Gold, offline progress and storage

Game mechanics guide

Beta 0.7.2

Gold comes almost entirely from kills, online and offline, plus whatever you sell or salvage. It goes into the Codex, the Workbench, new classes and the house, and the bag and stash hold everything in between.

Gold per kill

A normal monster pays a gold amount set by the stage's recommended level, and the client ships a setting that doubles every gold reward:

gold per kill = 2 × max(1, round(gold floor), round(stage power × 1%))

gold floor = 1 at level 1, 5 at level 33, 8 at level 67, 12 at level 100, rising geometrically in between

stage power = act base × map multiplier × stage factor (see XP per kill)

Map and act	Biome	Stage levels	Gold per kill
Veil 1	Isles	1–3	2
Veil 2	Swamp	4–7	2
Veil 3	Forest	7–10	2–4
Veil 4	Desert	10–13	4
Veil 5	Canyon	14–17	4
Veil 6	Mountains	17–20	4–6
Veil 7	Glaciers	20–23	6
Veil 8	Volcano	24–27	6–8
Veil 9	Floating Isles	27–30	8
Veil 10	Deadlands	30–33	8–10
Breach 1	Isles	34–37	10
Breach 2	Swamp	37–40	10–12
Breach 3	Forest	40–43	12
Breach 4	Desert	44–47	12
Breach 5	Canyon	47–50	12
Breach 6	Mountains	50–53	12–14
Breach 7	Glaciers	54–57	14
Breach 8	Volcano	57–60	14
Breach 9	Floating Isles	60–63	14–16
Breach 10	Deadlands	64–67	16
Abyss 1	Isles	67–70	16
Abyss 2	Swamp	70–73	16–18
Abyss 3	Forest	74–77	18–20
Abyss 4	Desert	77–80	22–26
Abyss 5	Canyon	80–83	28–32
Abyss 6	Mountains	84–87	34–40
Abyss 7	Glaciers	87–90	42–48
Abyss 8	Volcano	90–93	52–60
Abyss 9	Floating Isles	94–97	64–74
Abyss 10	Deadlands	97–100	78–90

The numbers on this page include the doubling. Late in the Abyss, from act 3 on, 1% of the stage's power can be larger and takes over. Gold find then multiplies the gold, and fractions of a gold carry over to the next kill.

Example: a level-30 stage

A level-30 stage has a gold floor of about 4.3, which rounds to 4, so each kill pays 8 gold.

Bosses may pay no gold. The client works out boss values (×3 the stage's gold for a stage boss, and a fixed amount for an act boss, 20 gold on every Veil act), but we found no code that pays them: kills are credited with the normal-monster values. What bosses surely give is their chest.

Gold, XP and drop find

Gold find and XP find add up from every source and multiply the gold and XP of each kill. Neither has a cap:

gold per kill × (1 + gold find)

XP per kill × (1 + XP find)

drop find: fewer kills, and a shorter minimum fighting time, between brown chests

Source	Gold find	XP find	Drop find
All Codex runes (46 / 44 / 15 runes)	+210%	+175%	+75%
Pet: Scholar Sprite	—	+5%	—
Pet: Magpie	—	—	+5%
Pet: Sage Owl	—	+5%	—
Pet: Fortune Cat	+5%	—	—
Potion: Potion of Greed	+25%	—	—
Potion: Potion of Insight	—	+25%	—

With the shipped settings no kill has a chance of a brown chest, which is why drop find works on the kill count instead; it does not change rarity. Every pet you have unlocked counts, not only the one you have picked, and only one potion can be active at a time.

Example: +100% gold find

A 16-gold kill with +100% gold find pays 32 gold.

Offline progress

While the game is closed, the party keeps killing at its current rate and earns a share of the gold and XP. Offline rewards are locked until you buy the Rune of Repose (level 23) in the Codex.

60 sLeast time away that counts

10 hMost time counted

25%Share to start

80% / 80%Best share, gold / XP

Time counts up to 8 h, plus 30 min for each of the 4 Runes of the Long Night. Codex runes raise the share, but runes stop at 75%; pets add on top of that cap.

kills = seconds away (up to the cap) × kills per second

gold = gold per kill × kills × gold share

share = min(75%, 25% + rune bonus) + pet bonus

Source	Offline gold	Offline XP	Hero level
Base	25%	25%	—
Rune of Hoarding	+5%	—	23
Rune of Hoarding II	+5%	—	24
Rune of Hoarding III	+5%	—	25
Rune of Hoarding IV	+5%	—	64
Rune of Hoarding V	+5%	—	64
Rune of Hoarding VI	+5%	—	65
Rune of the Dragon's Sleep	+5%	—	88
Rune of the Dragon's Sleep II	+5%	—	88
Rune of the Dragon's Sleep III	+5%	—	88
Rune of the Dragon's Sleep IV	+5%	—	88
Rune of Reflection	—	+5%	23
Rune of Reflection II	—	+5%	24
Rune of Reflection III	—	+5%	25
Rune of Reflection IV	—	+5%	65
Rune of Reflection V	—	+5%	65
Rune of Reflection VI	—	+5%	66
Rune of Lucid Dreams	—	+5%	89
Rune of Lucid Dreams II	—	+5%	89
Rune of Lucid Dreams III	—	+5%	89
Rune of Lucid Dreams IV	—	+5%	89
Pet: Goldwyrm (on top of the cap)	+5%	+5%	—

Offline gold already includes the doubling and your gold find, and offline XP is shared like normal XP. No chests, items or riftstones are earned offline. Offline kills count toward pet hunts, but not toward the bestiary.

Example: 10 h away

10 h away at 0.5 kills per second is 18,000 kills. On a 16-gold stage with every offline rune (a 75% share) that pays 216,000 gold; with the pets' bonus on top (80%) it pays 230,400.

Selling and salvage

Salvaging at the Workbench turns anything into gold only; no materials come back. An item is worth:

item value = round down((rarity multiplier × (10 + 2 × item level) + sum of affix values) × (1 + 0.5 × enhancement))

rarity multiplier = 1, 3, 10, 30, 100, 300, 1000 from Common to Eternal

Enchants, gems and sockets add nothing. Affix values are explained in item drops.

Examples: a Blood Sword

A level-1 Common Blood Sword (Attack 6) is worth 1 × 12 + 6 = 18 gold. A level-100 Eternal Blood Sword is worth 218,852, and 1,313,112 at +10.

Everything else sells for:

Sold thing	Gold each
Ores, tier 1 to 5 (Copper Ore to Adamantite Ore)	5 / 12 / 26 / 52 / 95
Essences, tier 1 to 5 (Faint Essence to Pristine Essence)	8 / 18 / 38 / 72 / 130
Dispel Scroll	40
Fortify Scroll	60
Gems, tier 1 to 5	10 / 30 / 80 / 200 / 480
Riftstones (Veil, Breach, and Abyss)	300 / 1,200 / 4,800
Potions: the value of the essences that went in	16 (1-hour Vigor) to 780 (any 24-hour potion)

Selling to other players on the market is separate: it charges fees that the server can change.

Where gold goes

Codex	Every rune is bought with gold, and there is no refund.
Classes	6 classes are bought with gold (500 gold each in the client; the server can change the price).
Workbench	Forge and Salvage are free to open; the other stations cost gold once (below). Forging, enchanting, enhancing, brewing and creating scrolls also cost gold each time.
House	115 pieces of furniture are priced in gold.
Market	Gold listings pay a listing fee, and every sale pays a fee.

Workbench stations

Station	Highest hero level	Gold to open
Alchemy	4	1,000
Transmute	8	2,000
Socket	12	2,000
Scroll	14	16,000
Enchant	16	30,000
Enhance	20	40,000

Bag and stash

Every unit counts as one cell, in the bag and in the stash: each item, and each single material, gem, potion, scroll or riftstone.

24Bag cells to start

42Bag cells with every rune

54Cells per stash tab (6 × 9)

18 Codex runes add one bag cell each (from level 7 to 34). When the bag is full, chests cannot be opened (by hand or automatically) and the forge is blocked; market deliveries and freshly brewed potions go to the stash instead.

Stash tabs

You start with one tab and can add more:

Source	Tabs
The Codex: Rune of the Stash Wing (level 15), Rune of the Stash Hall (level 30), and Rune of the Grand Vault (level 70)	3
Premium tabs, bought with Crystals: 300 for the first, then 400, 500 and so on (300 × (1 + tabs owned ÷ 3))	Up to 50
The stash bundle	3

stash cells = 54 × (1 + Codex tabs + premium tabs + bundle tabs)

Crystal prices are set by the server, so the live price of a premium tab may differ.

What we could not confirm

Read from the code, not yet checked in the live game:

Boss gold and XP, as above.
All unlocked pets stack their gold, XP, drop and offline bonuses, as the code says.
Potions while offline. Whether an active potion keeps working while the game is closed.
Offline kill rate. With hit-by-hit fights on, the offline kill rate comes from a separate estimate, which may differ from what you see on screen.
Bag cells. Whether the bag screen shows a stack as one cell, even though space is counted per unit.
Stash tab upgrades. A Codex tab can be given a colour and an "affinity" for Crystals; what the affinity does is unknown.

Source: closed-beta game client 0.7.2. Data from the closed beta, so values may change at launch.