Best Accessories in Phantom Blade Zero, Ranked

Phantom Blade Zero offers a generous selection of accessories (66 in total), available in three categories: offensive, support, and defensive. You can have up to six equipped at once, but no more than three from a single category, preventing you from going all-in on offense. Each accessory can be polished once or twice to further boost its properties. Below are the most potent and useful accessories in PBZ, and the benefits that make them worth wearing.

Best Accessories in Phantom Blade Zero

Accessories Tier List

S-Tier Accessories

Treasure Basin

Treasure Basin is from Phantom Blade Zero’s pre-order bonus, and it increases the amount of Remnant Dust dropped by enemies and bosses by 20%, up from 10% without polishing. While you can eventually get it through normal play, it only appears at Meigu Lake, denying you the bonus for more than half the adventure.

Given that enemies don’t respawn in PBZ, Treasure Basin’s effect is hard to overstate, as players without it can fall well behind in Remnant Dust, a valuable resource used for literally everything from leveling Soul’s abilities to upgrading weapons, medicines, Phantom Edges, and more. A must-wear accessory at all times, only worth switching out if certain bosses give you serious trouble.

Battle Wraps

The perfect, simple offensive accessory, Battle Wraps is available early on and worth wearing most of the time. While most offensive accessories come with tricky conditions you need to meet in Phantom Blade Zero, Battle Wraps simply increases all damage dealt to enemies by 10%, making fights go faster and enemies feel less spongy.

I almost never switch out Battle Wraps, as there aren’t too many ways to directly increase your damage output in the game, making that extra 10% always desirable.

Nameless Thumb Ring

A must-have accessory at all times, especially since it’s classified as support, Nameless Thumb Ring is unique. It’s the only item that increases Sha-Chi Essence buildup rate by 15%, allowing you to perform Power Surge attacks with various weapons notably more often.

Granted, it absolutely needs to be polished before wearing, since the default 5% bonus is far too negligible to justify a full slot. Still, few attacks in your arsenal in Phantom Blade Zero are as effective and spectacular as Power Surges, so everyone would want that ring on their thumb.

A-Tier Accessories

Quick Hand Accessories

Depending on your preferred weapon types, you can choose one of these equally strong offensive accessories: Quick Hand Pendant, Quick Hand Might, or Quick Hand Pair. Each increases damage dealt with one-handed, two-handed, or dual-wield weapons, respectively, by a substantial 18%. With fully upgraded level 30 weapons, that’s roughly 168–238 extra damage per hit — something you wouldn’t want to miss.

The only reason these accessories sit below Battle Wraps is that PBZ combat really encourages frequent weapon switching, making Battle Wraps a more reliable damage boost for both weapon types in your loadout. You probably won’t wear all three Quick Hand accessories, and it’s so easy to forget to swap them whenever you try a new weapon type, leaving you wearing one with zero effect.

Crimson Resolve

There’s no such thing as too much damage in Phantom Blade Zero, so you’ll probably want to stack as many decent offensive accessories as possible, especially once you get comfortable with the combat. Crimson Resolve is one I used quite often for its useful 35% damage increase for 2 seconds, with a cooldown of 4 seconds.

To trigger its effect, you need to land more than 2 consecutive hits within 1 second, which is quite easy to achieve with almost any weapon. The math is a bit tricky here, but Crimson Resolve at max polish is absolutely worth using when playing aggressively.

Broken Vessel

Another offensive accessory, Broken Vessel grants a solid 25% damage increase for combos that consume Sha-Chi. In Phantom Blade Zero, these are usually your weapon’s 2-to-4-hit heavy attack combos and some other moves, which already deal substantial damage due to their Sha-Chi consumption.

While not as universal as Quick Hand items or Battle Wraps, Broken Vessel can notably improve Soul’s effectiveness, fully warranting a spot in your active loadout, especially for late-game boss encounters.

B-Tier Accessories

Deathlock

Chaining finishers can be extremely satisfying in Phantom Blade Zero, so if that’s what you want, Deathlock is your accessory of choice. Not only does it increase the execution threshold of Guard-Broken enemies by 5%, but it also grants a 10% damage increase after an execution, stacking up to 3 times, with each stack lasting 10 seconds.

With its meaty 30% damage bonus, it’s irreplaceable when facing numerous foes, like in the Banyan Trees encounters — just don’t forget to switch it for something else before facing solo bosses, so you actually have a working accessory.

Ultimate Talisman

Ultimate Talisman works best when combined with Nameless Thumb Ring, drastically increasing the damage of your Power Surge attacks. A 30% damage increase is neat, but unfortunately, it only works on Guard-Broken enemies and bosses.

This means Ultimate Talisman can change your tactics quite a bit, as I expect many players use Power Surge in Phantom Blade Zero to actually Guard Break enemies, since it deals plenty of unblockable damage to both HP and Shield bars. The choice is up to you, but if you want to really punish a defenseless foe, this accessory can work some real magic.

Counterstrike Bracers

Counterstrike Bracers is another potent offensive accessory in Phantom Blade Zero that naturally comes with a condition, making it suitable only for players who rely on parries. PBZ isn’t really Sekiro, so it’s possible to have a completely comfortable battle flow without parrying anything.

Still, a 30% damage increase for 3 seconds after a Parry is really strong — provided you’re good at parrying in the first place, and the boss doesn’t rely primarily on red attacks like grabs or black attacks that can’t be parried.

C-Tier Accessories

Reflex Device

And if you’re not as good at parrying in Phantom Blade Zero, using Counterstrike Bracers alongside Reflex Device could be the way to go. This accessory increases the timing windows for Parry and Perfect Dodge by a solid 25%, which can be invaluable if the combat is a bit too fast-paced for you to keep up (which is quite understandable).

Still, while Reflex Device can be useful early on, sooner or later, practice makes perfect, and you’ll probably be able to comfortably swap it for something else.

Medicine Case

Another accessory that’s most useful early on, the Medicine Case can notably increase the potential of your medicines before they’re upgraded. It increases healing from medicines by 30% and grants Super Armor while using them, so I imagine it can save your life more than once (it certainly did for me).

Needless to say, once you have potent upgraded remedies that restore over 70% of your HP bar, Medicine Case loses much of its appeal, freeing the slot for something more useful, like the straight-up 25% HP increase from Jewel’s Knot.

Resonance Talisman

Alongside the above-mentioned Jewel’s Knot, Resonance Talisman is a great support accessory in Phantom Blade Zero, increasing your overall Sha-Chi pool by a solid 25%. Having lots of Sha-Chi to spare is really important, as both blocking and various attack combos deplete it, so keeping enough in reserve can be crucial.

To me, Resonance Talisman proved more useful than having more HP, even though many remedies in PBZ can address a lack of Sha-Chi. Nevertheless, it’s one of the accessories I would definitely try when struggling with bosses, especially alongside Shenji’s Ring or Brass Chest Guard, which can make Soul almost impossible to Guard Break.

Phantom Blade Zero

Systems

9/10

Released

October 29, 2026

Developer(s)

S-Game

Publisher(s)

S-Game