Character Selection

**See the** new player guide **for more detailed information on character classes.**

This is where you select which class you want to use, as well as upgrading their characteristics, buying and upgrading their pet, and paying to make certain items available when you enter a map, as opposed to finding them within. This is also where you can exchange gems for gold and vice-versa.

**NOTE:** When upgrading characteristics and skills, the cost to upgrade by 1 point is equal to the next level of the item in question. So, upgrading from 4 to 5 costs 5 points, upgrading from 9 to 10 costs 10 points, etc. Which means it is often faster to upgrade everything at an even pace than to increase one thing much more.

## Classes

Along the left side are your unlocked character classes, and how many points they currently have for upgrades that can apply to skills, characteristics, or your pet.

Changes made to pets, skills, and characteristics, as well as purchased pets and pre-purchased items are class dependent. Gems, gold, and what items are available to pre-purchase do carry from one class to another, with the exception of main-hand and off-hand items, which are class dependent as well.

## Skills

Each class can make use of 3 skills at a time, with there being 3 options for each skill for each class, and these skills can be upgraded to level 25 each. These skills are listed by class below. (Skills that belong to the same group will be within parentheses. You cannot use more than 1 skill from the same group at a time.)

* > Warrior - (Runed Blade, Sacred Blade, Penitent Blade), (Steel Fortress, Vow of Holiness, Pain Absorber), (Reaper, Rumble of the Battle, Throw Shield)
* > Archer - (Quick Shot, Instant Shot, Elven Shot), (Step-into-the-Darkness, Smoke Bomb, Leap), (Powerful Shot, Sniper Shot, Through Shot)
* > Wizard - (Fireball, Chain Lightning, Beam of Light), (Flame Breath, Inferno, Heal), (Magical Shield, Control, Poison)
* > Hunter - (Lunge, Bloodsucker, Execution), (Killer Step, Sign of Sacrifice, Fan of Knives), (Crossbow Shot, Crossbow Volley, Spider Bolt)
* > Berserker - (Mincer, Bonecrusher, Talon of Pain), (Rage, Rapture of the Battle, Battle Madness), (Whirlwind of Death, Frenzy, Scarlet Reaping)
* > Necromancer - (Sphere of Darkness, Breath of Death, Cursed Soul), (Summon Skeleton, Summon Zombie, Summon Skeleton-Archer), (Seal of the Damned, Scarlet Seal, Seal of Death)

## Characteristics and Items

Along the top of the screen are controls for access to characteristics, pre-purchasing items, purchasing and upgrading a pet, and handling gem as well as gold purchases and quantity.

**Note:** Pre-purchasing items requires spending gems.

#### Characteristics

These help to determine things such as hit points, damage output, movement speed, and mana. Each class gains a bonus to one of these characteristics that increases that characteristic's benefits. See Characteristics for strategy involving these.

Each of these characteristics can be increased to a maximum of 50 points.

#### Equipment

This is where you can few what items are available to pre-purchase for your main-hand, off-hand, head, and body equipment slots. These items become available to pre-purchase after you have found their formula's, which have a small chance of dropping compared to the item itself. Each item purchased is available when you start a run, and is available for multiple runs.

View a list of these items Here.

#### Consumables

These are single use items, most of which are used during a run, however some have effects outside the locations, such as granting skill points or resetting skills and refunding the points spent on them. These items remain available until used, but cannot be sold.

View a list of these items Here.

#### Talismans

These are Passive items that grant generally useful benefits, such as more bag space, gold, or experience. There is also one item which allows you to re-spawn during a run if you are killed, without losing progress, though this item is 1-time use.

View a list of these items Here. Also see Passive items for strategic uses.

#### Artifacts

These items each give a passive benefit while equipped, such as increased visual range, additional damage, bonus hit points, extra points to characteristics, and special benefits to companions (such as pets and Necromancer summons).

View a list of these items Here.

#### Pets

This is where you can choose to purchase a pet (each with its own special traits), and upgrade their hit points, damage, and defense, detailed below.

* Dog
* Lynx
* Golem

**Note:** The combined level of hit points, damage, and defense cannot exceed the maximum pet level, so you cannot increase all of these to 50.

#### Shop

This is where you can trade a quantities of gems for gold and vice-versa, as well as purchase additional gems using real life currency (such as dollars).

* Purse of Gold (gives you 15,000 gold) - costs 100 gems
* Purse of Gems (gives you 80 gems) - costs 15,000 gold
* Handful of Gems (gives you 300 gems) - costs $1.99
* Bag of Gems (gives you 1,000 gems) - costs $4.99
* Chest of Gems (gives you 3,500 gems) - costs $14.99
* Treasure of Gems (gives you 15,000 gems) - costs $24.99
* Mountain of Gems (gives you 50,000 gems) - costs $49.99