Technical Reference

This page contains every formula, rate, threshold, and value in the game. Nothing is summarized. Nothing is simplified. If you want to know exactly how something works down to the decimal, it is here.

Day Quality Score

Calculated at 2am from three components. Each component can be enabled or disabled per player in Settings, except Tasks which is always on.

T3 tasks: no DQS effect. Tier 3 completions pay Runes only — the score is built entirely from the three components above. (The former +5-per-T3 DQS bonus was removed in the August 2026 grace-ladder retune.)

Component weights when disabled: If a component is disabled, its weight redistributes proportionally to the remaining active components. Tasks always holds its 50% floor.

Example (default weights 50/25/25): All T1+T2 complete + workout + meal = DQS 100 = Blazing. All T1+T2 + workout, no meal = DQS 75 = Burning. All T1+T2 alone = DQS 50 = Burning (barely). 80% of T1+T2 (40) + workout + meal = DQS 90 = Blazing, exactly at the threshold. Tier 3 completions change none of these numbers.

Grace & Ember

Boss Damage by Grace Level

Damage is a random roll within the range, rolled at 2am. Rage mode applies 1.5x to these values. Rest at Grace requires active tap on the Grace tab — no automatic overnight restore.

Ember Growth Per Day

Ember accumulates as a decimal internally, displays as whole number (rounded down). Faith adds +0.05 Ember/day per Skill Point invested.

Rune Multiplier by Ember

Multiplier formula: min(2.4, 1 + floor(Ember / 10) × 0.08) — +0.08x per full 10 Ember. Cap is 2.4x, reached at Ember 180. Ember continues growing past that but the multiplier does not increase further.

Rune Economy — Full Table

All base Rune values are multiplied by the current Ember multiplier before being applied. Dexterity Skill Points add an additional +1% per point on top of that.

Rune Spends

Workout Rune Calculation

Formula: Intensity ceiling × Volume/Duration multiplier

Endurance: each Skill Point in Endurance adds 10% to the Runes from every workout. Rest days are not included.

Weightlifting Volume Multiplier

Cardio Duration Multiplier

First workout each day satisfies DQS. Additional workouts earn full Runes but do not affect Grace. Stretching and Other types have no volume/duration multiplier — flat payout regardless of logged detail.

Macro Bonus System

Four independent checks at 2am — one per macro (Calories, Protein, Carbs, Fat). Each check is pass/fail; hitting two macros earns two bonuses.

Calorie floor: Must log at least 70% of daily calorie target (60% for Nick and JD) or no macro bonuses apply at all — regardless of how well individual macros were hit.

Daily cap: 4,000 Runes (4 macros × 1,000 max each).

Vigor: each Skill Point in Vigor raises this nightly macro bonus by 25%. The Runes it adds show on the macro bonus line of the Ledger.

Boss System

HP Pools

HP formula: boss_hp = random(hp_base_min, hp_base_max) × class_tier_multiplier

Boss HP scales on its own dedicated ladder, separate from (and steeper than) the weapon damage multiplier: Hollow 0.9x · Tarnished 1.8x · Wanderer 2.2x · Warrior 2.5x · Champion 3.2x · Crucible Knight 4.4x · Erdtree Knight 6.2x · Exalted 8.2x · Elden Lord 10.5x · Elden God 13.5x. Because HP grows faster than damage, bosses get genuinely harder as you climb — difficulty actually progresses instead of cancelling out.

Boss Tier Pool Weights by Class

Weights are relative — they do not need to sum to 100. Hard unlock gates are absolute and cannot be overridden by weights.

Boss Kill Rewards

Near Victory & Outcomes

Debuff System

One debuff active at a time. Duration: Standard 4 days · Veteran usually 6 days · Legendary usually 7 days. Cleared by Neutralizing Boluses or Site of Grace milestone. 1% minimum floor on all loot drop rates while loot-affecting debuff is active.

Rage Mode

Trigger: varies per boss. Effect: 1.5x incoming Vigor damage. Recovery: 2 consecutive Burning+ Grace days. Rage clears only through natural recovery or admin action — NOT through Sites of Grace or Neutralizing Boluses.

Loot Drop System

Drop Chance by Trigger

Arcane: multiplies all drop chances by ×1.035 per Skill Point invested (compounding — 20 points ≈ ×2).

Daily decay: 50% multiplicative per drop per day. First drop of the day fires at full rate. Each subsequent drop that day: previous rate × 0.5. Example: workout drop at 8%, second drop at 4%, third at 2%, and so on.

Roll guard: each task gets exactly one loot roll per game day — spent on first completion, hit or miss. Unchecking/re-checking a task never re-rolls. Workouts and meals roll per real logged action.

Weapon Damage Formula

Full formula: (Runes earned / 100) × Rarity rate × Class tier multiplier × Strength bonus × Grease multiplier

Damage Rate by Rarity

Class Tier Weapon Multiplier

Strength bonus: +3% weapon damage per Skill Point. Multiplicative on top of class multiplier.

Grease Multipliers

Shield Damage Reduction

Talismans — Full Effect List

Uncommon (6)

Rare (10)

Legendary (6)

Consumables — Full List

Common (6)

Uncommon (15)

Rare (8)

Legendary (4)

Raid Wares (from a Raid Boss; most consumables also turn up in the Merchant's cart while your raid is live — Rune Arc and the 6 talismans are drop-only)

Stats — Full Reference

Skill Point Sources

Vigor Scaling

Companion System

Happiness Mechanics

Decay: -20/day at 2am. Restore: +20 per companion task completed. Each companion has 2 tasks. Complete both = net +20 (meter caps at 100). Complete one = net zero. Complete neither = -20. Recovery from zero: 5 days of completing both tasks.

Companion level is permanent — never resets, even through New Game Plus.

Class Ladder & Level Costs

Total journey: 365 days at optimal play. Every level up gives +2 max Vigor and +1 Skill Point automatically. Class promotions (every 5 levels) also give a bonus Skill Point, a guaranteed loot drop, a new title, and a major activity feed event.

Death System

Sites of Grace — Full Milestone Table

Every 10 Ember: Ember floor raised + active debuff cleared + a reward item that arrives with a blessing (one of 7) + a guaranteed enhanced loot drop, every rung:

Reward pool (one item drawn at every Site of Grace; every reward is an item and arrives with a blessing, with no flat Rune or Vigor rewards): Hero's Rune 20% · Grace Ward 16.5% · Lazuli Shard 16.5% · Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot 15% · Key of the Realm 15% · Skill Point 10% · Lord's Rune 7% (Lazuli Shard: next EARNED loot drop upgraded one rarity tier — quest/workout/meal client rolls only; the automatic daily-login roll and engine/overnight drops never consume Shards)

Raid Boss — The Stirring

21-day raid, assigned at Level 6+, running alongside the weekly boss. HP is sized per-player (roughly 1.3× three weeks of the player's own median daily damage output over the last 14 days, nothing skipped, counting only your permanent stack plus the drawn boss's Bane), rail-clamped between 0.8× and 2.5× three weekly bosses of the tier — never a fixed range. Four HP-based phases (Slumbering 100–80% · Stirring 80–60% · Hunting 60–30% · Cornered 30–0%), no calendar gating.

Every raid kill drops double loot (a guaranteed Rare-or-better plus a bonus roll), that boss's Great Rune, 1 Skill Point, and +1 Ember, plus a family gift of +1.0 Ember to every other player. See Raid Bosses for the full design and Great Runes for what each kill earns.