Talk:Greatsword (Dark Souls II)/@comment-50.79.195.81-20140505164632/@comment-24591958-20140511202657

The Alva set is very light for a medium armor set and has very good defenses. You can get it by buying 16,000 souls worth of stuff from Maughlin the Armorer in Majula. Once you've done that, leave Majula and come back and he'll sell the armor. There's also the Black Dragon set, which has excellent defenses for its weight but no poise, which you can get by joining the Dragon Remnants and reaching rank 2 in the covenant (that isn't until very late in the game, though).