Veil of Steel

Elite Unique

Spired Helm

Defense:: 396
Durability:: 60
Req Strength:: 192
Req level:: 73
Quality level:: 77
Treasure class:: 81

+2 to All Skills 3.4
+60% Enhanced Defense
+140 Defense
+15 to Strength
+15 to Vitality
Magic Resist +20–40% 3.4
All Resistances +50%
Damage Reduced by 15–25% 3.4
-4 to Light Radius

3.4Patch 3.4 changes

Applies to Online Ladder and Offline. Diablo II: Resurrected Ladder Season 16 patch notes

Added +2 to All Skills
Added Damage Reduced by 15–25%
Added Magic Resist +20–40%

Description

The Veil is a nod to a quest in the first Diablo game, in which you receive the item as a reward for finding a spectral elixir for the cursed undead knight Lachdanan.

Key details

Once Lachdanan drinks the elixir, he is freed from his curse and grants you the Veil off his own head before dying at last.

D2Emu Tips

Patch 3.4 adds +2 to All Skills, 15–25% physical damage reduction, and 20–40% Magic Resist, making Veil of Steel a serious alternative to Harlequin Crest for melee and tank builds. 3.4
Magic resistance is rare on gear, so the 20–40% Magic Resist on Veil of Steel is especially valuable against magic damage such as Bone Spirit. 3.4
Plan for the 192 Strength requirement of the Spired Helm base. 3.4
This Helm is still a solid defensive headgear, designed mostly for your main character - light radius penalty is easily neglected by your torch, while you can get the advantage of +15 vita (your mercenary cannot).
At the gates of Hell, the only thing to save you is the Veil of Steel.
Because a unique can only drop once per instance, any game where a Veil of Steel has dropped has a greater chance of spawning a Nightwing's Veil than a game where it has not.
The odds of a unique Spired Helm being Veil of Steel: Qlvl 1-76: 1/1 Qlvl 77+: 1/2.