Heroes | Veles: Rise of the Damned

Tavern

Choose, inspect, and commit

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

Tavern screen showing hero selection and progression

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 Tempest VolleyUltimate

For 5 seconds gain +10 projectiles, +100% evasion, and +50% move speed.

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: +120% Damage vs Beasts
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 Arcane SurgeUltimate

For 5 seconds all ability cooldowns are reduced by 50%. Has a 20% chance to refill 33% of the ultimate bar.

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: +100% Magic Damage
Lv. 25: +15% Magic Penetration

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 MarkUltimate

For 5 seconds gain +50% critical chance, +100% critical damage, and +75% armor reduction.

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: +10% Life Stolen per Hit
Lv. 22: +25 Armor Reduction
Lv. 25: +200% Damage vs Elite/Boss

Bonebreaker

Scaling bruiser

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

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

Auto-fires when the bar fills. Each activation permanently grants +20% max HP, +20% physical damage, and +20% armor for that run.

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: +25% Max HP

Lightbearer

Durable holy power

Lightbearer starts with Lightning Smite and builds around high health, armor, attributes, holy utility, undead damage, and a faster ultimate baseline.

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

For 5 seconds all damage dealt becomes pure damage, bypassing armor and magic resistance.

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: +130 All Attributes
Lv. 25: +1 Revive

Stats

Modifier reference

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% Cooldown Reduction	Reduces ability cooldowns, up to the current cap.
+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.
+10 Endurance	Maps into flat armor.
+10 Vitality	Maps into max HP, currently at 4 HP per vitality.
+10 Intelligence	Maps into magic 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.
+10% Ultimate Cooldown Reduction	Reduces ultimate fill time from items and progression, capped separately from normal cooldown reduction.

Rite of Ascension

Permanent power for every hero

Ascension is an account-wide long-term progression board where gold and rare organs 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.

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