Best armor sets in God of War Ragnarok

✓ At A Glance

• Nidavellir Armor Set
• Lunda’s Lost Armor Set
• Steinbjorn Armor Set

There’s no shortage of armor sets to choose from in God of War Ragnarok, allowing players the option to pick and choose a set that complements their playstyle and build.Each one has perks, stats boosts, cooldown reduction, and synergies, but also downsides. With so much on offer, it can daunting settling on the best armor in God of War Ragnarok.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through what we consider to be the best sets you can get in God of War Ragnarok. We’ll provide options for our leading man Kratos, with suggestions for the early game, mid-game, and late-game.

Each armor sets features three pieces – chest piece armor, wrist armor, and waist armor. These can be crafted at Brok and Sindri’s shop, with blueprints obtained by completing side quests (i.e. Favors), Muspelheim trials, looting chests, or getting to certain points in the story.

As a general rule, you’re better off using pieces from the same set to stack and maximize their impact, as mixing and matching tends to weaken your overall build. But that said, if you’re after a particular build to suit your playstyle then God of War Ragnarok offers plenty of scope for hybrid builds.

Best early game armor – Nidavellir armor set

• Nidavellir’s Finest Plackart
• Nidavellir’s Finest Arm Guards
• Nidavellir’s Finest Waist Guard

The Nidavellir is one of the first armor sets you can craft at Brok’s shop. It’s designed to keep you alive while exploring the early realms. Much of this is down to a solid strength and vitality boost, but also a health burst when stun grabbing enemies thanks to the Plackart’s Stunning Restoration.

There’s also a reduction to how fast enemy stun bars drain through the Arm and Waist Guard’s Stunning Persistence. Though you’ll outgrow the Nidavellir set at some point, it should prove more than capable of accompanying you through the opening chapters of God of War Ragnarok.

How to get the Nidavellir armor set

You’ll pick up the blueprint for the Nidavellir Armor once you’ve visited Svartalfheim for the first time and triggered the In Service of Asgard favor in Nidavellir. Shutdown the mining rigs scattered around the Bay of Bounty. Completing the favor gives you the resources, namely Nidavellir Ore, needed to craft the armor.

Honorable mentions – early-game armor sets:

• Risen Snow Armor Set

Best mid-game armor – Lunda’s Lost armor set

• Lunda’s Lost Cuirass
• Lunda’s Lost Bracers
• Lunda’s Lost Belt

The best mid-game armor sets in God of War Ragnarok, Lunda’s Lost Armor is a deceptively effective and offensivel–geared armor set with boosts to strength, runic attacks, and luck that uses poison damage to give you an advantage in most fights.

The Lost Cuirass grants Vanir Poison, where bare-handed attacks, parries, and blocks have a high luck chance of causing bonus damage and poisoning enemies.

The Lost Bracers and Lost Belt follow this up with Prey Upon Poison, which increases the damage of melee attacks on poisoned enemies. In action, this means parrying to poison enemies, then inflicting massive follow up damage.

How to get Lunda’s Lost armor set

Lunda’s Lost Armor is available once you’ve completed the Lunda’s Lost Armor Labor in Vanaheim. Three pieces of armor are scattered across the Vanaheim River Delta, in the Cliffside Ruins, The Veiled Passage, and Noatun’s Garden, specifically. Find them all and return to Lunda to craft the set. For more details on finding all three armor pieces, head to our Vanaheim realm guide.

Honorable mentions – mid-game armor sets:

• Raven Tears Armor Set
• Spiritual Armor Set

Best late game armor – Steinbjorn armor set

• Steinbjorn Plackart
• Steinbjorn Gauntlets
• Steinbjorn Waist Guard

Aside from boosting Kratos’ defense stat to a ludicrous 585, the Steinbjorn Armor set offers some other major defensive benefits, which makes it one of, if not the best armor set in God of War Ragnarok.

The waist guard and gauntlets combine to offer Stunning Retaliation, which gives a moderate luck chance to stagger and stun nearby enemies when Kratos takes damage. As for the Steinbjorn Plackart chest piece armor, Bloodthirsty Retaliation means any of Kratos’ attacks after sustaining damage restore health.

Not only will enemies struggle to make a dent in your health bar, but if they do, then Kratos retaliates with devastating consequences. All in all, the Steinbjorn set does exactly what armor should do – morph Kratos into a tank capable of sustaining hit after hit. It becomes particularly useful when you take on late-game optional bosses that dish out massive damage with even a single hit.

How to get the Steinbjorn armor set

To get the Steinbjorn armor set requires completing the Steinbjorn Armor Labor. For this, you’ll need to track down the Mystical Heirloom relic in Midgard, use it at troll statues across the nine realms to summon trolls, and defeat said trolls to gather Slumber Stones to craft the armor. For more details, head to our dedicated guide to getting the Steinbjorn armor set.

Honoroable mentions – late game armor sets:

• Dragon Scaled Armor Set
• Surtr’s Armor Set
• Guiding Light Armor Set

Best overall armor – Berserker armor set

• Berserker Cuirass
• Berserker Gauntlets
• Berserker Waist Guard

A balanced set of Strength and Defense stats makes the Berserker set a solid option, but it’s the extra effects of wearing the armor that make it stand out. The Berserker Cuirass increases the damage of melee attacks after using a relic, but, double-edged sword her, the damage sustained by Kratos. Good in itself, but further heightened by the Luck chance, which happens whenever you attack, block, parry, or take damage to trigger a Soul Explosion, dealing damage but also reduce the cooldown on your Relic skills.

How to get the Berserker armor set

To get the Berserker armor set pieces, you’ll need to defeat the mini boss enemies at these Berserker Gravestones:

• Berserker Cuirass – The Barrens, Alfheim
• Berserker Gauntlets – Mist Fields, Niflheim
• Berserker Waist Guard – Lake of Nine, Midgard

You can the complete the remaining Berserker Gravestones to secure the resources needed to fully upgrade the set.