Armor

Armor is sold for half of its cost.  Armor which can not be bought can be grown with Weapon/Armor Seeds.  If Armor can not be bought, it obviously has no cost.  I just calculated its cost as twice its selling price.  You can only buy armor you can equip.  That is, stores will not sell armor for the three playable characters who are not in your party or armor which can only be equipped by a class you are not.  Sometimes stores change their inventory, so if this page says something is for sale at a certain place and it's not, it is at a different time in the game.   Sometimes pieces of armor are for sale at multiple stores, in that case the first available place is listed.

* The Wandering Merchants sell these weapons only after you have killed 4 of the 8 God Beasts.

** The Beginning and Middle towns are different depending on your main character.

Used by key (refer to the character page to see which class is which alignment):

N means a weapon is neutral, and can be used by all classes.
L means a weapon is light, and can be used by the weak light class, the medium light class, and the strong light class.
D means a weapon is dark, and can be used by the weak dark class, the medium dark class, and the strong dark class.
LD means a weapon can be used by all classes other than the original class.
ML means a weapon can only be used by the medium light class.
SL means a weapon can only be used by the strong light class.
MD means medical doctor.
SD means a weapon can only be used by the strong dark class.

Helmets

Gauntlets

Armor

The defense rating of armor (that's body armor, not helmets, gauntlets, nor shields)  is boosted or lowered by your vitality.  The defense column is the formula which computes the your defense.  5+2*vi means 4 plus 1 times your vitality stat.

The magic defense rating of armor (that's body armor, not helmets, gauntlets, nor shields)  is boosted or lowered by your intelligence.  The magic defense column is the formula which computes the your magic defense.  10+4*in means 10 plus 4 times your intelligence stat.

The defense and magic defense ratings of armor (once again, body armor, not helmets, gauntlets, nor shields) also varies by character.  All information gathered here applies to Duran.  In terms of defense ratings, Kevin's armor is the weakest, Duran's armor is slightly stronger, Lise's armor is even stronger than that, Hawk's armor is even stronger than that, and Angela's and Carlie's armor is tied for the strongest of all.  Magic defense ratings are slightly more complicated.  The 10 in the 10+4*in below for Duran is a 0 for Angela, a 1 for Carlie, a 4 for Lise, a 7 for Hawk, and a 9 for Kevin.  The rest of the formulas (which means the +4*in and the entire 8*in formula) are the same.

Shields

Only Duran can use Shields

Prices of Helmets

Prices of Gauntlets

Prices of Armor