The world of The Blood of Dawnwalker is filled with powerful legendary items that can significantly enhance a player's capabilities. These coveted pieces of gear are found throughout Vale Sangora, either dropped by formidable bosses or obtained as rewards from various quests and chests. This guide details the locations and benefits of these legendary weapons, armors, and accessories.

Legendary equipment in The Blood of Dawnwalker can be broadly categorized into two types: those dropped directly by defeated bosses and those acquired through quest rewards or discovered in chests. Notably, legendary items sold by vendors are not included at this time, pending confirmation of their availability and fixed locations. Players can also upgrade acquired legendary items at blacksmiths and armorers to keep them relevant as they progress.

Legendary Equipment Dropped by Bosses

Several powerful legendary items are obtained by defeating specific bosses. These include:

  • Ambrus’ Cuirass: Dropped by Ambrus, this heavy chestpiece offers bonuses to vampiric ability cooldown, attack stamina cost, AC restoration from attacks, and AC restoration from perfect blocks.
  • Corrupted Pendant: Looted from Xanthe, this amulet enhances vampiric ability cooldown, maximum vampiric health, vampiric health segment regeneration, and damage against mortals.
  • Bakir’s Armor: Defeating Bakir yields this medium chestpiece, which boosts weapon damage, stamina gain from perfect blocks, block stamina cost, and dodge stamina cost.

Legendary Gear in Northern Vale Sangora

The northern regions of Vale Sangora hold a significant number of legendary items, accessible from areas like Briar Sloughs, Boar’s Back, and Svartrau Outskirts.

Weapons

  • Imbued Sword of St. Mihai: This weapon requires completing quest chains such as "A Monk and a Saint" to find the Broken Sword of St. Mihai and "Forge It Anew" to collect three Sword Shards. After forging the blade, players can empower it further by clearing a challenging gauntlet. It enhances Swordmastery ability cooldown, critical hit chance, critical hit damage, and damage against supernatural enemies.
  • Durandal: Accessible via the "Cursed Chasm" side quest west of Briar Sloughs. After descending a ravine and defeating creatures, players can loot this weapon from a destroyed cart. It provides bonuses to Swordmastery ability cooldown, attack stamina cost, dodge stamina cost, and damage against supernatural enemies.
  • Erkas’ Sword: This sword is linked to tasks for Father Florin. After gaining access to ancient ruins below Svartrau City, initiating the "Champion of Old" quest by interacting with a mural and then defeating a miniboss named Erkas the Repenter will reward players with this weapon. It increases maximum human health, critical hit chance, critical hit damage, and damage against supernatural enemies.
  • Gladius: Wielded by Brencis, this legendary weapon is found within the lair of the Beast of Balaur. After defeating the miniboss, players can use Shadowstep/Planeshift to climb a wall and retrieve the Gladius from a chest. The same area also contains the Phial of Brencis’ Blood, a consumable that teaches the Piercing Shriek ability. The Gladius itself boosts maximum vampiric health, damage against mortals, critical hit chance, and critical hit damage.

Armor and Accessories

  • Isbrand’s Plate: Found in a chest within a chamber during the "Lacra’s Hive and Seek" quest. After defeating a horde of kobolds, players can loot this medium chestpiece before freeing Isbrand. It offers increased maximum vampiric health, critical hit chance, critical hit damage, and blood drinking restoration.
  • Pieter’s Garb: This light chestpiece is a reward from the "Volk’s Buried Past" quest. Players must complete Volk's tasks and listen to his stories to learn about a hidden treasure, which is then found in a chest in a secret glade. It provides boosts to maximum human health, human health restoration, critical hit chance, and critical hit damage.
  • Arbiter’s Medallion: Located in a cavern behind a waterfall southeast of the village of Parlita in Boar’s Back. This amulet increases maximum stamina, attack stamina cost, block stamina cost, and physical damage reduction.
  • Runic Enchantment: Obtained within the "Anca’s Where Old Devils Lie/Stronger Than Achilles" quest chain. Players will find this light chestpiece after reaching a trial door. It grants lifesteal from attacks, witchcraft ability damage, magical damage reduction, and damage against supernatural enemies.
  • Ancient Greaves: These heavy trousers are found near the end of the "Stronger Than Achilles" quest. Acquiring them requires destroying the Font of Life, a choice that impacts their availability. They enhance witchcraft ability damage, AC restoration from blocks, AC restoration from passive effects, and magical damage reduction.

The Ancient Greaves

Legendary Gear in Southern Vale Sangora

More legendary equipment awaits discovery in the southern parts of Vale Sangora, including areas like Svartrau City, The Silts, and Tantari Woods.

Weapons

  • The Vrakhir: This weapon is found during "The Night of Horrors" quest, a continuation of Lacra’s questline. Players will discover the sword lodged in a dead creature within tunnels. It boosts maximum vampiric health, vampiric ability health cost, vampiric ability cooldown, and damage against mortals.

Armor and Accessories

  • Ring of Quick Strikes: Obtainable by following a quest icon west of the mountain range near Rockfalls, which leads to a "Scholar’s Map" and "Scholar’s Key." Players must then use the key to open a door in small ruins, avoiding combat with uriashi. This ring increases weapon damage, critical hit chance, critical hit damage, and AC restoration from passive effects.
  • Wolven Bracers: Players can find these medium bracers by investigating blood spatters near the Woodcutters’ Camp shrine and following the trail to a clearing where wild animals must be defeated. They provide bonuses to claw damage, claw critical hit chance, claw critical hit damage, and damage against animals.
  • Ancient Hero’s Armor: This heavy chestpiece is located in the ancient temple beneath Svartrau City, as part of the "Hero’s End" quest from Father Florin. After defeating the miniboss Rigos, the Betrayed Hero, players can acquire it. It offers human health restoration, witchcraft ability damage, AC restoration from actions, and damage against supernatural enemies.
  • The Hand of Fate: Also found in the ancient temple beneath Svartrau City during the "Hero’s End" quest. Before entering the temple, players should acquire the Stone Key from the cathedral treasure. Deep underground, a pit with an eerie green glow leads to a chest guarded by kobolds. This weapon enhances witchcraft ability cooldown, witchcraft ability damage, AC restoration from passive effects, and AC restoration from actions.
  • Amulet of Crimson Steel: This amulet is a reward from the "Ancient Circle: Southern Swamps" activity. It boosts weapon damage, critical hit chance, critical hit damage, and maximum stamina.
  • Arbiter’s Ring: Found in the southernmost part of Tantari Woods. Players must defeat a group of kobolds along a sloping path to open a chest containing this ring. It increases maximum vampiric health, vampiric health segment regeneration, vampiric ability health cost, and maximum stamina.

The Arbiter's Ring

This guide covers the known legendary equipment in The Blood of Dawnwalker. Further updates will be provided as more powerful rewards are discovered.