by IV_Mark_VI Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:15 am
Yeah, but to upgrade giants full you need 8 pieces of twink for each piece. 4 pieces, 8 for each = 32 twink. If you buy it all, that's 240 000 souls, not easy to come by for a beginner.
If you're ranking Giant's as number 1, I'd rank black iron as #3 (just below havel's for the poise). Guardian Helm is great IMO as well. First couple of times playing, Stone was the go to armour for me whenever I needed high defence. Later when the game became easy and souls were easy to come by, I never touched it.
Upgrading armour is really expensive and time consuming if you do it legit. The amount of titanite chunks and slabs you need are silly. Best to go with armour that needs upgrading with Twink in my opinion; I hate farming for chunks.