Items

Potions are brewed from essences, and each catalyst you have equipped turns Mysterious Water into its own essences (the Catalysts table below). Catalysts open as the Alchemist's Hut ranks up. Every conversion has a 0.2% chance to give the catalyst’s own material as well (the Critical gives column), 0.02% more with each catalyst level.

Brewing earns alchemy points, and a potion’s levels are bought with them: each level makes it stronger (compare its level 1 and level 10 columns). A potion’s level tops out at 50, which some Area mission milestones raise.

Each potion gets used up its own way, as its Used up column says: most by a chance on each area attempt, kill or 10 m walked, a chance that falls as the potion levels, to half at its top level; the health potions when the hero’s HP drops below half.

Alchemy points also buy the ten alchemy upgrades in the table below. Some of their highest levels rise further through Area mission milestones.

Traps aren’t brewed: the shop sells them for gold, 20 of each at a time, and restocks one of each every 10 minutes. Each catch uses one (see Catching pets).

A talisman works for a hero while it sits in one of that hero’s utility slots, or in a global utility slot, which counts for every hero. Its effect grows with how many you stack there. Any hero can equip any talisman, even one named after another hero, and it counts only while that hero is fighting. Its passive bonus needs no slot: it grows with every copy of that talisman you take apart, up to a cap. A hero’s badge is named after the hero its passive bonus helps: the Warrior’s Badge’s passive lowers the Warrior’s skill rank costs.

You find them in treasure chests, where each region’s chest holds its own badge. Challenges and Super Dungeons give badges for each hero’s first clear, and the Ruby Shop sells more.

Talisman levels cost talisman fragments, and rarer talismans cost far more: a Common talisman’s 10th level costs 190 fragments, an Epic one’s over 10 billion. Taking a talisman apart gives fragments back: 1 per level for a Common one, 5 times as many for each rarity above it (625 a level for an Epic one).

Owning the Incremental Epic Hero 1 DLC(opens in a new tab) that supports this game gives, once, 5,500 Epic Coins and one more quest each hero can accept at a time. You claim it from the IEH1 Player Bonus in the settings. Each Steam achievement you earned in the first game gives a Proof of Ascension from IEH1 talisman: up to 5, then 10, 15 and 20 once any hero has reached rebirth tier 1, 2 and 3.

Blessings are bought for 10,000 gold each in the shop, and each lasts 3 minutes. Buying one again while it’s running sets it back to its full time rather than adding to it. The shop holds one of each at a time and restocks one every 10 minutes.

The Temple opens more of them as it levels (the Opens at column), and at level 35 makes a blessing you buy work for every hero. The Temple’s Stone research makes them stronger and its Crystal research longer, as do some Area mission milestones. The Move Speed Blessing stops at ×2. A dungeon also hands you one every 100 waves past the first 100.