Equipment, Rarity and the Blacksmith: Upgrading, Rerolling and Salvage

Loot is how Rogue Blight talks to you — every drop is a stat line, a scaling color, sometimes a whole build proposal. This page is the reference for the gear system itself: what you can wear, how rarity works, and how to feed the blacksmith.

The slots

The equipment screen shows four weapon slots (Right Hand 1–2, Left Hand 1–2) and five armor slots:

• Head — helmets, hoods, masks, and special cases like the Mimic Head.
• Chest — your Defense backbone.
• Hands — gloves often carry utility perks (documented legendary gloves grant a second aerial attack).
• Legs & Boots — stamina, dexterity and mobility lines cluster here.
• Off-hand extras — shields, torches (a light source that rolls stats), and once unlocked, a second weapon for dual wield.

What the defense stats mean

Line	Effect
Def	Flat physical damage reduction; Strength adds a Bonus Defense layer on top.
Poise	Stagger resistance — how much punishment you eat before your own swing stalls.
Elemental Resist	Cuts fire, ice, lightning and similar damage.
Status Resist	Reduces your odds of suffering Burn, Bleed, Poison, Freeze and friends.

Rarity and perks

• Common through epic pieces roll plain stat lines with better totals at higher rarity.
• Legendary items (yellow text) carry a unique perk — the game treats these as build anchors. One legendary is confirmed in the official UI: Ilidrake’s Helmet (DEF +1), whose perk reads “Aerial weapon attacks deal additional 10% damage. (Bonus is kept even if unequipped.)” — direct confirmation that some legendary bonuses persist while the item sits in your bag.
• Other documented legendaries from launch footage: aerial-attack gloves, a burn-damage doubler, a Gold Steal armor piece, and the Mimic Head.
• Legendary find chance is its own stat and hub upgrade; early on, don’t chase it — it finds you.

The blacksmith: upgrade, reroll, salvage

The blacksmith node (hammer icon) is the gear system’s engine room. His opening line says the model outright: “I’ll upgrade your equipment, just provide materials from any unwanted items.”

Upgrading

1. Feed him unwanted gear as material — every piece salvages into upgrade fuel.
2. Choose the piece to improve; your main weapon first, always. Upgrades raise damage ranges, defense values, and often status chances.
3. Upgrades have visible level caps per visit tier; the blacksmith points hub upgrade (+5 refine points) extends what he can do per encounter.

Rerolling

At higher blacksmith tiers, a reroll option replaces a piece’s stat lines with new ones. Players use it two ways: fixing a great unique perk stuck on bad stats, or pushing already-strong gear toward perfect lines. Reroll pricing scales with the piece — screenshot your before/after; the community is still mapping good targets.

Salvage discipline

• Never sell before the blacksmith — unwanted gear is worth more as upgrade material than as gold.
• Salvage your replaced weapon immediately after equipping an upgrade; inventories don’t survive runs.
• Elementally-unique weapons (Flame, Frost, Water) are often worth keeping as a second slot even at lower numbers — their status effects don’t scale purely off damage.

A simple priority order

1. Main weapon to the highest upgrade you can afford — it multiplies everything.
2. Chest or shield — defense is the run-lengthener.
3. Boots/gloves with utility lines (stamina, status application).
4. Rerolls once a piece’s perk matters more than its numbers — usually from the second blacksmith visit onward.