DQ9 Encyclopedia

Mythical armour

Armure mythique
Everything is read from the game's code, unless stated otherwise
ArmourTorso★★★★Infinite

Impermeable armour that mends HP and MP merely by moving about.

The essentials

  • Simplest: make it in the Krak Pot, Glorious armour ×1 + Agate of evolution ×3 + Red orb ×3.
  • Sells for 30,000 G.
  • Defence +93: 2nd of 183 torso; top: Legendary armour (+100).
  • Used to make: Victorious armour.

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

Defence +93

Vocations that can equip it: Warrior, Minstrel, Gladiator, Armamentalist, Paladin, Luminary

Effects: restores 1 HP every 1.37 s of walking outside towns (+1 per such item worn); restores 1 MP every 1.37 s of walking outside towns (+1 per such item worn)

Resistances: fire, ice -22% damage

Style: Vanity 95 · Aloof 90 · Casual 76 · Chic 75 · Naive 65 · Allure 62

Alchemy Read in the code

  • Glorious armour ×1 + Agate of evolution ×3 + Red orb ×3
  • Recipe: no book or character teaches it; it is added to the Alchemy Book the first time you make it in the Krak Pot
  • Possible alchemiracle: “Legendary armour” instead (10–50% depending on the hero's Resilience (300–999))

Crafting tree

Quantities for 1 Mythical armour. Every ingredient that can be made is broken down to raw materials: the ones you can buy, pick up, find in furniture and blue chests or get from monsters, with no limit. Open or close a branch: the total follows, what is open gets made, the rest is to gather.

To gather: 5 raw materials, 6 uses of the Krak Pot.

Raw materialSimplest way to get it
Victorious armour×1From a monster, Excalipurr, grotto boss, loot (2%).
Sainted soma×8In a chest, Grotto chests rank S (10%).
Ethereal stone×8In a chest, Grotto chests rank A (10%).
Chronocrystal×4Buy it, 50,000 G (Lonely Coast – Interior (post-game)).
Red orb×4From a monster, Dragonlord, legacy boss, loot (lv 1-3: 5%, 4-8: 5%, 9-15: 6%, 16-25: 6%, 26-40: 7%, 41-56: 7%, 57-68: 8%, 69-80: 8%, 81-90: 9%, 91-99: 10%).

Tree idea: Antoine. Thank you!

Used to make

Victorious armour

Best defence in the category, by vocation

Under the hood

Internal item number: 13160; record no. 242 of prm/itemdt (file order); selling price in its record (u16 at +0x1A): 30000; stars: +0x09 bits 1-3.

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