Accessories & Artifacts

Accessories & Artifacts

In the world of Dahna, both Accessories and Artifacts play a crucial role in empowering your party and tailoring your combat strategies. While Accessories offer customizable stat boosts and resistances, Artifacts provide permanent, game-altering buffs that can significantly impact your playthrough. Mastering their acquisition and utilization is key to overcoming the challenges presented by the Renan occupation.

Accessories: Customizing Your Combat Edge

Accessories are equippable items that grant various passive bonuses to individual characters. These can range from simple stat increases to elemental resistances, status effect immunities, and even unique combat-enhancing properties. Each character can equip one accessory at a time, making the choice a strategic one based on the current encounter and character role.

Types of Accessory Effects:

• Stat Boosts: Increase Attack (ATK), Elemental Attack (E.ATK), Defense (DEF), Elemental Defense (E.DEF), Agility (AGL), or Maximum HP/CP.
• Elemental Resistances: Reduce damage taken from specific elemental attacks (Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Light, Dark). Essential for boss fights with strong elemental affinities.
• Status Effect Immunity: Grant immunity to debilitating conditions like Poison, Paralysis, Curse, or Burn. Highly valuable in areas with prevalent status-inflicting enemies.
• Combat Enhancements: Boost damage for specific attack types, increase healing received, reduce CP consumption, or improve evasion.
• Resource Management: Accessories that increase item drop rates or Gald acquisition can be useful for farming.

Accessory Crafting and Customization:

Unlike weapons and armor, accessories are primarily acquired through crafting at the Accessory Shop, found in most major towns (e.g., Cysloden, Viscint, Ganath Haros). The crafting process involves two main components:

1. Base Accessory: This determines the primary effect and initial stat bonuses. You'll unlock new base accessories as you progress through the story and complete sub-quests.
2. Reinforcing Materials: These are monster drops and gathering items that are consumed to craft and enhance accessories. Different materials offer different stat boosts and elemental resistances.

The true power of accessories lies in their customization. When crafting, you can choose which reinforcing materials to use, allowing you to tailor the accessory's properties to your exact needs. For example:

• To create a strong defensive accessory against fire, craft a base accessory (e.g., a "Stamina Ring") using materials that grant high Fire Resistance.
• To boost a character's attack power, use materials that provide significant ATK or E.ATK bonuses.

Step-by-Step Crafting Guide:

1. Locate an Accessory Shop: These are marked on your map with a ring icon.
2. Select "Craft Accessory": Browse the available base accessories. New ones unlock as you progress.
3. Choose a Base Accessory: Consider its inherent primary effect. For example, a "Mystic Crest" inherently reduces CP consumption.
4. Select Reinforcing Materials: This is where customization happens. The game will show you the resulting stats and resistances based on the materials you choose. Prioritize materials that align with your desired outcome (e.g., high DEF for a tank, high E.ATK for a mage).
   • Tip: Pay attention to the "Effect Level" of the materials. Higher level materials provide greater boosts.
   • Common Pitfall: Don't just auto-select materials. Always review the final stats before confirming.
5. Confirm Crafting: Once satisfied, confirm to create your custom accessory.

Recommended Early-Game Accessories:

• Warrior's Emblem: Increases Attack. Craft early for melee attackers like Alphen and Law. Materials: Sharp Fangs, Hard Bones.
• Mystic Crest: Reduces CP consumption. Essential for spellcasters like Shionne and Rinwell. Materials: Astral Flowers, Stone Fragments.
• Defense Ring: Increases Defense. Good for any character needing more survivability. Materials: Sturdy Fangs, Iron Scraps.
• Resist Rings (e.g., Flame, Aqua): Provides elemental resistance. Craft these specifically for boss fights where you know the boss's elemental affinity. Materials vary by element.

Artifacts: Permanent Game-Changers

Artifacts are unique, non-equippable items that grant permanent, game-wide buffs or unlock new features. Unlike accessories, their effects apply to your entire party or the game system itself, making them incredibly valuable. Many artifacts are hidden, tied to specific sub-quests, or found in challenging optional areas.

Key Artifacts and Their Effects (with acquisition hints):

• Lucky Cat Statue: Increases item drop rates.
  • Location: Found in the Traslida Highway. Look for a shining spot near the collapsed bridge section, accessible after a certain point in the story.
  • Impact: Speeds up material farming for crafting and cooking.
• Broken Machine Gun: Increases Gald earned.
  • Location: Reward for completing the sub-quest "The Phantom Flower of Nevira". This quest starts in Viscint after reaching a certain point in the story. You'll need to defeat a powerful Gigant Zeugle.
  • Impact: Helps fund weapon upgrades, accessory crafting, and item purchases.
• Devil's Arms (Series of Artifacts): Significantly boosts character stats based on the number of enemies defeated by that character. Each Devil's Arm is a separate artifact.
  • Location: These are typically found in post-game content or very late-game optional dungeons. For example, the "Blazefire Saber" (Alphen's Devil's Arm) is often found in the "Otherworld" dungeon.
  • Impact: Can make characters incredibly powerful, especially for New Game+ runs.
• Glutton's Guidebook: Increases the duration of food buffs.
  • Location: Reward for completing the sub-quest "Dahnan's Culinary Traditions". This quest involves gathering rare ingredients for a chef in Mihgdal.
  • Impact: Maximizes the effectiveness of cooked meals, saving you time and ingredients.
• Golden Lucky Cat Statue: Further increases item drop rates.
  • Location: Often found in the "Uninhabited Island" optional area, accessible via a specific sub-quest later in the game.
  • Impact: Stacks with the regular Lucky Cat Statue for even better farming.
• Silver Lucky Cat Statue: Increases EXP gained.
  • Location: Reward for completing the sub-quest "The Ultimate Training" in Viscint, which involves challenging a series of powerful opponents in the Combat Arena.
  • Impact: Accelerates character leveling, especially useful for catching up characters or preparing for tough challenges.
• Stat-Boosting Artifacts (e.g., "Attack Ring Artifact", "Defense Ring Artifact"): Permanently increase a specific stat for all characters.
  • Location: These are often rewards for completing specific Training Ground challenges or defeating certain Gigant Zeugles. For example, defeating the Mantis Gigant Zeugle in the Sandinus Ravine might yield a DEF-boosting artifact.
  • Impact: Provides a global power boost to your entire party.

General Acquisition Strategies for Artifacts:

• Explore Thoroughly: Many artifacts are hidden in chests in obscure corners of maps or behind environmental puzzles. Always check dead ends and elevated areas.
• Complete All Sub-Quests: A significant number of artifacts are rewards for side quests, especially those that involve challenging enemies or extensive exploration.
• Defeat Gigant Zeugles: These powerful optional bosses often drop valuable artifacts or materials that lead to artifact-related quests.
• Check Training Grounds: The Combat Arena in Viscint and other training facilities offer challenging battles that can reward artifacts upon completion.
• Post-Game Content: Some of the most powerful artifacts, like the Devil's Arms, are reserved for the post-game or New Game+ playthroughs.

Prioritize acquiring artifacts that align with your playstyle early on. The EXP and Gald boosting artifacts can significantly smooth out your progression, while the item drop rate artifacts are invaluable for efficient crafting and cooking.