168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Octopath Traveler's bespoke iteration 𝄹on the wildly successful Bravely Defau🃏lt combat formula rewards players for planning ahead and attacking aggressively, so much so that you can make or break (pun intended) a boss fight by keeping a keen eye on weaknesses and attack initiative, even when your gear is far from ideal.
That said, a good shield nඣever hu💧rts to have around and it sure can make each turn of yours less stressful when you can be sure that you'll survive your enemy's upcoming signature spell. This list will help you find the best shield for your build, whether you're a fleet-footed evasion tank or a burly all-defense warrior.
17 Buckler
What better place to start than with the starting shield? The Buckler is the bog-standard, ♏the "great value" shield available to everyone everywhere, for a modest +3 boost to physical and elemental defense.
What use could a career academic, a humble store clerk, and a burlesque dancer all have for an affordable skirmishing shield? Who knows? Who cares? The Buckler will get you where you need to go, as long as whꦰere you're going is just one of the other starting t🐟owns.
16 🧸 Sturdy Shield
With a str🌞aight +20 to physical defense and no boost to yoꦅur elemental defense, the Sturdy Shield is nothing to write home about.
The price would mak🌠e you believe that this is the third shield everyone should be getting, and if you're taking too much damage from physical attackers at the beginning of the game then it'll help in that instance. But, the Sturdy Shield first becomes available in Flamesgrace and Atlasdam, where Ophilia and Cyrus spa𝐆r with plenty of elemental foes. For H'aanit's opening chapter this shield might be useful, but it's not worth the price anywhere else.
15 ❀ Elusive Shield 🧜
The evasion stat is either the most useful or useless metric on your character sheet depending on your play style, and that will become even more clear at thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe bottom of this list.
That makes the Elusive Shield an acceptable choice for those aspiring toward an evasion build, but at 🅘this point in the game, that stat probably isn't high enough to make a huge difference in your ability to dodge anyway. While +21 and +24 P. DEF and E. DEF are great stats, is the +56 evasion enough to justify the price tag?
14 🎃 Round Shield 🅠
"How can the Round Shield be better than three others?" you might be ask💫ing your✱self. It's true that the Round Shield is entirely unspectacular (+13 P. DEF and +15 E. DEF), but it comes at an unspectacular price as well.
Yes, the Sturdy Shield has a better physica💮l defense buff, but without any elemental damage mitigation, it's hard to recommend. The Sturdy Shield is also more expensive, which is even more of a problem for Elusive Shield, costing at least 2,500 leaves (if you have Tressa haggle a seller). The Round Shield wins out over those options because of just how far it can take you without emptying your wallet.
13 Plate Shiel🅺d
As you first enter Octopath's mid-game, the Plate Shield is an acceptab🐽le choice but one that comes with the same drawback as the Sturdy Shield: no elemental defense.
It's also likely that this is the first shield you'll encounter with an evasion penalty, making dodges an even rarer occurrence in battle. A negative evasion stat isn't always a bad thing, but since magic attacks never miss, you won't want to combine negative evas✨ion with no E. DEF until you're confident that you can reflect b🌜ig spells, or have a beefier unit taking aggro from your glass cannons.
12 🃏 Ki𒆙te Shield
Consider this the Round Shield: The Sequel. The Kite Shield is probably the last "every-man" shield that🐽 you can comfortably throw onto each of your heroes and know that they'll be reasonably resilient, without sacrificing other stats or br♋eaking the bank.
A respectable +26 and +31 P.DEF/E.DEF split for an accessible 2,400 leaves before the Tressa discount. From here on, the remaining shields are either too expensi🦹ve, too rare, or too specialized to be appropriate for every class.
11 ꦆ Tower Shield 🃏
If y♈ou're happy with your cleric at this point (and Octopath makes it easy to build overpowered healers only halfway through the story) and want to use defensive magic in lieu of a magic-mitigating shield, then this is the choice for you.
The Tower Shield sports +68 P.DEF, no E. DEF, and a -25 to your evasion. How is this pick more rational than the Plate Shield before it? The Plate Shield is useful at the beginning of the game's middle acts — a time when some players might not have unlocked the Reflective or Sheltering Veil skills. By the time the Tower Shield becomes a realistic option, you'll have an understanding of how and when to buff your heroes E. DEF, you'll also have 168澳洲幸💖运5开奖网:earned enough leaves thanks to Tressa and/or Therion that the 14,400 price tag is a non-issu♔e.
10 ♋ Gargantuan Shield
As the big sibling of the Tower Sh꧒ield, the Gargantuan Shield does everything that its sibling does but to a greater extreme: almost double the P.DEF (+121), almost double the price (24,000), and quadruple the evasion penalty (-101) with no E. DEF.
Found in late-game areas, the Gargantuan Shield is a decent option but its competitors are so good that it can't be ranked any higher, and even some of the exceptional mid-game picks are ཧstill more desirable.
9 Spiked🌺 Shiel🌱d
The Spiked Shield and its sibling shield are great mid-game⛦ picks that can carry you comfortably into the late game. With +44 P. DEF, +53 E. DEF, and -20 evasion, this a nicely balanced option.
Remember, high evasion can replace high P.DEF, but not E. DEF, since magic never misses. The ꦦlower-ranked negative evasion shields are bad because🐬 they make it difficult to dodge physical attacks, and magic attacks hit without any mitigation, but the Spike Shield doesn't suffer from that issue.
8 𓄧 Elemental Shield ༒
The Elemental Shield is very similar to the Spike Shield, but has a higher stat total with🌼 +34 P. DEF, +74 E. DEF, and -20 evasion as well. The difference between these two is minor, so whichever one you can grab first is what you should use, but the slight price edge on the Elemental Shield places it higher in the ranking.