Board Thread:Game Discussions/@comment-24372906-20140103020432/@comment-24065110-20140103094853

I personally found it benficial to replace weaker armors by stronger ones especially before maxing out the weaker ones.

In your case. Stop working on Crius+! Forge the glacius and level that one. It is FAR superior to your crius+ and is an armor to keep. Even at lvl 35 it will outperform a fully maxed crius+ by a fifty points already. So. If you got duplicate element combinations stop working on the lower level armors and focus on the high level ones. They are longer to keep and will serve you better.

Check with the wiki about maximum stats if you are unsure which of two equal-element armors you should go for. Also consider level. E.g. it is far easier (and faster) to level a blackfrost raiment to lvl 70 than to level a moontide platemail to lvl 99. If you have both, I'd suggest to level the blackfrost first and use it before leveling the epic to max.

I also don't strictly focus on a single armor. I found it more beneficial to have a variety of medium to high level armours compared to a few maxed but elementwise limited set of maxed armors. Doesn't mean you shouldn't max a good armor if you can. Just saying that if you balance things out and keep a generally high level it might work a lot better. At least it does (or rather did) for me. At lvl 160+ with some maxed epic those considerations don't matter much anymore, but you ain't there yet and asked how to advance to higher levels and thats how I did.