Advanced Shield
Armor · Shield3★An odd piece of advanced tech that mends itself once it has gone a while without being struck.
Advanced Shield is among the best shields by shield strength — 2nd of 8, at 1,800 against the 2,200 of Ancient Shield.
Nothing is crafted from it — it is an end product, so anything you make is meant to be used rather than banked as a component.
Details
It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot. At 402,540 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Advanced Shield Crafting Recipe
Ancient Civilization Parts
Paldium Fragment×200
Hexolite×50
Thermal Core
Ancient Civilization Core
Chromite×60
Hexolite Quartz×60
Coal×40
Flame Organ×20
Sulfur×10
Venom Gland×10Crafting it takes 335 materials across 5 types.
Where to Find Advanced Shield
Advanced Shield is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Advanced Shield Well
The recipe carries 2,000,000 work points, which is where the real cost of this shield sits. Ultra Shield asks 600,000 and Hyper Shield 150,000, so the tier you just left crafted more than three times faster, and a bench without a full crew of high-level Handiwork pals will sit on this order for a very long time. Queue it before you log off rather than standing over it, and put the assembly line somewhere your workers will not wander off to feed or firefight, because an interrupted 2M job is the one recipe long enough for a hunger cycle to stall it repeatedly.
Every shield in the game weighs 5, from the starter model up to the Ancient, so moving up a tier never costs carry capacity — there is no reason to keep a lower shield equipped once this one exists. What does change is the self-repair: the shield only rebuilds itself after a stretch without taking a hit, so the 1,800 points behave like a pool you get back for disengaging, not a bar that refills mid-brawl. Against raid bosses and anything with sustained ranged pressure it is effectively a one-shot buffer per fight; against roaming field pals you can break contact for a few seconds and re-enter at full.
This is the shield to stop at. Ancient Shield is the only thing above it and buys 2,200 shield against 1,800 and 22,000 durability against 21,000 — a fifth more absorption for a recipe costing 10,000,000 work points, five times this one. It also switches metals: both recipes spend the same 50 Ancient Civilization Parts and 30 Ancient Civilization Cores, but where this one closes with 50 Hexolite and 5 Thermal Cores, the Ancient asks 30 Soralite Ingot and 5 AI Cores, which means a separate smelting chain in another region rather than the Feybreak materials you are already stockpiling. If you are equipping a whole party or replacing a shield you burn through, the four hundred points of headroom are not worth committing the base to.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Ancient Shield at 2,200 shield strength; step down and it is Ultra Shield at 1,520. That gap is the honest measure of whether an upgrade is worth the materials right now.
Other shields at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
