# Katress Ring

The Pal fighting beside you shrugs off most Neutral damage and hits considerably harder with Dark attacks.

Source: https://palworld-db.com/item/Accessory_Otomo_Dark_1

## Basics

- Type: Accessory
- Gold value: 34080
- Weight: 2
- Max stack: 1

## Recipe

- Refined Ingot x20
- Leather x20
- Katress Hair x10
- Ancient Civilization Parts x5

## Notes we already publish

- (location) Katress Hair ([[item:PalItem_CatMage]]) is the material that gates this craft, and it is cheaper to buy than to hunt. Katress ([[pal:CatMage]]) drops exactly 1 at a 50% rate, so the ten the recipe wants averages around twenty kills; Katress Ignis ([[pal:CatMage_Fire]]) drops the same hair on the same 50% roll, so the fire variant counts toward the total just as well. The Caravan Shop stocks it outright at 500 gold apiece — 5,000 gold for the full ten, which is under a sixth of what the finished ring itself is worth.
- (strategy) The two lines on this ring are not a random pair — they are both aimed at the same fight. Dark is the type Neutral Pals take extra damage from, and Neutral attacks are what those same Pals swing back with, so the Lv. 4 Neutral cut and the Lv. 4 Dark boost stack into one matchup: your Dark partner hits a Neutral target harder while the incoming half of that trade is blunted. Slot it for Neutral alphas and Neutral-heavy sweeps, and pull it for anything Dragon-based, where your Dark partner is the one taking extra damage and the Neutral resistance does nothing.
- (use) Both effects are read off the Pal deployed at your side, not off you, so the ring is two units of pure carry weight during any stretch you fight without a partner out — and the Dark half only earns its slot if that partner is actually a Dark Pal. Check what you have deployed before committing the accessory slot; a Neutral or Fire partner gets the damage reduction and nothing else.

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Source: Palworld Database — https://palworld-db.com/item/Accessory_Otomo_Dark_1