Loot System

The loot system will feel familiar to many ARPGS and traditional cRPGs.

Loot System

All loot gathered will automatically enter into a joint
inventory that is accessible by all the heroes on the inventory screen, though
any particular hero can only interact with items they can equip; it is possible
to gather items, which are not useable yet and can’t be interacted with.

Basic Gear

The Heroes start with basic gear in every slot. It is of no quality and has no affixes, but will upgrade with them as they progress in the same tiers that cause them to change appearance. You cannot remove basic gear but apply drop/crafted gear right over the basic gear.

Gear

There are many types of gear to acquire. There are 9 types
of 1 handed melee weapons, 9 types of 2 handed melee weapons, 9 types of ranged
weapons for non-casters and another 3 types of weapons for casters, and 2 different
grades of shields the heavy of which has 3 variants. Each hero has 5 armor
slots and an amulet and 2 ring slots. There are three weights of armor: plate,
medium, and cloth, and the specific weapons and armor available to each hero is specific to them,
but will overlap in someway with another hero, for more information on who can
wear what see each hero’s personal page.

Quality

Items come in 4 different qualities: Magic (green), Ancient
(blue), Relic (purple) and Unique (gold) items. Magic items have one
affix, Blue items have both a prefix and suffix and relic items have a prefix,
a suffix, and a slot to be enchanted. Unique items are special and may only be
modified once with a boost to specific stats. Generally they are special, though not always for the good, for a list of some of the unique items visit the Uniques page.
To see a list of affixes, visit the affixes page. Prefixes and Suffixes have thier own pages also.

Tier

All items come in quality by tier from 1 to 5. Tiers 1 and 2
have a + tier that is slightly better than its normal tier but not as good as
the next. Tier 5 is very special and always has a drawback. Throughout the
tower you will find blueprints to first gain access to and the upgrade your
blacksmith to forge items, you can never learn the ability to craft tier 5
items, they must be gathered from within the tower. Also, you will generally
start finding the next tier of gear before you learn how to craft it.

Crafting

Throughout the journey through the Tower, the heroes will find many items and raw crafting material. Unwanted gear can be deconstructed into these crafting materials. While the amount of crafting materials used changes, the same materials are used to craft tiers 1-4. These materials are also used to upgrade items in the forge and enchant gear.

Enchanting

Relic quality (purple) items have an enchant slot, which allows them to be enchanted in the enchant window in town (mage tower). You first have to find the scroll with the knowledge of the enchantment, and then spend purple crystals to enchant a valid item. You can replace an enchantment (removing the previous effect), but you cannot remove an enchantment from an item. Unique items can never have enchantments added/changed.

The Forge

All items have a number of boxes (1-5) next to the tier;
these boxes are the number of times an item can be upgraded in the forge. This
upgrade is irreversible, and upgrades get more expensive each time. Some stats can always be added/upgraded while other require the stat to already be present on the item being upgraded. Green items have a chance to have 1 to 4 upgrade slots, blue items can have 1 to 3 (but will almost never have 3) and purple items can have 1 or 2. More powerful items cannot be upgraded as often. To obtain more than 3 upgrade slots on an item requires using special single-use forges found in the tower.

Special Forges

Throughout the Tower there are special single-use forges
that can improve the quality (green to blue, blue to
purple). This process expends the energy of the forge and is irreversible.
This process adds a second affix (prefix if a suffix is present and vice
versa) when upgrading from green to blue, and an enchantment slot when upgrading
from blue to purple. In addition, it will add an upgrade slot for the standard forge and improve either the armor rating of armor or the base damage of weapons.
Jewelry can be upgraded but will not get anything special for it item type.