Expert warrior build Frost armor vs Titanium

[Stealth-Boy 3000]

So for all the playtrhoughs till now I just opened the crates and crafted a titanium armor. But am seriously considering making a frost armor for the first time. And to balance it out, reforge all my accs to warding (to compensate for the loss of ♥♥♥. bonus).

Lemme get this straight: Titanium has slightly higher defense and better set bonus making it more defensive vs frost that has (imo) weaker set bonus but better %'s across the board, making it more offensive. Also a bit better mobility.

What are your thoughts and also one important question: Does defense rating mean more in expert or less? I heard both ways and don't know what to think but I leaning more towards not important cause the damage numbers are huge and def. value is static, correct?

[dreynar_swag]

Titanium

[PeripheralVisionary]

Defense rating becomes more and more meaningless later on when we're talking wardings across all accessories, and especially when the defense difference is in the single digits. Titanium's set bonus is very useful to surviving the occasional hit. While Frost is definitely more oriented toward attack with a pretty nifty debuff that works on most enemies besides Fishron and Destroyer.

I wonder if it works with Shadowflame debuffs, which I had around the same time.

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

FROST

There are three main reasons for this:

1)
a) Frost is easier to get. Especially as you're using the Crates tactic, to craft a full set of Titanium you need BUCKETLOADS of it. With Frost, you can use your Adamantite too.
b) Frost is cheaper anyhow.
c) Whilst farming Ice Cores you have a good chance of getting an Ice Feather for Ice Wings, which are extraordinarily good wings for being available in Hardmode immediately. (In my current playthrough they're the only lot I ever used).

2) Frost is better.
a) Practically nobody (not even the Dungeon Guardian) is immune to Frostburn. Frostburn deals essentially 4 damage per second and can be regarded as simply a 4-dmg weapon increase.
b) Especially for ranger, Frost has ABSURDLY high amounts of defense. Titanium + ranged helmet = 34. Frost = 43. With melee, you lose out on six points of defense so it may be better going with Titanium there.

3) Frost looks bettter


(Frost Armor is my favourite armor set in the game. It's got really good damage bonuses, as well as much higher armor for rangers than anything up to Chlorophyte (which beats it by two points))

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The second part of your question is that defense is just as important in Expert as it is Vanilla. Sometimes you trade defense out for offensive capabilities - it really is the same either way.

However, when you get accessories they're usually best reforged to Warding (with the exception of the Frost + Pumpkin moons, whereby you have a time limit and hence need to deal bucketloads of damage).

[Stealth-Boy 3000]

wooow man, thanks for the lengthy answer, I'll consider it indeed, am still a bit away from hardmode so.. but yeah, Thanks! =)

[Stealth-Boy 3000]

Any other views on the subject?

[Huhn]

frost armor all the way, significantly more defence, slightly better damage+crit stats and you can even use a melee weapon for which you also get melee speed. on top of that the passive is better and will also help your DPS