When and to what should I upgrade Guardian Armor?

[John Marston]

The armor was doing fine by the main game but when Im starting to fight with tougher monsters after completing main game, im basically 2-3 hits from Lunastra for example. To what armor should I upgrade? I play with Great Swords.
Im playing on PS4 btw.

[Sanquin]

Ideally you shouldn't use guardian armor at all. As it's an overpowered set meant for people who want to quickly rush through the base game's story. As a newbie it's better to use the regular armors to actually get used to the combat and monsters.

After the main game though, go with armor from iceborne. Leave the guardian armor to the side.

[Tregrenos]

You're around the time you should be looking for a replacement for your armor. You've reached the point where the armor was intended to get you to and Lunastra is a fight you need to learn and develop specific gear for. Based on which attacks are giving you the most trouble which of the armors in your current list look like they can help?

If you have Iceborne go ahead and continue the story. You can always go back and fight these elders at a later date and some of the earlier Master Rank armors will always be the better choice over what you may already have. A good, reasonably early set to build is Tigrex as its Speed Eating and Free Meal Secret really improve your chance of survival.

[Cyrus]

use the guardians set to farm out kushala daora, due to massive damage boost from blast weapons [its weak to blast] Its armor is strong, and will be ideal for 90+% of bosses in base game- this will allow you to learn all the basics you need to fight in end game

then farm out to HR 30-60 and get the most basic AT val hazak set, or kusha and some wyvernstones to get health regen on your sword

Then head into iceborne and enjoy the game.You will breeze through all iceborne content up to middle of MR

There just upgrade your weapons and gear in the guiding lands. Enjoy the rest of time with the game. If that is 30- X hours

make your own fun

[ChubbNutt]

Originally posted by Sanquin:

Ideally you shouldn't use guardian armor at all. As it's an overpowered set meant for people who want to quickly rush through the base game's story. As a newbie it's better to use the regular armors to actually get used to the combat and monsters.

After the main game though, go with armor from iceborne. Leave the guardian armor to the side.

This.

[𝑅𝒾𝒾𝓃𝒶]

2-3 hits is normal.
Guardian armor can be used until iceborne, then the low def can be a problem.

[John Marston]

Personally Guardian Armor felt OP only in Low Rank. In High Rank its not that OP at all, like it is good but i dont feel that it's op, but maybe Im just a newbie crybaby.
Thank you everyone for great tips! I love to see that community of my fav game series is so gentle and incredible!

[Cyrus]

Its not OP because it takes a ton of time to DPS your boss down. Yes you wont die as easy... who cares if it takes 25-45 min to kill a monster with that gear in HR.

Very few sets actually boost or work with blast at all. In fact blast is only good against some bosses and almost none of the elder dragons that matter- will boost with blast

It is only used to farm out Kushala armor- so that you can get into ACTUAL game. And kushala armour is not that good either.

[Ragosta tin Dei]

Lots of people keep saying not to use guardian because it doesn't develop mechanical skill. This is true. For the most part. However keep in mind you get guardian during that time in the game where most armors are useless especially since low rank is such a small part of the game.

I would probably run guardian until I hit high rank and only then start building sets that matter.