Overlapping metal plates are attached to a layer of chainmail to from this full-body armor.Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift description
Plate Mail (プレイトメイル or プレートメイル, Pureito Meiru?), also styled as platemail, is a recurring armor piece in the Final Fantasy series. It is often a low-ranked or mid-ranked armor, and merely provides mediocre defense bonuses.
Appearances
Final Fantasy IX
The Plate Mail is a mid ranked armor for Steiner, Freya, and Beatrix that provides 17 Defense, 1 Magic Defense, and +1 Spirit level up bonus. It teaches Locomotion and Undead Killer, and can be bought for 2,320 gil in Alexandria, Treno (after returning from the Outer Continent), Lindblum (after returning from the Outer Continent), Oeilvert, and Desert Palace.
Final Fantasy Tactics
Plate mail is a mid-ranked heavy armor that provides +60 HP and can be bought for 3,000 gil after the events in Zeirchele Falls in chapter 2. It is also a rare treasure at Balias Tor. Enemy units who spawn with random equipment may wear the plate mail on levels 14, 15, and 16. Goffard Gaffgarion and Delita Heiral wear plate mail when they are guest units in the beginning of chapter 2, "The Manipulative & the Subservient".
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Full-body armor made of metal plates on chainmail.Description
Platemail is a low-ranked armor that provides 38 Defense and 3 Magic Resistance. It can be bought at any town for 2,550 gil.
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift
Platemail is a low-ranked heavy armor that provides +38 Defense and +3 Resistance, and can be bought in the shop for 1400 gil after creating it in the Bazaar by using a Dipraeu Bronze, Green Liquid, and Silk Thread. It is initially equipped on Cid.
Final Fantasy Tactics S
Vagrant Story
Plate Mail is a high-ranked armor piece, providing 18 Strength, 17 Intelligence, and -2 Agility.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King
Platemail is a low-ranked armor piece, usable at level 20, and provides 24 Defense. It costs 140 gil to buy.
Final Fantasy Record Keeper
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