Godstone

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A **Godstone** corresponds to an ability that you can unlock and use as you progress.

Some godstone abilities are passive, but most are associated with a gesture, a button press, or both. Details may vary depending on the controller used.

On the godstone menu, you can see instructions about how to perform each gesture, as well as descriptions of the effect of each ability.

You can have one Godstone enabled/equipped per gesture. Use of these gestures is usually on a cooldown, and they will use-up Rage (for Blade Masters) or Mana (for Essence Mages) as indicated (which can be zero). Rage/Mana regenerate over time.

## Leveling

As you progress through Zenith, you will acquire more Godstones, which are equipped through and upgraded in the Soul Forge menu panel.

As you gain experience, equipped Godstones levels up. They can be upgraded to have reduced cooldowns, increased effectiveness, etc. (see below).

## Deciding Which Godstone

Once you've decided which ability you want to activate for a specific gesture, you will have to choose which specific Godstone you want to select to enable that ability. For example, you might have 3 different Godstones that each enable the "Vorpal Strike" ability. You'll have to choose which one of those you want to use to enable your use of "Vorpal Strike".

Over time you will accumlate multiple Godstones for the same ability. They will vary in Rarity, Level, and which random upgrades are available for it (you get to upgrade as you level-up a Godstone).

When you get a new Godstone for an ability you like and are using, compare it to the specific Godstone you're currently using, to decide if you want to switch.

Generally speaking, you should care least about what Level a Godstone is, since a low-level Godstone can be leveled-up by usage.

More important is their Rarity and what upgrades are possible for that Godstone. More rare Godstones have more upgrade possibilities. Some upgrades you will be interested in, some you may find not valuable for your playstyle. Some new Godstone you find may offer better upgrade possibilities than your currently-selected Godstone, and so you should switch to the new Godstone.

Since upgrade possibilities for a Godstone are randomly generated, some upgrades might not even make sense for a given Godstone. For example, if a Godstone ability has a cooldown timer, and that Godstone offers an upgrade to reduce resource cost...well then that's a useless "upgrade" that makes no sense for that Godstone. If there's no resource cost to using an ability, then a resource cost reduction "upgrade" offers no benefit for that Godstone.

If a Godstone's upgrades are useless, or just don't make sense for your playstyle, then that's a Godstone you won't be interested in using.

To help you decide, you may want to look at the Ability Exclusive Upgrades. Some examples of upgrades that are commonly desirable are things like power scaling on a damage spell. Or reducing cooldown on a teleport.

The interface includes a button for **Clean Up Useless Godstones**. That will delete all white/Common, unleveled Godstones.

## Interfacing

When you kill enemies you can sometime find loot items with the same name as your skills.

These items can be browsed in the Godstone's menu when you click on one of the skills you have.

The collection will be showed on the right menu plane. You can choose a specific Soul Forge there to replace the current one, You may see that there is color schema similar to other games.

### **Common**

* Up to 1 minor upgrade (default has none)
* Max level +3

### **Uncommon**

* 2 minor upgrades
* Max level +5

### **Rare**

* 1 major upgrade + 2 minor upgrades
* Max level +7

### **Epic**

* 1 major upgrades + 3 minor upgrades
* Max level +8

### **Legendary**

* 2 Major upgrades + 3 minor upgrades
* Max level +10
* NB:There is currently no way to acquire **Legendary** godstones.

## Max Level

Godstones have a maximum level based on their rarity, so consider your upgrade choices with care

Each  Godstone has a "+" number in the corner which tells you the level it is at, you get one upgrade point to spend per level so this also indicates how many points have been/could be spent on that godstone.

If you want to increase a Godstone's level by gaining experience, you need to select the Soul Forge so as to use it in the slot of skills.

### Minor Upgrades

Minor upgrades are upgrades which directly modify the statistical values of an ability in some way, on which you can spend points to increase the effect of a given upgrade. There are five upgrade levels for minor upgrades.

### Major Upgrades

Major upgrades fundamentally alter how a skill behaves when used, and cost between 1-3 points to unlock (see ability exclusive upgrades below for 4 point Major Upgrades). Unlike Minor Upgrades once unlocked there is no further improvement to be had.

### Ability Exclusive Upgrades

Ability exclusive upgrades are a subtype of major upgrade which usually cost 3-4 points to unlock, which can only be found on the godstones for specific abilities. The effects of exclusive upgrades behave as an extension of the underlying ability's effects, and their purpose seems to be to emphasize a given subclasses role and help it to perform that function better.