Talk:Guardian Set/@comment-121.45.184.211-20161208012717

Heavy sets really aren't balanced, are they? The only thing that ultimately matters with armour (unlike weapons, which have move set as a consideration) is stats, and all the non-upgradable sets have worse stats than the Black Iron and Giants sets, so they're automatically worse. Oh sure, you might wear Giardian, Smough's, Havel's, Golem or Stone while you're grinding up the 40 Twinkling Titanite to max out one of the others, but if you've beaten Seath to access the Crystal Cave faming spot that should only take about an hour at most, making all the other heavy sets useless except for fashion.