The Trapezohedron's Tree

The Trapezohdron's Tree is located in the Sanctuary, and is where you can spend shards to improve your abilities. Each purchase increases the cost of subsequent nodes of the same type.



Standard Upgrades
Standard upgrades appear on the tree in the form of a triangle. Each node has three levels that can be purchased, lighting up one side of the triangle. All three levels must be purchased to advance past a given node, although some nodes can be approached or bypassed via other branches of the tree.

Standard upgrades can be purchased to improve:

Armor - Reduces incoming damage.

Cannon Damage - Increases Cannon damage.

Damage - Increases Melee Damage.

Health - Increases your Maximum Health.

Luck - Increases the odds of finding Shards and other drops.

Shield - Increase your maximum shield.

Advanced Upgrades
For extra Shards, advanced upgrades - in diamonds or circles - can be purchased once.

Armor and Melee Upgrades
Hysteria's Hammer - Increases Melee Damage by 15%.

Dominion's Guard - Increases Armor by 15%.

Health Upgrades
Health Elixir - Increase maximum Health Elixir capacity.

Healing Proficiency - Increases the amount of healing granted by each Health Elixir use.

Eschaton Prayer - Increases your maximum Health by 20%.

Energy Upgrades
Energy - Increases your maximum Energy.

Energy Regeneration - Faster Energy Regeneration.

Finisher Upgrades
Finisher Charges - Reduces the number of Charges needed before a Finisher can be unleashed.

Nefarious Soldier - Your Finisher Charges will no longer degenerate over time or when taking damage.

Shield Upgrades
Shield Downtime - Reduces Shield Downtime.

Shield Regeneration - Increases Shield Regeneration speed.

Sael-Yot's Devotion - Increases your Maximum Shield by 20%.

Cannon Upgrades
Extra Ammo - Increases maximum Ammo Capacity.

Waters' Will - Increases Cannon Damage by 30%.

Legion's Roar - Your cannon can land Critical Hits.

'Luck' Upgrades
Extra Perk - Equip an additional Perk.

Salvation's Rebuke - Your attacks destroy enemy projectiles.

Scavenger - Treasures are revealed on the map.

Nyarlathotep's Insight - Increases your Luck by 15%.

Resist Upgrades
Throughout the game, you can choose to Resist or Embrace by destroying Elder Shards or Corrupting abilities.

Destroying Elder Shards opens a fourth branch of the Trapezohedron's Tree, with a triangle of each standard upgrade, and seven advanced upgrades.

For more information, see Resist Abilities.