New blogGear Drop Ascension or 2× Rating Reward: which dungeon stat is worth a gear lineDungeons · Rewards
A dungeon run pays room drops and one rating chest. Dungeon: Gear Drop Ascension Rate works on the room drops and 2× Rating Reward Rate works on the chest. Pick a dungeon and type your rates to see what each one adds.
Which one should your gear carry? Read the comparison: per gear line, 2× Rating Reward brings several times more Mythic gear.
| Mythic-or-better gear per 100 runs | Without the stat | Your stat adds |
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A full stack of shards counts as one piece (it trades for a piece you choose). Room drops count the most rooms of that kind on any route. Your 2× rate is the chance the chest is paid twice. Your Ascension rate is read as multiplying each room’s base chance, with the added reading shown small.
| One chest pays | Chance |
|---|
One chest per run, by your grade. 2× Rating Reward Rate is the chance you get it twice.
Every Elite, Boss and final boss room drops one piece of gear. When you claim, each piece rolls once to Ascend one quality. That roll has a base chance even with 0% Dungeon: Gear Drop Ascension Rate:
| Upgrade | Base chance per room |
|---|---|
| Rare to Epic | 30% (Verdantglade: 10%) |
| Epic to Legendary | 20% (Verdantglade: 5%) |
| Legendary to Mythic | 0.5% |
| In this dungeon | Rooms | Base | Multiplied | Added |
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Multiplied = base × (1 + your rate). Added = base + your rate. Rooms is how many rooms with that upgrade one run passes, fewest to most, over the routes you can take through the map. The line under each chance is the chance of at least one upgrade in a run that passes the most of those rooms.
A dungeon uses the general version of each stat plus the version named after its own kingdom. A kingdom version does nothing in another kingdom’s dungeons.
| Gear line | Per line |
|---|---|
| Dungeon: 2× Rating Reward Rate | +5% |
| [Verdantglade Dungeon] 2× Rating Reward Rate | +5% |
| [Cinder Ridge Dungeon] 2× Rating Reward Rate | +5% |
| [Aqualis Dungeon] 2× Rating Reward Rate | +5% |
| [Loong Haven Dungeon] 2× Rating Reward Rate | +5% or +10% |
| [Aethyris Dungeon] 2× Rating Reward Rate | +5% or +10% |
| Harpadia Dungeons - 2× Rating Reward Rate | +10% |
| Ignis Dungeon: 2× Rating Reward Rate | +10% |
| Dungeon: Gear Drop Ascension Rate | +10% |
| Verdantglade Dungeon: Gear Drop Promotion Rate | +10% |
| Cinder Ridge Dungeon: Gear Drop Promotion Rate | +10% |
| Aqualis Dungeon: Gear Drop Promotion Rate | +10% |
| Loong Haven Dungeon: Gear Drop Promotion Rate | +10% or +20% |
| Aethyris Dungeon: Gear Drop Promotion Rate | +10% or +20% |
| Harpadia Dungeon: Gear Drop Ascension Rate | +20% |
| Ignis Dungeon: Gear Drop Ascension Rate | +20% |
These are special gear lines from Epic quality up. A kingdom’s line has a smaller and a bigger version on different pieces. The Equipment page shows which lines each piece can roll.
Each fight room in a dungeon map lists the gear it gives and the gear it can turn into, with a weight for each: 70 to 30 for Rare to Epic, 80 to 20 for Epic to Legendary, 199 to 1 for Legendary to Mythic (90 to 10 and 95 to 5 in Verdantglade). When you claim, the game reports for each room the reward the room offered and the one you got, and marks the item as upgraded when they differ. Each map also lists the chest for every grade. Both stats are applied on the game’s server. We take the 2× rate as the chance of a second chest, and read the Ascension rate as multiplying the room’s base chance; the reasons are in the blog post. The general and kingdom versions of a stat adding together is also an inference. Retrieved rewards get both stats, as the game’s reward retrieval tip says. Checked against the game’s tables and in-game screens.