Metal Buckler

Metal Buckler
Release						6 November 2024 (Update)
Episode						None
Premium						No
Variant type						Item

A Metal Buckler is piece of Armor for the Cryoknight faction. All enemies capable of dropping combat equipment have a chance to drop Metal Bucklers, provided that the player has progressed through the main story to the point where they have chosen a Faction, as before this point only non-faction equipment can be received.

Players who have chosen the Cryoknight faction are able to receive Metal Bucklers in Common, Uncommon, Rare, or Epic Rarity. Players who chose the Hammermage or Guardian factions will receive Metal Bucklers much less frequently, and only in Rare rarity, as these items are intended for other factions to use with the Infusion system to make Epic rarity shields for their own faction.

Metal Bucklers are also able to be crafted by the Blacksmith profession, at an item level up to the Blacksmith level of the crafter. Different level ranges of Metal Buckler require different variants of the materials, but they all require 5 Iron Ingots.

Variants

The visual appearance of a Metal Buckler is dependent only on its level. Metal Bucklers crafted by the Blacksmith profession use different variants of the materials for each different visual appearance of the Metal Buckler.

Item		Level
	Metal Buckler (basic)	0➨74
	Metal Buckler (moderate)	75➨126
	Metal Buckler (fine)	127➨177
	Metal Buckler (strong)	178➨293
	Metal Buckler (superior)	294➨455
	Metal Buckler (perfect)	456➨500

Combat Stats

As a piece of Armor, Metal Bucklers have resistance stats for all 6 damage types. The total resistance of a Metal Buckler obeys a rigid formula with no variation:

$\text{Strength}=6\times L+90\times R+10$

Where

• $L$ is the Item Level
• $R$ is the Rarity, expressed as number of stars

This total resistance is divided up between the 6 damage types with some variation for each individual value. Since the shield is for the Cryoknight faction, the Tempestae resistance will be on average 20 points lower than that of the other damage types. See Armor for a more detailed explanation of how resistances are calculated.

From this formula it can be seen that each increase in Rarity of a Metal Buckler is equivalent to 15 additional levels. Thus a Metal Buckler at level 0 Epic, at level 15 Rare, at level 30 Uncommon, or at level 45 Common will all have exactly the same total resistance of 370.

A list of all different level and rarity combinations of Metal Bucklers, including their sell values, can be found here:

Main article: Metal Buckler/Levels

Item Sources

The Metal Buckler is able to be dropped by any monster that can access the Equipment drop table.

Source	Level	Quantity	Frequency
Equipment drop table	Unknown	1	Unknown

Update History

This information has been manually compiled. Some updates may not be included yet.

• update 6 November 2024 (Update):
  • Added to game.