Dualith Noct Saddle
Essential · Essential_PalGear3★Riding gear that makes Dualith Noct safe to mount, and opens up a heavy Dark-element laser to fire from the saddle.
It feeds no other recipe, which makes it a terminal item: craft what you will actually carry and stop there.
Details
It stacks up to 9,999.
Dualith Noct Saddle Crafting Recipe
Leather×36
High Quality Cloth
Soralite Ingot
Dark Fragment
Paldium Fragment
Pure Quartz×24
Soralite×24Crafting it takes 132 materials across 5 types.
Where to Find Dualith Noct Saddle
Dualith Noct Saddle is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Dualith Noct Saddle Well
Corruption Laser is one press, not a firing window. Its skill row grants a one-second activation against a two-minute lockout, where Grizzbolt's minigun holds its window open for 120 seconds and Relaxaurus's missile rack for 35 — so the saddle buys you a single beam per cooldown, and playing it well is entirely a question of when you spend it. Condensing shortens the wait and nothing else: 120 seconds at rank 1, then 110, 100, 90 and 80 at rank 5. Those 40 seconds are the whole return, because this partner skill has no passive half — no party buff, no work bonus, nothing that ticks while Dualith Noct is merely walking behind you. Even so it is more than the other mounted gunners get. Grizzbolt, Mossanda, Relaxaurus and Jetragon carry no rank ladder on their cooldowns at all, so their lockouts stay exactly as long after four condenses as before, and Dualith Noct is one of the few ride-and-shoot Pals where feeding the condenser changes the weapon rather than just the stat line. One more thing the row allows: you can still swap to your own gun while the skill is live, which the shoulder-carried rifle and shotgun skills do not let you do.
Read the 4 points as paying for the beam, not for the ride. Dualith Noct sprints at 800, which leaves 67 of the game's 77 ground mounts faster than it, and 59 of those open their saddles at technology 69 or earlier — by the time this recipe is in reach you have almost certainly already built something quicker to sit on. What it does own is endurance: 210 stamina against a ground-mount median of 150 puts it in the top quarter, so it holds a slow pace for a long time and hauls at 350 while doing it. The saddle sits 21 technology levels above the Dualith Saddle for the same 4 points, and the extra bill — 12 Soralite Ingot and 20 Dark Fragment added, 10 Iron Ingot dropped — buys element rather than power. The two skill rows are identical digit for digit: same 120-second cooldown, same rank ladder, same one-second activation. All that changes is that the beam leaves the right hand as Dark instead of Grass, off a Pal with 110 shot attack rather than 105. So build it when you want a Dark answer for a Neutral-heavy fight you would otherwise ride Dualith into, not because reaching 69 makes it the newer saddle.
Dualith Noct Saddle — Dualith Noct's Gear
Dualith Noct Saddle is Dualith Noct's own gear — no other Pal can equip it, and Dualith Noct cannot be ridden or put to work in its geared role until you have this in your inventory.
Equipping it turns on Dualith Noct's partner skill, Corruption Laser.
Dualith Noct is Ground / 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:
