Basics

#What is Torchdelve?

Torchdelve is an idle dungeon crawler played in the browser. You send your hero into a dungeon for a set time, close the game if you like, and come back to collect experience, gold and loot. Between runs you equip gear, spend points, turn in quests and trade in town. There is no action to master: the choices are where to go, how hard, for how long, and how to build your hero.

Everything is decided on the server when a run starts, so the outcome of a run is already set while you wait, and nothing you do in another tab or device can change it. Progress is deliberately slow: levels take longer and longer, and the best gear takes real time to find. The game is in beta: numbers can change, and this wiki is rebuilt from the game's own rules whenever they do.

The loop

1. Pick a dungeon, a difficulty (Easy, Medium, Hard) and a length (15, 30, 60 or 120 minutes).
2. Wait. A journal shows what your hero meets. You can close the game.
3. Return and collect: XP, gold, items, quest progress and, sometimes, a raid invitation.
4. Improve your hero: wear better gear, spend attribute and talent points, enchant items, turn in quests.
5. Go deeper.

Basics

#Key ideas

Torchdelve has a handful of ideas that everything else builds on. Each links to its full article.

Hero

Your character. You have one hero per account. It has a level, gear, attributes and talents, and it is what goes into dungeons.

Run

One trip into a dungeon, of a length you choose. While a run lasts your hero is away; when it ends you collect what it brought back.

Dungeon

A place to send your hero, from The Mill Cellar downward. Deeper dungeons are harder and pay more. You always see two dungeons below the deepest you have entered.

Difficulty

Easy, Medium or Hard. Each step makes a dungeon one level harder, pays more, and only Hard drops Rare and better items.

Boss

The named monster at the bottom of each dungeon. Beating it pays extra and counts for quests; the first win on each difficulty gives a trophy.

Item

A piece of gear: a weapon, armor or jewelry. Items have a rarity, an item level and power, and are worn in one of 13 equipment places.

Gear score

The average power per equipment place of what you wear. Dungeons use it to decide who may enter and how hard their boss is.

Trophy

A boss's own weapon or armor, given once for the first time you beat that boss on a difficulty.

XP and gold

Experience raises your level; gold buys gear, enchantments and resets.

Quest

A chain of tasks with rewards per step and a named item at the end. Story, Town and Deed chains.

Bounty

A short task that renews every day (three) or week (one).

Raid

A twelve-hour expedition with a party of adventurers, against several bosses, for the best loot in the game.

Score

A number that sums up your hero's progress and ranks you on the leaderboard.

In town

When your hero is not away on a run or raid. Changing gear, spending points, trading and enchanting only work in town.

Basics

#Your first hour

A new hero starts at level 1 with a Worn Sword and a Tattered Tunic. New players are offered a short tour and a First steps list; both can be opened again later from Settings → Tour.

1. Open The Mill Cellar on Easy and choose a length. A 60-minute run at level 1 gives exactly the XP for level 2.
2. When the time is up, press Return and collect rewards. New items fill empty equipment places by themselves.
3. Open the quest log (left side, or the Hero tab on a phone). Rats in the Grain is already counting.
4. At level 2 you get your first attribute point: open Attributes under your hero.
5. Sell what you do not need at the Merchant, and keep an eye on the Next goal card: it tells you what unlocks next.

Basics

#The screen

Character window

Your hero, level, experience bar, score and rank. The model wears what you equip. Around it are the 13 equipment places; click one to see or change what is in it. Below are four tabs: Character (stats), Attributes, Talents and Currency (materials). A green dot means you have points to spend.

Quest log

Tabs for Story, Town, Deeds and Bounties. A badge counts steps ready to turn in.

Merchant and Enchanter

Buttons under the quest log. The Enchanter opens at level 5.

Dungeons

The main list. Above it: First steps (new heroes), Next goal, and a banner when a raid party is waiting.

Backpack

Everything you carry but do not wear, with a verdict for each item: better than worn, worse, or a trade-off.

Leaderboard

Every hero ranked by score.

Settings (gear icon, top right)

Account, the tour, installing the app, and log out.

Bugs & Feedback (bottom right)

Send a bug report, feedback or an idea straight to the developer.

On a phone the same parts sit behind the bottom bar: Hero, Dungeons, Backpack, Merchant and Ranks.

Basics

#Next goal, First steps and the tour

How Next goal is chosen

1. While any dungeon or difficulty is still locked, it shows the lowest one you cannot enter yet, with what is missing: the level (and how much XP is left), the boss win on the difficulty below and the gear score required.
2. When everything is unlocked, it shows the lowest boss whose trophy you have not won.
3. When every trophy is yours, it says so.

It also names the trophy waiting there, its rarity and its power, so you know what the goal is worth.

First steps

First steps is a short checklist for new heroes, shown above Next goal if you chose the tour when you first logged in. It ticks itself off as you play: go into a dungeon, collect the rewards, wear something you found, turn in a quest step, spend an attribute point. The next item is highlighted with a hint. Hide removes it; Done appears when all five are ticked.

The tour

The tour is an eight-step walk through the screen with a spotlight on each part. It is offered once, the first time a new hero logs in, and can be started at any time from Settings → Tour. Arrow keys move through it and Escape ends it.

Your hero

#The character window

The header

Name and level

Your hero's name, and Level N Adventurer.

Title

Fresh from the village until you win your first trophy; after that Slayer of … the boss of the highest-level trophy you own.

Score and Rank

Your score and your place among all heroes (#3 of 40). Click it to open the leaderboard; hover it to see what the score is made of.

Experience bar

How far you are into the current level, as XP gathered / XP needed.

The paperdoll

The middle shows your hero as a turning 3D model that wears what you equip; each item's rarity has its own look. Drag it, or use the two round arrows, to turn it. Around it are the 13 equipment places (see Equipment): click one to see what is worn there and choose something else from your backpack.

GS

Your gear score: the average power of the items you wear, over all 13 equipment places (an empty place counts as 0).

★

How many trophies you have won.

The stat panels

Two panels under the model show your numbers. Each has a menu to switch between Offense, Defense and Fortune; your choice is remembered. A value shown brighter means something is raising it.

The tabs

Character

The paperdoll and stat panels above.

Attributes

Spend attribute points. A green dot on the tab means you have points left.

Talents

Learn talents from level 10. A green dot means you have points left.

Currency

Your trophies count and your enchanting materials. Hover a material for what it is used for.

Your hero

#Experience and gold

Where XP comes from

• Runs: the main source. More for higher dungeon levels, harder difficulties and longer runs (see Run length).
• Quest steps: each turned-in step pays a share of about 1.6 levels per chain.
• Bounties: 16% of a level (daily) or 65% (weekly).
• Raids: about 1.5 levels for a full clear.

What a level gives: one attribute point, from level 10 one talent point, 20 more base health, access to higher dungeons and difficulties, and new quest chains.

Where gold comes from

• Runs: a base amount (±15%), hidden purses found on the way, ×1.5 when the boss falls, plus your gold bonus.
• Selling items to the Merchant.
• Quest steps, bounties and raids.

What gold is for

• Buying items from the Merchant's hourly stock.
• Enchanting: every enchant costs gold as well as materials.
• Resetting attributes or talents: 20 gold × your level each.

Gold is never lost: fleeing a run or losing to a boss only means that run pays nothing or less.

Your hero

#Levels and experience

Each level needs 25% more experience than the one before. Level 1 → 2 takes 100 XP. Experience comes from dungeon runs, raids, quest steps and bounties. There is no level cap.

The last two columns assume a dungeon whose level matches yours. Harder dungeons and difficulties pay much more; see Run length.

Titles

Your title under the name is Fresh from the village until you win your first trophy. After that it is Slayer of … the boss of the highest-level trophy you own.

Your hero

#Attributes

You get one attribute point per level after the first (plus one per rank of the Veteran talent). Spend them under Attributes in the character window, only while in town.

Strength and Stamina multiply everything your gear gives, so they grow in value as your gear improves. Luck adds gold and a chance of one extra item per hour of dungeon.

Your hero

#Talents

Talents open at level 10: you get one talent point per level from 10 (so 11 points at level 20). There are three trees. A talent needs a certain hero level, and each has a maximum rank.

Picking talents

• Might wins fights: more DPS, better boss odds, and shorter dungeon times with Relentless.
• Guard keeps you standing: more health, a second chance against bosses, and extra attribute points.
• Fortune pays: gold, extra items and a better chance of Rare and better drops on Hard.

Your hero

#DPS, health and bosses

Every piece of gear has power. Where it is worn decides what the power becomes:

• Weapons (main and off hand): DPS.
• Armor (helmet, cloak, chest, belt, legs, boots, gloves): Health.
• Jewelry (rings, trinkets): a little of both.

Boss fights

Each dungeon ends in its boss. Your chance to win compares your DPS and health with a hero wearing the dungeon's recommended gear score: the stronger you are against that reference, the better your odds. Boss win bonuses (Executioner, Boss win affixes) add straight to the chance. The chance never goes below 5% or above 95%.

The dungeon window shows your exact chance before you start. If you lose, Second Wind gives a chance to get up and win anyway.

How often you meet the boss depends on the length of the run: one boss fight per hour. See Run length.

Dungeons

#A run, step by step

Runs at a time

One. A new run can start when the last one is collected.

Lengths

15, 30, 60 or 120 minutes

Can be stopped

Yes, by fleeing, but then it pays nothing

Outcome decided

When the run starts, on the server

1. Starting

Open a dungeon from the list. The dungeon window shows, for the difficulty and length you pick: the XP and gold, how many items to expect and at what rarity odds, your chance against the boss, when you will be back, which quests and bounties the run counts for, and the trophy still to win. Press Start.

2. While you are away

A journal replaces the dungeon list and fills in as time passes. About every six minutes something happens:

• A foe (most often): You defeat a giant spider. Foes count for Defeat foes quests and bounties.
• A hidden purse: extra gold on top of the run's pay.
• Something happens: a flickering torch, a trap, runes on the wall. Only colour.

Once per hour of dungeon the hero meets the boss; runs under an hour meet it only sometimes. The journal tells you whether it fell, drove you off, or whether you never got deep enough.

While a run lasts your hero is away: you cannot change gear, spend points, trade or enchant. You can still read the quest log, the wiki and the leaderboard.

3. Coming back

When the time is up, press Return and collect rewards. The report shows the XP, gold and items, any trophy, levels gained and quest progress. Items fill empty equipment places by themselves; the rest go to the backpack. Each item says whether it is better or worse than what you wear, and Wear / Backpack lets you choose where it goes right there. Sometimes a raid party is waiting as you come out (see Raids).

A finished run that is not collected still counts as away, so collect it before you try to change gear.

Fleeing

Flee the dungeon ends the run at once, with no XP, no gold and no items. Use it only if you started the wrong run.

Faster runs

The Relentless talent makes runs take less real time (−5% per rank) while they still count, pay and progress as their full length.

Dungeons

#The dungeons

Dungeons

5 known, more below

Levels

The Mill Cellar 1 to The Dragon Deep 16 (Easy)

To enter

Your level ≥ the dungeon level; on Medium and Hard also a gear score and the boss beaten on the difficulty below

The dungeons are revealed one at a time, always two ahead: you see the two below the deepest one you have entered. The first 5 are described here; what lies below The Dragon Deep you find out for yourself. Each can be entered on three difficulties, each a level harder than the one before. To enter you need the dungeon's level, and on Medium and Hard a minimum gear score (req) and a win against the boss on the difficulty below (Easy opens Medium, Medium opens Hard). The recommended gear score (rec) is what the boss is balanced against.

req = gear score needed to enter · rec = recommended gear score, what the boss is balanced against.

The Mill Cellar · from level 1

A damp vault beneath the old mill. Rats, bones and the odd lost thief. Boss: The Rat King.

Wolf Ravine · from level 4

A narrow gorge where the pack hunts and bandits hide their spoils. Watch the ledges. Boss: Greypelt, Leader of the Pack.

The Sunken Church · from level 8

A chapel swallowed by the marsh. The bells still ring at night, and the congregation never left. Boss: The Drowned Priest.

Frostfang Barrow · from level 12

A burial mound in the ice where old kings sleep with their weapons. Some of them do not sleep well. Boss: Hrafn the Unburied.

The Dragon Deep · from level 16

Tunnels that run hot all the way down to an old dragon's hoard. The richest loot in the land. Boss: Ashwing, the Old Dragon.

Dungeons

#Difficulty

Harder difficulties raise the dungeon level by one per step, pay more XP and gold, and are the only place Rare, Epic and Legendary items drop. Bosses also drop items more often, and the first kill on each difficulty gives a better trophy.

Dungeons

#Bosses

What winning gives

• ×1.5 gold for the whole run.
• A chance of an extra item (40% Easy, 55% Medium, 75% Hard per win), never Common.
• The trophy, the first time you beat this boss on this difficulty (see Trophies).
• Quest and bounty progress for Slay the boss objectives.
• It counts toward Bosses slain, the Boss Hunter deed, and your title.

What losing costs

Nothing beyond the missed bonus: you keep all XP, the base gold and the items from the rest of the run. The journal says the boss drove you off.

How often you meet it

One fight per hour of dungeon: a 60-minute run once, a 120-minute run twice (you can win both, one or neither), a 30-minute run in half the runs and a 15-minute run in a quarter. See Run length.

Improving your odds

• Raise DPS and health: better gear, Strength and Stamina, the Might and Guard talents, DPS and Health affixes.
• Boss win bonuses add straight to the chance: Executioner (+3% per rank) and Boss win affixes.
• Second Wind gives a chance to get up and win after a loss.
• Your exact chance is shown in the dungeon window before you start.

Dungeons

#Run length

You choose how long your hero stays: 15, 30, 60 or 120 minutes. The rule is simple: everything that counts toward progress is the same per hour, whatever the length, and longer runs pay a little more XP and gold per hour. Many short runs are never a shortcut; pick the length that fits your day.

Base XP and gold are for a level 1 dungeon on Easy; they grow with the dungeon level and difficulty (below).

Bosses per hour

A dungeon has one boss fight per hour. A 60-minute run always meets the boss, a 120-minute run meets it twice. Shorter runs reach it only sometimes: a 15-minute run in 25% of runs, a 30-minute run in half. When you do not get deep enough, the journal says so, and there is no boss gold or boss item that time.

Quest hours

Objectives like Spend 4 hours in The Mill Cellar count the time of your runs: a 15-minute run adds 0.25, a 120-minute run adds 2. Some steps ask for runs of a minimum length (for example Finish a 120-minute run).

Examples

Gold shown before the random spread, purses and boss bonus.

Dungeons

#Trophies

Trophies

Three per boss (one per difficulty); 15 in the dungeons below, more deeper down

How often

Once per boss and difficulty, forever

Which piece

Weapon or chest armor, 50/50

Names

Easy: plain · Medium: Exalted … · Hard: Mythic …

Worth

25 score points × the dungeon level, plus the item

How it works

• Win a boss fight on a difficulty where you have not won yet: the trophy is added to your rewards in the run report.
• You get either the weapon or the chest armor, at random. The other one is not given later: each boss and difficulty gives exactly one trophy.
• If it has more power than what you wear in that place, it is put on at once; otherwise it goes to your backpack.
• Its power is the best a normal item of its level and rarity could roll, plus 15%.
• Trophies carry an affix when they are Rare or better (Hard trophies are Epic): weapons DPS, armor Health.
• The ★ box in the character window counts your trophies, the Slayer of … title names your best one, and Next goal points to the next one to win.

All trophies

Numbers in brackets are the trophy's power. The dungeon window shows which trophies you still can win.

Gear

#Items and the backpack

What an item shows

Name

Rarity, type and, from Rare up, its affix: Rune-carved Sash of Endurance. Named items (trophies, quest rewards, relics) have names of their own.

Colour

Its rarity: grey Common, green Uncommon, blue Rare, purple Epic, orange Legendary.

Type

Where it can be worn: weapon, helmet, cloak, chest, belt, legs, boots, gloves, ring or trinket.

Item level

The level it was made for; sets its base power.

Power

Its strength, which becomes DPS, health or both depending on where it is worn.

Affixes

Green bonuses on Rare and better items, like +3.2% Health (see Affixes).

+1, +2 …

How many times it has been enchanted (see The Enchanter).

Sell value

What the Merchant pays for it.

Getting items

• Runs: most items. How many depends on the length; which rarity on the difficulty and length.
• Bosses: a chance of an extra item per win, and trophies.
• The Merchant: four for sale every hour.
• Quest chains: a named item at the end of each.
• Raids: several items and, for a full clear, a Legendary relic.

The backpack

The Backpack tab lists everything you carry. Each item says ▲ Better than worn (green), ▼ Worse than worn (red), ◆ Trade-off or Same as worn, judged on power and affixes together, against the weakest item you wear in a place it fits. Wear puts it on (highlighted when it is an upgrade). There is no limit to how much you can carry.

Hover (or tap) an item to compare it in detail: your total DPS, health and boss win bonus after the swap. Clicking an equipment place on the paperdoll lists everything you could wear there instead.

Gear

#Rarity

Items come in five rarities. Rarity multiplies an item's power, sets how far it can be enchanted, and from Rare up adds affixes.

Where each rarity comes from

• Common and Uncommon: every dungeon and difficulty, the Merchant, Easy and Medium trophies.
• Rare: Hard dungeons, bosses on Hard, raids (every boss slain drops one), the Merchant from level 10 (seldom), some quest rewards.
• Epic: Hard dungeons (seldom), Hard trophies, raid bosses (sometimes), quest rewards.
• Legendary: long Hard runs (very seldom), raid relics, raid bosses (very seldom), the biggest quest rewards.

Drop odds per item

Each item found in a run rolls on this table. Lucky Find raises the Rare, Epic and Legendary weights by 10% per rank. Boss drops never roll Common.

Gear

#Equipment and item power

Your hero has 13 equipment places. Rings, trinkets and weapons have two places each, which is also why they drop twice as often. Weapons and chest armor have a little more power than other items.

Item level

An item's level is the level of the dungeon it came from (raids give a level or two more, quest rewards and trophies have their own). Each item level adds 3 base power, so a higher-level Common can beat a low-level Rare in raw power; affixes can tip it back. The backpack does that sum for you.

Comparing and wearing

• Hover an item (tap on a phone) to compare it with what you wear. You see your total DPS, health and boss win bonus after the swap, affixes included.
• The verdict is ▲ Upgrade, ▼ Downgrade or ◆ Trade-off (better in one thing, worse in another).
• New loot fills empty places by itself. Trophies and quest rewards are also worn at once if they have more power than what they replace.
• Gear can only be changed in town, not while your hero is in a dungeon.

Gear

#Gear score

What it is used for

• Entering dungeons: Medium and Hard have a minimum gear score (req).
• Boss balance: each dungeon's boss is balanced against a recommended gear score (rec). Beating it with a lower score is possible, just less likely.
• Your score: 1 point per gear score, counted from what you wear now.
• The Well Armed town chain asks for a gear score of 46.

The reference

Requirements and recommendations are fractions of a reference: a hero of the dungeon's level wearing Uncommon items of that level in all 13 places. Medium asks for 25% of it, Hard for 50%; the recommended score is 50% (Easy), 80% (Medium) and 110% (Hard).

Gear

#Affixes

Rare, Epic and Legendary items carry affixes: bonuses on top of their power, shown in green, like +3.2% Health. The end of the item's name tells you which. Affixes from all worn items add up.

Items with a name of their own (trophies, quest rewards, raid relics) get their affix by place: weapons DPS, armor Health, jewelry Boss win. Legendary items always carry two.

Size

• DPS and Health affixes multiply your whole DPS or health, after attributes and talents.
• Boss win adds percentage points to every boss fight.

Town

#The Enchanter

From level 5 the Enchanter can make items stronger and break unwanted ones down into materials. Both only work in town.

Enchanting

Each enchant adds 10% of the item's base power (at least 1), shown as +1, +2 … after the name. How far an item can go depends on its rarity.

Breaking down

Take an item off first. Common items hold no magic and give nothing.

Town

#Materials

Materials are used by the Enchanter. You see them under Currency in the character window.

Where to get them

• Breaking down Uncommon and better items (see The Enchanter).
• Bounties: every daily bounty gives Arcane Dust, weekly ones give Glimmering Shards (and a Void Crystal from level 12).
• Raids: a Glimmering Shard per boss slain, and a Void Crystal for a full clear.
• Quest chains: the last step lets you take materials instead of the item.

Town

#The Merchant

The Merchant buys anything you carry and sells four items of your level.

• Selling: an item sells for 1.5 × its power × its rarity factor (at least 1 gold). Sell one item, all items of a rarity, or the whole backpack. Worn items are never sold.
• Buying: the stock is four items at your level. It changes every hour and is your own. Prices are four times what the item would sell for.
• The stock is mostly Common and Uncommon. From level 10 the Merchant sometimes has a Rare.

Quests

#How quests work

Quests come as chains of steps. Every chain you have unlocked counts at the same time. There are three kinds:

Story

12 chains, one per dungeon, unlocked by level. They tell the dungeon's tale and end with a named item.

Town

7 chains about gear, the Merchant, attributes, talents, bounties and the Enchanter. They teach the game and pay a little less XP. A Go button takes you to the right place.

Deeds

4 long-term achievements that count everything you have ever done, including play from before you unlocked them.

Turning in

• When a step is complete it says Ready to turn in. Press Turn in for its XP and gold.
• The next step starts counting at once, even before you turn in the finished one, so no run is wasted. The log shows it as Already counting.
• The same run can finish one step and count toward the next if they measure different things (for example the 25th kill and a boss win).
• The last step lets you choose the chain's named item or a bundle of materials.
• Finished chains add to your score: 100 points per star.

Objective types

• Spend hours in a dungeon: the time of your runs (15 min = 0.25).
• Defeat foes: foes met on the way (about one per six minutes).
• Slay the boss: boss fights won; a 120-minute run can give two.
• Carry gold out: gold earned in that dungeon.
• Find items: of a rarity or better (Rare and up means Hard).
• Filters like on Medium or harder or runs of 60 minutes or more must be met for a run to count.

Quests

#Story chains

Rewards next to each step are what turning it in pays.

Quests

#Town chains

Town chains count what you do in town from the moment a step becomes current, so earlier sales or enchants do not finish them for free.

Quests

#Deeds

Deeds count your whole history. Their rewards grow with each step; the final items are among the best in the game.

Quests

#Bounties

Every day you get 3 daily bounties, and every week one weekly bounty. They use the dungeons you can enter, favouring the newest ones. Daily bounties reset at midnight, the weekly one on Monday at midnight (Swedish time); unclaimed bounties are lost at the reset.

Daily bounties

• Spend 3 hours in a dungeon
• Defeat a number of foes in a dungeon (15 + your level)
• Slay a dungeon's boss twice
• Spend 2 hours in runs of 60 minutes or more
• Earn an amount of gold in dungeons
• Find 3 Uncommon items or better

Weekly bounties

• Spend 15 hours in dungeons
• Defeat 100 + 4 × your level foes
• Slay 8 bosses
• Spend 8 hours in runs of 120 minutes
• Defeat 70 + 3 × your level foes in one dungeon

Rewards

Raids

#Raids

Opens at

Level 5

Length

12 hours (talents do not shorten it)

Start

Only by accepting an invitation

Leaving early

Possible, with no rewards

The party

The party is a tank, a healer, a mage and a ranger, with names that change every time. They carry you: every raid boss is balanced for your level and your chances are raised by their support, but later bosses are harder than earlier ones. The party is the story; your own DPS and health decide the fights.

From level 5, a party of four adventurers (a tank, a healer, a mage and a ranger) may be waiting when you come back from a dungeon. They invite you to a 12-hour raid with several bosses and far better loot than a dungeon.

Meeting a party

• Every hour spent in dungeons gives a 5% chance, plus 1% per difficulty step above Easy.
• If you have not met one in 25 hours of dungeon, the next run guarantees a meeting.
• The invitation is shown as a banner above the dungeons and stands for 24 hours. You can keep running dungeons meanwhile; accept it any time you are back in town, for example before you go to bed.

The raids

The raid you are invited to depends on your level. The bosses are fought in order and each is harder than the last; the invitation shows your chance against each one. A lost boss ends the push, and the rest of the night is spent recovering.

Rewards

• XP: about 1.5 levels for a full clear (at least 60% of that even if the first boss stops you).
• Gold: about 12 medium runs' worth for a full clear (at least half).
• Items: 3 items one level above yours (mostly Uncommon, sometimes Rare or Epic), plus an item two levels above yours for every boss slain (Rare, sometimes Epic, very seldom Legendary).
• Relic: clear every boss and you get one of the raid's three Legendary relics, three levels above your own.
• Materials: a Glimmering Shard per boss, and a Void Crystal for a full clear.
• Each raid boss slain adds 150 points to your score.

Raids

#The world boss

New boss

Every Monday (Swedish time)

An attack

DPS × 60 damage

Rest

8 hours between attacks

Full share

5 attacks or more

Collect by

The end of the following week

Its health is set when the week begins, from how many heroes have played in the last 14 days, so it takes the whole community to bring it down. If it is still standing when the week ends, it escapes and there are no spoils that week. Dungeon runs and raids do not touch it; only attacks do.

The spoils

• Everyone who fought it: gold and Arcane Dust.
• A full share (at least 5 attacks that week): twice the gold, Glimmering Shards and a Rare item one level above yours.
• The top 3 by damage (with a full share): an Epic instead of the Rare, and a Void Crystal.
• Help bring down 5 world bosses for the title Worldbreaker.

The card shows its health, how many heroes have fought it, your damage and place, when you can attack again, and the top fighters. Watch your last fight plays your latest attack again. When it has fallen, collect your share there.

Duels

#Duels

Answer within

48 hours

At a time

One waiting duel per hero, sent or received

Sent per day

At most 10

Starting rating

1,000

Challenging and answering

• Open a hero from the leaderboard and press Challenge to a duel. The profile shows your chance of winning first.
• The challenged hero sees a banner above the dungeons and the challenge under Leaderboard → Duels, with their own chance. Accept fights the duel at once; Decline ends it. An unanswered challenge lapses after 48 hours.
• The challenger sees "accepted your duel" next time they play, and can watch the fight blow by blow.
• A hero can only have one duel waiting at a time, sent or received. Until it is answered, taken back or lapses, you cannot challenge anyone and nobody can challenge you.
• Untick Take challenges to be left alone; waiting challenges are then declined.

The fight

Both heroes fight with their gear, attributes and talents as they are when the duel is accepted. They strike in turn with their DPS against each other's Health, in about five blows each when they are even. A blow can be parried (20%), the boss win bonus gives crushing blows that do double damage, and Second Wind heals once below 30% health. The stronger hero usually wins, but not always: about 7 in 10 times against a hero a quarter weaker.

Rating

Duel rating works like chess ratings: beating a higher-rated hero gives more, beating a lower-rated one gives little, and the loser loses what the winner gains (up to 32). Only the first duel between the same two heroes each day counts, so rating cannot be farmed. Duel rating does not count towards your score; it has its own column on the leaderboard. Win 10 duels for the title the Duelist.

Standing

#Score and leaderboard

Your score measures what takes real time or can only be done once, so it cannot be farmed with quick runs. It is the sum of:

Dungeon and boss counts are left out on purpose. Ties are broken by level, then by who got there first. Hover a score on the leaderboard to see how it is made up.

Help

#Account and app

• E-mail: every hero needs a verified e-mail address. It is used for codes and account notices only, and you can log in with it instead of the hero name.
• Forgot your password? Use the link on the log-in page: a code is sent to your e-mail.
• Keep me logged in remembers you on that device for up to 400 days. Log out other devices under Account ends every other session.
• Install as an app: Settings → Get the app. On a phone it opens full screen from your home screen.
• Your data: under Account you can download everything stored about your hero, or delete your hero for good. See the privacy policy.
• Rules: no bots, scripts, multiple accounts or deliberate bug abuse. Accounts that break the terms of use can be paused or banned.

Help

#Messages and bug reports

Reporting a bug or an idea

Press Bugs & Feedback in the bottom right corner, choose Bug, Feedback or Idea, and describe what happened. Your hero name and your device and browser are sent along, so the problem can be found.

Answers

• Every report you send while logged in becomes a conversation in your messages. When the team answers, the envelope shows a red number.
• Open a conversation to read it. You can answer, and the team sees your answer.
• The team can also write to you first, for example about your account or news in the game.
• Reports sent without logging in cannot be answered in the game; give an e-mail address if you want an answer.

Messages are part of your data: they are included when you download your data, and deleted if you delete your hero.

Help

#Questions and answers

Is it better to run 4 × 15 minutes or 1 × 60?

Progress is the same per hour; the 60-minute run gives a little more XP and gold. Choose by when you can come back.

I slay the boss but my quest does not move.

Check the step: some ask for Medium or Hard, some for a certain dungeon. Runs under an hour do not always reach the boss; the journal says when you did not get deep enough.

Why is a Rare item worse than my Common one?

Item level matters too: each level adds 3 base power. A low-level Rare can still win through its affix, which the comparison counts.

I never find Rare items.

Rare, Epic and Legendary only drop on Hard, apart from raids, trophies and quest rewards.

Can I change gear during a run?

No. Gear, attributes, talents, trading and enchanting wait until you are back in town.

What happens if I flee a dungeon?

You come back at once with nothing from that run.

Do I lose anything when a bounty resets?

Only unclaimed rewards. Collect them before midnight (daily) or Monday (weekly).

What exactly is a trophy?

A boss's own named weapon or chest armor, given once, the first time you beat that boss on a difficulty. It is a normal item at the top of its power range, and it raises your score. See Trophies.

I got the boss's weapon. Can I still get its armor?

Not on that difficulty: each boss and difficulty gives one trophy, weapon or armor at random. The same boss on another difficulty gives a new one.

Does beating the boss again give another trophy?

No. Later wins give gold, a chance of an item and quest progress, but the trophy only comes once.

What is the difference between level, item level and dungeon level?

Level is your hero's. Dungeon level is how strong a dungeon is on a difficulty. Item level is the dungeon level an item came from, and sets its base power.

What is gear score, and why does it not match my strength?

Gear score is only the power of what you wear. Attributes, talents and affixes make you stronger without raising it. Your real strength is your DPS and health.

I found a bug.

Use Bugs & Feedback in the bottom right corner. It is read by the developer.

Help

#Glossary

Every term used in the game, in alphabetical order.

Abandon / Flee

End a run early. You get nothing from it.

Affix

A bonus on Rare and better items (DPS, Health or Boss win), named by the end of the item's name. More

Arcane Dust

The most common enchanting material. More

Attribute point

One per level, spent on Strength, Stamina or Luck. More

Away

Your hero is on a run or raid (or back but not collected). Opposite of in town.

Backpack

Items you carry but do not wear. More

Boss

The named monster of a dungeon, fought once per hour of run. More

Boss win bonus

Percentage points added to your chance in every boss fight.

Bounty

A daily or weekly task. More

Chain

A quest made of several steps. More

Character window

The panel with your hero, gear and stats. More

Collect

Take the rewards of a finished run (Return and collect rewards).

Deed

A long-term quest chain that counts your whole history. More

Difficulty

Easy, Medium or Hard. More

Disenchant / Break down

Destroy an item for materials. More

DPS

Damage per second; how hard your hero hits. More

Duel

A fight between two players' heroes, fought by the server once the challenge is accepted. More

Dungeon

A place to send your hero on runs. More

Dungeon level

How strong a dungeon is on a difficulty; sets its rewards and the level needed to enter.

Enchant

Raise an item's power with materials and gold; shown as +1, +2 … More

Equipment place

One of the 13 spots where an item is worn. More

Exalted / Mythic

The name prefix of Medium and Hard trophies.

First steps

The checklist for new heroes. More

Foe

A monster met on the way through a dungeon; counted by Defeat foes objectives.

Gear score (GS)

Average power per equipment place of what you wear. More

Glimmering Shard

The middle enchanting material. More

Gold

The game's money. More

Health

How much your hero can take. More

Hidden purse

Gold found during a run, on top of its pay.

In town

Your hero is not away. Gear, points, trading and enchanting only work in town.

Item

A piece of gear. More

Item level

The level an item was made for; sets its base power.

Journal

The live log of a run: foes, purses, events and the boss.

Leaderboard

All heroes ranked by score. More

Level

Your hero's growth, raised by XP. More

Material

Dust, Shards and Crystals for the Enchanter. More

Merchant

The trader in town. More

Next goal

The card that shows what to unlock or win next. More

Party

The four adventurers who invite you to a raid. More

Power

An item's strength; becomes DPS, health or both. More

Quest

A task with a reward; they come in chains. More

Raid

A twelve-hour expedition with a party against several bosses. More

Rank

Your place on the leaderboard (talent ranks: how many points a talent has).

Rarity

An item's grade, Common to Legendary. More

Recommended gear score (rec)

What a dungeon's boss is balanced against.

Relic

A named Legendary item for clearing every boss of a raid. More

Required gear score (req)

The gear score needed to enter a dungeon on Medium or Hard.

Reset

Take back all attribute or talent points to spend again, for 20 gold × your level.

Run

One trip into a dungeon. More

Score

One number for your hero's progress. More

Star

The size of a quest chain (1–3); 100 score points each when finished.

Step

One task in a quest chain.

Talent

A special ability learned with talent points from level 10. More

Title

The line under your name: Slayer of … your best trophy's boss.

Tour

The guided walk through the screen, in Settings. More

Trophy

A boss's own named weapon or armor, once per boss and difficulty. More

Turn in

Claim the reward of a finished quest step.

Void Crystal

The rarest enchanting material. More

World boss

One boss a week that every hero attacks together, every few hours. More

XP

Experience; fills the bar to the next level. More