How to Disable Blessings in Arms of God: Loot Pool Guide

For players wondering how to disable blessings in Arms of God, the solution is built directly into the Cathedral hub. Walk up to The Confession interface in the left wing of the hub and manually toggle off any unlocked drops that carry negative stat tradeoffs. Doing this removes them from your mid-run level-up choices, ensuring your randomized loot pool only offers pure mono-stat items or Tier 2 upgrades.

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Why You Must Curate Your Loot Pooltag

In the early hours of Arms of God, unlocking every blessing you find at the Revelation Pedestals feels like rapid progress. By the time you reach Act II, that massive catalog becomes a severe liability. The game’s bullet heaven mechanics rely on a highly randomized item registry containing over 60 weapon models, 100 blessings, and 100 upgrades.

When you level up mid-swarm, the game pulls three options from your unlocked roster. If your pool is stuffed with Tier 1 tradeoff blessings, you will consistently brick your builds. The mathematical probability of rolling the exact synergy you need drops drastically with every new item you discover.

If you do not actively prune your unlocked list, your level-up screens will be flooded with irrelevant, run-ending gear.

The Mathematical Problem with Early Tradeoffstag

Early game blessings are designed with a strict positive/negative tradeoff system to balance your power curve. A common drop might offer +10% movement speed but penalize you with -4 armor. Another might grant +4% attack speed at the cost of reduced elemental resistance.

While these dual-stat modifiers help you survive the initial waves of Doom Heralds, they scale terribly into the late game. A late-game build relies on stacking pure damage multipliers. If you are forced to take a negative armor modifier at minute 25, a single projectile from the Bishop boss will instantly end your run. Mono-stat items take up two slots instead of one, but they never actively sabotage your survivability.

Global vs Weapon-Specific Modifierstag

You wield five weapons simultaneously using the mechanical arms attached to your crusader suit. Blessings fall into two distinct categories: global suit buffs and weapon-specific attachments.

A global blessing affects all five arms, meaning a negative modifier like "-10% Electric Damage" will throttle your entire loadout if you are running a hybrid elemental build. Weapon-specific upgrades only occupy the attachment slots of a single gun, but they still take up valuable RNG real estate during level-ups. Banishing the global tradeoffs ensures your baseline stats remain pure across all five mechanical arms.

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Step-by-Step: Banishing Drops at The Confessiontag

Solo developer Dominik designed the meta-progression to allow total control over your run RNG, provided you know which menu to use in the hub.

To clean up your loot pool, you must manually lock out unwanted items using The Confession interface.

1. Return to the Cathedral Hub: End your current run, defeat a boss, or die to return to your permanent stronghold.
2. Locate The Confession: From the spawn point facing the Blood Chalice altar, turn 90 degrees left. Walk past the stained-glass windows to the dark wooden booth against the western wall.
3. Open the Meta-Progression Roster: Interact with The Confession UI. You will see a massive grid displaying every blessing, weapon, and passive you have unlocked via Sermons of Revelation.
4. Toggle the Bans: Click on any blessing with a negative modifier to disable it. A red padlock icon will appear over the item.

Disabling an item costs absolutely nothing. You do not spend Crux or Shards to banish drops, and you can freely re-enable them at any time between runs if you want to experiment with a new build.

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When to Transition to Tier 2 Upgradestag

Do not banish your Tier 1 blessings immediately after starting a fresh save file. You need those early stat bumps to survive Act I and farm your first 1,000 Shards for the Cathedral Supply achievement.

The correct time to start disabling drops is immediately after you unlock the Shrine/Forge mechanics.

The Shrine/Forge Thresholdtag

The Shrine/Forge allows you to purchase permanent, upgraded versions of your base blessings using Crux. These Tier 2 variants strip away the negative modifiers entirely, transforming them into endgame-viable buffs.

As soon as you purchase a Tier 2 upgrade with Crux, immediately walk over to The Confession and disable its Tier 1 counterpart. Leaving both active means the game might offer you the inferior version during a critical late-game level-up, wasting a refresh roll.

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Best Blessings to Banish for the Primaris Templartag

Since patch v0.506, the Primaris Templar class has dominated the meta, particularly when paired with the Aura Emitter. Because the Primaris utilizes a screen-wide area-of-effect damage model—often hitting 12,000 DPS with a 300 HP buffer—specific stats become entirely useless and should be banished immediately.

Disable any blessing that sacrifices raw damage or armor for projectile speed.

• Projectile Speed Tradeoffs: The Aura Emitter does not fire projectiles; it pulses. Any blessing that reduces your area damage to buff projectile velocity is a dead roll.
• Armor Negatives: The Primaris Templar needs to tank stray hits while the holy aura melts the horde. Banish any blessing that reduces armor, even if it offers a massive critical hit chance.
• Electric Damage Reductions: Many early fire-based blessings reduce electric output. If you are running an RF-style aura gun build, you need overlapping elemental damage. Disable these dual-stat traps.

Note on Achievements: If you are hunting the Single Purpose achievement ("kill with one weapon"), patch v0.506 confirmed this does not work with the Primaris class. Switch to a standard crusader build, but keep your loot pool curated to ensure you only roll upgrades for your single equipped mechanical arm.

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Managing Orders and Events Mid-Runtag

Curating your blessings at the Cathedral is only half the battle; you also need to manage your active run modifiers. Orders are in-run challenges that grant massive rewards but often force you into suboptimal playstyles that conflict with your curated loot pool.

As of patch v0.507, you can safely remove active Orders directly from the pause menu without abandoning your run.

Previously, accidentally accepting an Order that demanded a specific damage type would ruin a run if you had already banished those blessings at The Confession. Now, you can pause the game, navigate to the active Events tab, and cancel the Order. This pairs perfectly with a tightly curated loot pool, allowing you to pivot your strategy mid-run without being punished by bad RNG or accidental clicks.

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Frequently Asked Questionstag

Does disabling a blessing refund the Crux I spent to unlock it? No. Banishment via The Confession only stops the item from appearing during a run. The Crux you spent at the Sermons of Revelation to originally discover the item is permanently consumed.

Can I disable weapons as well as blessings? Yes. The Confession interface allows you to banish weapons you do not want to use. This is highly recommended when attempting single-weapon runs, as it stops the other 59 weapon models from cluttering your level-up screens.

Why are my Tier 2 blessings not showing up in my runs? You must purchase them at the Shrine/Forge first. Once bought, they are automatically added to the run pool. If your pool is still saturated with Tier 1 tradeoffs, the RNG might simply be burying your Tier 2 drops. Banish the lower tiers to force the stronger ones to appear.

Do disabled blessings affect the Gathering New Revelation achievement? No. The achievement only tracks whether you have discovered the items via Revelation Pedestals in the arena. Banishing them in the Cathedral hub does not revoke your discovery progress.

Does dodging into a chest reset my banished items? No. Patch v0.506 fixed collisions involving Chests and Revelation Pedestals, meaning you are much less likely to accidentally trigger a new discovery mid-swarm. Even if you do, it will not override your settings at The Confession.