The chance to receive rarified or purified rewards are small but can be increased by completing mission objectives. They tend to give a more variety of stats to your hero and vary in rarity from least to most rare as yellow (special), orange (rarified), or brown (purified). Rewards are later given at the end of each level (1 reward per level). They vary in rarity from least to most rare as white, green, blue (rarified), or purple (purified). Dropped loot is found in-level, usually as a reward for killing an enemy or opening an obelisk. There are seven different levels of loot in Darkspore, which can be divided into 2 categories: drops and rewards. On the other end of the spectrum the hero Arakna can steal enemies souls to increase her damage and power up her abilities for devastating damage.

The hero sage can place down a life tree that heal party members near it and when they deal damage within its area, it grows larger and when finished explodes to heal them further. Lastly the third type is the diverse tempest class hero with ranged damage plus buffs and debuffs. A good example of this is vex, his centerpiece ability is time lapse that damages the enemy but also deal the same amount of damage from the last ten seconds. Ravagers are capable of dealing large amounts of burst damage in a short amount of time. The second type is the ravager which is a lightly armored high damage class. To accompany this he also has another ability that blasts darkspore away from him which also damages them the more closer they are to Magnos. There are three hero types within Darkspore.The first is the sentinel which are the durable type heroes that wade into the fray with special abilities that deal with groups of darkspore.For example Magnos has an ability that can attract enemies close to him and damages them the more father away they are from him. On March 1st, 2016, the servers went down and the game was removed from the Origin game library. In December 2015, EA announced that the servers for Darkspore, which was an online only game, were to be shut down in 2016. The game could be played solo or cooperatively up to three players, and there were PvP options for up to eight players.

The Spore Creature Creator Editor can be used to create unique creatures with their own abilities and can be traded with other players. Weapons and armor can be equipped on creatures to augment their capabilities. Creatures can be manually controlled as they are sent to fight Darkspore infested worlds. Players must recruit species across space and use their unique abilities to strategically take out the Darkspore forces. The universe is invaded by a violent horde of species called the Darkspore. Unlike Spore, Darkspore only took place during the space exploration phase. Darkspore was a spin-off title of Maxis Software's Spore.

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