Talk:Medium Armor Sets (Dark Souls III)/@comment-76.20.213.252-20170411140245/@comment-4511886-20170411164013

Generally, armor in Souls has never been a huge deal with people often favoring looks over performance. In III this holds more true than ever before, thanks to the defense and absorption system it has.

Also, the Knight set isn't *better*, it just sacrifices low weight for more absorption compared to the other three sets you listed. It's like comparing a convertible to a pick-up truck. They seem relatively similar, but they're made with completely different things in mind.

Either way, the Knight set isn't even universally stronger than any of them, as all of the other three sets provide similar or superior elemental absorption in all fields except Dark and far more status resistances than the Knight set does.