Rabbit & Steel: Item Set Tier List (2024)

The self-described raiding roguelite, Rabbit & Steel, is an unlikely combination of combat and boss fights inspired by popular tab-target MMOs like World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XIV, and random generation and perma-death that's synonymous with the roguelike genre. Each run, players will come across various Treasurespheres containing a random selection of items to choose from, giving players a chance to improve their existing abilities or pick up entirely new effects to create unique builds.

While each of Rabbit & Steel's 200 items have been designed to have a unique purpose and synergy with specific classes and combinations, some items are notable for providing effects powerful enough to find a place in any build, no matter the circ*mstances. What follows is a comprehensive tier list covering every item set in the game, covering which effects are too strong to pass up, and which should be avoided.

Rabbit & Steel Item Set Tier List

Rabbit & Steel features 25 different item sets, each with its own unique theme. Every set and item has its niche, and though different classes will be able to make better use of certain items than others, some items simply provide passive bonuses that are too good to pass up no matter what a player's class is, while others incur strict penalties that must be carefully planned around in order to make them work. While players have had some time to experiment with items and figure out which ones are the most effective, developer Mino Dev has recently confirmed more updates are on the way, which could buff underwhelming items or nerf stronger options.

S-Tier Item Sets

Item sets in the S-tier contain items that are universally beneficial across all classes, with some items being near must-picks whenever they show up. These items often provide incredibly powerful effects without demanding anything of the player in return, or containing very lenient drawbacks and requirements when they do.

The Lucky Set

Aptly named, the Lucky Set is themed around random effects, whether that's the item itself providing chance-based bonuses, or increases to your character's luck stat that governs the likelihood of random effects occurring. The Book of Cheats in particular provides incredible power for only a single item, applying a random buff to yourself, debuff to your target, or activating extra damage effects. Although the item mentions "chaotic effects", these random outcomes will never be detrimental to the player. Other notable items within the set include the Queen's Crown, which more than doubles the damage of critical hits, the Mimick Rabbitfoot, which provides the single largest boost to the character's luck, and the Ballroom Gown, one of the few sources of increased movement speed currrently in the game.

The Youkai Set

The Youkai Set is split into two halves, with one half providing powerful benefits while imposing potentially crippling restrictions, with the other half providing game-changing random-chance bonuses. While the former half includes attractive options when the opportunity strikes, such as the Kyou no Omikuji which increases damage by 50% in exchange for disabling random chance triggers and critical hits, the real stars of the show are found in the latter half of the set. The Red Tanzaku's miracles has a 10% chance activate once per battle, either shield a player from lethal damage and heal the entire party for one HP, fully restore the player's health after battle, or grant the player 300 experience points at the end of a fight. Meanwhile, the Usagi Kamen grants a random buff for five seconds every time every time a random chance succeeds, including the invincibility-granting Super buff.

The Lakeshrine Set

The Lakeshrine Set provides easy access to the generic Flow series of buffs that provide large increases to a character's primary, secondary, or special attacks, containing items that are relevant to every class in the game. On top of these generally helpful items, the set also provides two items similar to the Usagi Kamen from the Youkai Set: the Butterfly Hairpin and the Aquamarine Bracelet. The Butterfly Hairpin is most similar, granting a random buff for five seconds, but activating whenever the player gains invincibility rather than when a random chance succeeds. While this item isn't as easily spammable as the Usagi Kamen, it does activate no matter the source of invincibility, such as when the player is hit. The true winner of this set, however, is the Aquamarine Bracelet, which passively grants a random buff for 10 seconds every 12 seconds. While the specific buff granted is random, the 10 second duration is massive, especially for more powerful buffs like Super or Rabbitluck, and with only a 12 second cooldown, buffs will be rolling often enough that landing on a game-changing buff is a fairly common occurrence.

A-Tier Item Sets

The A-tier of item sets includes sets that are generically good and contain items that provide significant benefits without requiring synergy with a specific class or item combination. While they may not contain must-pick items, many items in these sets represent safe picks that will be beneficial in nearly any situation.

The Sacredflame Set

The Sacredflame Set is a set focused on the Flash series of buffs, massive increases to the next use of the buff's corresponding ability, but only lasting for one attack whether it benefits from the buff or not. There are two items for each attack, primary, secondary, and special, meaning there's at least one option that can benefit every class in the game, regardless of which attack they specialize in. As a bonus, the Desert Earrings provides the powerful "gain a random buff for 5 seconds" effect provided by the Usagi Kamen and Butterfly Hairpin from the S-tier, but this time activating whenever the player gains a buff. This effect is potentially highly repeatable, but may require a specific class or additional items to activate in the first place, limiting its usability to certain combinations.

The Depth Set

The Depth Set is an interesting set that contains both middling items that players will often want to pass on in favor of more powerful options, as well as items that can be run-enabling life savers and build-defining. The items in this set that truly shine are the Abyss Artifact, Mermaid Scalemail, and Necronomicon. The Abyss Artifact provides easy access to the incredibly useful Super buff, transforming any defensive ability into an instant get-out-of-jail-free option by providing 8 seconds of invincibility, increased speed, and 30% more damage. The Mermaid Scalemail and Necronomicon, on the other hand, give players options to manipulate their cooldowns, potentially breaking the game wide open by resetting the cooldowns of abilities normally balanced by their long periods of downtime, or removing cooldowns altogether by reducing them to zero.

The Swiftlight Set

The Swiftlight Set is themed around high movement, providing bonuses when players move a certain distance, or providing rare increases to characters' movement speeds. These bonuses include the Flow series of buffs, dealing raw damage, or even granting invincibility for 8 seconds at a time. While this set may seem limited in usability to only the more mobile classes such as Assassin or Bruiser, players of all classes will be moving a good amount in order to dodge boss attacks, and mechanics such as knockbacks and teleportation are all considered movement for the purposes of activating these items' effects.

The Life Set

A generic set focused around increasing survivability, the Life Set is an easy pick for those looking for ways to extend their run. Some notable mentions include the Midsummer Dress, which allows players to move at normal speed even while using abilities that would normally slow them down, the Sunflower Crown which reduces the size of the player's hitbox and can stack with the Evasion Potion to be unhittable by projectiles, and the Moss Shield which resets the cooldown of the player's defensive abilities, potentially creating powerful synergies. Be careful to not take too many iems in this set when playing on harder difficulties, however, as the tight damage requirements needed to beat the enrage timers on bosses require a significant investment into damage to successfully beat.

The Bloodwolf Set

The Bloodwolf Set heavily rewards builds that attack quickly, featuring items that apply Bleed, Sap, and otherwise scale well with attack speed and number of hits. While items like the Reaper Cloak, Bloodflower Brooch, and Wolf Hood may seem only situationally useful due to their backstab positional requirement, any boss that transforms into an animal form can be backstabbed from any position on the screen. This makes these items particularly useful in all the area boss battles, as well as the fight with Karsi in the Red Darkhouse, fights where damage matters the most.

The Wind Set

The Wind Set fittingly focuses around speed, whether that's the player's movement speed, the cooldown of their abilities, or the cooldown of the items themselves. Like the Bloodwolf Set, the Wind Set contains some items that scale well off attack speed and number of hits, like the Eaglewing Charm that increases the damage of abilities by 20, or the Sparrow Feather that deals 50 damage to all enemies every time a primary or secondary attack is used. The Hawkfeather Fan in particular is a significant item in this set, reducing the cooldown of the character's special ability by two seconds, a rare effect that can potentially remove the cooldown of a special ability altogether when combined with other cooldown-reducing items.

The Assassin Set

Focused all around dealing damage and vanishing to deal even more damage, the Assassin set is a good general-purpose pick for those looking to pump out big DPS numbers. While scaling the effect from these items will be a challenge, the items themselves provide respectable damage without demanding the player to fulfill any special conditions or change their style of gameplay. On top of their lenient activation requirements, certain classes will be able to leverage these items to push their output further, such as those with fast, multi-hitting attacks to take advantage of the Shadow Bracelet, or those that can reset the cooldown of their special attack often to activate the Throwing Dagger multiple times in a row.

B-Tier Item Sets

Item sets in the B-tier often contain items that are generally useful, but require additional effects from a specific class or other item in order to truly shine. While the peaks of these items can rival even items within the S-tier, their dependency on synergies means reaching their potential isn't always guaranteed or even likely.

Shrine Set

The Shrine Set focuses all around buffs, with some items granting buffs themselves, while others providing benefits when a buff is active. The Holy Greatsword is notable for its permanent Smite uptime thanks to the 10-second duration of Smite combined with its 10-second cooldown. The Shrinemaiden's Kosode and Redwhite Ribbon in this set are generally quite powerful, but not all classes have easy access to buffs, limiting their usefulness to classes like the Dancer or Bruiser who can buff themselves on demand, or runs where players are able to pick up items that provide buffs.

Ruins Set

The Ruins Set is all about slowness, with nearly every item in the set slowing the player down. In exchange, they provide significant buffs, providing major increases to damage, or access to the Stoneskin buff, a temporary shield that blocks incoming damage. While these bonuses are potentially massive, a reduction to a character's movement speed can be equally lethal, with some boss attacks in higher difficulties becoming impossible to dodge without the assistance of defensive abilities. Players will need to consider carefully whether their build is capable of withstanding these penalties, but those that can will find themselves well-rewarded. The Giant Stone Club is notable for being one of, if not the best, items for the Bruiser, as their Berserk buff allows them to ignore both the GCD and movement speed penalties imposed by the item.

Gem Set

The Gem Set is another dual-natured item set, with half of the set themed around powerful bonuses that break upon taking damage, and the remaining half providing projectile erasing effects. While it can often seem not worth it to take an item that can potentially be lost later, runs on harder difficulties, especially Lunar difficulty, can't afford to take many hits to begin with, making their fragility less of a restriction. Further, one of the best ways to avoid taking damage is to defeat enemies before they are able to use their more dangerous attacks, something the bonuses these items grant greatly help achieve. Despite this, the Gem Set items aren't overwhelmingly powerful for the limited durability they possess, with items from some of the other sets in A- or S-tier providing similar benefits without the risk of breaking.

The Emerald Chestplate is a notable item for preventing damage taken entirely. While the obvious synergy is protecting other Gem Set items from breaking, this item can also be used to protect an equipped Floof trinket to assist in completing a no-hit run to unlock rarer versions of the Floof trinket, including the Moonlight Floof trinket awarded for completing a Lunar difficulty run without taking damage.

Darkbite Set

The Darkbite Set provides significant damage buffs, while either reducing the radius of an attack's area of effect, or imposing an activation requirement. While some classes won't mind the reduced attack radius, such as those with homing attacks, classes that can already struggle to hit targets from awkward positions will definitely feel the impact of these items' downsides. The remaining items in this set are all generally beneficial and easily activated, however the Sniper's Eyeglasses activation requirement won't always be reliably achievable during boss attacks that force players into close proximity.

Flame Set

The first half of the Flame Set is all about applying the Burn debuff, an effect which deals damage equal to the attack that applied the Burn at the end of its duration, making it especially good for hard hitting attacks on long cooldowns. The second half of the Flame Set provides incredibly strong passive benefits that deactivate for the rest of a fight once the player uses a defensive ability. These items can be worthwhile for players that are confident in their ability to survive without relying on their defensive cooldowns, certain classes use their defensive cooldowns as part of their rotation, such as Dancers and their Warcry buff, or Wizards and their Haste buff, limiting the number of classes that can make effective use of this set.

Timegem Set

The Timegem Set is a situational set of items that interacts with or manipulates the cooldowns of a player's abilities. While their usefulness will depend on the specific cooldowns of a player's class and gem upgrades, when they are beneficial, they can become the damage engine enabling true powerhouse builds. Players will absolutely want to do the light arithmetic required to calculate the potency of these items and determine which ones will be useful for each class.

Haunted Set

The Haunted Set is a unique set that instead of providing a damage bonus, replaces an attack's damage with a set value, sometimes achieved via the Ghostflame debuff, imposing a sort of soft-cooldown. Classes with naturally high damage values or frequently spammable attacks won't likely want to make use of this set, as the Ghostflame debuff prevents players from benefiting from repeated ability usage, while the set damage values aren't often stronger than the higher damage nukes many classes want to take advantage of.

Rockdragon Set

Like the Ruins Set before it, the Rockdragon Set is themed around large benefits balanced by long cooldowns and slowing the player down. While many items in the Ruins Set slowed the player's movement speed, most items in the Rockdragon set add or increase the cooldown of the player's abilities, forcing players to find ways to reduce their cooldowns back down, or alternate abilities while waiting for their attacks to refresh. For many classes, imposing a cooldown on key abilities that would normally be used many times in a row is crippling, but for those that can circumvent these penalties, such as the Sniper whose primary ability resets its own cooldown if it hits an enemy, the Rockdragon Set can be a must-pick.

Timespace Set

The Timespace Set is another set themed around speeding the player up, either by providing the player with the Haste buff, or by modifying the cooldowns of the player's abilities. While items that provide Haste and items that provide a random chance to reset cooldowns are generically useful regardless of the player's build, other items that modify cooldowns will depend heavily on the specific class the player is using. Much like the Timegem set, players should take the time to determine which of these items will benefit them, as reducing a major cooldown to only five seconds can be a massive boon.

Night Set

While fairly generic, the Night Set provides some safe damage options that are easy to activate without requiring much additional thought, on top of special effects that will be welcome in nearly any build. The Nightingale Gown can lead to monstrous damage in a single hit, the Pajama Hat can enable some interesting builds by providing a rare source of cooldown-reduction, and the Stuffed Rabbit can transform a class's special ability into another defensive option, or just provide passive invincibility on a 12-second cooldown.

Gladiator Set

The Gladiator is the last set that manipulates a player's cooldowns, providing large bonuses to a specific skills damage in exchange for increasing the cooldown of another. As with the Timegem and Timespace sets, these items will either be near-impossible to use effectively or massively beneficial depending on the class. Classes like the Dancer, for instance, won't mind increasing the cooldown of their special ability given the plethora of options to reset it, while introducing a cooldown to the primary attack of a class like Bruiser can be devastating.

Sparkblade Set

The Sparkblade set is the first of three sets themed around damage over time effects, with this set focusing on Spark specifically, dealing damage to all targets every second while it's active. Damage over time effects in Rabbit & Steel, while providing a safe source of DPS, have very few ways to scale their damage, making it hard for them to compete with items that can be build-defining. The Spark debuff in particular typically deals less damage per second thanks to its ability to deal damage to all enemies. In exchange, it can be stacked across multiple targets to multiply its effectiveness, helping it shine in multi-target fights, but less effective for the single-target fights which comprise the majority of encounters in Rabbit & Steel. While the Spark-centric items in this set are somewhat lackluster, the remaining items hold some more scaling potential, dealing modest damage after a set number of hits have been dealt. Obvious synergies exist with the damage over time component of Spark helping to satisfy the hit requirement more frequently, but the lenient activation requirement enables these items provide decent damage regardless of any synergies. Those with fast global cooldowns or attacks that hit multiple times per use will be able to push these items to greater heights.

C-Tier Item Sets

Item sets in the C-tier include items that are generally outclassed by one or more items in the game. While every item has its place, items in these sets have a fairly low ceiling for how far they can be pushed, and rarely if ever offer anything that will truly excite players.

Arcane Set

The Arcane Set is one set whose theme of debuffs can often provide little to no benefit given that a majority of classes in Rabbit & Steel don't have innate access to a debuff. While items that provide access to the Curse debuff can be somewhat useful and applicable to forms of damage, items like the Crowfeather Pin and Redblack Ribbon will require players to find a debuff source before they can truly become useful. Even once they do, however, classes often have alternative ways to activate the bonuses these items provide, such as through gem upgrades or other items with similar effects.

Poison Set

The Poison Set is another example of a set with a design that's inherently limiting. Focused around the damage over time effect, Poison, the set provides multiple ways to apply the debuff, all of which apply their own instances, meaning players can apply up to six poisons at once. Achieving this is not only incredibly unlikely, but requires players to obtain every single Poison item in a single run, all poisons combined only represent 220 DPS, or 360 DPS with the Venom Hood, an amount that's simply not impressive enough to justify building into.