Facets

What a facet is

A power you unlock once and then raise through 12 levels by using it. There are 8: Ember, Volt, Echo, Bastion, Mangle and Overload for fighting, Yield for gathering and Hallmark for crafting.

What it does

Each one is a chance: on a hit, a spell, a blow taken, a gathering swing or a craft, it may fire its effect. The chance rises with every level.

Where it lives

On your character, not on a weapon. A facet is bound to a weapon to use it, and losing that weapon costs you the binding only, never the level or the experience.

One at a time

Only one facet is active at once, and only the active one earns experience.

Two things to level

Experience fills the bar. Shards and Fragments pay for the level. You need both, and the level is taken by hand at the Facet Menu.

Where the materials are

On monsters, for every facet. Gathering and crafting fill the bars of Yield and Hallmark, but turn up no Shards or Fragments. The one exception is a gatherer's rare prize: a Geode, a Lost Satchel or a Message in a Bottle may have a Fragment inside.

The Facet Menu

Press F4, or right-click any Facet, Shard or Fragment in your pack and choose Facet Menu.

Everything about facets is done in one window, titled Weapon Facets. Press F4 to open and close it; the key can be changed under Hotkeys in Options. You can also right-click any Facet, Shard or Fragment in your pack and choose Facet Menu.

The chance shown is at level 1 and at level 12; it climbs by the same amount each level. Every effect that is "per level" grows the same way.

Facet	For	Fires	Chance (level 1 to 12)	What it does
Ember	Fighting	When your weapon hits	0.25% to 3%	Deals an additional 30% of the strike's damage per level as fire damage.
Volt	Fighting	When your weapon hits	0.25% to 3%	Stuns the monster for 3s and deals 20% of the strike's damage per level.
Echo	Fighting	When your weapon hits	0.25% to 3%	3s later, strikes again for free at 40% of that strike's damage per level.
Bastion	Fighting	When a monster hits you	0.25% to 3%	Absorbs all incoming damage for 3s, +0.25s per level.
Mangle	Fighting	When your weapon hits	0.125% to 1.5%	Adds 2 extra strikes to the swing, each 40% of its damage per level.
Overload	Fighting	When a damaging spell lands	0.25% to 3%	Your damaging spells have a chance to overload — an additional 40% of the spell's damage per level, as raw arcane damage. While active, all your spells deal +1% damage per level.
Yield	Gathering	On a gathering swing	0.5% to 6%	That swing brings extra material on top of its haul: 0.3 for every level of the facet, rounded up — 1 at level 1, 4 at level 12. It is added after everything else and is not held to the swing's cap.
Hallmark	Crafting	On a craft attempt	1% to 12%	Finishes the next 5 attempts of what you are crafting per level at once (60 at level 12) — every attempt still paid for, rolled and gained, only the waiting skipped. Only a run with a count can proc: Craft All, Craft x, or the Crafting Bench's "Make x, then stop". While bound, 0.8% of the gear you craft per level comes out Well-Made, Superior or Mastercrafted: +5%/+10%/+15% better stats on gear, and as many more uses on a tool.

Flat weapon damage

While a combat facet is active on the weapon in your hand, that weapon deals +1 damage per facet level on a 2.5-second weapon, scaled by its speed: at level 12 that is +8 on a 1.75-second dagger and +18 on a 3.75-second halberd.

Overload

Also makes every damaging spell hit harder while it is active, with no proc needed.

Hallmark

Also gives everything you craft a standing chance to come out marked: Well-Made (+5%), Superior (+10%) and Mastercrafted (+15%). On gear the bonus is stats; on a tool it is uses.

A broken weapon

Carries no facet. Repair it and the facet is back.

The First Facet quest

Once per character, pick any facet you do not hold and hand in three stacks of what its craft is made of. It is unlocked at level 1 outright, with nothing else to pay.

The Wanderer's Exchange

Sells a whole Facet of any kind, in every town, for 10 Merchant Tokens or 10 Dungeoneer Tokens. Facets do not drop from anything.

Unlocking a bought Facet

At the Facet Menu, for the Facet itself, 2 of its Shards and 1 of its Fragments. The Facet is used up; a second one of a kind you already own does nothing.

Three hand-ins, in order. Things you were given at character creation do not count toward them.

Facet	First	Second	Third
Ember	25 Leather	25 Iron Ingot	100 Wood
Volt	25 Leather	50 Iron Ore	25 Iron Ingot
Echo	25 Bones	25 Wood Plank	25 Lesser Bandage
Bastion	25 Iron Ingot	25 Wood Plank	50 Lesser Bandage
Mangle	50 Leather	50 Bones	25 Iron Ingot
Overload	25 Black Pearl	25 Mandrake Root	25 Sulfurous Ash
Yield	100 Iron Ore	100 Wood	50 Fish
Hallmark	50 Iron Ingot	50 Wood Plank	25 Cooked Fish

A combat facet

Binds to the weapon you have equipped when you press Activate. It works only while that exact weapon is in your hand.

Putting the weapon away

Keeps the binding: it can sit in your pack, or in a bag in your pack, between fights.

Fighting bare-handed

Your punches borrow the facet — Ember, Volt, Echo and Mangle — while the weapon it is bound to is in your pack, or in your hand doing nothing (an instrument out, a spell being cast). The chance is matched to a punch's speed, so it fires no more often a minute than on the weapon, and the weapon's flat damage stays with the weapon. Not with an Inscribed Spellbook in your hand, and never from a broken weapon.

Losing the weapon

Ends the binding: selling it, banking it, trading it or losing it on death. Your level and experience are untouched; bind the facet to another weapon.

Yield and Hallmark

Bind to nothing. They are simply on or off.

Changing by hand

Free, but you must wait 2 minutes between changes.

Changing automatically

Start gathering and Yield switches on; start crafting and Hallmark does; start a fight and your default combat facet binds to the weapon in your hand. None of these costs the wait. Choose the default with Set Default on a combat facet's card.

Combat facets

Each kill pays the monster's base gold as facet experience: 1 gold, 1 experience. It goes to the facet active on the weapon you are holding.

Yield

Each gathering swing pays 3 experience per unit hauled at the lowest tier of ore, wood or fish, and one more 3 for every tier above it. Mining, Lumberjacking and Fishing all count.

Hallmark

Each craft attempt pays 40 experience at the lowest material tier and one more 40 for every tier above it. It is counted per attempt, never per unit of material.

A full bar

Never levels the facet by itself. Experience keeps banking past a level you cannot yet pay for, so nothing earned offline is wasted.

Virtue Surge

The Dungeon Boon of that name adds to facet experience while it runs.

Experience is the running total needed to reach the level. The Shards and Fragments are paid to take it, and must be the facet's own kind. From level 1 to 12 is 283 Shards and 89 Fragments.

Monsters drop them, and a gatherer's rare prize may hold a Fragment. Either way it is one of the 8 kinds, picked evenly, so no facet is rarer than another, and that includes Yield's and Hallmark's.

Tougher monsters

A kill's chance rises 10% for every tier of the monster above the lowest.

Nothing else

Every monster can drop every kind, in any dungeon or out of one. No facet belongs to a place.

Convert

The row at the top of the Facet Menu: 5 Shards of one facet for 1 Shard of any other, and the same 5 to 1 for Fragments.

Smash

Right-click a Fragment and break it into 3 Shards of the same facet. Nothing turns Shards back into a Fragment, and the last levels want Fragments badly.

Other players

Whole Facets, Shards and Fragments can all be traded and sold.

Sold at the Commission Board's Rewards store for 100 Commission Points. Right-click to open it. The band decides how much you get; which facet it is for is an even pick across all 8.