The Loot Ladder

Every blade in the realm was pried from a dungeon.

There is no crafting bench, no gacha pull, no shortcut. Progression gear derives from dungeons — and the deeper the chain you clear, the higher the tier that falls. Above the ladder sit the exotics: named, boss-only chase drops that never come easy, and never come twice as a gift.

A loot bag spilling open at the end of a run — The bag drops. Grab it before the shard collapses.

How gear scales

From shop steel to boss-forged exotics

Gear climbs in tiers that track a dungeon's danger rating. Clear tougher chains, get better base rolls — no exceptions, no pay-to-skip.

The weapon ladder climbing from T0 shop steel to T7 capstone arms — The weapon ladder — T0 fledgling steel up to the capstone tier.

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Items in the codex

Named exotics (UT)

Dungeons that drop them

Crafting benches

Tier	Where it comes from	What it means
T0	The Nexus shop & the open world	Fledgling steel. Your first loadout, bought with gold — enough to survive the shallow gates, not the deep ones.
T1–T2	Band I dungeons — the early chain	The first real upgrades. Serpent pits, beaches, sprite groves: where you learn the bullet patterns.
T3–T4	Band II dungeons	Mid-ladder gear. Rolls start to matter; a good drop here carries you two bands further than it should.
T5–T6	Band III dungeons	Endgame-adjacent. The gear that lets you stand in the deep gates without melting on the first phase.
T7–T8	Band IV — the six arc capstones	The ceiling of the ladder. Every capstone boss guards a full set worth farming for its own sake.
UT	Boss-only — and only that boss	Untradeable exotics: named weapons, abilities and armor with unique effects, plus the Sealed Draughts that finish an 8/8 build. Above the ladder, not on it.

The chase

The exotics — earned off the corpse

Exotics are the whole reason to dive twice. Each one is a named drop tied to a single boss — kill the thing, or never hold it. They carry effects the shop ladder never will.

A strip of exotic (UT) gear icons — A handful of the named exotics — UT gear pulled straight off boss corpses.

Chase drops

Named weapons, abilities and armor with stat bonuses and bespoke behaviour. They do not stock the shop. They do not trade in as pity. You earn them off the corpse or not at all.

Sealed Draughts

The last 15% of any stat accepts only Sealed Draughts, and those fall from the six arc capstones alone. The chase back-loads into the hardest content on purpose.

The pity path

No zero-drop runs. A per-dungeon pity counter guarantees the white bag eventually — the grind is long, but it is never empty. The Vaultstar keeps count.

The full codex

Every item, and where it falls

The full codex, split by slot. A UT marks a named exotic; everything else in gold drops from the dungeon listed. Plain entries stock the Nexus shop or turn up in the open world.

Weapons · 37

What you fire into the dark. Every family — tank, support, attack — has its own line, from shop steel to boss-forged exotics.

Item	Found in
Bargrave's Gaff-Hook UT One heavy barbed skull-cast, slow but sea-deep — the same hook the Wreck-Reeve uses to land the drowned.	Wreckers' Hollow
Bastion-Breaker Maul UT One crushing blow for every wall the Unfallen refused to yield.	The Unfallen Bastion
Caldreth's Breath UT The Ivory Wyrm exhales a slow, ponderous shard of Deepsalt crystal that shatters whatever it strikes.	The Wyrmcrystal Vault
Colony Lash UT A living barb of the Colony that flails in a blur, flinging rot-thorns faster than the eye can count.	The Hollowing Cells
Corvane's Trepan UT A surgeon's gear-drill that bores faster with every patient it fails to save.	Corvane's Alembic
Effigy-King's Scepter UT A jeweled rod that flings a king's ransom of crystal at any who covet his gold.	The Gilded Reliquary
Enginebreaker Cog UT A live sawtooth flywheel wrenched from the Wakeless Engine; it flings three shrieking gears that grind through anything in the war-line.	The Grinding Engine
Esbren's Reluctant Edge UT A blade that strikes twice because its bearer swings once and the Rime finishes the blow.	The Weeping Rime
Ferric Sawtongue UT A single shrieking gear-tooth, fired as fast as the Horror's own runaway motors.	The Cogwraith Foundry
First-Stone Breaker UT A shard of the oldest stone, hurled straight through ranks the crowns never named.	The Crownless Garden
Gravenwraith's Dirge UT A grave-bell cast as a maul; each slow, mournful toll hurls a heavy skull for every name the Boneyard forgot.	The Unmarked Boneyard
Gullmaw's Backwash UT It heaves up the same sour flood that swallowed the man beneath the sluice.	The Souring Drains
Idolbreaker Rattle UT A gourd-rattle prised from the Revelmask Idol's fist; every shake scatters festival-sparks like confetti over the surf.	The Revelwrack Shore
Kaurax's Ashbrand UT Twin gouts of forge-fire from the brand that hammered the burned crowns.	The Emberpit Abyss
Locker-Lord's Harpoon UT Ludd's frost-crusted harpoon, slow to haul back but it flies the whole length of the flooded hold.	The Salt-Drowned Locker
Lumene's Coldlight Prism UT Twin shards of frozen daylight, fast and pale — the goddess's light with all its warmth stripped away.	The Starless Bower
Mycelith's Seeding UT A fan of barbed spores; each one wants to take root where it lands.	The Sporelit Deep
Nematocyst Bloom UT A fan of the Reef-Crowned's stinging cells, bursting outward in a venomous spray of coral-fire.	The Stinging Reef
Ossvane's Tally-Scythe UT Each swing marks one more name crossed from the Crypt's endless ledger.	The Tally-Crypt
Resonant Shard-Caster UT Twin facets of curdled sunlight that ring in the air long after the Heart falls silent.	The Resonant Geode
Rot-Vintner's Tap UT Pours a twin stream of Deepsalt vintage that eats through flesh like a cask through wood.	The Sourvine Cellar
Scepter of the Sundered Concord UT A trifurcate void-bolt for each of the six thrones the Colossus swallowed whole.	The Lost Concord
Stone-Gaze Coil UT A slow, heavy salt-shard that petrifies whatever it meets, as Vessarith's eyes once did.	The Coilrot Warrens
Stringwright's Needle UT The threading-needle that hung a court of corpses; it fires paired barbs down the length of the Marionette stage.	The Marionette Court
Sugared Idol's Kiss UT A rapid drizzle of sweet acid that rots the flesh it pretends to soothe.	The Sugared Lie
The Nameless Edge UT A slow, heavy stroke that erases what it strikes, as the Crown-King's name was erased.	The Shattered Reach
The Three Diadems UT Three skull-crowned shots for three gods sharing one grave, never agreeing where to strike.	Tomb of the Fallen Crowns
Thessyra's Beseeching UT A single held note that carries across the whole trench. She begs at the end; do not listen.	The Drowned Chorus Trench
Vashaan's Smiling Brand UT Twin tongues of flame that grin as they land, obedient only to the fire's true master.	The Emberforge Hollow
Xoloth's Fracture UT A shard of the Sundered Rift that spits four splinters of void along the crack it opens.	The Sundered Rift
Marrowlord's Censer Swings a pair of skull-embers, censing foes with the smoke of the drowned dead.	Nexus shop · the open world
Matron's Coilfang Spits a striking fan of fangs, quick as the first serpents Vhessa loosed on the land.	Nexus shop · the open world
Serpent Fang	Nexus shop · the open world
Tempest Volley	Nexus shop · the open world
Twin Comets	Nexus shop · the open world
Vaugrim's Hollow Edge Scatters a mad fan of watching eyes, each seeing a different foe that isn't there.	Nexus shop · the open world
Void Reaper	Nexus shop · the open world

Abilities · 12

The button that turns a bad pull around: shields, tides, edicts, collapses. Ability exotics are among the rarest chase drops.

Item	Found in
Alembic Draught UT Uncork the Rot-Chirurgeon's last distillation and let it burst outward as caustic vapor.	Corvane's Alembic
Ash-Archon's Pyre-Edict UT Kaurax's decree of flame erupts outward, the Emberpit spending its heat all at once.	The Emberpit Abyss
Cut the Strings UT Sever the Stringwright's tethers in a fanged slash, dropping its puppets lifeless and freeing the Court's forgotten dead.	The Marionette Court
Herald's Unblinking Gaze UT A single lance of cold-light that never wavers, because Lumene never blinks.	The Starless Bower
Overclock Discharge UT Vent the Horror's madness in a burst of five gears, the way it spends itself in the deep Warren.	The Cogwraith Foundry
Rift Collapse UT Command the rift-wound to fold shut on your foe, crushing it in a knot of collapsing void.	The Sundered Rift
Siren's Plea UT Loose the Deep-Chorister's whole chorus at once, a ring of drowning song.	The Drowned Chorus Trench
The Drowned Bell UT Toll the ghost-captain's watch-bell and the salt-dead answer in a ring of icy spray.	The Salt-Drowned Locker
The Fire's True Word UT Speak the Smiling Counsel's true name and the Hollow answers in a ring of fire.	The Emberforge Hollow
Voidcrown Sigil UT Opens the same wound in the world through which the Colossus first fell.	The Lost Concord
Ysmr's Rising Tide UT Call up the tide that fed the reef and loose a swelling ring of stinging brine on all sides.	The Stinging Reef
Shard of Sundered Will Looses the same splinter of Varokhaz's mind that hollowed the entire garrison.	Nexus shop · the open world

Armor · 33

The margin between a scratch and a permadeath screen. Plate, shrouds, carapaces — scaled to the danger of the dungeon that dropped them.

Item	Found in
Brine-Soaked Vestment UT Cured in the vintner's brine until the salt-rot could no longer touch it.	The Sourvine Cellar
Confection Shell UT A candied crust that swells the body with false, sugared vigor.	The Sugared Lie
Counsel's Ember-Weave UT Silk spun from Emberforge smoke, cut to flatter a liar and shield a killer.	The Emberforge Hollow
Crypt-Counted Shroud UT Burial linen stamped with a tally that no longer includes you.	The Tally-Crypt
Drowned Choir-Mail UT Robes weighted with hymnal-lead so the singer could never surface, nor be silenced.	The Drowned Chorus Trench
Emberpit Cinderplate UT Slag-forged plate that never cools, because the fortress of fire never does.	The Emberpit Abyss
Feral Warren Carapace UT Riveted Concord plate, still warm from the construct that forgot who it was built to protect.	The Cogwraith Foundry
Genesis-Warden Plate UT Bedrock cut before the first king; it has never once yielded ground.	The Crownless Garden
Geodeplate of Curdled Light UT Grown, not forged, from the cavern's walls where the Vaultstar's warmth went sour.	The Resonant Geode
Gilded Reliquary Aegis UT Gold-plated relic-armor, heavy with the greed of the lost crown it guarded.	The Gilded Reliquary
Grave-Gilt Cuirass UT Funerary gold stripped from all three burned crowns and beaten into one shared shell.	Tomb of the Fallen Crowns
Infested Hide UT Rot-riddled hide grown thick as bark; the Colony seals every wound before you feel it.	The Hollowing Cells
Marionette Weave UT A costume of knotted strings that moves you as it once moved the dead — light, precise, and never quite your own.	The Marionette Court
Myceliad Carapace UT Living fungal plate grown from the Brood-Mother's own wall-flesh, hardening as it feeds.	The Sporelit Deep
Rimewrought Bulwark UT The Warden's frozen watch-plate. He does not want to fight you, but he will not let you fall.	The Weeping Rime
Saltdead Shroud UT A burial sailcloth wrung from the salt-drowned; the brine that killed them now armors you.	The Salt-Drowned Locker
Saltsworn Scales UT Shed scales crusted in salt-stone, hard as the statues they leave behind.	The Coilrot Warrens
Self-Improving Carapace UT His creations improve; this shell refines its own plating around your spine.	Corvane's Alembic
Sluicewarden's Rot-Plate UT Salt-rot fused the keeper's mail to his ribs; now it holds the wearer together instead.	The Souring Drains
Starless Bower Mantle UT Crystal-threaded silk that drinks the Bower's chill and pays it back as clarity.	The Starless Bower
Stinging Mantle UT A cloak of living polyps that drifts with the current, buoying the wearer through the reef.	The Stinging Reef
Sundered Plate UT Plate reforged from rift-slag; it floats a hair off the body, heavy in guard yet quick in step.	The Sundered Rift
Unfallen Warplate UT Dented by a thousand sieges, yet Kudrek never once turned it to flee.	The Unfallen Bastion
Unmarked Gravewrap UT Burial linen from a nameless plot, cold with the patience of the Pale Reach's unmourned dead.	The Unmarked Boneyard
Vestment of the Forgotten King UT Royal cloth with the sigil scraped bare, warding its wearer against the same oblivion.	The Shattered Reach
Vestments of the Six Crowns UT Woven from the last banners of the Concord, heavy with the silence of empty thrones.	The Lost Concord
Wakeless Plating UT Boiler-armor still warm from the auto-forge, dented by a war it refused to notice had ended.	The Grinding Engine
Wrackfoam Shroud UT Sea-foam that never dried, hemmed with drowned garlands; it moves like the tide that swallowed the Revelwrack Shore.	The Revelwrack Shore
Wreckers' Barnacled Plate UT Ship-iron crusted with the Hollow's shells, heavy with the weight of every hull it once was.	Wreckers' Hollow
Wyrmcrystal Scale UT A single ivory scale of Caldreth, hard as the Vault itself and nearly as heavy.	The Wyrmcrystal Vault
Ashfallen Warcoat Scorched by the keep's fall, its hollow ring keeps the King's whisper at bay.	Nexus shop · the open world
Broodscale Hauberk Shed from the Matron's own coils, still slick with the pit's first rot.	Nexus shop · the open world
Vaultmarrow Shroud A grave-cloth pulled from the flood, heavy with the patience of the buried.	Nexus shop · the open world

Rings · 19

The quiet multipliers. Signets, coils and bands that push a single stat past where the ladder alone can carry it.

Item	Found in
Bandsalt Signet UT A gate-key crusted in Deepsalt, still warm from a hand that forgot it was human.	The Souring Drains
Cask-Heart Signet UT Cut from the great cask where Barrovax first bottled the fallen kingdom's decay.	The Sourvine Cellar
Crown of Wanting UT The Effigy-King's cursed circlet, sharpening the greed of whoever dares wear it.	The Gilded Reliquary
Crown-Shard Band UT A splinter from one of the six burned crowns, humming with three quarrelling wills.	Tomb of the Fallen Crowns
Deepsalt Gemheart UT The truest gem of the hoard, grown from Deepsalt; it lends the wyrm's own ferocity to your strikes.	The Wyrmcrystal Vault
Governor's Flywheel UT The Engine's speed-governor, spun loose; it drives the bearer to the Vault's relentless, sleepless tempo.	The Grinding Engine
Maskglass Signet UT A shard of the Idol's lacquered face, still grinning; those who wear it are toasted at the endless feast and slow to fall.	The Revelwrack Shore
Pallbearer's Band UT Iron worn thin by six unmarked funerals; it lends the weight of every unburied soul to your own endurance.	The Unmarked Boneyard
Prism of the Fallen Sun UT It splits the Heart's dead light into equal measures of body and will.	The Resonant Geode
Ring of the Never-Retreat UT Forged so its bearer might stand where the Unfallen stood: until the end.	The Unfallen Bastion
Sporeheart Nodule UT A pulsing seed-node cut from Mycelith's core; her children are the walls, and this was their heart.	The Sporelit Deep
Sundered Signet UT A seal that signs no name, biting harder for having nothing left to lose.	The Shattered Reach
The Missing-Name Signet UT So long as your name is missing from the count, the Deepsalt cannot claim its due.	The Tally-Crypt
The Reeve's Greed-Coil UT A coil of stolen wedding-gold; greed made Bargrave quick, and it makes you quicker.	Wreckers' Hollow
The Wakeless Heart UT A parasite-node that never sleeps, driving your flesh to mend as tirelessly as the Colony itself.	The Hollowing Cells
Vessarith's Sworn Eye UT Bound to the Stone-Gaze oath, it hardens the wearer against the waste.	The Coilrot Warrens
Weeping Signet UT A tear of the Rime frozen mid-fall, still cold with unwilling sorrow.	The Weeping Rime
Broken-Crown Band A shard of the crown that broke over Ossred's skull the night the kingdom drowned.	Nexus shop · the open world
Serpent-Mother's Coil Winds about the arm and lends the darting swiftness of Vhessa's newborn brood.	Nexus shop · the open world

Descend

Your first blade is waiting in the shop

The ladder is long and every rung is earned. There is no bench to craft your way out and no shard you cannot reach on your own two feet. The beacons are lit, Fordsworn — go take the corpse.

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