Tutorial:Armor Tips

This article is a collection of tips and tricks pertaining to Armor and Armor sets.

Hardened Diamond Armor

 * This armor is highly recommended for early game players due to its high and low cost.
 * It is almost as good as Perfect Armor tier 1, despite being 160x cheaper.
 * Players using this set should transition to some sort of cheap Dragon Armor or Ender Armor next.
 * A fast way to obtain the set is to use multiple Diamond Minions on your island or mine diamonds in the tunnel between Diamond Reserve and Obsidian Sanctuary in the Deep Caverns.

Mushroom Armor

 * This armor, enchanted with Growth 4 or 5 and Protection 5 can give pretty high and  at night.
 * It is also very easy to obtain, making it a good choice for early-game.

Zombie Soldier Armor

 * This armor set is pretty cheap and gives very good, however it requires Catacombs Level 9 to use.
 * Zombie Knight Armor gives less but more damage, making 3/4 Zombie Soldier Armor with a Zombie Knight Chestplate a viable option.

Young Dragon Armor

 * Young Dragon Armor typically costs around 600,000 Coins, being a fairly priced armor set. It gives decent health and, due to its excellent speed, is great for grinding Zealots in The End.
 * This armor set prioritizes over all other Stats.
 * Due to the Dungeon Item version of it having a noticeably lower Catacombs Level requirement than the other Dragon Armors, some eariler-floor dungeon players upgrade their young dragon armor to 5 stars and reforge it to Necrotic or Ancient, because Young Dragon Armor is and provides a decent stats boost.

Shadow Assassin Armor

 * This armor set provides great buffs to damage, including 100 and 100% . As such it is often used as a damage set before Necron's Armor.
 * Experienced players looking to get high may swap their helmet for the Shadow Assassin Helmet, because its piece bonus gives   per teleport, which is activated many times from using the Hyperion's or other Necron’s Blade variants’ Wither Impact ability and the Aspect of the End's teleports.
 * The Baby Yeti Pet is very good for berserkers who are in need of using the 2nd ability.
 * The Zombie Knight Armor Chestplate is often used as a lower-cost substitute for the Shadow Assassin Chestplate because it is more expensive than the rest of the set.

Superior Dragon Armor

 * The base stats of this armor can be nearly doubled with upgrades.
 * Because the armor set has very minor stat buffs without the set bonus being taken into account, switching should only be done once the player can afford the full set.
 * Superior Dragon Armor used to be considered one of the strongest armor sets, but is now surpassed by many others. It boasts the second highest and the highest  of all the dragon armors and surpasses Strong Dragon Armor in damage if the player has a large amount of  and  being increased by the set bonus' boost to Stats. It is one of the two sets (the other being Sorrow Armor) to grant additional  and the only set granting  because of the set bonus' 5% increase to all stats, making it one of the best armor for slayers or dragon fights, as Sorrow Armor does not give any   or, and is less viable for facing higher difficulty monsters. For these reasons, the set is desired by late-game players. However, as of the dungeons update, Shadow Assassin Armor beats Superior Dragon Armor in damage, and Necron's Armor, despite being more expensive, is way better than Superior Dragon Armor in damage and gives similar effective  , causing the price of Superior Dragon Armor to dip below 30m coins from the sets which outclassed it. Thus, Superior Dragon Armor is mostly used by people who do a lot of slayers, or people who have not gotten into dungeons yet.
 * When used in conjunction with a Blaze Pet, Frozen Blaze Armor surpasses Superior Dragon Armor in and . However, it does not grant any  and players are locked into using the Blaze Pet. At the same time, Superior Dragon Armor can be combined with pets like the Baby Yeti or Ender Dragon Pet for higher  and even . Players should evaluate closely which set is the right choice for them.

Frozen Blaze Armor

 * The only other armor set that competes for top damage is Necron's Armor. Necron's Armor is more flexible, but in regards to top damage both sets can deal nearly the same damage if Frozen Blaze has a Legendary Blaze Pet with a Warden Helmet and if Necron's Armor has a Legendary Ender Dragon Pet also with a Warden Helmet.
 * Legendary Blaze Pet combos with Warden Helmet to greatly scale the weapon's damage to a greater degree and can match the disparity in the combined Strength and Critical Damage compared to Necron's Armor.
 * Frozen Blaze Armor also scales better with Ancient and high Catacombs levels when the Blaze Pet is equipped.
 * Since Frozen Blaze Armor accumulates much more Strength compared to Critical Damage, talisman geared towards Attack Speed and/or Critical Damage can provide more optimal DPS as the reforges to accomplish this decreases the Strength and Critical Damage gap.