Accessories are a key part of your build inDynasty Warriors: Origins.They’re the only equipment besides your weapon that directly impacts your stats, and they offer a good amount of versatility that let you play to your strengths or compensate for weaknesses in your style.
With only two slots available, it’s very important to choose the right accessories and make the most of them at every opportunity. Once you’ve amassed a big collection of sashes, wristbands, and other flair, this list can help you pick the best of the best and stride into battle with confidence.
8Phoenix Wing
Increases Maximum Health By Thirty Percent
The Wing series of accessories offer ahealth boost, which is always welcome in a game where enemy attacks are constant. Of the three, thePhoenix Wing has the biggest buff, giving you just under a third more hit points.
Since the bonus is percentage-based, it scales nicely with your level, but there will come a point wherefocusing on attack becomes more important. If you have a slot available, though, it’s hard to go wrong with more HP!
7Ring Of Regeneration
Revives You With Low HP Upon Dying, Once Per Battle
It’s easy to write off the Ring Of Regeneration as the kind of accessory that, if you need it, you’re doing something wrong. On higher difficulty settings, though, it’s very possible (likely, even), to get taken out by an attack from offscreen or watch your health bar melt away as several officers gang up on you at once. In those situations,an extra life suddenly sounds very appealing.
The Ring Of Regeneration only saves you from dying. If a mission fails because of another character’s death or losing a key objective, you’re on your own.
6Zhuhe’s Sash
Extends Rage Duration By Ten Percent
Completing the game withfull Peace in every provincewill unlock a bonus scene after the credits, letting you claim this memento of Zhuhe. Zhuhe’s Sashlets you stay in Musou Rage for longerby slowing the rate at which your meter drains by ten percent.
In a lot of cases, the extra time is just a chance to “win more,” as only the most dire circumstances can’t be solved with a single range and the Ultimate Musou Attack that follows it. It’s nice to have assurance that you’ll be able to squeeze in one more combo if you need it, though.
Yes, the War God’s Sash slows Musou drain by fifteen percent, making it strictly better, but by the time you have the500 Old Coinsneeded to unlock it, there’s probably nothing else in the game to do, so what’s the point?
5Chimera Shell
Increases Defense By Sixty Percent
The Shell accessories, which boost your Defense stat, aren’t especially exciting, butthe Chimera Shell is the exception.A sixty-percent bonus is certainly nothing to sneeze at!
Honorable Mention: Iron Arm Guards
If you want to go all-in on defense and become the ultimate tank,try pairing the Chimera Shell with the Iron Arm Guards.They give you anadditional fifty-percent Defense bufftemporarily whenever you defeat an officer, effectively more than doubling your durability when you need it most.
4Red Dragon’s Talon
Increases Musou Gain By Ten Percent.
The Red Dragon’s Talon is earned bywinning your faction’s Battle Tournamentjust before the Battle of Chibi at the end of the game. Making it through that grueling gauntlet of duels earns you this powerful accessory, whichincreases the rate at which you gain Musou in battle by ten percent.
Musou takes a bit of a back seat to Bravery in Dynasty Warriors: Origins, compared to earlier games in the franchise, but it’simportant because Musou Rage serves as a full healonce you’ve unlocked the right skills. Being able to reach the threshold for Rage fasteris critical forbeing sure you have access to it when you really need it.
3Ravenous Spirit Amulet
Recover Five Percent Of Max Health Upon Defeating An Officer
The Ravenous Spirit Amulet is a very early acquisition,requiring only ten Old Coins, and it’s worth its weight in gold for most of the campaign. Five percent of your HP might not sound like much, but think about how many officers you fight and defeat over the course of a battle. That adds up toloads of precious healing items saved, especially if you’re able to heal from a quick officer takedown in the thick of a melee.
The relative scarcity of heals overall makes this an absolutely clutch accessory. The only times it isn’t useful are inone-on-one boss fightslike the one against Lu Bu, soremember to swap it out for something elsebefore those battles.
2Lion’s Fang
Increases Attack By Fifteen Percent
There are a lot of accessories that boost your attack, butalmost all of them have conditions that need to be met first.The Lion’s Fang doesn’t ask for anything;just equip it and enjoy dealing fifteen percent more damage to everything.That’s the same bonus the other items offer, but given for free. The choice is easy.
Honorable Mention: Ceremonial Blade
The only possible competitor for the Lion’s Fang might be theCeremonial Blade, but it needs to be used in large battles where you expect to defeat2000 enemies or more in relatively short order.The Blade gives a fifteen percent boostfor every thousand enemies slain, for the duration of the battle. It starts at zero, though, so you need to really work to make it better than the Lion’s Fang.
1Disc Of Huanglong
Reduces The Cost Of All Battle Arts By One
One of your first goals in the postgame should be tofinish reaching full peace in every province. Once that’s done,check your lettersfor an invitation to a Dream Battle at Hulao Gate. If you win this grand clash ofevery officer in the game, living and dead, you’ll be rewarded with the incomparable Disc of Huanglong.
Managing your Bravery and being able to use your Battle Arts effectively isthe single most important skill in Dynasty Warriors: Origins, and the Disc makes that task much easier. Not only does it let you usebig, expensive powers like Ice Luan more often, but it also means you’re much less likely to be left in the lurch when you’re just half a point short of the Special Art that you need right away.
With the Disc of Huanglong equipped, you’re truly a force to be reckoned with.
