Lumens and Starshards

Lumenfall has one everyday currency, one special currency and a handful of token types that belong to a single activity. Knowing which is which saves you from saving up the wrong thing.

Lumens

Lumens are the money of the world. You earn them by playing and you cannot buy them with real money, ever. They are what everything in the world costs.

How you earn them

• Defeating creatures. Coins drop from kills, and the loot you pick up can be sold.
• Selling items to shopkeepers, from the bag or at a shop. From level 90, high level gear and materials pay less.
• Quests, and the rewards from party quests, dungeons, raids and boss lairs.
• Selling to other heroes on the Trading and the Market.
• The While You Were Away chest and the daily ad gifts (see Daily Rewards and Resets).

Where they go

• Potions, scrolls and gear in town shops.
• The Forge and enchanting. This is the biggest lumen sink in the game. See The Forge and Enchanting.
• Travel fares and storage fees.
• Market listing fees and the sales tax.
• Winning bids at the Realm Auction: the whole winning bid leaves the game (see The Realm Auction).
• Founding a guild, changing its crest, and donating to it (see Guilds).

Starshards

Starshards are the premium currency. They belong to your account, so every hero on it shares the same balance. They pay for Cash Shop looks, convenience items, AUTO-HUNT time, boosts and gifts for other heroes.

How you get them

• Buy them in the Cash Shop, Starshards tab. The first purchase of each pack size is doubled.
• Login calendar. Each daily claim pays Starshards, with a bigger reward on days 7, 14, 21 and 28.
• Weekly chest. Finish three different activities in a week (daily quests, a dungeon, a boss lair, a party quest or the Echo Tower) and claim 60 Starshards.
• Lumen Pass. The free track pays a small amount at every tier, and more at every fifth tier.
• Starlight Blessing. Starshards at once, then a claim every day while it runs.
• Dungeon bonus chest. A counted dungeon clear can unlock a bonus chest of 10 Starshards.
• Spend rewards. Spend enough in the Cash Shop in a month and you get some Starshards back, plus AUTO-HUNT time.

Achievements never pay Starshards.

Where they go. See The Cash Shop for the full shelf.

Tokens and marks

Some activities pay their own coin. You can only spend it where it belongs.

Currency	Where you earn it	Where you spend it
Guild Marks	Daily check-in, donating, the weekly contract	The guild shop (see Guilds)
Lantern Coin	Lantern Trial of Whisperwood	Wickholt
Tidebell Chit	Tidebell Salvage	Old Barnaby
Forgeheart Seal	Forgeheart Ascent	Grael
Vigil Sigil	Starfall Vigil	Vesper
Stormroot Token	The Stormroot Descent	Sparrow
Echo Shard	Echo Tower floors	Master Kaen
Arena Glory	Arena wins	Quartermaster Vantor
Season tokens	A season's quests and creatures (for example Hallow Candy)	The season host's shop

Party quest tokens buy that quest's own gear, boss souls, pets, mounts, scrolls and Forge supplies. Read Party Quests for the runs themselves, and Events and Seasons for season shops.

Other things that look like money

• Gate Sigils open dungeons. You get a few free entries each day, and extra sigils are sold in the Cash Shop with a daily cap.
• AUTO-HUNT time is a clock, not a currency. See AUTO-Hunting.