# Hartalis's Talisman

Bolsters the Defense of whichever Pal is out fighting with you, and pushes their Neutral damage up sharply.

Source: https://palworld-db.com/item/Otomo_DFNormal_ElementBoost_1

## Basics

- Type: Accessory
- Gold value: 43680
- Weight: 2
- Max stack: 1

## Recipe

- Refined Ingot x20
- Leather x30
- Horn x30
- Ancient Civilization Parts x10

## Notes we already publish

- (use) Put numbers on the two halves: +20% Defense and +20% Neutral damage, both at rank 4 of their ladders. Every point of it is tagged to the Pal you have deployed — none of it touches your own Defense, and none of it is doing anything while you fight with no Pal out.
- (use) The Neutral half is the reason to run this over an elemental partner ring: nothing in the type chart resists Neutral, so the +20% is live in every fight rather than only against one element. The catch is that it keys off the move's element, not the Pal's — a Neutral Pal swinging a Fire attack gets nothing from it, so check your deployed Pal's active moves before you commit the slot.
- (use) The Defense half is the smaller of the two rank-4 values in the game: partner-only Defense caps at 20%, while the player-side version on gear like [[item:Accessory_DFHP_1]] gives 25%. Dropping to a rank-3 talisman would cost you 15% Defense and 18% Neutral, so this is the top rung — there is no tier-2 upgrade to chase later.
- (location) The technology tree will never hand you this. The recipe stays greyed out until [[item:Blueprint_Otomo_DFNormal_ElementBoost_1]] is in your bags, after which any production line or advanced workbench can queue it — and at 150,000 work it is a long craft, so start it before a raid, not during one.
- (location) Schematic odds are lopsided. A large oil rig loot slot rolls it near 1%, roughly one in a hundred pulls, while the sky island grade-5 treasure pools sit around 0.15% and 0.12% — several hundred chests per copy. Farm the rig; treat sky island chests as a bonus, not a plan.
- (location) There is also a fixed sky-island pickup that gives the schematic outright alongside 50 [[item:DogCoin]]. It is one-and-done, so if that cache is already looted on your save, the oil rig is your only route.
- (trivia) It is the odd one out among partner accessories. The elemental rings pair an element boost with a resistance to their counter type; this one swaps the resistance for flat Defense, which is why it costs 10 [[item:PalCrystal_Ex]] against the 5 the elemental rings ask for.

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Source: Palworld Database — https://palworld-db.com/item/Otomo_DFNormal_ElementBoost_1