So ive been playing this for some hours now and ive come over a few things i cant find an explanation to.

- On the status screen where you can choose "offensive gear", "defensive gear" etc you have you atk, def, str and so on listed. But under you have all kind of symbols. Hammer, sword, pitch fork and more. What does these represent? Is it your resistance to the different attack types? Or is it improved ability to use these weapons?

- I got a drop called "Hercules ring" which states: Lets you ignore blows like a mighty god. So does this mean that some blows does no damage?

- Another drop i got called "Sunstone" states: Improves status from sunrise until sunset. Does it say anywhere what time it is in game?

I believe the Hercules Ring eliminates the blow back from getting hit by attacks.  The Sunstone probably goes by actual time, whatever your boxes internal clock is set to.  As far as the symbols, my guess is they are resistances.  Try checking the how to play info.

I found some Gambler Glasses that state "You can read drop percentages."
 
Well, you can only see these drop percentages if you've - A: received the item from killing a monster and B: are looking at the monster compendium in the menu screen. Yeah you actually put the glasses on to see the drop rate and then take them back off before you jump into the game. Couldn't they have just made the percentages available from the start?

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So ive been playing this for some hours now and ive come over a few things i cant find an explanation to.

- On the status screen where you can choose "offensive gear", "defensive gear" etc you have you atk, def, str and so on listed. But under you have all kind of symbols. Hammer, sword, pitch fork and more. What does these represent? Is it your resistance to the different attack types? Or is it improved ability to use these weapons?

- I got a drop called "Hercules ring" which states: Lets you ignore blows like a mighty god. So does this mean that some blows does no damage?

- Another drop i got called "Sunstone" states: Improves status from sunrise until sunset. Does it say anywhere what time it is in game?

 

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I've played a shit ton of this game, but I still don't know what STR, CON, INT, and MND actually do.  I'm using Soma and need to figure that out to decide what passive soul I use.