Wirt's Leg

Wirt's Leg is an item available in Diablo II. It is the peg-leg of Wirt, who was revealed to have been killed in the siege of Tristram, allowing players to loot his hapless corpse.

Stats[]

One Hand Damage: 1 - 8 (4.5 Avg)
Level Requirement: None
Strength Requirement: None
Dexterity Requirement: None
Range: 1
Durability: 66
Sockets: 3
Speed: [-10]
- Amazon - Fast
- Assassin - Very Fast
- Barbarian - Fast
- Druid - Fast
- Necromancer - Fast
- Paladin - Very Fast
- Sorceress - Fast

Obtaining It[]

Wirt's Leg is obtained when the player returns to Tristram in order to complete the Search for Cain quest. In Tristram, near the top left corner, Wirt's mangled body lies on the ground and will drop the leg along with a load of gold (a reference to the huge sums of gold he took from players in the first game) when clicked.

It is not uncommon for the player to accidentally put gems in a socketed Wirt's Leg, since it often spends a lot of time in the player's stash or in the Horadric Cube. So it is best not to stash the leg to save slots, as the player can always pick it up after beating the current Difficulty.

Using It[]

Wirt's Leg, despite being of almost no use as a weapon to any class, has a very secret and arcane use. It is the key ingredient used to create the portal to The Secret Cow Level in Diablo II.

Once the player has killed the last boss of the game, the player must travel to the Rogue Encampment and transmute Wirt's Leg with a Tome of Town Portal (is not required to be full). A portal will be created to the Moo Moo Farm, the in-game name of the Secret Cow Level.

Despite popular belief, non-socketed Wirt's Leg can be imbued (see Tools of the Trade), and re-rolled rare Leg from standard Cube receipt with 6 Perfect Skull.

Socketed Leg^[1] can transforming for Magic from standard Cube receipt:

3 Standard Gems (normal) and 1 Socketed Weapon (Any Type) = 1 Socketed Magic Weapon ilvl=30 (of same type)

Magic Wirt's Leg can be re-rolled from the following Cube recipes:

3 Chipped Gems + 1 Magic Weapon = Socketed Magic Weapon (ilvl=25)
3 Flawless Gems + 1 Magic Weapon = Socketed Magic Weapon (ilvl=30)
3 Perfect Gems (of any type) + 1 Magic Item = 1 New Random Magic Item of the Same Type (ilvl = ilvl)

Magic Wirt's Leg can use to craft Hit-Power Club from standard Cube receipt (Tir Rune + Perfect Sapphire + any Jewel):

5% Chance to cast Level 4 Frost Nova when struck
+35-60% Enhanced Damage
Attacker Takes Damage of 3 - 7

Sockets in Wirt's Leg

White - 3 sockets at Larzuk, 1-3 sockets at standard Cube receipt for weapon^[1]
Magic - 1-2 at Larzuk, or 1-2 at Horadric Cube, or 1-3 at Mechanic's, Artisan's or Jeweler's Prefix
Rare - 1 at Larzuk or Horadric Cube; or 1 or 2 at Prefix
Craft - 1 at Larzuk, or 1-3 at Mechanic's, Artisan's or Jeweler's Prefix

Wirt's Leg cannot be used to craft runewords.

Any form Wirt's Leg (magic/rare/craft) can be used to create the portal to The Secret Cow Level

Trivia[]

An item called Wirt's Other Leg is an item found near the end of the Blood Elf campaign in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne after killing a butcher (another reference to Diablo, but the butcher is simply an abomination unit with vertex coloring made more red), and hints that the demons of Diablo are the same of Warcraft.
Another game related to Blizzard, "D-Day Judgement" (which is a custom map), features Wirt's Leg and Wirt's Other Leg. They give the user the ability to be permanently invisible.
Another item known as Wirt's Third Leg is a rare item found in World of Warcraft.
The leg was temporarily available as an artifact in Heroes of the Storm.
There is also a reference to this leg in the game Hellgate:London from 2012, the leg can be found in the first level there. There it is called "Wart's Peg Leg" and has the same shape and the same use. Hellgate London was developed by previous members of the same studio that worked on Diablo I and Diablo II.