Armour sets, essence and artifacts

Armour sets are the strongest gear in the game and every bonus needs the full four piece set to activate. Half a set does nothing.

How you make them

Everything runs on Essence. Collect 9 matching Essence Fragments, won from that location's crates, combine them into 1 Essence, then craft or repair the armour like normal gear. Browse them all in game with /essence or /artifacts.

Which set to build

There are fourteen sets. In practice the decision is simple, because they split into three jobs:

For boss fights

• Celestial: Speed +3, Strength +2, x3.5 damage to every boss. The strongest boss killer on the server.
• Underworld: Resistance +2, Strength +2, x3 boss damage. The top combat set and the more achievable of the two.

These two decide the Underworld top three payouts, which is the only place damage ranking pays out at all.

For general grinding

• Spring: Speed +3, Haste +2, x3 boss damage, and x2 on every gathering location, dungeon and dragon crate. The best all rounder by a distance.
• Aztec: Speed, Strength and Resistance +2, x3 boss damage, x3 dungeon rewards.

For one location

If you only grind one place, the specialist sets beat the generalists outright:

Set	Location	Multiplier
Odyssey	Mineshafts	x4
Tropical	Pirates Bay	x4
Mineshaft	Mineshafts	x2
Woodlands	Woodlands	x2
Piratebay	Pirates Bay	x2
Dungeon	Dungeons	x2

Odyssey and Tropical are simply double the basic set for the same location, so if either drops for you, the basic version becomes redundant.

One outlier worth naming: Spiritworld gives a 1 in 151 chance of a spirit bone on every block mined, in every mine, which is a different kind of value to a flat multiplier.

Artifacts

Artifacts are the best weapons and tools on the server, each built around a custom ability at the hidden Level X tier. Most come from Time Capsules won in lootboxes.

Every artifact sword and axe also carries Sharpness VII, Unbreaking VII, Sweeping Edge IV, Looting IV, Fire Aspect II and Mending as standard, with the differences being which custom enchant sits at X: Viper on Meltdown, Backstabbing on Hellfire, Bloodlust on Vengeance, Lightning on Thor's Hammer, and so on.

The tools matter just as much for grinding: the Harvester Hoe, Shockwave Pickaxe (Efficiency 500), Lumberjack Axe, Sailors Shovel and Nuclear Sword. Each has a [Super Artifact] version with double durability and a bigger reward bonus, +6 instead of +2.

Where to start

Build a location set for wherever you grind first, since those fragments come from crates you are already opening. Save the boss sets for when you are ready to contest the Underworld.