Special items

Items that are new in Median XL and fit no other list: Mystic Orbs and the honorific and shrine-crafted items made with them, the reward and challenge charms, and the cube reagents.

Mystic Orbs

You may have found some Mystic Orbs or seen them for sale. Mystic Orbs can be applied to an item in the Horadric Cube, adding the orb's affix along with a +2 level penalty, up to 15 times per orb type.

The level penalty is applied to the required level of either the base item or the socket fillers, whichever is higher. Take into account the runes or jewels you want to socket into the item, or you may end up with an unusable item!

Every orb, what it adds and which items it fits: Mystic Orbs. The named Unique Mystic Orbs add more, at +10 required level per use.

Honorific items

Honorific items take the concept of Mystic Orbs one step further. Instead of merely improving an existing item, honorific items allow you to create your items from scratch with Mystic Orbs. To create an honorific item, use the Cube to turn a magic item into an honorific item: see the recipe.

The resulting honorific item has a green name and no magical affixes, but any Mystic Orb bonuses you apply to it are doubled, making them very effective indeed.

Honorific items get double bonuses from Mystic Orbs.
Honorific items have max sockets for their item type and tier.

Shrine crafted items

Starting in late Terror difficulty, you may find Portable Shrines, the remnants of the shrines below Tristram after the collapse of the labyrinth. These are multipurpose items that allow you to add random bonuses to an existing item or create your own. Every shrine and what it gives: shrine crafting and shrine blessings.

Items created with shrines have an orange name and a combination of random and preset affixes.

Crafted items get double bonuses from Mystic Orbs.
Crafted items have max sockets for their item type and tier.

Charms

Reward charms come from the Uberquests, challenge charms from the Challenges. Hover a charm to see what it does; Trophies add a bonus to the reward charms.

Charm	Type	Required level
Charm	Type	Required level
Sacred Sunstone	Challenge Charm 1	90
Shadow Vortex	Challenge Charm 2	90
Worldstone Orb	Challenge Charm 3	90
Caoi Dulra Fruit	Challenge Charm 4	90
Soulstone Shard	Challenge Charm 5	90
Eye of Divinity	Challenge Charm 6	90
Nexus Crystal	Challenge Charm 7	90
Astrogha's Venom Stinger	Reward Charm	120
Azmodan's Heart	Reward Charm	100
Cold Fusion Schematics	Reward Charm	100
Crystalline Flame Medallion	Reward Charm	120
Demonsbane	Reward Charm	100
Eternal Bone Pile	Reward Charm	100
Fool's Gold	Reward Charm	100
Hammer of the Taan Judges	Reward Charm	40
Hard Mode Charm	Reward Charm	5
Horazon's Focus	Reward Charm	40
I Am Rich	Reward Charm	0
Idol of Vanity	Reward Charm	100
Laser Focus Crystal	Reward Charm	80
Legacy of Blood	Reward Charm	100
Moon of the Spider	Reward Charm	100
Optical Detector	Reward Charm	60
Sacred Worldstone Key	Reward Charm	80
Scroll of Kings	Reward Charm	60
Silver Seal of Ureh	Reward Charm	120
Six Angel Bag	Reward Charm	60
Spirit Trance Herb	Reward Charm	100
Spirit of Damnation	Reward Charm	120
Sunless Crystal Bird	Reward Charm	60
Sunstone of Fire	Reward Charm	50
Sunstone of Ice	Reward Charm	50
Sunstone of Thunder	Reward Charm	50
Sunstone of the Gods	Reward Charm	100
The Book of Lies	Reward Charm	60
The Butcher's Tooth	Reward Charm	40
The Glorious Book of Median	Reward Charm	100
Visions of Akarat	Reward Charm	100
Zakarum's Ear	Reward Charm	80

Other special items

Gems and runes: socket fillers, and how to upgrade them in the cube.
Trophies: uber drops that bless their reward charm.
Cube reagents: oils, catalysts, Arcane Shards and Crystals, Sacrificial Heart, Meditation Candle.
Enemy tokens and Eggs.

Mystic Orbs, honorific and shrine crafted items: from Brother Laz's Median XL documentation, used with permission.