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Agility Tome icon

Agility Tome

A-Tier

+Movement Speed: Move faster across the map. Increases movement speed.

Default Unlock

Unlocked by default

Scaling

Increases movement speed per level; synergizes with mobility-focused builds for better kiting and pickup collection.

Synergies

Powerful for dodging, kiting, and improving overall safety.

Tips

Great for characters relying on speed; helps in collecting XP and items from farther away when combined with Attraction Tome.

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Armor Tome

B-Tier

+Armor: Reduces damage taken from all sources. Increase the amount of armor gained.

Unlock Requirement

Kill 5,000 enemies as Sir Oofie

Scaling

Reduces chip damage per level; stacks with sustain builds.

Synergies

Best with regen or shield for tanky setups.

Tips

Useful for reducing incoming damage, especially in defensive builds.

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Attraction Tome

C-Tier

+Pickup Range: Collect XP and items from farther away. Brings XP to you.

Unlock Requirement

Use Shrine of Succ 8 times

Scaling

Increases pickup range per level.

Synergies

QoL improvement; pairs with Agility for better collection during movement.

Tips

Quality of life at best, not run-defining; useful for lazy farming.

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Bloody Tome

B-Tier

+Lifesteal: Chance to heal 1 HP per hit; over 100% guarantees healing and adds a chance for double heal. Heals you steadily as you deal damage.

Unlock Requirement

Kill 12,500 enemies

Scaling

Increases lifesteal chance and effectiveness per level.

Synergies

Good with high-attack-speed weapons for consistent healing.

Tips

Provides good lifesteal that increases survivability in damage-heavy builds.

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Chaos Tome

D-Tier

Randomly boosts one stat.

Unlock Requirement

Fully charge all Charge Shrines in a Tier 3 run across all 3 stages without leaving the charge zone

Scaling

Random effect per level; high variance.

Synergies

Unpredictable; can synergize with Luck for better outcomes.

Tips

High-risk due to randomness; avoid unless experimenting.

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Cooldown Tome

S-Tier

+Attack Speed: Reduces cooldowns, increasing attack rate. Faster shooting/attack cooldowns.

Default Unlock

Unlocked by default

Scaling

Reduces cooldowns per level; multiplies DPS exponentially.

Synergies

Multiplies with other tomes like Damage or Quantity.

Tips

Massive DPS increase; always useful in any build.

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Cursed Tome

B-Tier

+Difficulty: Boosts enemy quantity, health, speed, and power for extra challenge.

Unlock Requirement

Defeat a Stage Boss in under 5 minutes

Scaling

Increases difficulty and rewards per level.

Synergies

Pairs with strong sustain builds for more XP/loot.

Tips

High-risk/high-reward; use once build is stable.

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Damage Tome

S-Tier

+Damage: Amplifies all attack damage. Raises the base damage of your attacks.

Default Unlock

Unlocked by default

Scaling

Increases base damage per level; scales best late-game.

Synergies

Universal; boosts all weapons.

Tips

Always useful; provides huge power boosts in nearly every run.

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Duration Tome

B-Tier

+Duration: Extends how long attacks and projectiles persist.

Unlock Requirement

Upgrade Axe to level 10

Scaling

Extends durations per level.

Synergies

Good with DoT weapons like Flamewalker.

Tips

There are better projectile Tomes, but this can be useful for persistent effects.

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Evasion Tome

A-Tier

+Evasion: Chance to completely dodge incoming attacks. Raises chances of Evasion.

Default Unlock

Unlocked by default

Scaling

Increases evasion chance per level.

Synergies

Powerful with other defense Tomes like Agility.

Tips

RNG-based, but strong survivability; dodging, kiting improve.

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Golden Tome

A-Tier

+Gold Gain: Increases gold earned from all sources. Gets more Gold from all sources.

Default Unlock

Unlocked by default

Scaling

Increases gold per level.

Synergies

Good for shop-focused runs.

Tips

Strong for long-term farming in a run.

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HP Tome

B-Tier

+Max HP: Boosts total health. Raises max HP.

Default Unlock

Unlocked by default

Scaling

Increases max HP per level.

Synergies

Weaker without regen/shield; pairs with sustain.

Tips

Good buffer for health, but needs support.

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Knockback Tome

B-Tier

+Knockback: Pushes enemies farther back on hit. Raises the distance of enemy pushbacks after hitting them.

Default Unlock

Unlocked by default

Scaling

Increases knockback distance per level.

Synergies

Fun for crowd control.

Tips

Useful vs mobs, weaker vs bosses.

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Luck Tome

B-Tier

+Luck: Improves odds of higher-tier rewards from level-ups and Shrines. Increases the Luck stat.

Unlock Requirement

0.01% drop chance when killing any enemy

Scaling

Increases luck per level.

Synergies

Boosts RNG in drops and crits.

Tips

Can be strong, but unreliable unlock and RNG-dependent.

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Precision Tome

S-Tier

+Crit Chance: Increases chance to deal critical damage; exceeding 100% enables Overcrits for extra damage. Raises Critical Chance, and unlocks the ability to Overcrit.

Default Unlock

Unlocked by default

Scaling

Increases crit chance per level; enables overcrit.

Synergies

Top-tier for crit builds.

Tips

Crit builds dominate with this; excellent scaling.

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Projectile Speed Tome

B-Tier

+Projectile Speed: Projectiles travel faster. Raises the speed of your Projectiles.

Default Unlock

Unlocked by default

Scaling

Increases speed per level.

Synergies

QoL for ranged builds.

Tips

Improves projectile weapons but not raw power.

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Quantity Tome

A-Tier

+Projectile Count: Adds more projectiles per attack. More items and resources.

Unlock Requirement

Fire 5,000 projectiles

Scaling

Increases quantity per level; snowballs mid-to-late.

Synergies

Strong with projectile weapons.

Tips

Slower payoff but great consistency.

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Regen Tome

A-Tier

+HP Regen: Regain health over time. Increase HP regenerated per minute.

Default Unlock

Unlocked by default

Scaling

Increases regen rate per level.

Synergies

Pairs with HP or Shield for sustain.

Tips

Keeps you alive through chip damage.

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Shield Tome

A-Tier

+Shield: Absorbs damage before HP loss; regenerates after avoiding hits. The shield takes damage and prevents damage to HP. The Shield also regenerates if you don’t take damage for a while.

Default Unlock

Unlocked by default

Scaling

Increases shield strength per level.

Synergies

Great with regen for safety net.

Tips

Extra survivability; strong defensive option.

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Silver Tome

C-Tier

+Silver Gain: Earn more silver from all sources. Increases Silver earned from all sources.

Default Unlock

Unlocked by default

Scaling

Increases silver per level.

Synergies

For meta-progression farming.

Tips

Worse than Golden; no in-run power boost.

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Size Tome

S-Tier

+Size: Increases the size of projectiles, explosions, and attack ranges. Increases the size of all types of attacks.

Default Unlock

Unlocked by default

Scaling

Increases size per level.

Synergies

Boosts AoE weapons.

Tips

Helps control mobs, improves safety and damage.

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Thorns Tome

C-Tier

+Thorns: Reflects damage back at enemies when hit.

Unlock Requirement

Block 250 attacks with Aegis

Scaling

Increases reflected damage per level.

Synergies

Niche for defensive builds.

Tips

Niche defensive effect; better options available.

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XP Tome

S-Tier

+XP Gain: Increases experience earned. Gain more XP.

Unlock Requirement

Break 20 pots in a single run

Scaling

Increases XP gain per level.

Synergies

Snowballs all builds with faster leveling.

Tips

Faster leveling = snowball advantage; always strong.