Loot and crafting

Art in progress

Items come in four rarities. Normal items are a base and nothing else; magic items have up to one prefix and one suffix; rares have more; uniques are fixed designs with their own lore. Affixes roll from tiers, and the best tiers only appear on items from deep enough.

A magic helmet with second-tier life and fire resistance, and two of the game's uniques. Values in brackets are the ranges an item can roll. In the game today: 45 item bases, 34 affixes with up to five tiers each, 7 uniques and 8 currencies. Each player rolls their own drops and sees only their own; I opens the inventory, with the eight equipment slots and the currency pouch. How items work has the rules.

Crafting

Currency is crafting material: every orb does one thing to an item. The coin of drowned Velmarch was minted from the Ember, and it is still alive: seven kinds of fire that add to an item, and one of seawater that strips it bare.

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  Shard of Kindling

  Upgrades a normal item to a magic item.

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  Ember of Growth

  Adds a modifier to a magic item with room for one.

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  Shifting Ash

  Rerolls the modifiers of a magic item.

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  Gilded Ember

  Upgrades a normal item to a rare item.

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  Crowning Flame

  Upgrades a magic item to a rare item, adding a modifier.

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  Wildfire Orb

  Rerolls a rare item with new random modifiers.

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  Sovereign Spark

  Adds a random modifier to a rare item.

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  Quenching Water

  Removes all modifiers, making an item normal.