The Training Grounds

Hearthold's drill hall: beat on dummies, read your damage per second on the live meter, test resistances, bosses and burst parses. Five levels to build.

A fenced drill yard by the wall and the old hall under the barracks. No loot, no XP, no deaths: just dummies that never complain and a live damage meter that never lies. Your sellswords, pets and summons join in, listed under their owner.

Building it

Clear the first dungeon, then build it from the Town Ledger. Each level unlocks more of the hall:

Level	Cost	Unlocks
1	150 gold + 4 Iron Scrap	The drill hall: three straw dummies and the live damage meter.
2	450 gold + 10 Iron Scrap	Dummy levers: call a single dummy or a pack of five, and clear the hall.
3	1,200 gold + 4 Arcane Essence	The plated elite dummy (pick its affixes) and a resistance selector for every dummy.
4	2,600 gold + 3 Void Crystal	The Siege Effigy (boss hitbox and boss bar); dummies can hit back — lightly, and nobody falls.
5	5,000 gold + 2 Forgotten Soul	Moving dummies on patrol paths and timed burst parses (10 / 30 / 60 s) with a results card; your best is kept.

The levers

Lever	What it's for
One dummy	A single dummy on the target line — single-target damage.
Pack of five	Five dummies packed shoulder to shoulder — cleave, chains and area damage.
Elite dummy	A plated elite with affixes (Warded, Vengeful, Vampiric) — its ward re-forms after 5 s out of combat.
Siege Effigy	A boss-sized effigy with a huge hitbox and a boss bar — big-target and boss damage.
Clear the hall	Take every dummy away.

The live damage meter also works in dungeons: Settings → Gameplay → Live damage meter (Compact or Detailed), or press N on a keyboard.