Gear boosts your stats independent of Archetype, so it's a flat power increase for whatever class you run. Keep it current at each new city and stock consumables before tough dungeons.
Gearing up
- Buy and forge better weapons and armour as you reach each new city.
- Accessories can grant resistances and passive perks — tailor them to a dungeon.
- Stock healing and revive items; press-turn fights can spiral fast.
- Sell or dismantle old gear to fund the next tier.
Smart shopping
- Bring materials to the blacksmith to forge upgrades that outclass shop gear.
- Slot resistance accessories that remove your weakness to a dungeon's main element.
- Keep a stock of revive and cure-all items — Atlus fights punish being caught short.
- Don't overspend early; save money for the Merchant Archetype's money-based attacks if you use it.
Accessory tactics
- Slot an accessory that nulls or resists the dungeon's main element to deny enemy press-turns.
- Swap accessories per fight — a resistance that saves a run is worth the menu time.
- Some accessories grant passive skills or stat boosts; match them to a character's role.
- Forge upgrades at the blacksmith often beat anything on sale in the shops.
Your Archetype decides what you can hold
This is the rule that catches people: equipment is tied to the Archetype, not the
character. A party member wearing the Warrior Archetype can use greatswords; change the Archetype and the
weapon goes with it.
| Slot | Who can use it |
|---|---|
| Weapons | Tied to the Archetype. Some carry extra properties — more damage against certain enemies, or stronger elemental attacks |
| Heavy armour | Warrior, Knight and Berserker lineages only |
| Robes | Mage, Healer, Summoner and Masked Dancer lineages only |
| Sub-armour / gear | Sits between armour and accessory. Also restricted by lineage |
| Accessories | Not restricted, apart from a few personal ones. The one slot you can plan freely |
The best gear is not in the shops. The Legendary weapons and armour all come from
optional side quests, which makes them a calendar cost like everything else. One shop worth knowing anyway:
Gloamhall, the accessory shop in Grand Trad, which only opens at night.
Cross-checked
Cross-checked on 5 September 2026 against Game8's equipment guide and independent coverage of Gloamhall, and re-checked on 3 October 2026 against the GameFAQs equipment list, which gives heavy armour as Warrior/Knight/Berserker-only and robes as Mage/Healer/Summoner/Masked Dancer-only; Gloamhall is a real night-only accessory shop in Grand Trad, exactly as this page has it. What is still unverified is the only thing reading cannot settle — nobody here has played it.