The ruby of protection is a recurring accessory in the Dragon Quest series.
Appearances[]
Dragon Quest IV[]
The Ruby of Protection is an accessory that increases defence by 15.
Dragon Quest VII[]
The Ruby of protection has a Defence bonus of +10, a Style bonus of +5, and can be equipped by the Hero, Maribel, Ruff, Sir Mervyn, and Aishe. It can be purchased from the Grand Conjuratorium for 3,500 gold coins and sold for 1,750 gold coins. One can be found in the Sunken Citadel in the present and another in Aeolus Vale in the past.
Dragon Quest VIII[]
Can be bought in Argonia for 3100 G when the bazaar comes to town. If you unlocked the bazaar but its not there it is in the building that looks like a church left to the real church. It gives +15 defence.
Dragon Quest IX[]
- Description: A sparkling stone that strengthens defence when worn.
- Sell price: 1050
- Recipe: 1 Dragon scale + 1 Corundum.
- Attributes: Defence +10
Dragon Quest XI[]
| Ruby of protection - XI | |
| Stat boosts | Defence +16/17/18/20 |
| Flavour text | A vibrant violet stone that boosts the defence of the bearer. |
| Info | Requires 20 Perfectionist's pearls to rework. |
| Found | 1⁄8 chance of being dropped by Lunar chimaeras, 1⁄256 of being dropped by Elysium birds and Malicious elysium birds. Recipe: Artful amethyst X2 + Serpent skin + Large scale X2 + Pale pearl |
| Buy price | N/A |
| Sell price | 1,050G |
| Equipped by | All |
Dragon Quest Swords[]
Rubies of protection may be won as a prize or obtained from a Lucky bag. It has a Defense bonus of +3 and increases the durability of the shield by 1. It can be sold for 750 gold coins.
Dragon Quest Heroes[]
- Purchase Value
- Not for Sale
- Sale Value
- 380G
- Basic Effects
- Chance to Auto-Defend +10.0%
- Description
- A jewel that warns its wearer of incoming attacks
Lke the vast majority of the available accessories, Rubies of protection can be created through Alchemy; through a lucky Sweet Success creation, it can be made from the start already at a rank of +1, then with successive melding with other copies of itself, an individual Ruby of protection can be ugraded to up to a +3 rank, adding a total of 3 other additional effects to their base one; these effects are chosen at random from a pool of possible bonuses available for this particular accessory.
In order to create one, at least one of its recipe variants is necessary to having been found.
The Quick recipe, like all Quick recipes except for the Gold ring, can be bought by exchanging Mini medals, 7 in this case; alternatively, like its counterparts, the Classic recipe and the even better Luxury recipe, it can be found very rarely as a secret drop from Lethal armours. Alternatively, all of these recipe variants could potentially be found inside a treasure chest, but even more rarely than from the enemy drops.
As such, since it is not ideal to find as a drop a Quick recipe that could had been purchased instead, it is preferable to spend some Mini medals and learn the Quick recipe as soon as possible, thusly increasing the chances for the monsters to drop the better, rarer quality recipes rather then the ones that are already more easily accessible.
Dragon Quest Heroes II[]
The Ruby of protection gives the wearer a 3% chance to ignore damage taken, up to a 7% chance once it has been fully upgraded. Once it has been fully upgraded, it will also grant a +8 bonus to Defence, as well. The ruby can be obtained by exchanging 10 Mini medals once or dropped rarely by Restless armours and Mandrake marshals.
Dragon Quest of the Stars[]
The Ruby of protection is a 4★ accessory with a max HP bonus of +5 that comes equipped with the Defence+ skill, which gives a +10 bonus to Defence. At max rank, the bonus can be boosted to +15. It can be created at the equipment workshop.
Dragon Quest Builders[]
The ruby of protection is an accessory that cuts physical damage by 50%. It can be found in chapter 3 as a drop from a Cannibox or in Chapter 4 in a chest.
Dragon Quest Walk[]
The Ruby of protection is a 4★ accessory with a Defence bonus of +5 and a max HP bonus of +10. It also restores 2 MP to the wearer at the end of battle. It is received as a reward for completing chapter 8 of the main story.
Dragon Quest Tact[]
The Ruby of protection is an A-rank accessory with a DEF bonus of +15 and three slots for Alchemy Effects. It can be received randomly as a reward by playing the Bravas Treasures n' Trapdoors board.
Dragon Quest Champions[]
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Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince[]
The ruby of protection can be rarely dropped from Stone golems. It gives +70 defense.
Other languages[]
| Other languages | |
| French | Rubis de protection |
| German | Schutzrubin |
| Spanish | Gema de protección |
| Latin American Spanish | Unknown |
| Italian | Rubino della difesa |
| Dutch | Unknown |
| Norwegian | Unknown |
| Greek | Unknown |
| Portuguese | Unknown |
| Russian | Unknown |
| Chinese | Unknown |
| Korean | Unknown |