Last Stand
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Feature type | Equipment attachment |
| Access | Item Workbench · Perks Mode |
| Rules and progression | |
| Requirements | Head / Body / Legs |
| Limits | Uses one item attachment slot |
| Progression | Levels 1–5 |
Last Stand is an item perk made at Item Workbench. Its compatible equipment is listed above.
What it changes
Reduces qualifying monster damage while your current hitpoints are strictly below 30% of your base maximum. It is a passive reduction, with no trigger roll, duration or cooldown.
When it helps
Softens ordinary monster hits after you have already fallen to low health. It can give food or another heal more time to arrive, but it is not a death-prevention effect.
Worked example
With level 5, 29/99 HP and no other modifiers, an incoming 20-damage monster hit becomes 15, leaving 14 HP. At 30/99 HP the attachment is inactive. A hit that first takes you below the threshold does not receive this reduction unless you were already below it.
Levels
| Level | Damage reduction below 30% HP |
|---|---|
| 1 | 5% |
| 2 | 10% |
| 3 | 15% |
| 4 | 20% |
| 5 | 25% |
Limits and interactions
Applies to positive incoming monster hits with an attack style. Player attacks, healing hits, and unstyled scripted or environmental damage do not qualify. Works against qualifying monsters in the Wilderness and in Gridmaster.
Only the strongest equipped copy counts. Last Stand, Reinforced and permanent player-perk reduction combine multiplicatively, with a 40% cap for that pool. Active Bulwark combines afterward, capped at 60% for that pool. Other equipment, encounter and mode modifiers can act separately.
The threshold uses your current HP before damage is deducted. At base 99 HP, 29 qualifies and 30 does not. This attachment is separate from the Gridmaster Last Stand relic.
Attach and upgrade
At home, open Item Workbench and choose Perks Mode. Select the equipment from your inventory, then choose Last Stand. The first application rolls a level from 1 to 5. Applying it again can raise its level; an equal or lower roll keeps the current level and does not refund materials used. Each attempt normally spends the recipe again; eligible donation ranks can preserve individual recipe entries. This does not change the level-roll chances. Level 5 cannot be upgraded further.
| Material | Full recipe | Remove Perk return |
|---|---|---|
| Refined Essence | 40 | 28 |
| Resonant Catalyst | 2 | 1 |
Stored and carried materials combine; storage is used first. The return column is for Remove Perk in Perks Mode. It refunds part of one base recipe to Workbench Storage, even after several upgrades. Disintegration destroys the equipment and its attachments.
Level roll chances
| Rolled level | Chance per attempt |
|---|---|
| 1 | 35% |
| 2 | 30% |
| 3 | 17% |
| 4 | 10% |
| 5 | 8% |
These are the chances of each exact rolled level. Selecting a level preview does not choose the result. Repeated attempts do not guarantee level 5.