- Heavy armor:
It can be equipped by soldiers, paladins, moogle knights, dragoon, defender, templar, lanista, viking, raptor, and ravager or any other job that has the tank p- ability.
- Bronz armour: Armor fashioned of joined bronze plates.
- Iron armour:
Safeguard (Viking, 150) Safeguard (Raptor, 150) This heavy armor features a plate of solid iron to protect the chest.
- Platemail- Black-stained Armor D:
Overlapping metal plates are attached to a layer of chainmail to from this full-body armor.
- Golden armor- Critical: Haste (Moogle Knight, 250)
"A thief boasted to me that once, in a battle, he'd scraped enough gilt-leaf off a knight's armor to go into early retirement." - The Traveler's Tale
- Diamond armour:
Defense↑ (Paladin, 150) Defense↑ (Ravager, 150) Defense↑ (Defender, 150) "A beautiful piece of armor, to be sure, but compared to the diamonds that bespeckle it, the rest is rough." - The Study of Arms.
- Platinum armour:
Tank (Lanista, 200) Tank (Ravager, 200) Tank (Defender, 200) Silver-sheened Armor B Beautiful curves of silvery metal make this suit of armor a sight to behold on the battlefield.
- Carabineer mail- Black-stained Armor C:
This remarkably lightweight armor is made of iron fused with mythril.
- Mirror mail- Equip: Reflect
This thin armor is imbued with powerful Reflect magicks.
- Dragon mail:
Bonecrusher (Templar, 250) Bonecrusher (Ravager, 250) The fusing of steel plates with scales in this armor is a productof not smithing, but of the dragon's diet.
- Maximilion: This armor bears the crest of the last of the Knights of the Round.
- Genji armour:
Reflex (Raptor, 350) Reflex (Paladin, 350) This suit of armor from a faraway land is truly one-of-a-kind.
- Adament armour:
Unyielding Strength A The adamantite that reinforces this armor gives it a beautiful greenish luster.
- Materia armour: Crystal Gear B
Armor fashioned of materia crystals. It boasts incredible strength and resistance to attacks.
- Peytral: This sturdy armor is fashioned to resonate with the tides of battle, strengthening in times of direst need.
Defense goes up by 1 every time you get an Opportunity event in a battle.