Attributes

In Soulstone Survivors, attributes (or stats) are core character statistics that directly influence your performance in combat. They determine various aspects such as damage output, survivability, movement speed, and skill effectiveness.

Players can enhance their attributes through several means, like picking up stat-enhancing powerup cards, investing Minor Soulstones into the skill tree provides permanent boosts to various attributes, equipping specific runes and weapons can also grant additional bonuses.

• Damage Modifier: Modifies the base damage of all your skills, including passive abilities and damage over time (DoT) effects
• Critical Damage Chance: Determines the chance for skills to critically strike
• Critical Damage Modifier: Multiplies the damage dealt by critical strikes, including DoT and status effects
• Cast Frequency Modifier: Reduces the cooldown of active skills and increases summon/attack speed, but not DoT tick rate
• Area Modifier: Increases the size of skill areas and projectile widths
• Multi Cast Chance: Grants a chance for skills to cast additional times in quick succession
• Maximum Health: Increases your total health pool
• Armor Power: Reduces incoming physical damage
• Damage Reduction: Flat percentage reduction to all incoming damage
• Block Power: Grants a chance to completely block incoming damage
• Death Protections: Allows you to survive fatal damage a limited number of times
• Extra Health per Crystal: Increases the amount healed from health crystals
• Health per Level Up: Grants bonus health whenever you level up
• Movement Speed Modifier: Increases your character's movement speed
• Dash Count: Increases the number of dashes you can use
• Experience Modifier: Increases the amount of experience gained from enemies
• Pick Up Range Modifier: Increases the distance at which you collect XP
• Bonus Minor Soulstones: Increases the number of minor Soulstones dropped
• Reroll Chances: Increases the number of rerolls you can use to reroll skill/powerup selections
• Banish Chances: Increases the number of banishes you can use to remove unwanted options
• Skill Locks: Allows locking selected skills to prevent them from being replaced

Stat Stacking

Bonuses to stats can stack in two primary ways: additively or multiplicatively.

Additive Stacking

When bonuses stack additively, each bonus is added directly to the base value. This means multiple bonuses simply sum up to increase the stat.

${\color {White}{\text{Total Bonus}}={\text{Base Value}}+\sum ({\text{Bonus}}_{i})}$

For example, if you have two bonuses of +20% to a stat:

${\color {White}{\text{Total Bonus}}={\text{Base Value}}+0.2+0.2={\text{Base Value}}+0.4}$

This results in a 40% increase to the base.

Multiplicative Stacking

With multiplicative stacking, each bonus multiplies the current total, leading to compounded growth.

${\color {White}{\text{Total Bonus}}={\text{Base Value}}\times \prod (1+{\text{Bonus}}_{i})}$

For example, if you have two bonuses of +20%:

${\color {White}{\text{Total Bonus}}={\text{Base Value}}\times 1.2\times 1.2={\text{Base Value}}\times 1.44}$

This results in a 44% increase over the base value.

Multiplicative bonuses often yield greater increases than additive ones, especially when stacking multiple bonuses. Most runes provide multiplicative bonuses.

Offensive Attributes

Damage modifier

The Damage Modifier increases the base damage of all your skills, including passive abilities and damage over time (DoT) effects such as Burn, Poison, and Doom. The default modifier is +0%.

${\color {White}{{\text{Total Damage}}={\text{Base Damage}}*(1+{\text{Damage Modifier}})}}$

• Direct Damage
• DoT
• Debuffs
• Status Effects

This means that if you have a +50% Damage Modifier, your skills will deal 50% more damage. Let’s say a skill has a base damage of 1,000. With +50% Damage Modifier, you would have:

${\color {White}1,000*(1+0.5)=1,500}$

DoT effects are also influenced by the Damage Modifier. For instance, the Burn status deals damage over 4 seconds, ticking every second for 12.5% of its total damage. If you have a +50% Damage Modifier, each tick of Burn will deal 50% more damage than it would at the base value.

• Base Burn damage = 12,000 total.
• It ticks every second for 12.5%, or 1,500 per second, for 4 seconds
• Total: ${\color {White}1,500*4=6,000}$ Burn damage

With +50% Damage Modifier:

• Each tick: ${\color {White}1,500*(1+0.5)=2,250}$
• Total: ${\color {White}2,250*4=9,000}$ Burn damage

Certain debuffs, such as Brittle and Exposed, increase the damage an enemy takes. The effectiveness of these debuffs can be influenced by the Damage Modifier. For example, you perform a skill that both deals damage and applies Brittle:

• Base Damage per Hit: 1,000
• Brittle Stacks Applied: 10 (each adding 30 flat damage)
• Total Brittle Damage: 10 * 30 = 300
• Combined Damage per Hit:

${\color {White}{\text{Base Damage}}+{\text{Brittle Damage}}=1,000+300=1,300}$

Now with +50% Damage Modifier:

• Final Damage per Hit: ${\color {White}1,300*(1+0.5)=1,950}$

There is 1 character buff that increases damage modifier:

• Prowess: Increases the damage modifier by 1% per stack for 6 seconds.

Critical Damage Chance

Critical Damage Chance, commonly referred to as critical chance, determines the probability that an attack will result in a critical strike, dealing increased damage. The base critical chance is 5%.

Each hit or application of a skill independently rolls to determine if it results in a critical strike. This applies to each enemy hit and each instance of damage. Critical Tiers is a criteria that determines critical chance exceeds 100%, enabling the possibility of higher-tier critical strikes. For example:

• 150% Crit Chance: Guaranteed Tier 1 crit (100%) and a 50% chance for a Tier 2 crit.
• 250% Crit Chance: Guaranteed Tier 1 crit, 100% chance for Tier 2, and a 50% chance for a Tier 3 crit. Each additional 100% beyond the first guarantees the next tier, with the remainder acting as a chance for the subsequent tier.

There is a power-up, Vicious Strikes which grants 100% critical chance against enemies at full health, ensuring a critical hit on the first strike.

Critical Damage Modifier

The Critical Damage Modifier, often abbreviated as crit damage, determines how much extra damage your attacks deal when they critically strike. The base critical damage modifier is 200%.

When a critical strike occurs, the base damage is multiplied by the critical damage modifier.

${\color {White}{\text{Critical Hit Damage}}={\text{Base Damage}}*{\text{Critical Damage Modifier}}}$

For example, with a base damage of 1,000 and a critical damage modifier of 200%, a critical hit would deal:

${\color {White}1,000*2.0=2,000}$

• Damage
• Status Effects
• Critical Healing

Each critical tier multiplies the damage by the Critical Damage Modifier. Assuming a base damage of 1,000 and critically strikes 3 times with a critical damage modifier of 200%, the damage calculations would be:

${\color {White}{\text{Total Damage}}={\text{Base Damage}}*{\text{Crit Damage Modifier}}*(1+{\text{Crit Tier}})=1,000*2*(1+3)=8,000}$

Certain damaging status effects, such as Burn, Poison, Doom, and Bleed, can critically strike at the time of application. When a DoT effect is applied with a critical hit, its newly applied total damage is multiplied by the player's current Critical Damage. The increased damage is then distributed evenly across the effect's duration.

Skills that do not deal direct damage, such as Void

Void

Active Skill

Conjures a void over a random enemy that pulls enemies towards its position, causing damage and applying Doom every 0.5 seconds.

Skill type: Shadow, Lasting, Area, Magical

Duration:

6s

Base Damage:

50

Doom | Total Damage:

190

Cooldown:

14.0s

or Piercing Shout

Piercing Shout

Active Skill

A powerful shout that causes damage and applies Shattered.

Skill type: Thrust, Area, Physical

Damage:

450

Shattered | Armor Reduction:

20

Cooldown:

7.0s

, can still critically strike. A critical application of these skills enhances the potency of any status effects they apply.

There are 2 status effects that indirectly turn any attack by the player to become a critical strike when they are applied on enemies:

• Dazed: Increases the chance for enemies to receive critical strikes by 1% per stack for 8 seconds.
• Disoriented: Increases critical strike damage taken by enemies by a certain percentage per stack for 8 seconds. These effects make enemies more susceptible to critical hits and amplify the damage they receive from them.

There are 2 character buff effects that increases critical potency:

• Form: Increases the critical damage chance by 1% per stack for 6 seconds.
• Aptitude: Increases the critical damage modifier by 2-16% per stack for 6 seconds.

Healing skills can also critically strike, increasing the amount of health restored. For instance, a healing skill that typically restores 100 health can restore 150 health on a critical heal if the critical damage modifier is 50%. However, absorption shields, such as those from Arcane Shield

Arcane Shield

Active Skill

Creates an arcane shield that absorbs damage. When the shield expires, it causes the damage based on the amount absorbed to nearby enemies.

Skill type: Arcane, Empowering, Lasting, Magical

Duration:

15.0s

Shield Health:

30

Damage per Health:

30

Cooldown:

30.0s

, do not benefit from critical strikes.

Certain skills have unique interactions with critical strikes:

• Templar's Verdict
  

  Templar's Verdict

  Active Skill

  Conjures a holy sword over a random enemy, causing damage. Gain Purity. Traits: Devastating.

  Skill type: Holy, Swing, Area, Physical

  Damage:

  480

  Purity | Stacks Applied:

  2

  Cooldown:

  4.7s
  and Sniper Shot
  

  Sniper Shot

  Active Skill

  Fires a shot in the target direction, causing damage. Traits: Devastating and Precise.

  Skill type: Projectile, Missile, Frontal, Physical

  Damage:

  950

  Cooldown:

  5.0s
  : These skills multiply the total final damage on a critical hit and can have skill-specific critical damage upgrades.

Cast Frequency

Main article: Cast Frequency

The Cast Frequency, also known as Attack Speed, reduces the cooldowns of all active skills — including buffs, debuffs, and summons. The default value is +0%.

${\color {White}{{\text{Effective Cooldown}}={\frac {\text{Base Cooldown}}{1+{\text{Cast Frequency Modifier}}}}}}$

Cooldowns cannot go below 0.15 seconds (but is displayed ingame is 0.2s), regardless of how much Cast Frequency you have.

Cast Frequency does not affect how often DoT effects such as Burn or Poison tick, their intervals remain fixed regardless of your Cast Frequency.

Area modifier

The Area Modifier increases the size of your skills’ area of effect (AOE), including the radius of circular and cone-shaped attacks, as well as the size and width of projectiles. The default value is 0%.

${\color {White}{{\text{Total Area Size}}={\text{Base Size}}*(1+{\text{Area Modifier}})}}$

A skill with +50% Area Modifier will have its AOE radius increased by 50%. Since area scales with the square of radius, the overall coverage becomes:

${\color {White}(1+0.5)^{2}=2.25}$ → +125% total area.

Even skills that appear single-target (like missiles or beams) usually have a small impact zone - this, too, is increased. Projectiles also benefit in size and width, making them easier to hit multiple enemies. However, Area modifier does not affect projectile lifespan, which is how far they are shot.

There is 1 character buff that increases area modifier:

• Colossal: Increases the area modifier by 1-2% per stack for 6 seconds.

Multi Cast Chance

For more in-depth mechanics of Multi Cast, see this page instead.

The Multi Cast Chance grants a probability for your active skills to be cast multiple times in rapid succession. The default value is 0%.

${\color {White}{{\text{Multicast Roll:}}\quad 1^{\text{st}}=M,\quad 2^{\text{nd}}=0.4M,\quad 3^{\text{rd}}=0.4^{2}M,\dots }}$

You always perform at least one cast. Each additional cast is rolled independently and in order:

• 1st extra cast: full Multi Cast Chance (up to 100%)
• 2nd extra: 40% of your Multi Cast Chance
• 3rd extra: 16% of your Multi Cast Chance (0.4²), and so on.

There is no hard cap to the number of possible multicasts, but the probability falls off quickly.

• Calculation
• Summons
• Buff Skills
• Status Effects

If you have 60% Multi Cast Chance, your cast probabilities are:

• 1st extra: ${\color {White}M_{1}=60\%}$
• 2nd extra: ${\color {White}M_{2}=0.4*M_{1}=0.4*60\%=24\%}$
• 3rd extra: ${\color {White}M_{3}=0.4*M_{2}=0.4*24\%=9.6\%}$
• 4th extra: ${\color {White}M_{4}=0.4*M_{3}=0.4*9.6\%=3.84\%}$

So the total probability to cast your skill 2 or more times is:

${\color {White}60\%+(60\%*0.4)+(60\%*0.4^{2})+(60\%*0.4^{3})+\dots }$

Which adds up to approximately 96% chance for at least one extra cast.

To guarantee multiple casts, your Multi Cast Chance must reach:

• 100% → always double-cast (1 extra)
• 250% → always triple-cast (2 extra)
• 625% → always quad-cast (3 extra)
• 1562.5% → always penta-cast (4 extra)

Summon skills can multicast, producing additional units instantly (as long as you haven't reached the unit limit). Summoned units themselves can also multicast their attacks.

Multi cast Chance does not affect most buff skills. For example, skills like Might

Might

Active Skill

Temporarily increases the damage modifier of both you and nearby allies.

Skill type: Holy, Empowering, Lasting, Area, Physical

Damage Modifier:

+50%

Duration:

10.0s

Cooldown:

25.0s

or Bloodlust

Bloodlust

Active Skill

Temporarily increases the movement speed and cast frequency of both you and nearby allies.

Skill type: Chaos, Empowering, Lasting, Area, Physical

Movement Speed:

+20%

Cast Frequency:

+40%

Duration:

10.0s

Cooldown:

30.0s

will not be cast multiple times even at +100% Multi cast.

There is 1 character buff that increases multi cast chance:

• Finesse: Increases the multi cast chance by 1% per stack for 6 seconds.

Defensive Attributes

Maximum Health

Maximum Health or maximum HP is the total health your character has. The default max HP is 100.

You get killed if your current health reaches 0, unless you had Death Protections, you would revived back again to 50% of the maximum health.

There is 1 character buff that increases multi cast chance:

• Vigor: Increases the maximum health by 0.5 for 6 seconds.

Armor Power

Armor Power (or simply Armor) reduces the amount of damage you take from all sources. The default base value is 100 Armor, which results in taking 100% of incoming damage.

${\color {White}{\text{Damage Taken}}={\frac {2}{({\frac {\text{Armor}}{100}}+1)}}}$ (for Armor ≥ 100)

${\color {White}{\text{Damage Taken}}={\frac {200-{\text{Armor}}}{100}}}$ (for Armor < 100)

Every point of armor above 100 reduces damage, while every point below 100 increases it by 1%. Armor can go negative, which continues increasing damage taken with no cap. For example:

• 150 Armor → ${\color {White}2/(1.5+1)=2/2.5=0.8}$ → 20% damage reduction
• 0 Armor → ${\color {White}(200-0)/100=2}$ → 200% damage taken
• -100 Armor → ${\color {White}(200-(-100))/100=3}$ → 300% damage taken

• Table
• Status Effects
• Enemy Armor Behavior

Below is an example with 100 damage, and the display of the damage received as in the game

Armor Points	-100	-50	0	50	100	200	300	400	500	600	700	800	900	1000	1500	2000	2500	3500	5000	10000	15000	20000
In-game %	-200	-150	-100	-50	0.0	33.3	50.0	60.0	66.7	71.4	75.0	77.8	80.0	81.8	87.5	90.5	92.3	94.4	96.1	98.0198	98.6755	99.00498
Actual damage	300	250	200	150	100	66.7	50.0	40.0	33.3	28.6	25.0	22.2	20.0	18.2	12.5	9.5	7.7	5.6	3.9	2.0	1.3	1.0

There is 1 character buff that increases armor power:

• Resilience: Increases the armor power by 1 per stack for 6 seconds.

All enemies start with a base of 100 Armor, and can be increased in various mode:

• In Endless, Overlord, and Titan Hunt modes, enemies gain an additional 100 Armor for every cycle completed.
• Unholy Cathedral also features higher base armor across the board.
• If you have Captain of the Void curse enabled, enemy elites and bosses gain further armor bonuses:
  • Elites receive +10 Armor at Curse levels I, II, V, VI, and VII
  • Bosses gain +10 Armor at Curse levels I, IV, and VII

Shattered is a key debuff that significantly lowers enemy Armor, capable of reducing it down to a theoretical maximum of -1000 with enough stacks.

Even non-living targets have Armor: ores have 100 Armor, while destructible structures have only 10.

Damage Reduction

Damage Reduction (also known as Flat Damage Reduction) subtracts a flat amount from any incoming damage after all percentage-based reductions have been applied, such as from Armor or the rare rune Surefooted. Flat damage reduction is applied after the calculation of the damage reduction from Armor.

The default value is 0.0, meaning no flat damage is reduced by default.

${\color {White}{\text{Final Damage}}={\text{Damage After Reductions}}-{\text{Flat Reduction}}}$

The minimum damage an instance can deal is capped at 1, even if the flat reduction would otherwise reduce it to zero or negative.

Block Power

Block Power (or simply Block) provides a chance to completely negate incoming damage and associated on-hit effects, such as slows or debuffs. The default Block Power is 100, which corresponds to a 0% chance to block. The chance to block is calculated using the formula:

${\color {White}{\text{Block Chance}}=1-{\frac {100}{\text{Block Power}}}}$

• Table
• Status Effects
• Runes

Points	100	150	200	250	300	350	400	450	500	550	600	650	700	750	800	850	900	950	1500	3000
Block chance	0,0	33,3	50,0	60,0	66,7	71,4	75,0	77,8	80,0	81,8	83,3	84,6	85,7	86,7	87,5	88,2	88,9	89,5	93,3	96,7

There is 1 character buff that increases block power:

• Bulwark: Increases the area modifier by 1-2% per stack for 6 seconds.

There is 1 rune to directly increases your block power:

• War Tank: Increases your block power by 50% but reduces your dash charge by 1.

Death Protections

If you have any Death protections, any attack that would kill you restores you to 50% of your maximum health instead, and consumes 1 Death protection. The default amount of Death protections that you have is 0. You can get up to 2 with the skill tree.

The health restored is not affected by your healing reduction, it will always be set to 50% of your maximum health.

Death protections are not reset upon entering an Endless, Overlord or Titan Hunt portal, but you will be fully healed.

There is 1 rune that directly increases your death protections number:

	ImmortalityRUNIC POWER COST: 1
	Increases the number of Death Protections you have by 1, causing any attack that would kill you to restore your health to 50% instead.

Extra Health per Crystal

Extra health per crystal increases the health received when destroying a health crystal. The default extra value is 0. You can get up to 15 from the skill tree.

${\color {White}{\text{Total HP per crystal}}=30+{\text{Extra HP per crystal}}}$

This is affected by healing reduction.

Health per Level Up

Health per level up increases the amount of HP you recover when you level up. The default HP per level is 0. You can get up to 10 from the skill tree.

This is affected by healing reduction.

Utility Attributes

Movement Speed Modifier

Movement speed modifier or movement speed modifies the speed of walking and dashes. The default modifier is +0%.

${\color {White}{\text{Total Movement Speed}}={\text{Base Speed}}\times (1+{\text{Movement Speed Modifier}})}$

If you are hit by skills that inflict Slow, your movement speed is reduced based on its number of stacks.

There is one character buff that directly affects movement speed:

• Haste: Increases the movement speed modifier by 1% for 6 seconds.

Dash Count

Dash Count or dashes is the number of times you can dash in quick succession. The default amount of dashes is 1. You can get an extra dash from the skill tree.

All dashes share the same cooldown (2.0s default) and refresh at the same time. The cooldown starts when you use your first dash.

Different characters have different number of dashes. The only character with no dashes at all is The Death Knight.

Nothing can currently affect the dash cooldown.

Experience Modifier

Experience Modifier, or exp modifier or XP modifier, increases the amount of experience you receive from experience shards. The default modifier is +0%.

${\color {White}{\text{Total XP}}={\text{Base XP}}*(1+{\text{XP Modifier}})}$

Pick Up Range Modifier

Pick up range modifier, or pickup modifier or magnet range, increases the radius in which you can collect items, specifically experience shards from the ground. The default modifier is +0%.

${\color {White}{\text{Total Radius}}={\text{Base Radius}}*(1+{\text{Pickup Modifier}})}$

Minor Soulstones are automatically collected on kills instead.

Bonus Minor Soulstones

Bonus Minor Soulstones increases the amount of Minor Soulstones you collect from all sources. The default is 0.0%. You can get up to 50% from the skill tree.

${\color {White}{\text{Total Minor Soulstones}}={\text{Base Amount}}*(1+{\text{Bonus Minor Soulstones}})}$

This bonus appears to be multiplicative with the Minor Soulstone bonuses provided by Curses. For example, if a Curse provides a +275% bonus and you have a +50% Bonus Minor Soulstones, the total bonus would be:

${\color {White}({\text{Base Amount}}*(1+2.75))*(1+0.5)={\text{Base Amount}}*4.125}$

Reroll Chances

Reroll chances or rerolls give you the opportunity to reroll the power-ups you get from leveling up, revealing new options. The default rerolls is 0. You can get up to 5 from the skill tree. You cannot get the current 3 power-ups shown when you reroll.

There are currently 3 runes that increase rerolls:

	Reroll Mastery
	You gain one extra reroll every 5 levels.

	Unconventional Start
	Start the game with 1 skill point and 5 rerolls, but without your weapon's basic skill.

	Endless Refill
	Whenever you enter a portal, gain 5 rerolls and 5 locks.

Banish Chances

Banish Chances or banishes give you the opportunity to banish a power-up in a match, preventing it from appearing again. You always start the game with 10 banishes, and they can't be increased by any means.

Banishes remove all rarities of the specific power-up, and of the specific Skill or Type.

Skill Locks

Skill locks or locks give you the opportunity to lock a skill in place when you level up, keeping it available for your next level. If you lock a passive skill, you can still get it on an active skill choice.

There is only 1 rune that affect numbers of locks:

	Endless Refill
	Whenever you enter a portal, gain 5 rerolls and 5 locks.

Undisplayed Attributes

The attributes here are not currently displayed in the Character Attributes in the Pause screen. They can however be found in certain characters and weapons' unique stats.

Body Mass

Body mass indicates how hard it is for you and enemies to get pushed and flung around. The more body mass you have over your enemies, the easier it is to push them around.

Healing Modifier

Healing modifier adjusts the amount of health you get from your own healing effects. The default healing modifier is 100%. It can be increased by character stats and reduced by Curses, Endless, Overlord, and Titan Hunt modifiers.

${\color {White}{\text{Total Healing Amount}}={\text{Healing Amount}}*{\text{Healing Modifier}}}$

Each healing modifier is multiplicative with the others. It does not affect healing from health crystals.

Pushback Modifier

Pushback modifier adjusts the amount of pushback your skills do to enemies. The default pushback modifier is 100%.

Extra information

Level

The first level requires 2000 experience, and the experience needed for each additional level is multiplied by 1.06.

Level	1	10	20	30	40	50	55	60	65
XP for next level	2 000	3 379	6 051	10 837	19 407	34 755	46 510	62 241	83 292
Cumulative XP	0	23k	68k	147k	290k	546k	742k	1 004k	1 355k

Power Rarity

When in the power selection: the rarity is rolled first, then a random passive of this rarity is rolled. This means that banishing a passive that can only be found in low rarity will not increase the probability of higher rarity passives being offered.

The probabilistic weight of the rarity of each card:

• Common: 50
• Uncommon: 25
• Rare: 12
• Epic: 4
• Legendary: 1

The probability that the highest tier of the 3 is:

• Common: 16.1%
• Uncommon: 38.1%
• Rare: 30.4%
• Epic: 12.2%
• Legendary: 3.2%

Skill level

Currently does nothing, except show the total number of skill or skill type-specific Passive powers affecting the skill.

Status Effects

Main article: Status Effects

Status effects interact deeply with each other and with game mechanics like critical hits, armor, and synergy passives. They can be applied by both your skills and summoned units, and certain passive effects allow one status to trigger another (for example, Slow may lead to Fragility, then Bleed). These synergies enable powerful chain reactions that scale with enemy debuffs and your own build.