Can You Drop Relics in Wizard of Legend?
The short and direct answer is no, you cannot drop relics in Wizard of Legend in the way you might expect. You cannot discard or remove relics from your inventory once you’ve acquired them during a run. This core mechanic of the game plays a crucial role in its roguelike nature and strategic gameplay. However, the inability to drop relics doesn’t mean they’re always a permanent fixture. There are nuances to how relics work in Wizard of Legend, and understanding these will significantly improve your game experience.
Relics: A Primer in Wizard of Legend
Before delving deeper into the specifics of not being able to drop relics, let’s briefly recap what relics are and their function within the game. Relics are powerful items in Wizard of Legend that provide passive boosts, debuffs, or special effects. These can range from simple increases in critical hit chance to more complex mechanics like reviving after defeat or reducing arcana cooldowns. Each relic you obtain can dramatically alter your playstyle and make you more effective.
Relics are primarily found in a few ways:
- Purchased at shops within the Trials: Various shopkeepers scattered through the game’s levels offer relics for purchase with gold you accumulate during a run.
- Dropped from defeated enemies: Some enemies have a chance to drop relics upon death, adding an element of luck to your progression.
- Acquired by combining items: A handful of powerful relics require the combination of other relics, often cursed ones, to create. These combinations can lead to removing de-buffs associated with those items.
- Obtained through town progression: By progressing and purchasing items in the town you can add new relics to the available pool for the runs
Crucially, the relics you acquire during a run do not persist outside of that run. Once you are defeated or complete the Trials, all the relics you gathered are lost, and you start the next run with your chosen starting relic. This is the key reason why “dropping” a relic isn’t a mechanic in the game – everything is reset at the end of each run.
Why You Can’t Drop Relics: The Roguelike Design
The absence of a relic-dropping mechanic is a deliberate design choice that reinforces Wizard of Legend’s roguelike structure. Here’s why:
- Increased Strategic Thinking: Since you cannot easily discard a relic you might not want, you are forced to think strategically about which relics to pick up and how they synergize (or clash) with your existing build.
- Tension and Risk vs Reward: The fact that you cannot get rid of that bad or ‘cursed’ relic is part of the risk vs reward of getting new items in a dungeon crawler, sometimes your build does not benefit from every choice.
- Unique Run Variance: The inability to drop relics makes each run a unique experience. You have to adapt to the specific combination of items you get, leading to varied gameplay.
- Preventing Overpowered Builds: If players could simply drop any undesirable relic, they could handpick only the strongest synergies, thus leading to extremely powerful builds that would reduce the challenge.
In summary, you cannot directly drop a relic in Wizard of Legend. However, understanding this limitation is vital to mastering the game’s strategic depths. You must carefully assess each relic pickup, making decisions that balance immediate benefits with potential long-term consequences.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Here are some frequently asked questions to further clarify the topic and provide additional valuable information for players:
1. How Many Relics Can You Equip?
While you can accumulate up to 10 relics during a single run, you only start with one that you chose before beginning the trials. This starting relic persists throughout the run. You cannot equip multiple relics in the menu.
2. Can You Combine Relics During a Run?
Yes, some specific relics are only created by combining two other existing relics, creating powerful combinations. These are not dropped or bought, but are the result of having the correct items in your inventory.
3. What Happens to Relics After a Run?
All relics collected during a run are lost upon completion or failure. You always begin a new run with the starting relic you chose in town.
4. Where Can You Buy Relics?
Relics can be purchased from various shopkeepers found within the Trials themselves. These shops are not in the town, but inside the levels themselves. You must be prepared to spend the gold you accumulated to acquire these items.
5. Where Else Can You Find Relics?
Aside from shops, relics can also drop from defeated enemies at random, adding an element of chance to your run. They also can be obtained by item combinations.
6. What Happens If I Pick Up a Cursed Relic?
Cursed relics often provide powerful benefits but with significant drawbacks. You cannot drop them, so picking one up means dealing with the debuff for the rest of the run. Some powerful combinations can remove this curse from certain items by combining them with others.
7. How Can I Choose My Starting Relic?
You choose your starting relic before beginning a run, from your treasure chest. This treasure chest grows when you purchase relics in town with chaos gems.
8. Are There Any Relics That Should Never Be Picked Up?
While there are a few relics generally considered weak, most are situational. The key is to understand how each relic affects your build and adapt your play style accordingly. Cursed items can be quite dangerous if you are not aware of their effects and cannot create their combination to remove their debuff.
9. Are There Permanent Upgrades in Wizard of Legend?
Yes, but only those bought with chaos gems in town. Everything you buy inside the dungeon with gold is lost after a run. Relics, clothing and new arcana can be unlocked permanently.
10. What is the Best Relic in Wizard of Legend?
The “best” relic is subjective and depends on your play style. However, some of the most popular include Jade’s Chakra Locket, Pathfinder’s Map, Vampire’s Eyeglasses, and Armor of Resolve. The article lists a top 10 of many of the most popular relics.
11. What is Savile the Tailor?
Savile the Tailor is an NPC in town that can permanently upgrade your clothing. This will increase its effects by an additional 50% after having met the requirements to talk to him. This is a permanent upgrade and does not need to be unlocked on every run.
12. How Do I Get More Chaos Arcana?
You can get chaos arcana by defeating the final boss, Master Sura, who will award one at random after defeat. He will give you another one after you defeat his third secret phase. These are the only two ways of obtaining them, as you cannot buy them normally from the arcana shop.
13. How Many Arcana Are There in Wizard of Legend?
As of update V1.23, there are 36 arcana for each of the four elements (fire, air, earth, and lightning), water has 36 and then there are an additional 24 chaos arcana. All these arcana can be acquired in town by spending chaos gems.
14. How Do I Claim Free Arcana?
Free arcana are obtained by logging in and selecting the souvenir bag icon in the menu. From there you will be awarded the free arcana token.
15. What Can I Buy with Chaos Gems?
Chaos gems are used to purchase relics, clothing, and new arcana from the shops in the town. All of these are permanent unlocks, which are not lost after finishing a run.
In conclusion, while you cannot simply drop relics in Wizard of Legend, this limitation is a cornerstone of the game’s design. It forces you to make careful choices and adapt to unexpected situations. Understanding the nuances of relic acquisition and management is crucial to mastering the game and enjoying its strategic depth.