
Pal Metal Helm
Armor · ArmorHead2★Made from Pal Metal Ingot, its flawless craftsmanship draws envy and marks the wearer as a chosen warrior.
Pal Metal Helm is 20th of 202 head pieces by defense, at 210 against the 650 of Ancient Helm.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
At 15 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 51,120 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Pal Metal Helm Crafting Recipe
Crafting it takes 63 materials across 3 types.
Where to Find Pal Metal Helm
The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Snowfields at 11.5% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Pal Metal Helm
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 150 to 240, a 1.6x swing. Which one you end up with is decided by the rarity of the schematic you built from, not by the recipe — so a legendary copy of this is worth more than the next item up built from a common one.
| Rarity | Item | Defense | HP | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Pal Metal Helm | 150 | 350 | 5000 |
| 1★ | Pal Metal Helm | 195 | 455 | 13000 |
| 2★ | Pal Metal Helm (this one) | 210 | 490 | 15000 |
| 3★ | Pal Metal Helm | 225 | 525 | 17000 |
| 4★ | Pal Metal Helm | 240 | 560 | 20000 |
Schematics That Unlock Pal Metal Helm
The Technology tree hands you the plain Pal Metal Helm at level 46 for 4 Technology points, but nothing above that base version — the rarer builds are schematic-only. One schematic grants the recipe, and they are world loot — chests, boss Pals and the late-game pools — rather than anything you research. Higher-rarity copies of the same schematic raise the quality of what you end up crafting.
Fastest route. The fastest route is treasure map digs (tier 3), and the reason is the ladder rather than the top rung: that pool stocks every tier, so the common copies it hands you fuse upward into the one you want. Counting them, a top-tier Pal Metal Helm schematic works out at roughly 33 containers against the 59 the 4★ drop rate alone suggests. Spare low tiers are progress, not clutter. Schematics fuse five-to-one, so a lower tier with better odds can beat the top tier outright. Counts are containers of that source, not time.
| Schematic | Rarity | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| 2★ | Snowfields sea base camp stashes, Treasure map digs (tier 3), Snowfields chests +4 more — best 11.5% (grade 5/6) · Supply drops in the Snowfields (3.34%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Pal Metal Helm at 225 defense; step down and it is Pal Metal Helm at 195. Weigh the jump against what the next tier costs you before committing the resources.
Other head pieces at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class: