No armor upgrades - just find a better set if anything. Armor isn't the biggest gamechanger though don't think it will be a massive improvement for defence necessarily. I always base my armor 20% on stats and 80% on looks, Elden Bling baby

Theres no armor upgrading in this game, just like there wasnt in DS3.

Armor isnt even necessary anyway, lol

Lol no Armour upgrade.. my base clothes has had higher stats than any Armour I've found so far lmao.. kinda weird if you askbme consider im wearing shirts and shit and actual Armour protects me less lol

You don't upgrade armor. You can alter the appearance of some pieces from a Grace after you find the item to do so, but that's it.

I’d love if they would let us customize it purely cosmetic wise, color and whatnot.

there is a cave on the west side of the map down by the water its called costal cave its just straight left of the tutorial place down by the water u need to defeat a boss.. for some reason i am unable to upgrade my armor with it though

You can alter armor. Atleast some. By bonfire. With seewing sets or something. Something

Armor upgrading hasn't been a thing since DS2

When you could upgrade armor you could screw pvp balance by staying low Soul level but maxing armor. Back then pvp was within 10 levels of each other so if you were a low level player with high level armor you had huge advantage.

Yeah I’m gonna assume there is no Armor upgrading.

If this game is like ds3 you legit can't upgrade armor. Suggest putting some more points into vigor if you dont want to change armors.

It seems PushSquare lied to us. They have an article that clearly states that you can upgrade weapons and armor at Church of Ellah and Roundtable Hold. I was confused because no you can't upgrade armor, not at either of these locations, but what do I know? I'm a noob. Seems like lazy (game) journalism if that isn't the case. Good to know, anyway.

They stopped at ds2 which I’m glad they did because it makes swapping fashion so much easier!

Doesn't seem to be.

You can’t upgrade the armour but you can slightly alter the stats. Go to the cave with the double boss that leads to the dragon church, when you beat them you get an item that allows you to alter some clothes at a grace (it’s mainly things like removing cloaks or putting hoods down etc)

No, upgrading armor isn’t a souls thing.

Nah, from hasn't done that since ds1

Nope

Armor upgrading hasn't been a thing since DS2. Just focus on upgrading your vigor and flask. Armor doesn't really make a huge difference in these games.

You cant upgrade armor. You can alter it, but that only changes it slightly. You need more health, not heavier armor. Armor is really o ky for looks, as in souls games, higher armor really only saves you a couple points of health in the long run. Not really worth bogging yourself down with extra weight.

Hell I’m level 17 and can’t get past many bosses

Little one, this isnt dark souls 1

You can’t.

Arnour provides a % based reduction in damage taken. So there’s no need to keep it up to date with game progression. 15% physical negation means incoming physical damage is multiplied by x0.85, this means it’s efficientivness never changes, it’s always going to be equally effective.

Unlike a weapon. If a +0 sword does 110 damage that’s going to be fine vs early game bosses with 1500 hp, but pure trash vs lategame boss with 20,000 hp, so upgrades are needed to keep the damage dealt relevent.

Dark Souls 1 & 2 used different defense system for armour. It wasn’t % based, so upgrading it to keep it relevent was actually needed. But Bloodborne onwards arnour works by % mitigation so upgrades arnt needed.

Damage output is a combination of the stats the weapon scales with, and the upgrade level.

Or rather, the upgrade level increases how much attack rating you get from the stats the weapon scales with.

You can also change which stats the weapon scales with by changing the affinity using the Ash of War system. Keep in mind that weapons that upgrade with somber smithing stones can not change their affinity.

"I thought increasing Strength would increase the damage done by my weapons. I'm guessing increasing Strength only increases the available weapons you can wield. Whoops."

It can increase the damage your weapons deal, but by how much depends on how well the weapon scales off of your Strength stat. Check the Attribute Scaling section to seee this info.

From strongest to weakest scanning, the letters go: S>A>B>C>D>E>-. Better the letter, better the scaling.

Strength can increase damage but it depends on the weapon scaling, its like this

E - bad D - nah C - meh B - good A - yes S - YES

of course, the weapon can be good without high scaling if it has a good raw damage and its upgraded

Strength only increases damage of weapons that scale with strength

Basically you won’t need to rely on increases on damage through stats until later (once you’ve gotten vigor to 40 for mid game, 50 or 60 for endgame). Though of you’re at lvl 9 somber you might be at end already.

Get the stat requirements for your preferred weapons (if you 2h, your effective Strength will be 1.5x your base strength), then focus on vitality and endurance. Your smithing upgrades will carry the damage until you are built up enough to start building damage through attributes. Just pay attention to scaling on weapons, your dex rating will always increase from keen, but dex also increases most lightning armaments. Heavy will increase strength affinity, as well as weapon damage with Fire. Cold is increased by Int, and status affects by Arcane.

Why is a tailor upgrading metal armors? Wtf. Really. What were you thinking? Fix it. Put it back how it was. Cloth armors sure. Just no.

Tailor shop near the Whisper in Sacrament

The stairs to the left of the whisper in sacrament, the trailer shop is right on them