Defiled Rune

Defiled Rune
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Type	Tool
Tooltip	Halves your max HP and increases enemy damage resistance by 50%. Increases most rare item drop chances and enemies drop 2 times the cash. Using this while a boss is alive will instantly kill you and despawn the boss. Can be toggled on and off.
Rarity

"Your soul is mine..."

The Defiled Rune is an item that can be activated and deactivated while in Revengeance Mode or Death Mode. When active, it has multiple effects on gameplay:

• Halves the player's maximum life.
• Increases the damage resistance (DR) of all enemies by a varying percentage that causes them to take half as much damage as they originally would have.
• If an item's drop chance is less than 5%, it will be raised to 5%.
  • For some Calamity-only items, this allows them to be dropped twice, albeit with a very low chance.
  • The Halibut Cannon is the sole exception to this rule.
• Doubles the amount of money that drops from enemies.
• Some enemies will drop items that they normally will only drop in certain biomes.

It can be crafted at an Altar and does not have any ingredients.

Drops

While the Defiled Rune is active, some enemies will drop items that they normally will only drop in certain biomes.

Enemy	Item	Rate
Cryon	Amarok	5%
Sun Bat	Hel-Fire	5%

Notes

• If used while a boss is alive, it will instantly kill the player and despawn any active bosses.
  • The activation does not bypass revival effects from God Slayer armor, Silva armor and Auric Tesla armor, but it will still despawn the boss.
• The effect of this item tends to cause some bosses to spawn twice at the same time.

Trivia

• This item is a reference to the Defiled Chalice from the game Bloodborne, and has some similar functions to it.
• This item resembles a Buff/Debuff icon, much like SYNTAX ERROR.