Armor and accessories provide crucial defensive bonuses and special effects. Equipping the right gear can significantly reduce incoming damage, protect against status ailments, or even boost your stats.
Armor Types:
- Shields: Increase physical defense and block rate. Examples: Leather Shield, Mythril Shield, Aegis Shield.
- Helmets/Hats: Increase defense and magic defense. Examples: Leather Hat, Mythril Helm, Ribbon.
- Body Armor: Increase defense. Examples: Leather Armor, Mythril Armor, Genji Armor, Light Robe.
- Robes: Typically for magic users, offer lower physical defense but higher magic defense. Examples: Silk Robe, Gaia Robe.
Accessories:
Accessories are unique items that provide various benefits, from stat boosts to immunity to status effects. You can equip one accessory per character.
- Power Wrist: Increases Strength.
- Earring: Increases Magic.
- Hermes Sandals: Grants Haste status at the start of battle.
- Ribbon: Grants immunity to almost all status ailments. One of the best accessories in the game.
- Flame Ring: Absorbs Fire damage, halves Ice damage, protects against instant death.
- Coral Ring: Absorbs Water damage.
- Angel Ring: Protects against instant death.
- Thief's Gloves: Increases the success rate of Steal.
Prioritize equipping armor that offers the best defense for your character's role. For accessories, consider what status effects you're likely to encounter or what stats you want to boost for a particular build. Ribbons are invaluable for boss fights with heavy status attacks.