Kitsun Noct Saddle
Essential · Essential_PalGear3★Riding gear that makes Kitsun Noct safe to mount.
This is where the crafting chain ends — nothing downstream consumes it, so a stockpile earns you nothing.
Details
It stacks up to 9,999.
Kitsun Noct Saddle Crafting Recipe
Leather×30
High Quality Cloth
Flame Organ×30
Paldium FragmentCrafting it takes 110 materials across 4 types.
Where to Find Kitsun Noct Saddle
Kitsun Noct Saddle is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Kitsun Noct Saddle Well
The schematic sits at Technology level 59 and costs 3 points, two levels past the plain Kitsun Saddle at 57. The material bill climbs with it: 30 Leather against 25, 30 Flame Organ against 15, 40 Paldium Fragment against 20, and High Quality Cloth in place of ordinary Cloth. Nothing in that gap buys you a faster ride — plan the two levels and the Flame Organ stock, not a speed upgrade.
Crafting this is what switches on Gloomhowl, Kitsun Noct's partner skill: the gear is the gate, so an uncrafted saddle means the skill does nothing no matter how the Pal is levelled. The ladder runs by partner-skill rank — 15%, 17%, 20%, 24%, then 30% less Dark damage taken — and every rank carries full immunity to the Darkness status, not a partial resist that scales with the rest. The blind protection is there from rank 1, which makes an early copy worth partnering long before the resist number matters.
As a mount, Kitsun Noct is indistinguishable from Kitsun — both run 700, sprint 1,100 and hold 140 stamina, sitting 48th and 49th of the 115 rideable Pals. The saddle you build is therefore a pure resistance choice, not a traversal one: this one for Dark zones and anything that blinds, the Fire version for Ice damage and Freeze. Building both costs 5 Technology points total and gives you two identical rides you swap for the element in front of you.
Kitsun Noct Saddle — Kitsun Noct's Gear
Kitsun Noct Saddle is Kitsun Noct's own gear — no other Pal can equip it, and Kitsun Noct cannot be ridden or put to work in its geared role until you have this in your inventory.
Equipping it turns on Kitsun Noct's partner skill, Gloomhowl.
Kitsun Noct is Dark, which is what decides where it is worth taking — the gear does not change its typing, only what you can do with it.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Other Pal gear items at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
