What do stats/runes do in Rogue Legacy?

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Stats

Health

The Health stat allows you to take multiple hits before dying and can be upgraded in the mansion by spending gold. This stat can also be modified by playing as different classes.

Mana

This stat allows you to use spells more often and can be upgraded in the mansion by spending gold. This stat can also be modified by playing as different classes.

Armor

This stat reduces damage to your player character and can typically be added via wearing more powerful armor pieces.

Strength

Strength increases the amount of damage you can do to enemies. You can increase this stat by using better swords or choosing certain classes.

Intelligence

Intelligence increases the power of attacks that use mana. Classes like archmages tends to have a higher intelligence than other classes.

Runes

Vampirism 

While playing Rogue Legacy you may see a stat on some armor sets or on runes for your armor named vampirism. You may wonder what it does when you see it. Well if your character has this stat on them via whatever means they gain the ability to heal small portions of their hp when they defeat enemies. This ability will also become stronger if you have a higher vampirism stat.

Sprint

While playing you might see a stat on some armor sets or on runes for your armor named sprint. You may wonder what it does when you see it. Well if your character has this stat on them via whatever means they gain the ability to dash short distances in the air or on the ground. This ability will also become better by allowing you to dash in the air multiple times by having a high stat amount.

Bounty

While playing you might see a stat on some armour sets or on runes for your armour named bounty. You may wonder what it does when you see it. Well if your character has this stat on them via whatever means they gain more gold than they would usually. This ability will also become better by increasing the amount of gold further by having a higher stat amount.

Siphon

While playing Rogue Legacy you may see a stat on some armour sets or on runes for your armour named siphon. You may wonder what it does when you see it. Well if your character has this stat on them via whatever means they gain the ability to regain small portions of their mp when they defeat enemies. This ability will also become stronger if you have a higher siphon stat.

Vault

While playing you might see a stat on some armour sets or on runes for your armour named vault. You may wonder what it does when you see it. Well if your character has this stat on them via whatever means they gain the ability to jump multiple times in the air. This ability will also become better by allowing you to jump in the air multiple times by having a higher stat amount equipped to your character.

Balance

This rune has the abilities of both the Siphon and Vampirism runes combined however it’s recovering abilities are not as powerful as Vampirism or Siphon. Each time you go into a new game plus the power of balance increases.

Air

A rune of this type gives you the ability to float in the air for a short amount of time which can be increased by using more runes of the same type.

Haste

This type of rune increases how fast your character can move and can be increased further by adding more of this type of rune.

Curse

Using this rune makes enemies you encounter harder to defeat however if you do defeat them you gain more gold than usual. You can also increase the gold earned by using more of this rune.

Grace

This rune makes enemies you find easier to defeat however as a result you earn less gold. This rune effect increases the more of them you use.

Retaliation

The ability of this rune allows you to take half of any damage you receive and make the enemy take the damage as well.

Shrine Items

Hermes’ Boots

These boots prevent you from taking damage due to floor spikes but not from trap spikes, spikes on the walls or on the ceiling.

Charon’s Obol

This item allows you to enter the castle with giving up any gold you currently carry however after using it once you lose the obol until you find it again.

Hedgehog’s Curse

The Hedgehog’s Curse item cause you to drop gold onto the ground every time you take damage.

Calypso’s Compass

This compass shows you an arrow when using it. This arrow leads you a room that contains many treasure chests with valuable blueprints or stat ups contained with in them. The Calypso’s Compass room disappears when you leave it.

Nerdy Glasses

These glasses fix the Color Blindness, Stereo Blindness, Nearsighted, Farsighted, Nostalgic, and Vertigo traits if your character has them on the run they are on. You can’t find this item at a Spiritual Shrine unless your character already has one of the traits that the item fixes.

Helios’ Blessing

This item increases the amount of loot you can obtain via killing enemies and makes enemies who would not drop any loot drop a minimum amount of gold.

Hyperion’s Ring

This Ring allows you to come back to life after dying however you return with a third of your health and the ring breaks after you use it.

Khidr’s Obol

This obal gets automatically given to Charon before going back into the castle. Once given to Charon you will then be able to fight the Remixed version of Khidr.

Alexander’s Obol

This gets automatically given to Charon before going back to the castle. Once given to Charon you will then be able to fight the Remixed version of Alexander.

Ponce de Leon’s Obol

This item gets automatically given to Charon before going back to the castle. When given to Charon you will then be able to fight the Remixed version of Alexander.

Herodotus’s Obol

Herodotus’s Obol gets automatically given to Charon before going back to the castle. When given to Charon you will then be able to fight the Remixed version of Herodotus.

Traitor’s Obol

The Traitor’s Obol gets automatically given to Charon before going back towards the castle. When given to Charon you will then be able to fight the Remixed version of Johannes.

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