand Weapon Damage
Thorns

Attack Speed
Damage to Distant Enemies
Lucky Hit: Up to a 5% Chance to Restore [X]% Primary Resource
Maximum Essence

Lucky Hit: While you have an active Bone Storm, hitting an enemy outside of a Bone Storm has up to a [5 - 25%] chance to spawn an additional Bone Storm at their location. Each of your active Sacrifice bonuses increases the chance by 25% and the total number of additional Bone Storms you can have by 1.

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Best Uniques

Best Aspects To Use with Thorns

The best aspects to use with the Thorns Stat in D4 is Needleflare Aspect, which is a Offensive Aspect and can only be used on Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%) Equipment Slots.

Thorns damage dealt has a [20-40%] chance to deal damage to all enemies around you.

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Death Wish Aspect

Barbarian • Offensive

Codex

Good Synergy

Gain [.65-.85] Thorns while Berserking.

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Best Aspects

Best Paragons To Use with Thorns

The best paragon to use with the Thorns stat in D4 is Revenge (Barbarian), which is a Rare Glyph Node.

Revenge (Barbarian)

Barbarian • Rare Glyph

Good Synergy

Description:
Grants +20 - 100% (4% Per Level) bonus to all Rare nodes within range.
Radius Bonus:
Dealing Thorns damage to an enemy increases all damage it takes from you by x1%, up to x8%, for 10 seconds.
Radius Requirement:

25 Willpower

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Revenge (Necromancer)

Necromancer • Rare Glyph

Good Synergy

Description:
Grants +25 - 125% (5% Per Level) bonus to all Rare nodes within range.
Radius Bonus:
Thorns damage increases all damage an enemy takes from you and your Minions by x1%, up to x10%, for 10 seconds.
Radius Requirement:

25 Willpower