Should I mix Legiana beta and Ingot alpha high rank armor?

[empty child]

I like the skills on the armor pieces below, and I want the 2 piece armor set bonus from Legiana.
Maybe you can tell me why I should choose beta instead of alpha on the Ingot armor, I'm a newb when it comes to choosing alpha or beta.

Legiana helm(Divine Blessing), Legiana mail(Evade Window), Ingot vambraces(Health Boost), Ingot coil(Wind Proof), and Ingot greaves(Defense Boost).

[dyne2alex]

beta is generally more flexible when you have decos. Alpha usually gives you more up front but is less upgradeable with decos. There's a few pieces where alpha gives you more value, but mostly beta gives the best value if you have the decos.

However, because iceborne is out, high rank deco farm isn't really done anymore : people generally just go straight into iceborne. Therefore, unless you really have no use for the extra skills the alpha set gives you, might be good to use alpha sets till you hit iceborne content where you have easy access to most of the decos that were available in high rank as well as most of the more common tier 4 decos (highest rank decos).

[月]

Use the armor pieces that suit your need.

Appearance wise you can use layered armor.

[Otaconnor]

The only good pieces of the Ingot set are the arms. Beta is better and there's no reason to use alpha unless you REALLY want one level of thunder attack.
Every other piece is very underwhelming. Windprooof is only useful against certain monsters and defense boost is mega weak (divine blessing is mathematically superior, and only needs 4 levels to hit max)
You can use the legiana beta helmet and alpha chest to get the set bonus and max level divine blessing.
Coil and legs can be anything else you want.

[empty child]

Is Legiana helm B, Legiana mail A, Ingot vambraces B, Zorah spine B(Fortify), and Ingot greaves B an OK armor set? I really don't know what else to replace the Ingot greaves.

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by Sweet:

Is Legiana helm B, Legiana mail A, Ingot vambraces B, Zorah spine B(Fortify), and Ingot greaves B an OK armor set? I really don't know what else to replace the Ingot greaves.

what weapon you planning to use with it?

[empty child]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

Originally posted by Sweet:

Is Legiana helm B, Legiana mail A, Ingot vambraces B, Zorah spine B(Fortify), and Ingot greaves B an OK armor set? I really don't know what else to replace the Ingot greaves.

what weapon you planning to use with it?

SA

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by Sweet:

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

what weapon you planning to use with it?

SA

for the boots i'd get something with either some amount of earplugs (i forget the amount best for Axe.) or something like constitution to reduce your stamina drain on the wild axe swing and evasion rolls. its a little bit but it goes a lot farther than a couple points of defense boost.

eventually i'd replace the Zorah spine but for now fortify is useful for a raw damage set. the luck from the legiana set bonus is also nice. all round decent early set but i'd consider those changes i mentioned.

the math for what defense does for you in damage mitigation, you never want to eat for defense large, and you never really want to run defense skill unless your going for the elemental res boost for going up to lvl 3 or 6, and thats for end game sets basically.

[empty child]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

Originally posted by Sweet:

SA

for the boots i'd get something with either some amount of earplugs (i forget the amount best for Axe.) or something like constitution to reduce your stamina drain on the wild axe swing and evasion rolls. its a little bit but it goes a lot farther than a couple points of defense boost.

eventually i'd replace the Zorah spine but for now fortify is useful for a raw damage set. the luck from the legiana set bonus is also nice. all round decent early set but i'd consider those changes i mentioned.

the math for what defense does for you in damage mitigation, you never want to eat for defense large, and you never really want to run defense skill unless your going for the elemental res boost for going up to lvl 3 or 6, and thats for end game sets basically.

Kadachi greaves A has constitution 1 and thunder res 2, and Zorah spurs A has earplugs 1 and Bombardier 2.

[Xilo The Odd]

hmm, i'd say... if the kadachi beta has a lvl 3 or lvl 2 slot, and keeps the constitution, that. if the zorah beta keeps the earplugs and gets a lvl 2 or lvl 3 slot, then that. if thats not the case for either, then stick to the alpha. if you got iceborne and are going into its content at some point a lot of this armor will be out moded by your first master rank set.

[empty child]

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

hmm, i'd say... if the kadachi beta has a lvl 3 or lvl 2 slot, and keeps the constitution, that. if the zorah beta keeps the earplugs and gets a lvl 2 or lvl 3 slot, then that. if thats not the case for either, then stick to the alpha. if you got iceborne and are going into its content at some point a lot of this armor will be out moded by your first master rank set.

Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention that constitution and earplugs were the alpha skills. Is it up to me to pick the armor pieces? Or do you recommend one of the armor pieces?

[Henrique87]

In HR you can go full on Attack Boost or Critical Eye, in MR i'd recommend using Defense Boost till you get used to the buffed monsters.

Just remember to always build a set with Health Boost +3 and you'll be good to go.

@Edit: mind to say where in the story you're? i can try to make a couple sets with my old HR armor (deleted the loadouts since i begun MR) and post it here. I'm a SA exclusive user. :)

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by Sweet:

Originally posted by Xilo The Odd:

hmm, i'd say... if the kadachi beta has a lvl 3 or lvl 2 slot, and keeps the constitution, that. if the zorah beta keeps the earplugs and gets a lvl 2 or lvl 3 slot, then that. if thats not the case for either, then stick to the alpha. if you got iceborne and are going into its content at some point a lot of this armor will be out moded by your first master rank set.

Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention that constitution and earplugs were the alpha skills. Is it up to me to pick the armor pieces? Or do you recommend one of the armor pieces?

i suggest both, the earplugs will be useful as a Axe user as you wont have to roll to avoid monster roars, allowing you to use those opporunities to do damage, Consitution is a decent skill to mess with if you like to spam the wild axe swings and focus on the evasion skill so you can roll evade everything.

once you've gotten to the point of fighting the elder dragons though, you'll probably use some chunks of teostra and some chunks of either nerg or Vaal pending on what kind of healing you want out of your weapon or armor. they also have some decent damage skills between them. i'd say till that point no harm in focusing on survival and flinch/stun resistant armor pieces.

one real way to stay prepped and ready for master rank would be to keep your charms upgraded. find skills you find useful and keep maxing out the charms for those skills.

[bat0]

I mixed it with Uragan set if using Lance