Heroes | Veles: Rise of the Damned

Tavern · The hero hub

Choose, inspect, and commit

The tavern is the between-run hero hub. It shows hero selection, paragon progress, equipped Disciplines, class bonuses, career stats, and the combat numbers that matter before the next descent.

Tavern showing five heroes, progression bonuses, and combat values — Choose a hero, track unlocked class bonuses, review combat values, and set your Discipline loadout.

Woodsworn Bear Trap discipline screen showing the upgrade tree, spent points, and the live damage and cooldown stats — Each Discipline opens its own node tree, with a live before/after readout of every stat.

Disciplines · New in 2.3.0

Three active paths per hero

Disciplines replace the old single ultimate. Every hero has three — active abilities with their own upgrade trees. You equip one at Paragon 0, a second at 10, and a third at 20, and can swap them freely between runs; the points spent inside a tree stay locked until a respec.

Woodsworn

Fast ranged pressure

Woodsworn starts with Piercing Arrows and leans into movement, reach, beast hunting, and late-game physical scaling.

980Starting HP 335Move speed 38 +8Strength 48 +8Agility 35 +7Endurance 36 +7Vitality 30 +6Intelligence

Bear TrapArm a trap at your feet. The first enemy to step in it takes heavy Physical damage and is stunned.
TrackFire tracking bolts at the nearest enemies. Marked targets lose Physical resistance and are lit up for 15s.
ShadowstepDash along your facing, striking and knocking back everything you pass through, with brief immunity.

Lv. 1: +15% Move Speed
Lv. 2: +10 All Attributes
Lv. 3: +10 Physical Damage
Lv. 4: +25% Pickup Radius
Lv. 7: +35 Agility
Lv. 10: +50 Physical Damage
Lv. 13: +1 to All Skills
Lv. 16: +33% Critical Chance
Lv. 19: +20% Evasion
Lv. 22: +200% Physical Damage
Lv. 25: +60 All Attributes

Spellblade

Arcane cooldown control

Spellblade starts with Magic Missiles and grows through intelligence, magical damage, area coverage, bounces, and penetration.

920Starting HP 325Move speed 30 +6Strength 35 +7Agility 38 +7Endurance 40 +8Vitality 48 +8Intelligence

BlinkTeleport along your facing and detonate a magic blast at both the departure and the arrival points.
Spell EchoFor a few seconds your automated abilities trigger one extra time.
Elemental ExposurePulse a wide zone that strips Magic resistance from every enemy inside for a few seconds.

Lv. 1: +25% Magic Damage
Lv. 2: +10 All Attributes
Lv. 3: +10 Magic Damage
Lv. 4: +10% Area of Effect
Lv. 7: +25 Intelligence
Lv. 10: +50% Magic Damage
Lv. 13: +10% Pickup Radius
Lv. 16: +75% Magic Damage
Lv. 19: +3 Bounces
Lv. 22: +15% Magic Penetration
Lv. 25: +3 to Magical Skills

Nightreaver

Crits, speed, and execution

Nightreaver starts with Shuriken Toss and turns agility, critical hits, rerolls, armor reduction, and elite hunting into burst damage.

950Starting HP 365Move speed 44 +8Strength 46 +8Agility 30 +6Endurance 34 +7Vitality 30 +6Intelligence

Death MarkHurl marks at the nearest enemies. Marked targets lose Physical and Poison resistance for 15s.
VanishSlip into stealth and emerge with a short burst of damage, speed, and full evasion.
Shadow DashDash through enemies, damaging and pushing everything crossed. The more you cross, the stronger you fight briefly.

Lv. 1: +25% Critical Chance
Lv. 2: +10 All Attributes
Lv. 3: +10 Physical Damage
Lv. 4: +25 Agility
Lv. 7: +75% Physical Damage
Lv. 10: +100% Critical Multiplier
Lv. 13: +5 Rerolls
Lv. 16: +33% Critical Chance
Lv. 19: +4% Life Stolen per Hit
Lv. 22: +25 Armor Reduction
Lv. 25: +3 to Physical Skills

Bonebreaker

Scaling bruiser

Bonebreaker starts with Hurling Axes and survives through raw health, strength, armor, bash, regeneration, and stacking physical power.

1050Starting HP 325Move speed 46 +8Strength 33 +6Agility 40 +8Endurance 46 +8Vitality 28 +5Intelligence

Ground SlamSlam the ground, dealing Physical damage and stunning and knocking back nearby enemies.
Blood RageSpend 15% of your current Life for a short, brutal offensive burst.
ChargeCharge forward, dealing Physical damage and knockback to everything you plow through.

Lv. 1: +15 Physical Damage
Lv. 2: +10 All Attributes
Lv. 3: +12 Physical Damage
Lv. 4: +25 Strength
Lv. 7: +750 Life
Lv. 10: +100% Physical Damage
Lv. 13: +25 Life per Second
Lv. 16: +10% Bash Chance
Lv. 19: +100% Physical Damage
Lv. 22: +50 All Attributes
Lv. 25: +3 to Passive Skills

Lightbearer

Durable holy power

Lightbearer starts with Lightning Smite and builds around high health, armor, attributes, holy utility, undead damage, and staying power.

1150Starting HP 290Move speed 40 +7Strength 30 +6Agility 46 +8Endurance 48 +8Vitality 32 +6Intelligence

Divine ShieldBecome fully invulnerable for a few seconds.
ConsecrationBless the ground around you: it burns enemies and heals you every second for a few seconds.
Holy ChargeFor 5 seconds you plough through enemies, dealing a slice of their max Life and knocking them back.

Lv. 1: +5 Armor
Lv. 2: +10 All Attributes
Lv. 3: +10 Magic Damage
Lv. 4: +35 All Attributes
Lv. 7: +25% Area of Effect
Lv. 10: +25% Rest In Peace Chance
Lv. 13: +200% Damage vs Undead
Lv. 16: +70 All Attributes
Lv. 19: +100% Magic Find
Lv. 22: +1 Revive
Lv. 25: +3 to Pure Skills

Redesigned in version 2.0.0

Every source, clearly shown

The new Hero Stats screen breaks each combat value down by class, attributes, items, quests, and other progression sources.

Version 2.0.0 Hero Stats screen showing combat values and their sources — See exactly where every part of your build comes from.

Stat reference

What every modifier does

These examples use dummy values to show how each stat changes a hero, item, ability, or run.

Example	What it does
+10 Physical Damage	Adds flat physical damage to physical abilities.
+25% Enchanted Physical Damage	Increases physical ability damage by a percentage.
+10 Magic Damage	Adds flat magical damage to magical abilities.
+25% Enchanted Magic Damage	Increases magical ability damage by a percentage.
+50% Damage vs Undead	Deals more damage to enemies tagged as undead.
+50% Damage vs Beasts	Deals more damage to beast enemies.
+50% Damage vs Insects	Deals more damage to insect enemies.
+50% Damage vs Elite/Boss	Deals more damage to elite and boss enemies.
+10% Faster Cast Rate	Converts through diminishing returns into effective cooldown reduction.
+10% Critical Chance	Raises the chance for attacks to critically hit.
+10% Evasion	Gives a chance to avoid incoming physical damage.
+50% Critical Multiplier	Raises the damage dealt by critical hits.
+10 to Life	Increases maximum hit points by a flat amount.
+25% Increased Max Hit Points	Multiplies maximum hit points after flat bonuses.
+5 Regenerate Life	Restores a flat amount of HP every second.
+1% Regenerate Life	Restores a percentage of max HP every second.
+10% Life Stolen per Hit	Heals the hero for a percentage of final damage dealt.
+10 Armor	Reduces incoming physical damage.
+25% to Armor	Multiplies armor after flat armor bonuses.
+10 Magic Resistance	Reduces incoming magical damage.
+25% to Magic Resistance	Multiplies magic resistance after flat bonuses.
Damage Reduced by 5	Reduces incoming damage by a flat amount.
+10% Damage Reduction	Reduces incoming damage by a percentage, with a hard cap.
Physical Damage Reduced by 5	Reduces incoming physical damage by a flat amount.
+10% Physical Damage Reduction	Reduces incoming physical damage by a percentage.
Magic Damage Reduced by 5	Reduces incoming magical damage by a flat amount.
+10% Magic Damage Reduction	Reduces incoming magical damage by a percentage.
+20 Move Speed	Raises movement speed by a flat amount.
+10% Move Speed	Multiplies movement speed after flat bonuses.
+20 Pickup Radius	Expands the range for collecting drops.
+25% Pickup Radius	Multiplies pickup range after flat bonuses.
+1 Projectile Count	Adds extra projectiles to supported abilities.
+1 Bounces	Adds extra bounces to supported abilities.
+1 to Effect Duration	Extends supported effect durations by seconds.
+25% to Effect Duration	Multiplies supported effect durations.
+10% Chance of Piercing Attack	Gives projectiles a chance to pass through enemies.
+10% Magic Penetration	Ignores part of enemy magic resistance.
Armor Reduction 10	Reduces enemy armor by a flat amount before physical damage.
+25% Armor Reduction	Reduces enemy armor by a percentage.
+10% Rest In Peace Chance	Gives defeated enemies a chance to stay down without death effects.
+10% Chance to Bash	Gives physical hits a chance to stun briefly.
+0.5 Bash Duration	Extends bash stun duration.
+10% Chance of Crushing Blow	Adds a chance to deal damage based on current enemy HP.
+10% Crushing Blow Damage	Raises the current-HP damage portion of crushing blow.
+25% Magic Find	Improves the chance of finding better rewards.
+25% Gold Find	Increases gold gained from drops.
+25% Experience Gain	Increases experience earned during a run.
+10 Strength	Maps into physical damage percentage.
+10 Agility	Maps into flat movement speed and a small evasion bonus.
+10 Endurance	Maps into +0.5% physical resistance and +0.25% magic, fire, cold, lightning, and poison resistance.
+10 Vitality	Maps into max HP at 8 HP per vitality.
+10 Intelligence	Maps into magic damage percentage and half as much elemental damage percentage.
+10 All Attributes	Adds strength, agility, endurance, vitality, and intelligence together.
+25% Area of Effect	Expands supported ability areas.
+1 Revive	Lets the hero return after death one additional time.
+1 Reroll	Adds another reroll choice where rerolls are supported.
Increased Light Radius	Widens the lit area around the hero, driven by the Light Radius stat.

Rite of Ascension board showing attribute, resistance, and enchanted damage nodes — Inspect connected bonuses, gold costs, and the Hunter's Trophies required for each permanent upgrade.

Rite of Ascension · Version 2.0.0

Permanent power for every hero

Ascension is an account-wide long-term progression board where gold and Hunter's Trophies purchase connected passive nodes. Purchased nodes rebuild into the same stat system as gear, so Ascension adds permanent growth without changing how combat numbers are read.

Five paths into the dark