The Tower

• Floors: 150 floors, each one fight. Every 10th floor is a boss with a bigger health pool and harder blows.
• Who can climb: Peasant (rank 1) or higher, judged on your current rank, so after an Ascension you meet the gate again from where your rank restarts.
• One at a time: while a Tower fight is open you cannot enter a dungeon, and while you are inside a dungeon you cannot start a Tower fight. Finish or abandon one first.
• No cooldown: a floor costs energy, not time. You can start the next fight as soon as the last one ends.
• Losing: a defeat leaves you on 1 health and wears your gear, and you stay on the same floor. You never die.
• Abandon: you can walk away from an open fight with the Abandon button. The energy is not refunded and nothing is paid. A fight left open for 24 hours closes by itself the same way.

A Tower fight plays out the way a dungeon boss fight does: it is live, not one click. You press Engage, then attack on your own clock, while your foe strikes on its own clock whether you click or not. The same mana moves are available, and potions work mid-fight. The full rules are in the dungeon fights section. Boss floors fight with the harder boss settings. You need at least 25% of your maximum health to start a fight.

Each floor fight costs energy, paid when the fight starts, and it is sized exactly like entering a dungeon: 20% of your energy pool up to 50 energy, then 10% of the rest, never less than 1. The Tower perks can make a floor cheaper, by up to 30% in total, and it never drops below 1 energy.

A win pays gold and experience. A normal floor pays 50% of what the same energy would earn from a dungeon, using the best dungeon your current rank has unlocked, so the pay grows as your rank does.

• Depth: every floor above floor 1 adds 1% to the pay, so floor 150 pays 2.49 times what floor 1 does.
• Bosses: a boss floor pays 1.5 times a normal floor at the same depth.
• Ascension: your Ascension level raises Tower gold and experience, up to 2.8 times the gold and 2.2 times the experience. This is the same capped bonus your quests get.
• Repeats: a floor you have already cleared in this climb pays only 25% of a first clear, so farming old floors is a trickle. After a reset every floor is a first clear again.

The Tower is split into 5 bands of 30 floors, and each band further up drops better materials and gear. Normal floors roll for a drop. A boss floor always pays boss materials the first time you clear it in a climb, and a piece of gear is added on top.

• Boss gear: the first time you ever clear each boss floor on your account it always drops a piece of gear. On later climbs it drops with a 25% chance instead. Boss materials drop on every climb.
• Mythic: only the deepest bosses can drop mythic gear, in bands 4 and 5.
• Standard materials only: the Tower drops the ordinary crafting materials. No profession materials drop here.
• Boss drop perks: the Spoils perks raise the chance of boss drops.
• Never equipped for you: gear goes to your inventory.

The Tower can pay up to 80 shadowgems to an account, once, ever: 45 from the 15 bosses and 35 in gifts for reaching floors 50, 100 and 150 for the first time. They are paid only the first time you ever clear that floor on your account. A reset, a repeat, or an auto-fight never pays them again, so there is no way to farm them. See the shadowgems page for every other source.

Resets pay Tower points, and the points buy perks in 18 nodes across six branches. A node costs the same number of points for every rank, and each node after the first in a branch needs at least one rank in the one before it. Perks work only inside the Tower. They never change your stats anywhere else.

Each effect has a ceiling for the whole tree:

• Damage from foes: at most 25% less in total.
• Damage you deal: at most 25% more in total.
• Floor energy cost: at most 30% cheaper in total, and never below 1 energy.
• Boss drop chance: at most 50% better in total.
• Auto-fight length: at most 8 extra floors in total.
• Tower points per reset: at most 30% more in total.

Once you have cleared floor 150 you may reset the Tower. You go back to floor 1, and every foe is 25% stronger than on the climb before, and the extra strength stacks with each reset. You cannot reset while a Tower fight is open.

• Tower points: your first reset pays 5 points, and the payout grows by 1 every 2 resets until it tops out at 25 per reset. The points perk raises it further.
• What you keep: your best floor, your perks and your Tower points. The first-ever shadowgem and boss gear payouts stay used up.
• What resets: your current floor and which floors count as cleared in this climb.
• Respec: you can wipe all your perks and get every point back for 25 shadowgems.

Once you have been through a floor before, usually after a reset, you can let the game fight for you. One auto-fight runs up to 10 floors, and the Haste perks can add up to 8 more.

• Only old floors: it works only on floors up to the deepest one you have ever reached, never on a floor you have not been through before.
• Plain strikes: it uses the plain strike only, with no mana moves.
• Same cost and pay: every fight in the run costs its own energy and pays like a normal fight.
• It stops by itself: at the first loss, when your energy or health runs low, or when it reaches a floor you have not cleared before.

Once you have opened the Tower, your profile shows a Tower card with your current floor, your best floor ever and your climbs, which is how many times you have reset. Other players see it on your public profile too.