Iridium Band

Iridium Band

Type	Ring
Location	Crafting with Combat Level 9; Fishing Treasure Chest (0.12%)
Sell Price	1000g

Combat level 9 teaches the Iridium Band recipe, and the bill is steep: five Iridium Bars, fifty Solar Essences and fifty Void Essences. What comes out is the single most useful ring in the game, because it bundles three separate effects into one slot. It lights ten tiles like a Glow Ring, pulls in items from two tiles like a Magnet Ring, and adds a tenth to weapon damage like a Ruby Ring. That means a farmer wearing one has already covered seeing, collecting and hitting, and the other finger is free for whatever the trip actually needs. Almost every recommended ring pairing in the game starts with this band, which is as close to a default as the game has.

The in-game description reads: Glows, attracts items, and increases attack damage by 10%.

Location

Crafting is the main route. Iridium Bars come from the Skull Cavern or from the Statue Of Perfection, Solar Essence from Ghosts, Metal Heads, Mummies and Squid Kids, and Void Essence from Shadow Brutes, Shadow Shamans and Serpents. Fifty of each is a serious collection, which is why many farmers reach Combat level 9 long before they can afford the recipe.

Fishing is the slow alternative. The band turns up in treasure chests at roughly one in a thousand, which is rare enough that nobody plans around it. Monsters in the Mines also drop it as a special item during the Danger In The Deep quest or once the Shrine of Challenge has been activated, which is the fastest route for a farmer already fighting the dangerous versions of those floors.

Effect

All three effects arrive at full strength. The glow is the same circle a Glow Ring gives, the pull is the same two tiles a Magnet Ring gives, and the damage bonus is the same ten percent multiplier the Ruby Ring applies.

The damage multiplier is worth understanding, because the game applies it early. It multiplies the weapon's damage before a flat Attack buff from food is added and before the Fighter and Brute profession multipliers are applied on top. A farmer on the Fighter path is therefore multiplying an already multiplied figure, which is why late game damage numbers climb so steeply.

Stacking is permitted with everything the band contains. Two Iridium Bands double the damage bonus and widen the light and the pull, and the band also adds to a Glow Ring, a Glowstone Ring, a Magnet Ring or a Ruby Ring. Wearing a Ruby Ring alongside it is the one pairing most players skip, since the extra ten percent is the only thing new.

Notes

The band belongs in the purple dye pot in Emily and Haley's house, alongside the Immunity Band and the Amethyst Ring.

At the Forge the band is the base everyone builds on. Twenty Cinder Shards join it to a Burglar's Ring for the best looting setup in the game, to a Napalm Ring so that explosions clear the floor while the pull gathers what falls, to a Slime Charmer Ring for a walk through a Slime pack, or to a Crabshell Ring so that one hand covers damage and the other covers armour. Three rings cannot be fused, so the choice of partner is the last real decision a combat build makes.

All Rings

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Image	Price
Amethyst Ring		100g
Aquamarine Ring		200g
Burglar's Ring		750g
Crabshell Ring		1000g
Emerald Ring		300g
Glow Ring		100g
Glowstone Ring		100g
Hot Java Ring		100g
Immunity Band		250g
Iridium Band		1000g
Jade Ring		200g
Jukebox Ring		100g
Lucky Ring		100g
Magnet Ring		100g
Napalm Ring		1000g
Phoenix Ring		100g
Protection Ring		100g
Ring of Yoba		750g
Ruby Ring		300g
Savage Ring		750g
Slime Charmer Ring		350g
Small Glow Ring		50g
Small Magnet Ring		50g
Soul Sapper Ring		100g
Sturdy Ring		750g
Thorns Ring		100g
Topaz Ring		100g
Vampire Ring		750g
Warrior Ring		750g