Magatama - yes or no

[petiteelite]

Does anyone have a good grasp on Magatama and whether or not it's worth it to figure out crafting and Ornamentation?

Miroku sells overpowered Magatama, so I've never bothered but can't help but be curious.
Kaguya feels super useless rn, but I'm looking for extra boosts to my attack power so any advice is welcome.

[Riddras]

Magatama Ornamenting is very useful even with Miroku's newbie friendly mags' high chakra cost. People generally use it to increase their Criticals, Affinity, Skill Force or Elements. Others looks for HP/SP increase, immunities, or outright atk in order to help with certain boss fights.

Some popular ornaments with easily obtainable materials:

Confining Terror
1~3 Random Options
-Attack +80~128
-Pow +1~2
-Wis +1~2
-Critical +4~6
-Rank 1+ Skill Force +4%~6%

Fated Contractor
1~3 Random Options
-Slice Element +8~13
-Critical +5~8
-Dex +2~4
-Max HP +10%~17%
-Max SP +10%~17%

Unblinking Eye
1~2 Random Options
-Dex +1~2
-Twin Swords Affinity +6%~9%
-Bow Affinity +6%~9%
-Critical Force +10~15

Heavenly Shield
1~3 Random Options
-Mnd +2~4
One only Applied:
-Sword Affinity +14%~22%
-Oodachi Affinity +14%~22%
-Axe Affinity +14%~22%
-Twin Swords Affinity +14%~22%
-Spear Affinity +14%~22%
-Bow Affinity +14%~22%
One only Applied:
-Fire Element +15~24
-Ice Element +15~24
-Wind Element +15~24
-Holy Element +15~24
-Lightning Element +15~24
-Rain Element +15~24
-Mountain Element +15~24
-Dark Element +15~24
-Max HP +140~224
-Max SP +40~64

As you may have already guessed, ornamenting is based solely on luck so you may not necessarily get what you want. Higher Kaguya level will more likely give you a better ornament.

For Crit, you will start seeing them somewhat consistently at around 40 to 50, where adding some crit force would also be nice.

A lot of melee weapon skills have Slice element attached to them, so having a decent amount will help with your damage.

Although I wouldn't discount the use of Miroku's mags, common high damage dealers often use universal skill force mags, not only because it allows interchanging weapons, but also because they have sufficiently low chakra costs in order to max out Skill Force at 500% while having ornaments. It also helps that those mags usually have some sort of element attached to them. Durability usually suffers, tho ryou is relatively easy to get nowadays.

I would suggest you try Confining Terror on easily obtainable Skill Force mags from Miroku's bargains such as Kougasha, Amara, Youake, Dusk, Shokou, Soutei, Kousei, Sagittarius, Zhen, Wadatsumi, etc. People sell most of them for like 1oc or something.
FYI:
-Inferno stones from wardings on Tuesdays Defiled Orb of Flames.
-Hardy daikon from Rock Sticky in Den of Karma
-Bell of cursed god from Tsujigami in Inaki Woods.
(run them on hell with filler party, killing them in first room, exit and repeat until you have enough mats)

For Magatama Crafting, some of the good but common ones need recipes. Popular crafted mags include Chiami (auto hp when crit), Burai (15% atk), Literature (90% SF for spear), Kanmon (Ryou drop +25%) Homono (Fire/Holy Elem), the multitude of +affinity mags, and if you have enough medals, exchange them for the long list of mags to use/sell.

If you're up for a long grind, you may want to look into Oda's mags, Kintoki's bear mags, or Fuujin/Raijin's mags.

Fused Bear Magatama
Level Requirement 120
Physical Defense 2500
Magical Defense 2500
Purity 8
Chakra 45
Ornamentation Slots 2
Additional Effects
-Rank 5-8 Skill Force+125%
-If Level: 125 or more, Rank 6+ Skill Force +20%
-If Level: 130 or more, Rank 7+ Skill Force +20%
-If Level: 125 or more, Attack+1000
-If Level: 130 or more, Attack+2000
-If Level: 125 or more, P. Atk Spd+10
-If Level: 130 or more, P. Atk Spd+15
-If Level: 125 or more, Cooldown Cut+10
-If Level: 130 or more, Cooldown Cut+15
-Max HP+25%
-Max SP-40%
-Wind Element+80
-Rain Element+80
-Lightning Element-100
-Mountain Element-100
-Decrease durability reduction by 100%

Emanation Magatama
Level Requirement 120
Physical Defense 6000
Magical Defense 6000
Purity 4
Chakra 55
Ornamentation Slots 3
Additional Effects
-Rank 6+ Skill Force+100%
-Fire Element +70
-Rain Element -50
-Critical Force +30
-Cooldown Cut +10
-If Level: 125 or more, Attack+1000
-If Level: 130 or more, Attack+2000
-If Level: 125 or more, P.Def+1000
-If Level: 125 or more, M.Def+1000
-If Level: 130 or more, P.Def+1000
-If Level: 130 or more, M.Def+1000
-Decrease durability reduction by 25%
-Stamina consumption -15

Magatama of Incredible Winds
Level Requirement 120
Physical Defense 6500(Grade 50)
Magical Defense 5500(Grade 50)
Purity 8
Chakra 45
Ornamentation Slots 3
Additional Effects
-Rank 5+ Skill Force+100%
-If Level: 125 or more, Rank 4+ Skill Force+30%
-If Level: 130 or more, Rank 4+ Skill Force+30%
-Wind Element+60
-Ice Element-40
-Lightning Element -40
-Mountain Element +40
-Critical Force +35
-Cooldown Cut +20
-Decrease durability reduction by 45%

Lightning Scorched Magatama
Level Requirement 120
Physical Defense 3850 (grade 0)
Magical Defense 4550 (grade 0)
Purity 8
Chakra 45
Ornamentation Slots 3
Additional Effects
-Rank 5+ Skill Force+100%
-If Level: 125 or more, Rank 4+ Skill Force+30%
-If Level: 130 or more, Rank 4+ Skill Force+30%
-Lightning Element+60
-Mountain Element-40
-Wind Element -40
-Ice Element +40
-Critical Force +35
-Cooldown Cut +20
-Decrease durability reduction by 45%

[petiteelite]

Thanks so much for your reply!

This is really great information.

I'll focus today on getting Kaguya's affection up then.
I have a ton of mats and amulets for Ornamentation so I'm not worried about the odds.

[Riddras]

No worries. Feel free to ask people in-game too. There are a lot of friendly players willing to help, even with friendship items grinding.