Protect Ring



The Protect Ring (守りの指輪), also known as Guard Ring, is a recurring armor and accessory in the series. It can be classified either as a ring, or as an armlet. It usually defends against Instant Death or grants the user the Auto-Protect status.

Final Fantasy
The Protect Ring is an armlet that protects against Instant KO, has +8 Absorb, and -1% Evade. Two are found in the Flying Fortress, and another in the past version of the Chaos Shrine. Additional others may be bought for 16,000 gil at Gaia.

Final Fantasy II
The Protect Ring increases Defense by 18. It protects against Instant Death attacks. Protect Ring is one of the items the Lamia Queen drops, and one can also be found in the Raqia.

Final Fantasy III
The Protect Ring is an armlet that resists Fire, Thunder, Ice, Wind and Light and boosts all stats by two and can be equipped by all the jobs. It can be found in the Temple of Time and Ancients' Maze, and is a rare drop from King Behemoth.

Final Fantasy IV
The Protect Ring grants resistance to all elements to the wearer. One is found in the Lunar Subterrane, while additional others may be won from Ahriman and Magic Dragon. It provides +10 Defense, +12 Evasion, +5 Magic Defense, and +10 Magic Evasion. In the game's original SNES version, when characters equip elemental resistant equipment, they inherently become weak to the opposite element. A character with the Protect Ring is thus weak to Fire and Ice-elemental physical attacks (however, no enemy uses physical elemental attacks so this isn't usually an issue). This is changed in the Advance version where characters are no longer weak against the opposite element.

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
The Protect Ring provides 10 Defense, 12 Magic Defense, 5 Evasion, 10 Magic Evasion, and +15 Stamina, as well as resistance to Fire, Ice, and Lightning. It can only be obtained by either finding it in the Subterrane or by winning it from Fiend Dragon.

Final Fantasy V
The Protect Ring grants the wearer the Auto-Regen status and provides +10 Defense, Magic Evasion, and Magic Defense as well as +1 Weight and +5 Stamina. One can be won from Odin, while others can be found at Istory Falls, Pyramid of Moore, and the Island Shrine, and others stolen from Soul Cannon at the Phoenix Tower.

Final Fantasy VI
The Protect Ring, also known as Guard Ring, is a relic that grants the user a constant Safe status. It can be bought in Jidoor and Thamasa in the World of Ruin for 5,000 gil.

Final Fantasy VII
The Protect Ring is a ring that grants the wearer the constant Barrier and MBarrier statuses. One can be stolen from the right neck of Schizo, while additional others must be morphed from Movers.

Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-
The Protect Ring grants Zack constant Barrier and MBarrier statuses. It can be bought from Mythril Mine Trading for 30,000 gil, and can also be obtained by completing mission 7-6-2, 9-3-2 or 9-5-3.

Final Fantasy IX
The Protect Ring is an add-on that halves the damage from all elements, as well as providing +1 Spirit, +2 Defense, +4 Evasion, +3 Magic Defense, and +6 Magic Evasion. It teaches the abilities Half MP, Long Reach, and Mag Elm Null, and can either be bought from Mene for 8,500 points, or synthesized for 40,000 gil, Rebirth Ring, and Dark Matter at Hades's Synthesis shop. Others can be acquired by completing the Mognet sidequest, using a Dead Pepper at a mountain crack on the eastern part of the Lost Continent, and by answering all of the Ragtime Mouse's questions correctly.

Final Fantasy XI
Weaker than most Final Fantasy incarnations, Protect Ring only gives +1 to Agility, but can cast Protect II when used as an item.

Final Fantasy Tactics
The Protect Ring grants immunity to the Sleep and Doom status effects. It can be equipped by any class. It costs 5,000 gil and is available in the shops after the story battle nr. 15 and after viewing the cutscene at Lionel. It can also be found within the Lionel Castle with Treasure Hunter ability as rare item.