Draft:Shiren 1 DS:Fusion

This Shiren 1 DS:Fusion page is about Weapon and Shield melding and seals. For the sealed status, see Shiren 1 DS:Sealed.

Shiren 1 DS - Example of all valuable seals.

Seals (Japanese: ???), also known as marks or melds, are valuable upgrades that can be added to Weapons and Shields in  Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer. They give those items unique abilities. The player is able to add every seal with their weapon or shield with the exception of the unbreakable pickaxe and breakable pickaxe being mutually exclusive. Later games in the series implemented a limit to the number of seals each item can use and some games allow for Armbands to be melded. The Nintendo DS remake features several new seals and no longer has the Echo Seal from the Super Famicom release.

Seals can be removed by the ability of Grey Slime and Red Slimes, which will remove any gold-plated seals first before others, but a certain type of weapon will always carry its inherent seal, which cannot be removed. Eg. a Sickle Slayer will always have the [Holy] seal.

When an item is cursed, its seals have no effect.

Melding Jars - How to Add and Combine Seals

A Plating Scroll is the only item that can create a seal from nowhere, all other seals are inherent in certain types of equipment.

Once the Melding Jar has been unlocked by completing the Gaibara's Pottery quest, this Jar can be bought from the Shops in Mountaintop Town. Melding Jars are used to combine Weapons, and Shields together, adding multiple seals to one item.

Weapons and Shields, separately: The first item placed into the jar will absorb all others inserted subsequently, absorbing their upgrade power and any seals.

Limitations

• Placing items other than these into a Melding Jar will have no effect, but will consume one of the jar's slots.
• Items can still be combined even if they are Unidentified.
• Items from a shop that have not been paid for will not combine with other items.
• One Melding Jar can be used to combine multiple types of items together, as long as there are enough slots within the jar.
• If an item with a seal is combined with another item that already contains that seal, there will be no effect and the seal will be wasted.

Removing Items

Items cannot be retrieved from a Melding Jar unless the jar is thrown and breaks, or an Extraction Scroll is used on the jar. Using an Extraction Scroll is considered a waste as it will only conserve a slot in the jar for every item that is removed. E.g. after 5 weapons are combined into one, and it is removed with an Extraction Scroll, there will only be one empty slot for use in the jar.

Weapon and Shield Seals

Weapon SealsShield Seals

Positive Weapon Seals
Sprite	English	Japanese	Icon		Effect
	Golden Blade	金の剣			Won't lose power from Rusty Traps or Green Slime Family abilities.
	Dragonkiller	ドラゴンキラー			Inflicts 200% damage to Dragon-type Monsters.
	Minotaur's Axe	ミノタウロスの斧			Will score a Critical Hit ~26%[Data needed] of the time.
	Sickle Slayer	成仏の鎌			Inflicts 200% damage to Ghost-type monsters.
	Homing Blade	必中の剣			Never misses.
	Razor Wind	妖刀かまいたち			Simultaneously strikes the three directions in front of you.
	Cyclops Killer	一ツ目殺し			Inflicts 200% damage to Cyclops-type monsters
	Drain Buster	ドレインバスター			Inflicts 200% damage to Drain-type monsters.
	Bufu's Cleaver	ブフーの包丁			Can sometimes carve Meat From the monsters you defeat.
	Crescent Arm	三日月刀			Inflicts 200% damage to Exploding-type monsters.
	Air Slayer	斬空剣			Inflicts 200% damage to Floating-type monsters.
	Kigny Axe	キグニキングの斧			If current HP ≤ 10% of maximum then attacks will score a Critical Hit.
	Pickaxe (Modified by a Blacksmith)	つるはし			Can dig through walls and won't break.
Negative Weapon Seals
Sprite	Weapon	Japanese	Seal		Effect
	Fragile Edge	使い捨ての剣			Weapon power will decrease with every hit dealt. Eg. base weapon power is 10, max decrease to -10
	Pickaxe (Unmodified)	つるはし			Can dig through walls by striking them, but has a chance to break.

Positive Shield Seals
Sprite	Shield	Japanese	Seals		Effect
	Gold Shield	金の盾			Won't rust from Rusty Traps or Green Slime Family abilities.
	Dragonward	ドラゴンシールド			Halves the fixed damage of fire from Dragon-type Monsters.
	Hide Shield	皮甲の盾			Halves the rate in which Fullness decreases. 1 every 10 turns to 20 with no other items.
	Spiked Ward	バトルカウンター			30% of damage taken from physical attacks from next to Shiren will be inflicted on the attacker.
	Evasive Shield	見切りの盾			Enemy attacks will miss ~45% of the time instead of ~20%.
	Blast Shield	地雷ナバリの盾			Reduces damage done from exploding Traps and explosions from Exploding-type monsters.
	Walrus Shield	トドの盾			Protects your items and money from Thief-type Monsters.
	Prism Shield	プリズムの盾			Negates Skull Mage Family and Fog Hermit Family staff magic to 10 fixed damage.
	Gaze Shield	ゲイズの盾			Prevents you from being Hypnotized] by Gaze Family Monsters.
	Kigny Shield	キグニキングの盾			Will sometimes deflect an attack onto an adjacent entity.
Negative Shield Seals
Sprite	Shield	Japanese	Seal		Effect
	Fragile Shield	使い捨ての盾			Shield power will decrease with every attack taken. Eg. base shield power is 5, max decrease to -5
	Armor Ward	重装の盾			Doubles the rate in which fullness decreases. 1 every 5 turns with no other items.

Examples

For purposes of illustration here are some examples:

Base	Additions	End Result
Katana +1	Polearm +4, Razor Wind	Katana + 5
Armor Ward	Hide Shield, Hide Shield +3, Wood Shield + 5	1Armor Ward + 8
Polearm	Wood Shield, Armor Ward, Homing Blade	Polearm, Wood Shield
Knockback Staff [4]	Knockback Staff [3]	Knockback Staff [7]
Switching Staff [6]	Knockback Staff [5]	Switching Staff [6], Knockback Staff [5]

¹Melding a Hide Shield into an Armor Ward will not give the Armor Ward Slow Hunger - it will only remove the Armor Ward's Increased Hunger effect. You must meld a second Hide Shield into the Armor Ward to give it Slow Hunger.

Accidentally melded a breakable Pickaxe?

Combining the weapon with an unbreakable Pickaxe with the seal will remove the seal. Adding another unbreakable Pickaxe to the weapon will add the unbreakable seal .

In Other Languages

(Shiren 1 DS, Shiren 3 Wii) Language Name English Seal

(Shiren 5 Vita, Shiren 5 2020, Shiren 5 SP, Shiren 6) Language Name English Runes Japanese 神器