Zelda: Breath of the Wild guide – how to get the Ancient Armor

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Zelda: Breath of the Wild guide – how to get the Ancient Armor for Guardian Resistance

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild features a lot of classic Zelda enemies, but one major new antagonist in the game are the guardians: hulking mechanical creatures with death rays that can rip about 10 hearts off you in one shot. They’re deadly, and some of the later areas of the game are absolutely packed with them.

Here’s the good news, however: the guardians actually have a set of armor that matches directly to them, and that armor comes with the very handy skill to resist attacks from guardians. Get the full set and you’re in for an even better bonus.

Each piece of the Ancient Armor, as it’s called, features the ‘Guardian Resist’ ability – which basically means that with each piece of the armor you equip your ability to survive guardian blasts goes up quite a lot. With a complete set you can actually take a couple of blasts point-blank and not die, which is pretty damn good for storming Hyrule Castle.

How the Ancient Armor is the best set in the game

The armor has a base defence stat of 4 per piece, though through the Great Fairy Fountains this can be boosted to a maximum of 28 per piece – making it the joint-strongest set in the game, and only one non-set piece of armor (the Champion’s Tunic) outstrips it when fully upgraded.

When the full set is equipped together and the armor upgraded twice or more there’s an additional bonus, too: you’ll gain the Ancient Proficiency buff, increasing the damage you do with ancient-type weapons, which smaller guardians drop in shrines.

All of the Ancient Armor set is available from the Akkala Ancient Tech Lab in the far north of the Eastern Akkala region of Hyrule. Unlike most armor in the game that’s sold there are additional requirements for you to get your hands on it.

Each piece of Ancient Armor you want (Helm, Curiass, Greaves) costs 2000 rupees, but then on top of that each requires 20 Ancient Gears, 5 Ancient Shafts and 3 Ancient Cores.

These items are actually fairly common out in the world of Breath of the Wild with a notable catch – each is a common drop from guardians, so you’ll be required to go out hunting the very things you want protection from.

Remember that an ancient arrow (also sold at the ancient tech lab) to the eye will take down Guardians in one clean shot. Good luck hunting – this armor is worth it.

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