What armor set should I craft after the defender set?

[Ziiio]

Hi guys, I'm new to the game and like what the title said, the defender set completely spoiled me. Please help what should I aim for after the storyline

[VeeVee麦]

It depends on where you are currently at in the story. Maybe the armor that you can currently make?

[Toxi]

HR's T2 and T3 monsters, or in other words, the apex monsters of the areas and the elder dragons, of these you should find better pieces/sets than the defender armor set.

[Hammer Of Evil]

the defender set should get you to the end of HR pretty easily.

uhh.. without knowing what weapon you're using i'm just going to say four piece drachen for master's touch, a charm to suit your weapon, and slot whatever decos you have. dealers choice on the last piece.

if you can't kill behemoth, use the plunder blade. you'll need to run him alot to plunder all the materials, but it's better than failing it 30 times in a group and getting nothing each time.

[dark sol]

you can make the geralt set in the witcher colaboration event. its a good overall armor. after this set you can try the behemoth set, assuming youre not getting iceborne. if you will get iceborne you can stick to geralts armor and craft weapons because iceborne will have master rank armors, so you will not need to farm high rank armors so much.

[Shift]

You go fashion hunter and screw stats.

[Bomoo]

Originally posted by Ziiio:

Hi guys, I'm new to the game and like what the title said, the defender set completely spoiled me. Please help what should I aim for after the storyline

And this is why I'm not using the defender set. This is exactly why you shouldn't either. Giving players crutches like this cheater god mode set is totally counter productive to letting new players catch their skills up to where they can actually meaningfully participate in expansion content. The only way the defender set makes sense is if an experienced player is using it on a new character and wants to blow through the story without trying too hard.

On paper it sounds great - let new players catch up! - except you're robbing them of ever learning how to craft armor, what to look for when crafting upgrades, how to use healing effects during fights, etc. Robbing new players of ever developing actual practical experience with the game, and kicking that can down the road to them being a noob burden on Iceborne groups instead of getting their noobness sorted out during the story.

[Popcorn]

Originally posted by Bomoo:

Originally posted by Ziiio:

Hi guys, I'm new to the game and like what the title said, the defender set completely spoiled me. Please help what should I aim for after the storyline

And this is why I'm not using the defender set. This is exactly why you shouldn't either. Giving players crutches like this cheater god mode set is totally counter productive to letting new players catch their skills up to where they can actually meaningfully participate in expansion content. The only way the defender set makes sense is if an experienced player is using it on a new character and wants to blow through the story without trying too hard.

On paper it sounds great - let new players catch up! - except you're robbing them of ever learning how to craft armor, what to look for when crafting upgrades, how to use healing effects during fights, etc. Robbing new players of ever developing actual practical experience with the game, and kicking that can down the road to them being a noob burden on Iceborne groups instead of getting their noobness sorted out during the story.

Welp, by the time they get to MR, capcom will have gotten what they were aiming for, the money lol.
Not their fault the players want EZPZ armor to rush the base game