Rayhound Cryst Saddle
Essential · Essential_PalGear1★Riding gear that makes Thunderdog Ice 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.
Rayhound Cryst Saddle Crafting Recipe
Leather×24
Fiber×48
Ingot×20
Ice Organ×20
Paldium Fragment
Ore×40
Wood×24Crafting it takes 142 materials across 5 types.
Where to Find Rayhound Cryst Saddle
Rayhound Cryst Saddle is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Rayhound Cryst Saddle Well
Snow Shepherd is two separate effects sharing one name, and the second one does not exist until you have condensed Rayhound Cryst at least once. At rank 1 the skill is Defense and nothing else, +15%, rising to 17, 20, 24 and 30% at rank 5. From rank 2 a ride-speed line appears alongside it — 10%, then 12, 15 and 20% — which makes the first condense worth far more than the two-point defence step on its own suggests. The defence half is handed out to the whole party rather than kept by Rayhound Cryst, but only an Ice Pal can hold it, and it fires only on the Pal you actually have out beside you. The speed half is self-only and fires only while you are in the saddle. So the two never run at once: mount up and the defence goes quiet, climb off and the speed does. Read it as a party Ice defence skill that pays a travel dividend the moment you stop fighting, not as a mounted buff with a defensive rider.
The chassis underneath is Rayhound's, digit for digit — 1150 ride sprint, 700 run, 100 stamina — so the premium buys the Ice typing and the skill, nothing about how it moves. That premium is real: this saddle sits two technology levels later at 32 and costs 4 points where the Rayhound Saddle costs 2, and the recipe scales up on every line while swapping 15 Electric Organ for 20 Ice Organ. At the level it unlocks, 23 ground mounts already have saddles on the tree and exactly two of them are faster — Pyrin at 1300 and Dazemu at 1200. Condensed to rank 5, though, 20% on 1150 is worth about 1380, which clears both and is beaten by nothing on land until Necromus and Paladius at technology 61. The one thing condensing will not fix is the tank: 100 stamina against a ground-mount median of 150 puts it in the bottom handful, and 1380 you cannot hold is slower over a long crossing than 1200 you can.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Other Pal gear items at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
