Grace & Day Quality Score
Grace is your daily performance rating. Each night at 2am, the game calculates your Day Quality Score (DQS) based on what you did yesterday and assigns one of four Grace levels — Blazing, Burning, Flickering, or Forsaken. Your Grace level determines how hard your boss hits tomorrow, whether you can restore Vigor at a Site of Grace, and how much Ember you accumulate.
Grace is announced every morning in the New Day Card when you open the app.
The Four Grace Levels
| Grace Level | DQS Required | Boss Damage (Standard) | Boss Damage (Veteran) | Boss Damage (Legendary) | Rest at Grace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blazing | 90–100 | 4–6 HP | 6–10 HP | 8–12 HP | +10% max Vigor |
| Burning | 50–89 | 8–12 HP | 13–19 HP | 15–22 HP | +10% max Vigor |
| Flickering | 20–49 | 14–22 HP | 22–34 HP | 25–38 HP | No restore |
| Forsaken | 0–19 | 22–34 HP | 34–50 HP | 38–58 HP | No restore |
If you don't open the app at all, the game treats the day as full neglect — boss damage matches Forsaken, no Flask is available, and no Ember is earned. Same damage, no recovery tools.
Forsaken Grace in practice: tasks untouched, no workout logged, no meals recorded, app opened briefly to check the leaderboard and then closed. The boss noticed. The boss always notices. Two consecutive Burning days will deactivate rage mode. The couch will not help with this.
Day Quality Score
Your DQS is a number from 0–100 calculated at 2am based on everything you did that day. It has three main components, each of which can be enabled or disabled per player in Settings.
Tasks (always on)
Your Tier 1 and Tier 2 task completion rate is the backbone of your DQS. This component is always active, and its weight is whatever the other two components leave over: tasks = 100 − workout weight − meal weight. With the default settings (workout 25, meals 25), tasks are worth 50 points. Disable a component in Settings and its weight flows back into tasks — a player with both optional components off is scored 100% on tasks alone. The tasks share is always at least 20%.
Workout Component (optional — per player)
Logging a workout or a rest day (within your consecutive rest day cap — see Daily Actions for how the cap works) counts as full credit for this component. If enabled, it contributes meaningfully to your DQS. If disabled, logging workouts still earns Runes — it just has no effect on Grace.
Meal Logging Component (optional — per player)
This component is binary — you either logged at least one meal today or you didn't. Log anything and you receive full credit. Log nothing and you receive none. A single daily report counts as full credit. If disabled, meal logging still earns Runes but has no Grace effect.
Tier 3 Tasks
Tier 3 tasks do not affect your DQS. They pay the best Rune rewards of any daily task, but your Daily Score is built entirely from the three components above. (Before the August 2026 grace-ladder retune, each Tier 3 completion added +5 bonus DQS — that bonus has been removed.)
What Grace Affects
Boss Damage
Your boss attacks every night at 2am. The exact damage is rolled randomly within the range for your Grace level. Blazing Grace keeps damage low (4–6 HP on a Standard boss). Forsaken Grace takes heavy hits (22–34 HP). See the table above for all values by tier and boss difficulty.
Rest at Grace
On Blazing or Burning days, tapping Rest at Grace on the Grace tab restores 10% of your max Vigor. This requires an active tap — there is no automatic overnight restore. On Flickering or Forsaken days, no Vigor restore is available — though resting still refills your Flask, so it's never wasted. Using your Flask is the only Vigor recovery option on bad days — the full table of recovery sources lives on Flasks & Vigor.
Ember Growth
Each Grace level earns a different amount of Ember per day. Blazing earns the most; Forsaken earns nothing. See Ember & Rune Multiplier for the full growth table.
Debuff Risk
Poor Grace also risks a debuff — a lingering negative effect applied by your boss overnight. A Burning-or-better day can never be debuffed. On a Flickering day the chance is 10%; on a Forsaken (or full-neglect) day it's 35%. See Debuffs for effects, durations, and how to clear them.
Grace Ward
A Grace Ward is a Common loot drop that protects your Grace from dropping one tier. If your DQS would move you from Burning to Flickering at 2am, a Ward activates automatically and absorbs the drop — Grace stays at Burning. The Ward is consumed silently and you'll see a shield indicator in the app header while one is active. Wards are not purchasable with Runes — they can only be obtained through loot drops and Sites of Grace milestone rewards.
Starting Grace & Respawn Grace
New players begin at Burning. There is no Day 1 DQS calculation since there's no "yesterday" yet. This is also the Grace level you respawn at after death — consistent, fair, and recoverable.
Notes & Tips
- With the default component weights (workout 25 / meals 25 / tasks 50), completing all T1 and T2 tasks but nothing else gives a DQS of 50 — exactly Burning. Reaching Blazing (90+) means a near-perfect day across every enabled component. (If you've disabled the optional components, tasks carry the full 100 points instead.)
- The damage ranges have a random roll within them — two Forsaken days won't always deal identical damage. Don't count on the low end of the range.
- A boss in rage mode multiplies the nightly roll by 1.5x. The full rage-adjusted damage tables live on How Bosses Work.
- Grace is shown in the app header as a flame icon and tier name. Ember lives on the Quests Progress Summary and the Grace character card — not in the header.
- A Grace Ward only protects one tier drop. If Grace would fall two tiers (e.g. Blazing to Flickering), the Ward only holds one step — you'd land at Burning.
- Tier 3 tasks don't affect Grace at all — their reward is Runes. Skipping them won't hurt your Grace; your score comes entirely from required tasks, workouts, and meals.