¶ Waystones
One of the gold statues waiting to be found.
The idea of the Waystone is simple: make you walk around the map again. Spread across the world, gold statues wait to be found. Some are in plain sight, others are buried far from the reach of those who run past.
Expect places that ask for a shovel in your hand, a Levitate in the right place, a dive in water where you would never think of going in, and all the other mechanics the game has. The world rewards those who look with care.
¶ How It Works
The system has three parts: you find the statues, complete the regions and spend the points you earned.
Each statue you find adds to your count. They are in all regions of the game, from the sky to the bottom of the Inferno.
Every region has its own total. When you find them all, you get an exclusive cosmetic from that place.
Each statue also gives 1 point to put in the Waystone tree, and you choose where to invest it.
Mainland has 10 statues. When you find all 10, the Mainland prize, the Golden Toad, is unlocked. The same is true for all the other regions.
¶ The Tree
If you play for power, this content is for you. The idea is the usual one: small gains from many places that, added together, change everything.
Each statue improves the progression of your character, and you decide where each point goes. Two people with the same number of statues can have very different journeys, depending on where they put the points.
| Bonus | Per Point | Max Points | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chaos Essence | +1% | 25 | +25% |
| Task | +0.8% | 25 | +20% |
| Double Milestone | +0.8% | 25 | +20% |
| Experience | +0.5% | 25 | +12.5% |
| Loot | +0.6% | 25 | +15% |
| Double Bestiary | +2% | 25 | +50% |
| Relic Fusion | +0.08% | 25 | +2% |
| Max HG/DG Charge | +0.08 charge | 25 | +2 charges |
| Double Gathering | +1% | 25 | +25% |
| Profession EXP | +2% | 25 | +50% |
| Soul Fragment | +2% | 25 | +50% |
| Crafting EXP | +2% | 25 | +50% |
There are 130 statues, so 130 points. To max all the bonuses it would take 300 points. Choose what helps your play style the most.
Max HG/DG charge: every 13 points you get +1 charge, up to +2 at 25 points.
¶ Regions
The statues are split across three layers of the world. Each layer has its regions, and each region has its own count and its own prize. Open Show hints to read the clues about where each statue is.
Surface: Everything you can reach by walking, flying or digging around. There are 70 statues.
Mount: Golden Toad
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- Where the green is neither still nor harmless, and the path counts to four before it opens...
- Where the yellow, curved fruit is devoured...
- Where the one who sees with half the eyes of a man watches over the gray stone...
- Among the halls of the brave, find the one where two slain bears rest under the feet...
- Where reaping only one makes two appear in its place...
- Where the champion still fights for an audience that turned to dust long ago...
- Where the swarm wears the bones on the outside, on the highest of the stones...
- In the depths, among those who bought their power with their soul, look for the only place where green still dares to grow...
- Where a burning that is not fire surrounds the lair and eats the stone itself...
- Where the castle fell not by swords, but by the shy ones who only know how to multiply...
Mount: Golden Scorpion
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- Where those who have no home carry it with them...
- Where the rock is pierced by those who carry no tool...
- Where the bones never washed the blood they spilled...
- Where the mother of the creeping rot rules without a throne...
- Where the ribs are empty and the wings still fly...
- Where too many eyes for one body make the gaze the weapon itself...
- Where the river runs red and something headless still seeks its throat...
- Where the ancients worshipped a crawling shell, and something much older still wakes from time to time...
- Where the masked ones guard knowledge too heavy for your mind, buried deep with a glory that does not return...
- Where someone opened a shop between the black tar and the fire, far below the sand...
Mount: Golden Sphinx
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- Where the laughter comes from something that finds nothing funny, in a lair the world forgot...
- Where those who grant wishes never had theirs granted...
- Where the stone rises high above the handful of prayers at its feet...
- Where the edge of the crossing leads down instead of forward, and nothing down there returns anyone...
- Where the stubborn one still plots his last fight against a mage nobody finds, one cave ahead...
- Where even the condemned drove out one of their own...
- Where the faithful serve a black beast with a woman's face and a taste for riddles...
- Where a beast gives back everything it swallows, deep in a cave that bleeds...
- Where iron and skulls seal the border, and their empty stare points the way...
- Where many eyes watch from afar, and above them a pair of legs once carried a body as slim as...
Mount: Golden Jackalope
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- Where you first opened your eyes on this island, and never looked up...
- Where something long dead sprouted branches and learned to walk...
- Where the filth the city forgot gave birth to offspring born wrong...
- Where a gate stood still for lack of a single drop...
- Where a gate still waits for the repair that never came...
- Where something that is never whole changes its mind for no reason, next to a fountain that survived the garden...
- Where the castle keeps what it never wanted to show, and the stone itself grew teeth...
- Where something wears many faces and has none, and the crystal beside the narrow passage gives back only yours...
- Where one among the pillars holds up nothing...
- Where all the coffins are closed, except one, and there is no body in it...
Mount: Golden Snowman
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- Where a skull cradles the only flame above the snow, beside a stone that keeps a few shards of buried treasure...
- Where a snow brute, colder in the head than in the blood, rules a peak that only those who climb can reach...
- Where the tallest daughter of winter rises, a chest hides not what is inside, but...
- Where glass weavers wove a web that never melts, and only those who let themselves fall can reach it...
- Where ice that refuses to melt wages endless war against the warriors in furs...
- Where ice witches tend four boiling cauldrons, and the last one hides more than it cooks...
- Where a soldier made of metal knows only war, and the devil's tongues wait to taste anyone who passes...
- Where the pages turn by themselves, with no hand to flip them, on the bridge before the gates of its castle...
- Where a dragon breathes cold instead of flame, in a pass so narrow that only those who rise can reach it...
- Where the coldest angels walk above the clouds, and the only way to them starts by going down...
Mount: Golden Horse
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- Where a mountain of molten rock drags itself on short legs, cracked and glowing inside...
- Where a man and a bull were forced to share one body...
- Where those who weave in circles took over a city with silk...
- Where the silk goes down to the sewers below, there is a rope that goes up where it should go down...
- Where only the echo of a name outlives the one who carried it...
- Where a horned brute lowers its head to attack, in a place the sky never reaches...
- Where cloaked shadows who owned nothing still hid a secret under the only rug they had...
- Where the bones grew wings and became the curse of the night itself, and the edge of the ground hides a step...
- Where those who had wings and chose the flames guard what lies where the fire itself comes down like a river...
- Where those without wings must climb onto one roof and come down the other side...
Mount: Golden Flaming Stallion
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- Where an ice forest hides jaws that shine like glass...
- Where winter grew a horn and taught it to hate, and whoever goes down steps on what should drown it...
- Where not every root seeks water, some seek blood...
- Where a small cave hides on this side of a long bridge...
- Where an almost invisible spirit screams the arrival of death...
- Where sharp blue sentinels stand guard, and the climb ends on a crystal rock drifting in the clouds...
- Where a secret lasts behind the stairs, not under them, on the island under the skies where its protectors live...
- Where a giant one-holed sweet leads nowhere, unless nowhere tastes like sugar...
- Where a sweet brown river runs too narrow to drown anyone, and supports whoever dares to cross it...
- Where a cake grew too big and collapsed, and what was sweet now bites back; only those who let themselves fall arrive...
The Seas: Below the waterline, in the Eternal Depths. Take a deep breath before going down. There are 30 statues.
The statues are spread across Shallowrift (3), Shifting Grave (3), Hungering Reef (4), Darkwater Sanctum (3), Frostspire Abyss (7), Abyssal Waste (3) and Gate of Judgement (7).
Mount: Golden Titanica
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- Where the youngest guest of the abyss still dreams of stars, the gold keeps watch...
- The sea keeps its best secrets in the wounds it never closed...
- Even under the waves, some still climb toward a sky they cannot reach...
- Step lightly where the ground forgets how to hold you...
- The most beautiful peaks hide the deepest hollows...
- Glory only finds those who walk the path of thorns...
- The fish that wears fur has a den where it rests its head every night...
- Where faith was raised in the shadow of trees that should not grow...
- From the place where you feel safest, turn your back to the north...
- There was a time when the mountains themselves gave water...
Mount: Golden Koi
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- A cave purple as an orchid guards nothing in its lowest flower...
- Where armies fell, cling to the wall like a snail would...
- The cold bites deeper here, and yet not a single shard of ice is to blame...
- Do not let the frozen giants close their arms around you...
- Where the ice opens, the fall is longer than it looks...
- Frost flowers only bloom where no eye sees them...
- Walls of ice stand tall, but not everywhere...
- Under the peak shaped like a creature's foot, there is a path never walked...
- O great sea, so deep and yet so beautiful...
- I hear screams and feel heat, and yet the ice is above me...
Reward to Be Confirmed
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- They never made boots thick enough for this...
- I lack the thorns to be counted among my brothers...
- Not these stairs, wanderer. Not these...
- The sand drank deep, and was never washed...
- Between the thorns and the dry branches, trust the abyss...
- From my hiding place I see hell tearing open, and hands trying to escape...
- I see you behind the blue stone, little thief. What did you come to take?...
- Do not touch what clings to me...
- Where the wicked kneel, gold is offered and never returned...
- These voices of lament have made a home in my soul...
Inferno: The deepest layer of the world, and the least forgiving. There are 30 statues.
The statues are spread across Ashgrave Grounds (3), Condemned Ward (3), Dreadshow (4), Crimson Estate (3), Nilfheim (3), Pharaoh Blight (4), Satan's Citadel (3), The Flayed Penitentiary (3) and Lantern's End (4).
Mount: Golden Handcarried
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- Only those who weigh nothing walk where others sink...
- What is bigger and prouder was built only to hide what goes down...
- A squirrel fits where no man would dare reach...
- Not even an eagle's eye would find me here...
- I fear those who heal, so I stay away from their halls...
- In my dreams I still hear the director's voice coming from the floor above...
- Painted faces scare me more than any beast...
- As a child I fell off a horse and left a hole the ground never closed...
- Where painted men laughed on the boards, the true path runs where the city forgets its leftovers...
- Bones and balloons, and a hand quick enough to take both...
Mount: Golden Kitsune
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- Pink-eyed frogs; I hide behind the bars and step lightly, so the rats do not take me...
- If you had a mansion full of secrets, would anyone think to look for your vault outside your lands?...
- I chased a beautiful girl to the west, and the thicket broke every bone I had...
- I hate these blood drinkers. Plot their end from behind the walls that surround them...
- Slippery and hidden, and higher than these old knees would like...
- A huge tree, a small boat, and the doubt whether the water would accept me...
- A long green river runs ahead, and a red eye never blinks...
- Insects hide their nests well; matching colors fool the eye...
- I tear flesh with thorns, but what I guard may be worth the blood...
- Two giants stare at me, while a third has turned its back...
Mount: Golden Plum Fish
Tips coming soon.
¶ Glory to the First
To heat things up, finding a statue before everyone else does not go unnoticed.
The whole server finds out when someone discovers a statue for the first time.
Whoever completes each region first enters the competition. The details will be in the launch changelog.
Hunting on your own or buying the information from someone who already knows where the statue is, it is your choice. Both count.
The world is waiting. Look closely, while there is still time.