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Wizard of Legend 2: Relics & Items Guide

Relics are passive items that dramatically change your run. This guide covers all relics and how to use them effectively.

Relic Categories

Offensive Relics

Relic	Effect	Rarity
Crimson Katana	+15% crit chance	Common
Vampire’s Fangs	Heal on crit	Rare
Berserker’s Axe	+20% damage at low HP	Legendary
Necromancer’s Staff	Summon minions on kill	Legendary

Defensive Relics

Relic	Effect	Rarity
Stone Shield	+10% damage reduction	Common
Phoenix Feather	Revive once per run	Rare
Guardian’s Amulet	+25% max HP	Rare
Immortal’s Ring	Invincibility on low HP	Legendary

Utility Relics

Relic	Effect	Rarity
Merchant’s Purse	+20% gold gain	Common
Explorer’s Map	Reveal secret rooms	Rare
Chaos Crystal	Random stat boost	Rare
Timekeeper’s Watch	Slow time on hit	Legendary

Best Relic Combinations

1. Crit Build

• Crimson Katana + Vampire’s Fangs + Berserker’s Axe
• Effect: High crit chance with healing and damage boost

2. Tank Build

• Stone Shield + Guardian’s Amulet + Immortal’s Ring
• Effect: Near-invincible with damage reduction stacking

3. Gold Build

• Merchant’s Purse + Explorer’s Map + Chaos Crystal
• Effect: Maximum gold generation for shop purchases

Hidden Relics

Some relics only appear under specific conditions:

• Secret Room Relics: Look for cracked walls
• Boss Drop Relics: Defeat bosses without taking damage
• Challenge Relics: Complete optional challenges

Related Guides

• Wizard of Legend 2 Relics Guide: Maximizing Passive Power
• Wizard of Legend 2: Best Builds Guide
• Wizard of Legend 2 Beginner’s Guide: Best Starting Arcana, Relics, and First-Run Builds (2026)

Relic Rarity and Drop Mechanics

Relics follow a four-tier rarity system: Common (white border), Rare (blue), Legendary (gold), and Chaos (purple, exclusive to Chaos Surge rooms). Drop rates scale with floor depth — Floor 1 enemies have a 5% chance to drop any relic, Floor 5 enemies have a 18% base rate. Bosses guarantee one relic drop, with a 10% chance of a second if defeated without taking damage. Chaos-tier relics cannot drop from regular enemies; they only appear in Chaos Surge rooms, secret challenge completions, or as the final boss reward. The pool of available relics per run is capped at 30 randomly selected items from the full 60+ relic catalog, so you’ll never see all relics in a single run. This cap resets each run, encouraging replayability and adaptive build crafting.

How to Farm Specific Relics

Targeting a specific relic requires understanding the shop rotation system. The merchant between floors always offers three relics, and this selection draws from your current run’s 30-relic pool. If your desired relic isn’t in the pool, no amount of gold will make it appear. The workaround: equip the Merchant’s Purse relic in your starting loadout, which adds three extra relics to your run’s pool (prioritizing Rare and Legendary tiers). Also, the Explorer’s Map relic reveals secret rooms that have a separate, smaller relic pool of 12 items weighted toward Legendary and Chaos tiers. Combining both relics in a single run maximizes your odds of seeing any specific relic by nearly 40% according to community drop rate analysis.

Relic Durability and Cursed Relics

Some Legendary and Chaos relics carry a durability counter that degrades with each room cleared — typically 8 to 12 rooms before breaking. Broken relics provide no further bonuses but still occupy an inventory slot, so plan your route accordingly. Cursed relics are a special subclass that provide massive bonuses (like +40% damage) at the cost of permanent debuffs (halved healing, doubled enemy health). Cursed relics cannot be unequipped once taken, and their effects stack multiplicatively. A double-cursed run with Berserker’s Axe and Cursed Blade deals 2.5x normal damage but reduces your effective HP pool to roughly 30% of normal — viable only for players who can dodge consistently.

Relic Tier List for Patch 2.0

The current meta heavily favors relics that provide percentage-based damage scaling over flat bonuses. S-Tier includes Crimson Katana (crit chance scales multiplicatively with late-game arcana), Immortal’s Ring (the invincibility window can absorb an entire boss attack pattern if timed correctly), and Explorer’s Map (guaranteeing secret rooms provides the highest average relic-per-run count of any single relic). A-Tier contains Vampire’s Fangs, Timekeeper’s Watch, and Merchant’s Purse — all strong but situational. B-Tier relics like Stone Shield and Necromancer’s Staff fall off dramatically in the late game when enemies deal percentage-based damage that bypasses flat armor, and summoned minions die in one hit to Floor 5 elite attacks.

Note that tier rankings shift dramatically between solo and multiplayer. Necromancer’s Staff jumps from B to A-Tier in 4-player co-op because minions draw aggro from multiple enemies simultaneously, effectively functioning as a team-wide defensive tool. Conversely, Immortal’s Ring drops from S to B-Tier in multiplayer because the invincibility window doesn’t scale with the increased number of enemy projectiles on screen. Always re-evaluate your relic choices when switching between solo and party play.