Dragon’s Dogma 2: Best Armor For Magick Defense

Highlights

• Runic Gaiters offer top Magick Defense for 56,000 gold or chance drop from a Lich at Tomb of Ja’Nuwa at night.
• Ring Of Conservation boosts Magick Defense by 50 and can be bought at Grisha’s Armory or found in two other locations.
• Charming Corset provides the highest Magick Defense in the game and can be acquired by exchanging 150 seeker tokens at the Vocations Guild.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has an expansive armor collection for players to choose from. Each piece of armor, whether it be for the legs, body, or head, comes with a base set of stats that determine its general effectiveness as well as its effectiveness against particular damage types. With Magick attacks being a constant source of danger, it is a good idea to invest in some armor that will combat this directly.

This list will explore the best options for Magick Defense and explain where and how to get them. Some are available early in the game and some won’t become available until the endgame. Players should, therefore, save up their gold and get ready to acquire the following armor at the earliest opportunity.

7 Runic Gaiters

Price Is Hard To Justify

• Magick Defense: 110
• Defense: 90
• Available Vocations: Mage, Sorcerer, Trickster, and Warfarer

Crafted from Sacred Cloth, the Runic Gaiters offer the best magick defense of any piece of leg armor. The 110 in this stat will provide a terrific boost to the main piece of body armor equipped. It is also useful in that it can be equipped for a variety of vocations, and is thus available to more players.

For 56,000 gold, it is not cheap. For players who aren’t willing to shell out the coin, it is suggested that they find and kill a Lich to get a 14% chance of this armor dropping. Lichs can only be found at nighttime, so wait for darkness to fall. One can be found roaming around the Tomb of Ja’Nuwa.

6 Ring Of Conservation

A Must-Have For Magick Defense

• Effect: Boost Magick Defense by 50
• Available Vocations: All

This ring is essential for those who wish to prioritize magick defense. Players can achieve 50 extra points in this stat without having to do that much. It is easily accessible for all players, and provides a sizable boost that could be the difference in close fights.

Although you can buy the ring for 5000 gold from shops such as Grisha’s Armory in Sacred Arbor, players can also find the ring in two other locations: a chest behind the Reverent Shrine and a chest inside The Gracious Hand’s Vaults.

5 Edified Vestment

Resist & Deal Magick Damage

• Magick Defense: 180
• Defense: 140
• Available Vocations: Mage, Trickster and Warfarer

The Edified Vestment is a piece of body armor that, alongside a strong magick and overall defense, is on this list because of the resistances that it grants players. In Dragon’s Dogma 2,Silence is a condition that can render those affected unable to speak and, thus, cast spells. The Edified Vestment gives the wearer 30% increased resistance to this condition. Therefore, players will able to resist magick damage and still deal their own.

Like the Runic Gaiters, this armor can be dropped from a defeated Lich for a drop chance of 16.67% If players aren’t having much luck with the liches, it can also be purchased for 75,000 gold.

4 Arch-Conjuror’s Robe

• Magick Defense: 182
• Defense: 130
• Available Vocations: Trickster and Warfarer

The other effects of this armor boost the very high magick defense of 182. It also provides a 15% increase in Lightning damage resistance. Because many Magick wielders deploy attacks in the form of Lightning damage, this piece provides two lines of protection against these foes.

It can be acquired from Brokkr’s Smithy in the endgame for 75,000 gold, or from looting a Lesser Dragon. Defeating one of these will net the player a 16% chance of getting this armor.

3 Sacral Robe

Master of None

• Magick Defense: 185
• Defense: 150
• Available Vocations: Mage and Warfarer

The Sacral Robe is a jack of all trades regarding Magick damage resistance. It has increased elemental resistance to Ice, Fire, and Lightning damage, as well as debilitation resistance increases in Torched, Frostbite, Silence, and Blighted. Each increase is only 5%, but creates a stronger layer of resistance to many types of magick damage.

If this catches the eye, save up 70 Wyrmslife crystals to purchase this armor in the endgame from the Bay Wayside Shrine.

2 Cardinal Robe

Sacrifice Defense For Magick Defense

• Magick Defense: 200
• Defense: 135
• Available Vocations: Sorcerer and Warfarer

Although this armor has a weaker overall defense than many on this list, it trades this off for a very high 200 magick defense. If players take a liking to this armor, they can increase their magick defense to a maximum of 309 if they use the Elven smithing method.

The Cardinal Robe can be bought from Brokkr’s Smithy for 75,000 gold in the endgame, or looted from the body of a Lich in Illdoer’s Resting Place. As a bonus, this armor is one of the more aesthetically pleasing items on the list.

1 Charming Corset

Available to All, Regardless Of Vocation

• Magick Defense: 280
• Defense: 300
• Available Vocations: All

The Charming Corset is, by far, the armor piece with the highest magick defense in Dragon’s Dogma 2. This magick defense can even, if the Elven enhancement style is used, be raised to a maximum of 411. This should keep players sufficiently protected from all types of magick attacks.

Players can acquire this armor without spending any gold. To do so, will need to find and save150 seeker tokens. Once this is done, exchange them at the Vocations Guild for this armor piece and anything else on offer.