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Rings are items that are equipped in the "Ring" slot. The player can only equip one ring at a time; picking up a new ring drops their current one.

Ring Effect
  • Reduces prices by 50% at all shops that charge gold.
  • Reduces prices at blood shops by 2 hearts.
  • Pawnbrokers buy items at full value instead of half.
  • Killed enemies drop 1 additional gold.
  • Automatically picks up all gold piles on the floor whenever the player moves.
  • Nodlc Increases the floor's item tier by 2, increasing the chance of finding higher-tiered items in containers and shops.
  • Prevents Bats from attacking the player (unless they have no other movement option).
  • Guarantees success when using the Shrine of Chance.
  • Amplified dlc When entering new floors, Barrels and Crates with food, bombs, and gold piles contain the best version of it. Barrels and Crates can no longer contain enemies.
  • Kills have quadruple value (Amplified dlc double value) towards spell cooldowns.
  • Changes equipped spells to their "Greater" forms, where available.
  • Increases attack damage by 1.
  • Provides 0.5 armor rating, reducing damage intake by 0.5 Hearts on each hit.
  • Amplified dlc Protects against lethal damage, breaking the ring and leaving the wearer at half a heart.
  • Heals 1 Heart Heart upon entering the next level.
  • Prevents all damage from one hit, then breaks.
  • Upon breaking, it casts Greater Shield, making the player invincible for 20 beats.
  • Increases attack damage by 1.
  • Adds Knockback to the player's attacks.
  • Causes mini-bosses to spawn as their strongest variant (e.g. a Blue Banshee becomes a Green Banshee).

Note: Although the help text implies that the Ring of War causes more enemies to spawn, this is not true.

  • Nodlc Increases attack damage by 1.
  • When killing an enemy with a weapon, it moves the player 1 tile forward in the direction of their attack and grants invincibility for that beat.
  • Provides an additional empty Heart Container as long as it's equipped.
  • Removes 1 enemy per room upon entering a new level.
  • Causes mini-bosses to spawn as their weakest variant (e.g. the Blue Dragon into the Green Dragon).
  • Makes items at shops free of charge while equipped.
  • Reduces the player's vision to a radius of 2 tiles.
  • All enemies, NPCs, items, containers, traps and gold appear as silhouettes.
  • The player dies instantly upon taking damage.
  • Turns into the Ring wonderRing of Wonder when transmuted.
  • Nodlc Killed enemies drop 2 additional gold.
  • Provides an additional filled (Amplified dlc empty) Heart Container as long as it's equipped.
  • Increases attack damage by 2.
  • Kills have quadruple value towards spell cooldown.
  • Provides the effects of Ring protectionRing of Protection and Ring emeraldRing of Regeneration.
  • Items are half price in Shops and reduced by 2 Hearts at the Blood Shop.
  • Allows the player to move through walls, losing the ability to dig in the process.

Note: In Amplified dlc Amplified, the Ring of Phasing does not appear in any item pool so it cannot be acquired by playing normally. It can still be accessed by using the level editor.

  • Attacking an enemy will freeze it for 4 beats.
  • Attacks deal infinite damage to frozen enemies.
  • Attacks that would deal Normal damage instead deal Piercing damage.
  • Every time the player attacks with a weapon, the Ring of Pain deals 1 damage to all enemies adjacent to the player.
  • Deals 0.5 Heart half Hearts of damage to the player when picked up.
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