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Bale α Armor Set Skills and Materials

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The Bale α Armor is an Armor Set from the Final Fantasy XIV collab in Monster Hunter Wilds. Read on to see a Bale α Armor build, as well as the skills, defenses, resistances, forging materials, and how to get the Armor Set here.

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Bale α Armor Build

Dark Knight Great Sword Build

Weapon Loadout

Weapon Rarity ATK DEF
Monster Hunter Wilds - True ShadowbringerTrue Shadowbringer
Monster Hunter Wilds - True Shadowbringer Sharpness
8 1056
(220)
30
Slots Element Affinity
③②①
Dragon 600
0%
Skills
Darkside Lv. 1
Weapon Decorations

This build uses the True Shadowbringer Great Sword. Its Darkside weapon skill consumes health to boost the damage of charge attacks.

Armor Loadout

Armor Slots Skills
Bale Burgeonet α Bale Burgeonet α
Protection Jewel【1】 Icon Protection Jewel【1】 Icon
Resentment Lv. 2
Bale Cuirass α Bale Cuirass α
Counter Jewel【2】 Icon ー ー
Latent Power Lv. 2
Bale Gauntlets α Bale Gauntlets α
Chain Jewel【3】 Icon ー ー
Resentment Lv. 1
Latent Power Lv. 1
Bale Flanchard α Bale Flanchard α
Challenger Jewel【3】 Icon Counter Jewel【2】 Icon Protection Jewel【1】 Icon
Resentment Lv. 1
Constitution Lv. 2
Bale Sollerets α Bale Sollerets α
Counter Jewel【2】 Icon ー ー
Resentment Lv. 1
Latent Power Lv. 2
Appraised Charm
(HR 100+)

Heroics Lv. 3
Dragon Attack Lv. 2
Alternate Charm
(HR50+)
Armor Decorations

This is a high-risk, high-reward build that relies on Heroics, Resentment, and The Blackest Night to keep your HP low for maximum damage.

Dark Knight Great Sword Full Build

Bale α Armor Set Preview

Type 1 (Male) Type 2 (Female)

The Bale armor is a sleek black armor set that features the same design for male and female hunters. This armor is one of two armor sets available from the FF14 collab, the other being the Omega Attire α armor.

Bale α Armor Set Skills

Skills and Slots

Armor Slots Skills
Bale Burgeonet α ①①
Bale Cuirass α ②ーー
Bale Gauntlets α ③ーー
Bale Flanchard α ③②①
Bale Sollerets α ②ーー

Group Skills and Set Bonuses

Soul of the Dark Knight Set Bonus

Blackest Night

The 2 piece set bonus of Soul of the Dark Knight is called Dark Arts, which activates when you have recoverable damage (red portion of health gauge), similar to Resentment. Dark Arts increases elemental attack and boosts the attack of the Great Sword's Level 3 charged slashes.

The 4 piece set bonus is The Blackest Night, which consumes player's health to create a barrier.

Soul of the Dark Knight Set Bonus Effects

Bale α Armor Set Defense and Resistances

Armor Def Fire Water Thunder Ice Dragon
Bale Burgeonet α
Bale Burgeonet α
68 2 0 -2 0 3
Bale Cuirass α
Bale Cuirass α
68 2 0 -2 0 3
Bale Gauntlets α
Bale Gauntlets α
68 2 0 -2 0 3
Bale Flanchard α
Bale Flanchard α
68 2 0 -2 0 3
Bale Sollerets α
Bale Sollerets α
68 2 0 -2 0 3
Total 340 10 0 -10 0 15

Bale α Armor Set Forging Materials

Armor Required Materials
Bale Burgeonet α Bale Burgeonet α
Cost: Zenny 12000z
Bale Cuirass α Bale Cuirass α
Cost: Zenny 12000z
Bale Gauntlets α Bale Gauntlets α
Cost: Zenny 12000z
Bale Flanchard α Bale Flanchard α
Cost: Zenny 12000z
Bale Sollerets α Bale Sollerets α
Cost: Zenny 12000z

How to Get Bale α Armor Set

Obtain from FFXIV Collab

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The Bale α armor set is one of the new equipment available as part of Title Update 3 and the FF14 Collab. The materials required to forge and upgrade it are obtained from Omega Planetes.

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