Reincarnation

Reincarnation is a Difficulty that can make the game extremely difficult, while also introducing several new mechanics to the game.

Upon completing Nightmare difficulty, the 1st level of Reincarnation will unlock. Completing the 1st level will unlock the 2nd, and so on. There are a total of 9 levels that can be unlocked, each one being harder than the last.

Unlocking the next level can be done by finishing the run in either Duo Fjord or Hyperborean Jokul. However failing the run at any point, even in Hyperborean Jokul, will not unlock the next difficulty.

In Multiplayer, players can join groups on a higher Reincarnation level than they have unlocked. If they complete the run, they will unlock all previous levels and difficulties they do not have, as well as the next one if any.

This means that completing a Reincarnation 9 will unlock all difficulties, including Elite and Nightmare.

## Changes

There are a number of changes compared to other difficulties.

* Spiritual Remnant will appear at the start of each act. They offer 1 of 3 spiritual blessings that can be purchased with  Soul Essence?.
* Phantom Peddler will randomly appear in stages, similar to the Peddler or Craftsman. They offer 3 enhanced weapons and 1 enhanced scroll that can be purchased with  Soul Essence?.
* Enemy  Health?,  Shields?/ Armor? and damage is even higher, based on the Reincarnation level and act.
* Normal enemies have higher chance to drop  Soul Essence?, based on the Reincarnation level. Elite enemies and bosses are unaffected.
* Bizarre Dream can be enabled to gain even more effects.

## Reincarnation 8

Reincarnation 8 doesn't increase enemy stats compared to Reincarnation 7, instead adding more changes to gameplay compared to previous Reincarnation levels.

* Multiple challenge events can appear in each act, and even multiple times per stage. Only 1 challenge event per act can drop a scroll and bun. Every other challenge event will only drop a bun.
* Boss stages will always have a challenge event.
* Each challenge event completed will grant an extra  10? soul essence.
* Various incredibly dangerous challenge events can appear, making certain rooms significantly harder.

List of Reincarnation 8 challenges is shown below.

## Reincarnation 9

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Reincarnation 9 doesn't increase enemy stats compared to Reincarnation 7, instead adding even more changes to gameplay compared to previous Reincarnation levels.

* Normal enemies and bosses have various stats, attacks and abilities enhanced, based on each enemy. The individual bonuses each enemy gets can be seen at the difficulty selection screen.
* Several new challenge events have been added to the mix.
* Significantly increased chance of Elite Invasion challenge events, occasionally with multiple Elite enemies spawning at the same time.
* More crazy enemies’ affix *(Requires expansion/more research and clarification).*

Lists of all enemy enhancements are shown below, sorted into each act.

### Endless Journey

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Endless Journey is only available on Reincarnation 9, and can be activated at the start of a run. It serves as a harder version of the Boundless Dream modifier for Bizarre Dream.

After defeating the boss of Hyperborean Jokul, the player can choose to enter a portal, letting them continue through repeated stages endlessly. During the journey, each act can be visited in random order.

After entering the portal, players start with 10 minutes of playtime. Each completed level adds additional time by 35-40 seconds, letting you keep going as long as you clear levels quickly. Running out of time however will prevent you from continuing to the next act after the current act's boss.

* The timer is also frozen when the stage portal has appeared, or at the start of boss stage.
* At the end of each boss stage, there is a blue portal which will end the journey immediately.

Other changes include:

* Enemies will become stronger in damage,  Health? and  Shields?/ Armor? every stage. Additionally they gain DMG resistance every stage (up to 90%).
* Non-cursed Scrolls carrying limit is 60.
* Recycling scrolls give one stack of "Weapon damage +2%, skill damage +10%, skill CD -0.5%" per scroll.
* The Golden Goblet has been corrupted by demonic energy and can only replace existing ascensions with one new option. Besides, players can recycle excess golden goblets to obtain two stacks of "Weapon damage +2%, skill damage +10%, skill CD -0.5%" effect.
	+ Having  Blessing in Disguise can recycle each goblet as two.
* Cooldown reduction for recycling bonuses is capped at -90%.
* The Peddler, Craftsman, and Spiritual Remnant appearances will be reduced, while the Phantom Peddler will no longer appear.
	+ Spiritual Remnant only appears once every two acts.
* The Vault will no longer open, and defeating non-boss enemies will no longer drop copper and soul essence.

Interaction with Bizarre Dream modifiers:

* With Mysterious Jokul, the last room of Longling Tomb also triggers the "Elite Gathering" event.
* With Interdependent Fortunes, all enemies in the journey will have at least 3 scrolls, and no further choices are made in newer acts.
* With Transcendant Arsenal, the Arsenal Guard appears after beating each boss.
* With Mission from Above, additional Training Masters will not appear.

## Spiritual Remnant

Spiritual Remnant are mushroom-like humanoids which appear in the starting stage of each act. Interacting with them will allow you to purchase a spiritual blessing (Not to be confused with Spiritual Ascensions) with  Soul Essence?, which will grant a bonus for the rest of the run.

A player can carry up to 3 spiritual blessings. If the player already has 3 blessings, the player can replace one of them with the newer blessing.

The Spiritual Remnant at Longling Tomb allows players to refresh the selection up to 99 times for  10?, increasing the cost by 10 each time. Otherwise in solo play, by restarting the game from saved state, the selection will also change.

The Spiritual Remnant in Hyperborean Jokul is frozen and will not respond normally, unless the Mysterious Jokul game mode is active where he will be awake and provide a fourth chance to get spiritual blessing.

Only 1 of 3 offered spiritual blessings can be purchased from each Spiritual Remnant.

There are currently 63 spiritual blessings in the game. 23 are available to everyone, and 40 are hero specific.

Lists of available spiritual blessings are shown below, sorted into a list that every hero can use, and a list that is hero-specific.

## Phantom Peddler

Phantom Peddler may randomly appear in stages of the game, except for starting stages and boss stages. Interacting with them will allow you to purchase 3 enhanced weapons and 1 enhanced scroll with  Soul Essence?.

Phantom Peddler's wares are unaffected by  Haggle,  Dazzling Treasures,  New Look and unenhanced  On the House.

Their wares are affected by:

* Steady Profit replaces an enhanced weapon with an enhanced scroll, for 2 weapons and 2 scrolls. Additionally any unpurchased weapons and scrolls can be refreshed once, replacing them with new ones.
* Mysterious Jokul and  **Enhanced** Refresh Addict grants all Phantom Peddlers an additional refresh, similar to Steady Profit's refresh.

Enhanced occult scrolls either have a stronger effect and/or their downsides are reduced. Their details and price can be found on the Occult Scroll page. You cannot carry both an unenhanced and enhanced scroll of the same type at once. Attempting to do so will automatically drop the unenhanced version (or destroy it if it cannot be discarded).

Enhanced weapons have a prefix, which increases 1 stat by a varying amount. Their price varies based on the stage, ranging from 30 to 75  Soul Essence?.

Unless specified, each effect is additive with similar bonuses.

## Bizarre Dream

*Main: Bizarre Dream*
Bizarre Dream is only accessible when playing on Reincarnation difficulty. It introduces 8 options that you can toggle on and off, allowing greater customization for runs.