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Top Equipment pages:

• Best PvP Equipment - Duel
• Best PvP Equipment - Invade & War

Other Comparison pages:

• Amulets
• Armors
• Boots
• Gloves
• Helmets
• Magic
• Medals
• Off-Hand/Shields
• War Banners
• Weapons

Visual Summary

Action & Set	Weapon	Off-hand	Helmet	Armor	Amulet	Magic	Glove	Boots
Attacking Best ever
Attacking Best non time-limited
Attacking Best "easy" to get
Defending Best ever
Defending Best non time-limited
Defending Best "easy" to get

Duel - Attacking

Weapon - Forge: offensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Pierce	Ele. Pierce	Details
1		Maw of the Void	150	125	3	125	80 Earth	-35 Wind Resist, +200 Poison Damage, Legendary
2		Astaroth Blade	150	150	2	140	0	Legendary
3		Envenomed Glaive	125	125	2	100	55 Earth	-25 Wind Resist
4		Divine Sky Breaker	0	425	3	85	0	-35 Fire Resist, +5% Divine Favor (Power), Legendary
5		Mithril Sky Breaker	0	300	2	75	0	-25 Fire Resist
6		Cronus Blade	100	100	1	120	0	None
7		Fang Glaive	125	100	2	35	35 Earth	-25 Wind Resist
8		Hydra Blade	70	70	1	100	0	None
9		Fang Trident	125	70	2	50	15 Earth	-25 Wind Resist
10		Sky Breaker	0	225	2	35	0	-15 Fire Resist

Off-Hand - Forge: offensive & defensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Pierce	Ele. Pierce	Details
1		Demon Defender	80	120	3	0	0	+120 Physical Resist, +50 Fire Resist, Legendary
2		Destroyer Defender	70	100	2	0	0	+90 Physical Resist, +40 Fire Resist
3		Flamebound Destroyer	70	80	2	0	0	+90 Physical Resist, +25 Fire Resist, -25 Water Resist, Legendary
4		Specter Defender	60	80	2	0	0	+60 Physical Resist, +30 Fire Resist
5		Elite Warbringer Shield	45	30	1	30	0	None
6		Gorgon Protector	38	40	1	25	0	Legendary
7		Nightfel Katara	75	22	1	8	0	None
8		Flamebound Defender	60	75	1	0	0	+90 Physical Resist, +25 Fire Resist, -25 Water Resist
9		Elite Dragonslayer Bow	70	60	1	0	0	+2% Crit Chance
10		Gorgons Heart	60	70	1	0	0	210 Divine Power, +80 Physical Resist, Legendary

Helmet - Forge: defensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Pierce	Ele. Pierce	Details
1		Helm of the Dragon-God	100	100	3	40	40 Wind	-15 Earth Resist, Legendary
2		Helm of the Sorcerer-King	100	90	2	50	15 Earth	-5 Water Resist
3		Helm of the Dragon-Emperor	100	90	3	20	30 Wind	-15 Earth Resist
4		Helm of the Dragon-King	90	80	2	20	30 Wind	-15 Earth Resist
5		Elite Warbringer Helm	58	50	1	40	0	None
6		Flamebound Helm	80	80	2	20	10 Fire	-15 Water Resist
7		Sea Kings Helm	75	75	1	25	0	None
8		Crown of God	40	50	1	0	30 Wind	From Arena XIII
9		Archdemon Helm	45	32	1	10	10 Fire	None
10		Divine Helm of Zeus	80	85	2	0	20 Wind	+10 Physical Resist, +45 Heal, Legendary

Armor - Forge: defensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Pierce	Ele. Pierce	Details
1		Wormhide Breastplate	60	125	1	75	25 Earth	-10 Water Resist
2		Elite Warbringer Plate	40	40	1	40	0	None
3		Leviathans Plate	28	30	1	30	0	None
4		Warbringer Plate	38	36	1	20	0	None
5		Suffering Plate	50	40	2	10	10 Fire	None
6		Sunlight Coat	45	40	1	0	15 Earth	+10 Physical Resist, -25 Wind Resist, +20 Defense to Anya when equipped
7		Thanatos Plate	150	150	2	0	0	+140 Physical Resist, Legendary
8		Dragonscale Chestguard	125	125	3	0	0	+40 Physical Resist, +100 Wind Resist, -25 Earth Resist, Legendary
9		Hydrascale Chestguard	100	110	3	0	0	+25 Physical Resist, +90 Wind Resist, -25 Earth Resist
10		Dracolich Plate	100	100	1	0	0	+120 Physical Resist

Amulet - Forge: offensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Pierce	Ele. Pierce	Details
1		Glorious Amulet	70	70	1	60	0	245 Divine Power, Legendary
2		Doom Heart	85	85	1	0	30 Fire	+90 Physical Resist, 1 ingredient from Arena IX, Legendary
3		Belt of God	35	40	1	0	30 Fire	From Arena XIII
4		Dwarf King Amulet	18	18	1	0	12 Earth	From Arena X
5		Conquering Devil Buddha Beads	60	60	1	0	0	+20 Physical Resist, from Arena XII
6		Primal Pendant	25	25	1	0	0	+20 Health if Trundle is equipped, Colosseum II
7		Caged Heart	65	55	0	25	25 Fire	From Arena IX
8		Pristine Amulet	55	55	0	40	0	220 Divine Power
9		Elite Warbringer Pendant	50	38	0	30	0	None
10		Mark of Paxadrian	80	70	0	0	25 Earth	-10 Water Resist

Magic - Forge: offensive & defensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Pierce	Ele. Pierce	Details
1		Lightning of God	60	60	2	0	30 Fire	From Arena XIII
2		Bloodlust	45	45	1	0	0	+10% Chance to resistance to Confuse, +30 Defense to Salvatore
3		Magmaflame	65	65	0	0	50 Fire	Legendary
4		Pureflame	65	65	0	0	25 Fire	None
5		Spirit of Ouroboros	55	55	0	5	10 Earth	-5 Water Resist
6		Metal Storm	0	125	0	10	0	-15 Fire Resist
7		Sparkflame	60	60	0	0	10 Fire	None
8		Windflame	50	50	0	0	10 Wind	None
9		Greater Devout Barrier	40	35	0	0	5 Earth	-75 Energy to +50 Defense, +20 Attack to Sanna
10		Succubus Kiss	2	11	0	5	5 Fire	None

Glove - Forge: offensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Pierce	Ele. Pierce	Details
1		Demon Gauntlet	150	90	3	100	0	+50 Water Resistance, Legendary
2		Shiny Glove	120	95	3	90	0	+200 Divine Power, Legendary
3		Legendary Deathgauntlet	38	35	3	75	0	Legendary
4		Destroyer Gauntlet	120	70	2	75	0	+40 Water Resistance
5		Pristine Glove	90	60	2	50	0	+150 Divine Power
6		Specter Gauntlet	90	50	2	50	0	+30 Water Resistance
7		Hordeslayer Gauntlet	30	30	2	60	0	None
8		Sandworm Gloves	60	40	2	25	15 Earth	-5 Water Resist
9		Flamebound Gauntlets	80	25	2	20	10 Fire	-15 Water Resist
10		Legion Gauntlets	60	50	2	10	20 Wind	-15 Earth Resist

Boots - Forge: defensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Pierce	Ele. Pierce	Details
1		Elandal Crushers	25	25	1	25	25 Earth	-10 Wind Resist, +3% Evade, Legendary
2		Elandal Greaves	20	20	1	15	25 Earth	-5 Wind Resist
3		Elandal Stompers	15	15	0	15	25 Earth	-5 Wind Resist
4		Elite Warbringer Greaves	8	3	0	30	0	None
5		Flamebound Boots	15	8	0	15	10 Fire	-10 Water Resist
6		Legion Boots	10	15	0	10	15 Wind	-10 Eart Resist
7		Warbringer Greaves	5	3	0	20	0	None
8		Bleeding Greaves	10	6	0	7	7 Fire	From Arena IX
9		Jezales Heels	5	10	0	0	10 Earth	-10 Wind Resist, -75 Energy to +50 Defense, +10 Defense to Jezale
10		Assassin's Greaves	38	9	0	0	5 Wind	+10 Attack to Strider

Note: The 3 Demon Chimera Greaves, although they have no piercing, have a slot and could make it to as high as the 3rd position in this table with a Chaos Gem with good secondary powers and depending on your build.

Duel - Defending

Weapon - Forge: offensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Resist	Ele. Resist	Details
1		Elite Retribution Hammer	36	45	1	30	0	None
2		Retribution Hammer	36	38	1	20	0	None
3		Astaroth Blade	150	150	2	0	0	+140 Physical Pierce, Legendary
4		Cronus Blade	100	100	1	0	0	+120 Physical Pierce
5		Titan Aetherfury	80	80	2	0	0	+25 Wind Pierce, Legendary
6		Hydra Blade	70	70	1	0	0	+100 Physical Pierce
7		Conquering Devil Stick	70	65	2	0	0	+50 Physical Pierce
8		Elite Warbringer Longblade	60	50	1	0	0	+60 Physical Pierce
9		Elite Dragonslayer Blade	45	42	1	0	0	+2% Critical Strike
10		Death Touch Scythe	55	25	1	0	0	+5 Physical Pierce, +20 Attack to Lotus

Off-Hand - Forge: offensive & defense

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Resist	Ele. Resist	Details
1		Demon Defender	80	120	3	120	50	Legendary
2		Destroyer Defender	70	100	2	90	40	None
3		Flamebound Destroyer	70	80	2	90	25 Fire, -25 Water	Legendary
4		Specter Defender	60	80	2	60	30	None
5		Flamebound Defender	60	75	1	90	25 Fire, -25 Water	None
6		Gorgons Heart	60	70	1	80	0	Legendary
7		Elite Retribution Aegis	45	60	1	30	0	None
8		Flamebound Guard	50	60	1	40	10 Fire, -25 Water	None
9		Conquering Devil Calabash	35	50	1	15	0	None
10		Legionnaire Skyguard	50	50	1	20	10 Wind, -25 Earth	None

Helmet - Forge: defensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Resist	Ele. Resist	Details
1		Elite Retribution Helm	90	85	2	60	0	None
2		Helm of the Dragon-God	100	100	3	0	-15 Earth	+40 Physical Pierce, +40 Wind Pierce, Legendary
3		Helm of the Dragon-Emperor	100	90	3	0	-15 Earth	+20 Physical Pierce, +30 Wind Pierce
4		Divine Helm of Zeus	80	85	2	10	0	+20 Wind Pierce, +45 Heal, Legendary
5		Helm of the Sorcerer-King	100	90	2	0	-5 Water	+50 Physical Pierce, +15 Earth Pierce
6		Mithril Helm	0	160	2	10	-20 Fire	None
7		Helm of the Dragon-King	90	80	2	0	-15 Earth	+20 Physical Pierce, +30 Wind Pierce
8		Flamebound Helm	80	80	2	0	-15 Water	+20 Physical Pierce, +10 Fire Pierce
9		Helm of Zeus	30	35	1	10	0	+10 Physical Pierce, Legendary
10		Judicar's Helm	55	65	1	8	0	None

Armor - Forge: defensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Resist	Ele. Resist	Details
1-2		Dragonscale Chestguard	125	125	3	40	100 Wind -25 Earth	Legendary
1-2		Thanatos Plate	150	150	2	140	0	Legendary
3		Hydrascale Chestguard	100	110	3	25	90 Wind -25 Earth	None
4		Deathmantle	65	60	3	75	0	​Legendary
5		Dracolich Plate	100	100	1	120	0	None
6		Flamebound Armor	80	80	2	80	15 Fire -25 Water	None
7		Stormscale Chestguard	100	90	2	20	85 Wind -25 Earth	None
8		Hordeslayer Plate	60	50	2	60	0	None
9		Dragon Armor	70	70	1	100	0	None
10		Mithril Guardian	0	200	2	70	-25 Fire	None

Amulet - Forge: offensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Resist	Ele. Resist	Details
1		Doom Heart	85	85	1	90	0	+30 Fire Pierce, 1 ingredient from Arena IX, Legendary
2		Astaroth Amulet	80	80	0	85	0	Legendary
3		Cronus Amulet	60	60	0	60	0	None
4		Hydra Amulet	50	50	0	50	0	None
5		Conquering Devil Buddha Beads	60	60	1	20	0	None
6		Elite Retribution Amulet	32	45	0	30	0	None
7		Retribution Amulet	32	33	0	20	0	None
8		Glorious Amulet	70	70	1	0	0	+60 Physical Pierce, 245 Divine Power, Legendary
9		Belt of God	35	40	1	0	0	+30 Fire Pierce, from Arena XIII
10		Dwarf King Amulet	18	18	1	0	0	+12 Earth Pierce, from Arena X

Magic - Forge: offensive & defensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Resist	Ele. Resist	Details
1		Lightning of God	60	60	2	0	0	+30 Fire Pierce, From Arena XIII
2		Bloodlust	45	45	1	0	0	+10% Chance to resistance to Confuse, +30 Defense to Salvatore
3		Greater Devout Barrier	40	35	0	0	0	-75 Energy, +50 Defense, +5 Earth Pierce, +20 Attack to Sanna
4		Magmaflame	65	65	0	0	0	+50 Fire Pierce, Legendary
5		Pureflame	65	65	0	0	0	+25 Fire Pierce
6		Sparkflame	60	60	0	0	0	+10 Fire Pierce
7		Windflame	50	50	0	0	0	+10 Wind Pierce
8		Phantom Illusion	55	50	0	0	0	+70 Divine Power
9		Deaths Embrace	45	45	0	0	0	+90 Divine Power
10		Whirlpool	30	38	0	0	0	+80 Divine Power

Glove - Forge: offensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Resist	Ele. Resist	Details
1		Thanatos Gauntlet	80	80	2	85	0	Legendary
2		Dracolich Gauntlet	60	60	0	70	0	None
3		Dragon Glove	50	50	0	50	0	None
4		Demon Gauntlet	150	90	3	0	50	+100 Physical Piercing, Legendary
5		Destroyer Gauntlet	120	70	2	0	40	+75 Physical Piercing
6		Elite Retribution Gauntlets	15	30	1	30	0	None
7		Specter Gauntlet	90	50	2	0	30	+50 Physical Piercing
8		Retribution Gauntlets	15	15	0	20	0	None
9		Elite Tinkerer Power Glove	30	30	2	0	0	-50 Energy to +175 Defense
10		Tinkerer Power Glove	26	26	0	0	0	-150 Energy to +175 Defense

Boots - Forge: defensive

Position	Pic	Name	Attack	Defense	Slots	Phy. Resist	Ele. Resist	Details
1		Demon Greaves	50	50	3	0	+50 Earth +50 Wind	From Demon Chimera Legendary
2		Destroyer Greaves	35	35	2	0	+40 Earth +40 Wind	From Demon Chimera
3		Specter Greaves	20	20	2	0	+30 Earth +30 Wind	From Demon Chimera
4		Blizzard Boots	12	24	1	0	0	From Colosseum III
5		Elandal Crushers	25	25	1	0	-10 Wind	+25 Physycal Pierce, +25 Earth Pierce, +3% Evade, Legendary
6		Elandal Greaves	20	20	1	0	-5 Wind	+15 Physycal Pierce, +25 Earth Pierce
7		Elite Retribution Greaves	4	10	0	30	0	None
8		Wing Guard Boots	8	18	0	0	35 Earth	From Arena X
9		Retribution Greaves	4	5	0	20	0	None
10		Tinkerer Boot	2	7	0	0	0	-100 Energy, +75 Defense

Notes

• Item rankings on this page are based on 5 stats: Attack, Defense, number of Slots, Physical Pierce/Resistance, Elemental Pierce/Resistance.
• These are high-end items so we can imagine players will forge them with Chaos gems, ingots and gems, thus the importance of slots.
  • Gems and Ingots bring Pierce & Resistance, but in addition Chaos Gems can also bring other bonuses such as substantial Attack or Defense increase.
• In order to establish comparisons, we need to work with several assumptions:
  • Physical Pierce/Resistance is thought to be slightly better than Elemental.
  • First slot = +90 to Elemental Pierce or Resistance (average rare chaos gem, really easy to get)
  • Second slot = +45 to Physical Pierce or Resistance (silver ingot, easy to get too)
  • Third slot = +50 to Pierce or Resistance (Shining gem of Earth Fury/Protection: +25/+25)
    • Example: a weapon with +70 Physical Pierce and 0 slots will be considered worse than one with no Physical Pierce and 1 slot.
  • When attacking, an object with x elemental pierce and 1 slot, will be considered better than one with x physical pierce and 0 slots even if it can't be forged with offensive gems or ingots. This is because defensive gems can still provide useful bonuses aside Pierce. The same happens when defending.
  • Attack and Defense stats matter less than Pierce/Resistance and slots.
• Player's stats and build matter when choosing gear, do not take the chart as something set on stone.
• For more in-depth tables, see the Blacksmith page.
   

Forge slots limitations

Not all Equipment types can be forged with all Gems and Ingots.

Certain Equipment types can only be forged with offensive Gems and Ingots:

• Weapons
• Amulets
• Gloves

Some others can only be forged with defensive Gems and Ingots:

• Helmets
• Armors
• Boots

And some others can be forged with both:

• Off-Hands
• Magic
• Warbanners
• Medals

This is indicated on this page in the title of each section. You can check the Forge article for details.

In addition, you can't forge several Gems or Ingots of the same type on a piece of Equipment. For instance, a piece of Equipment with 3 slots can only be forged with one Chaos Gem, one regular Gem, and one Ingot. You can't forge two Chaos Gems on it, for instance.

This has a big impact on the rankings for certain Equipment types offensively or defensively, as even with 3 slots, an Armor for instance (only accepts defensive Gems and Ingots) won't be much better offensively than another Armor with 0 slot. The reason being that Resistance has no impact offensively, and Piercing no impact defensively.

Although a defensive Chaos Gem can still be useful offensively and vice vera, as the secondary powers can be useful both for attack and defense (for instance the Base Attack or Base Defense bonuses or the General Boosts). Epic and Legendary Gems in particular can give very significant bonuses even outside of their Piercing and Resistance bonuses.

Legendary Equipment

Legendary Equipment is the only Equipment on which Legendary Chaos Gems can be forged.

It is not taken into account in those rankings; however if you own Legendary Gems an inferior Legendary Equipment may become better than an initially stronger non-legendary equipment. Because Legendary Gems can provide better bonuses such as more Elemental and Physical Piercing/Resistance, bigger Base Attack/Defense increase, etc.

Examples:

• As an attacking Off-Hand, Gorgon Protector or even Gorgons Heart will be much better than Elite Warbringer Shield if you can forge a good Legendary Chaos Gem on them.
• As a defensive weapon, Astaroth Blade may be better than Elite Retribution Hammer depending on your stats, your Resistance, and the Chaos Gems you own. In this case, it will be thanks to the secondary powers of the Chaos Gem (as Weapons only accept offensive Gems).
• As a defensive Helmet, Helm of the Dragon-God will be much better than Elite Retribution Helm if you can forge a good Legendary Chaos Gem on it.