A special roguelike mode in Duet Night Abyss, Mystic Maze offers players a challenging 17-floor experience filled with combat rooms, random events, and shops. You start with basic gear and progressively build your character with powerful buffs called Core Flames and artifacts by collecting Lampwicks, the mode's currency, through clearing rooms. Its unique mechanics and rewards make it a featured activity for farming character and weapon materials.
How the Mystic Maze works
You begin each run with basic equipment. Defeating enemies in combat zones earns Lampwicks and coins. These currencies let you acquire buffs and items through shops that improve your stats and abilities. Artifacts you find come in different rarity tiers, with gold being the most powerful, generally transforming how your character performs.
The run culminates on the 17th floor, where you face a boss testing all the upgrades you've gathered. Failure means you can revive once, but losing again ends the run. Lampwicks and buffs last only for the current run, requiring strategic planning each time.
Types of gateways (Zones) in Mystic Maze
The Mystic Maze features six kinds of zones connected by gateways that determine the gameplay you face:
| Zone Type | Door Color | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Abyssal Echo | Blue Doors | Encounter mini-events with mysterious characters, yielding lampwicks, artifacts, or embers. |
| Rest | Yellow Doors | Located before the final boss, these zones let you heal and regain sanity. They also house the Abyssal Merchant, where embers can be exchanged for upgrades. |
| Penumbral Abyssoid | Red Doors | Easiest combat zone with basic enemies. |
| Scattered Abyssoid | Red Doors | Mid-tier combat zone with stronger foes. |
| Atrocious Abyssoid | Red Doors | Small-sized combat room filled only with strong enemies. |
| Abysmal Abyssoid | Red Doors | Highest difficulty, usually featuring a boss fight, marking the end of an exploration. |
Lampwicks and Artifacts buffs
In the Mystic Maze, usual Demon Wedges and combat partners are disabled. Instead, you collect Lampwicks — temporary buffs that enhance various aspects of your character and combat style during a single Exploration. There are seven Lampwick types, each with unique effects and stacking bonuses. You can also acquire Artifacts, which are rarer and more powerful single-use buffs that can significantly alter your combat strategy.
How the Lantern Light-Up Buffs Work with Glazeystal
Each Mystic Maze run allows you to repair and upgrade your Lantern using Glazeystal that you get as a reward for every exploration in the Light-Up Lantern menu. These upgrades are divided into four distinct segments, each focusing on a different aspect of your character's capabilities:
- Lantern Lid: Powers up your Skills, increasing damage or effectiveness.
- Lantern Handle: Enhances your survivability, such as health or damage mitigation.
- Lantern Frame: Focuses on melee combat, boosting melee attack strength.
- Lantern Base: Improves ranged combat capabilities.
Types of synergies
Buffs and artifacts in Mystic Maze often stack or align in synergy tiers — collecting 3, 6, or 12 related items or effects grants extra benefits. These synergies encourage planning your upgrades around sets of complementary buffs or artifact types to maximize their impact.
End of Exploration rewards
| Reward Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Glazeystal | Used to repair and upgrade your Lantern, which provides permanent buffs within the maze. The Lantern has four segments — Skills, Survivability, Melee, and Ranged — with 24 unlockable power-ups in each. |
| Threads of Time | Earned during Exploration and spent in the Spindle of Fate shop for Demon Wedges, weapon manuals, Combat Melodies, Carmine Globules, and coins. It resets weekly on Monday at 10:30 AM IST. |
| Trace Points | Reflect your performance and difficulty level. These points are accumulated over the week and can be exchanged for leveling resources, coins, secret letter clues, and Threads of Time. Trace Points reset every Monday at 10:30 AM IST. |
| Milestone Rewards | Additional rewards gained at specific exploration milestones, including: • Commission Manuals — Useful for upgrading character abilities. • Carmine Globules — Resources for upgrading and enhancing equipment. • Coins — Currency used for purchasing items and upgrades in shops. |
Tips for completing Mystic Maze successfully
- Prioritize clearing combat rooms first to earn more Lampwicks and coins.
- Use rest zones strategically to heal and prepare for difficult challenges ahead.
- Build synergies by carefully choosing buffs and artifacts that complement each other.
- Save resources to purchase the best items in shops before boss fights.
- Open environmental loot boxes during combat for valuable supplies.
Mystic Maze delivers a deep roguelike experience in Duet Night Abyss, combining strategic buffs with fast-paced combat across diverse zones. Master its mechanics, manage boosts wisely, and prepare for the 17th-floor boss to conquer this challenging endgame mode.
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