Question about Armor Spheres

[Halcian]

I haven't reached the point to where high level gear is unlocked yet in my game but my friend told me to pretty much not spend armor spheres on the low level sets as it would be a waste later when I need to upgrade the high level stuff.

My question is, does the high level gear only take Armor Sphere + or regular Armor Spheres? I'm wearing the Bone armor right now and I've only upgraded my chest piece once because I'm having trouble with Diablos right now. Is it ok to spend more Armor Spheres on this low level gear to get me past this point or is it just a case of "git good" lol.

[shlizzrd]

Spend them all, the low rank armor spheres are useless in high rank.

[pmcollectorboy]

You could always get more.

[McFuzz]

Armour spheres are infinite.

[jscjml]

You can use armor spheres for any armor unlike other MH games. In this one for instance: Armor Sphere gives +10 points, while Advanced Armor Sphere gives +50 or something.

[Zefar]

A normal Armor Sphere gives 1 point towards leveling up an armor. Armor Sphere+ gives 5 points.

They work on all armors but the first type of armor sphere is going to stop dropping pretty quickly. Don't know if there is an Armor Sphere++ though. I hope there is because now every armor piece takes a lot of points.

As for saving them, well sometimes it's good to have an upgraded armor as the defense bonus helps out a lot. Maybe build like every fourth new armor or so.

Do a lot of Research quests too.

[Criken]

Personally save them, you can go through the entire game not using any armor spheres, you get pretty good armor later on that wouldn't even require upgrading though.

[BurlsoL]

Having a single set of upgraded armor helps at low rank as you progress into high rank. It stops being efficient to keep upgrading this after entering high rank, but it will help you stay alive a little better than base level armor, even those you would likely be able to build initially in high rank.

[Chewy102]

Originally posted by Zefar:

A normal Armor Sphere gives 1 point towards leveling up an armor. Armor Sphere+ gives 5 points.

They work on all armors but the first type of armor sphere is going to stop dropping pretty quickly. Don't know if there is an Armor Sphere++ though. I hope there is because now every armor piece takes a lot of points.

As for saving them, well sometimes it's good to have an upgraded armor as the defense bonus helps out a lot. Maybe build like every fourth new armor or so.

Do a lot of Research quests too.

It goes +1. +5. +20. and then +80 for armor spheres.

And yes. It isn't worth saving older spheres from just how much it costs for higher rank upgrades added with how easy they are to earn. You get them from bounties and in post hunt rewards.