I was crafting items again, and today the UV spirits granted me a Piercing Defence Max Magic cloak.
I want Normal defense since all monster deal that type, but can anyone see which 5* armor of the magic line would be best for it?
Normally I wear Snarby Set everywhere, and I crafted this to try and match my Stun Max Magic hood.
Would this be any good in LD?
I'd make it into chaos, but thats just me.... the other options that you're given are divine mantle and grey feather. Grey feather is fairly average compared to most things and provides a fairly meh amount of defense compared to the complete lack of interesting bonuses being given to it. Divine Mantle would be second best IMO, but it is somewhat lacking in regard to its normal... Divine mantle would be interesting and alright, but it'd be somewhat a waste due to NOT being a hood.
Keep in mind that Chaos is:
-The only CTR based sword armor
-The only CTR based gun armor (seerus's hat isn't CTR based)
-Elemental by default
-Offensive, and thus good in general
-Low in terms of elemental/normal defense
Having a piercing UV on it could prove to be valuable if you like that kind of bonus... grey feather on the other hand, you'll likely struggle to find a use for. If you're trying to maximize armor bonus, then you might want to with grey feather, but if you're just trying for "good armor" I'd definitely go chaos due to the fact that you'd get more armor per original defense points than you would otherwise. Status resistances tend to help you exponentially more when you have a lot of them rather than none... with negative stat resists not making much of a difference compared to no stat resists in the first place.
Grey Feather Mantle seems cool : since you have piercing protection against toothpicks with the UV, you'll also have shock resistance, and a tasty elemental defense against hammer/trollaris.
Apart from that, I wouldn't do a Divine : having a bit of each protection is rarely useful.
Chaos could be good, but it's not very defensive in the first place. For Chaos I'd go with a status resistance for the one you fear the most.