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- Alberich's Set. Set with red glintstones, said to be formed by the blood of sacrifices. Strengthens thorn sorcery.
- Albinauric Set. Worn by young Albinaurics.
- All-Knowing Set. Armor set with countless eyes and ears. Worn by Gideon Ofnir, the All-Knowing.
- Aristocrat Set. High quality garb adorned with a golden embroidery. Travel attire worn by nobles in the capital. Terribly faded and tattered.
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- Overview
- Elden Ring armor: What to look for
- Elden Ring best light armor: Black Knife Set
- Elden Ring best medium armor: Raging Wolf Set
- Elden Ring best heavy armor: Lionel's Set
- Elden Ring best poise armor: Bull-Goat Set
- Elden Ring best immunity armor: Mushroom Set
- Elden Ring best mage armor: Spellblade Set
- Elden Ring best Dex armor: White Reed Set
- Elden Ring best Faith armor: Haligtree Knight Set
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Elden Ring's best armor sets — detailed right here.
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•What to look for
•Best light armor
•Best medium armor
When selecting the best Elden Ring armor, you'll generally want to pick pieces or sets that offer a great balance between protection and weight. You want your armor to reduce damage and give you as much poise (the stat that determines how much you resist being interrupted while attacking) as possible, but it's also important to avoid armor that's so heavy that it renders your dodge rolls slow and ineffective. This occurs when you have a Heavy Load. Thankfully, you can view the weight of your load in Elden Ring's inventory menu, along with the weight, poise, and damage resistances of each piece of armor you've acquired during your journey.
Something important to highlight is that in Elden Ring, armor doesn't offer a flat damage resistance. Instead, each piece of armor offers individual resistances to different types of damage. These include various physical damage types such as strike, slash, and pierce, as well as elemental and magical damage types like magic, fire, lightning, and holy. If you're about to go up against opponents using a particular type of damage, wearing armor that's particularly resistant to that damage will be majorly beneficial. Note that nearly all of the armors we've chosen for this list are well-rounded and offer effective protection from most damage types.
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The best light armor set in Elden Ring is the Black Knife Set. Aside from offering solid protection and being easy for any character to equip due to its low weight, it also allows its wearer to move around in complete silence. This prevents enemies from hearing you if you're behind them, even if you're sprinting or rolling, so you don't need to crouch. This makes sneaking up to your foes for backstabs easier and faster to do.
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If you're looking for a good medium armor set that provides strong protection while still being light enough for most builds, the Raging Wolf Set will be perfect. It's one of the lightest medium armor sets in the entire game, yet it offers excellent damage resistance. This means that all but the lowest Equip Load builds will be able to equip it without having to worry about having a heavy load that hinders your ability to dodge.
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There are several different heavy armor sets in Elden Ring, but the best one for most players will be the Lionel's Set. While it does look a little goofy, it nevertheless offers the best overall balance between weight, damage reduction, and poise. This is an excellent armor set for Strength builds, though it's also an excellent choice for Dexterity builds with high Endurance.
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If you're a Strength user that wants the maximum possible poise, look no further than the Bull-Goat Set. When wearing all four pieces, your character will have a staggeringly high, ridiculous poise stat of 100. Paired with a large weapon like a greatsword or a greathammer, this armor will ensure that nothing short of special boss attacks will stop you from committing your melee swings. The armor also offers superb protection, though it's important to note that it weighs a ton. You'll need a lot of Endurance if you want to equip this armor and fight effectively.
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No, we're not joking — the Mushroom Set is genuinely one of the best armor sets you can find in Elden Ring. Unlike other sets that provide great protection or increase stats like Intelligence or Dexterity, the Mushroom Set massively boosts your resistance to Poison, Scarlet Rot, and Death (also known as blight). Wearing this set will make traversing Elden Ring's numerous poison swamps much easier since it will significantly slow the rate at which you get afflicted by the aforementioned status effects.
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There are several different armor sets in Elden Ring that provide sorcery mages with benefits like improved Intelligence or a slightly higher Mind stat for extra mana, but overall, we feel that the Spellblade Set is the best armor set for mages. Not only does the set provide decent protection considering its very light weight, but each piece of it also boosts the power of glintstone sorceries by 1%. A four percent buff doesn't sound like much, but that extra damage adds up over time, especially since glintstone sorceries are some of the best Elden Ring spells available.
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Dexterity setups are some of the best Elden Ring builds, and the best overall armor to use with them is the White Reed Set. The chestplate, gauntlets, and greaves all offer a great balance of protection and weight, and the set's Okina Mask helmet provides you with an extra three points of Dexterity. It also reduces your Focus slightly, but this isn't really a problem since Focus only determines your resistance to Sleep and Madness — two status effects you'll rarely encounter throughout your adventure.
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While many of Elden Ring's best weapons work great with Faith builds, the same sadly cannot be said for the game's armor sets. Despite this, there is one armor set that we highly recommend using with Faith characters: the Haligtree Knight Set. The helmet increases your Faith stat by two points, while the set as a whole offers great damage resistance despite not being too heavy.
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Jun 9, 2023 · Armor Sets are complete combinations of individual Armor in Elden Ring. Armor Sets provides players with protection and resistances against all types of damage such as Magic, Fire, Light or Holy. Wearing Armor also changes the character's appearance.
