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Mercury's bandana

Foulard d'Hermès
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ArmourHead★★Infinite

Enchanted attire for the head that enhances its wearer's agility.

The essentials

  • Simplest: Cap'n Max Meddlin's reward (Dourbridge) once you have given him 8 mini medals in total.
  • To gather: 4 ingredients, 3 Krak Pot uses (crafting tree in the details).
  • Sells for 675 G.
  • Defence +11: 112th of 132 head; top: Heavenly helm (+50).
  • Used to make: Ballistick, Matador's gloves.

“Simplest”, in this order: buy it (cheapest), pick it up, from a monster (best rate), make it, then the other sources.

Defence +11Agility +20Magical Mending +8

Vocations that can equip it: all

Style: Casual 28 · Vanity 19 · Aloof 18 · Allure 15 · Naive 13 · Chic 9

Shops Read in the code

  • Cap'n Max Meddlin, Dourbridge (8 mini medals, one-time reward)

Alchemy Read in the code

  • Recipe in the book “Head-Turning Fashions” (Porth Llaffan – Mayor's House)

To gather for 1 Mercury's bandana

4 ingredients · 3 Krak Pot uses

Crafting tree

made in the Krak Pot · to find. Tap an ingredient to switch: the list follows.

  • Mercury's bandana
      • Bandana
      • Flurry feather×2

Tree idea: Antoine. Thank you!

Quests Read in the code

  • Quest 154 “Nightmarey Questmas” (Cringle Coast, post-game): on repeat

DQVC (Wi-Fi shop, online) Community (yabd.org)

  • 675 G: DQVC Spring Fayre (Apr 1)
  • 1,350 G: Summer Fayre (Jul 30)

Used to make

BallistickMatador's gloves

Best defence in the category, by vocation

Under the hood

Internal item number: 12415; record no. 113 of prm/itemdt (file order); selling price in its record (u16 at +0x1A): 675; stars: +0x09 bits 1-3.

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