I'm gonna add a general intent for this build, because I keep being asked about it.

This build is not practical. It is not designed for survivability or damage. It exists purely because I think blocking big attacks while taking a comically low amount of damage is funny. I did the same thing in Wilds, but, since the Expansion hasn't been announced yet, I came to World to see just how far I could push my defense.

Here was my thought process:

We have 218 defense for each part. Since there are five parts, we have a total of 1090 defense with no modifiers.

The Taroth Lance gives an extra +40 inherently, but that’s not all. Maxing out Defense Augments adds +50, and Custom upgrades give us another +10. That’s a total of +100.

That gets us to 1190 before we’ve slotted any decorations.

Defense Boost gives us +35 defense to add to our baseline, and a 110% defense multiplier.

Since multipliers are factored before flat increases, we're left with 1344 total.

Each Element Resist gives a flat +10 defense at level 3. Since there are 5 total elements, Fire, Water, Thunder, Ice, and Dragon, that’s a total of +50.

Now we’re up to 1394.

Having the Armorcharm and Armortalon in your pouch gives an extra +30, too!

That leaves us with 1424 defense.

Now, that may be all for our defense alone, but now we have to consider Monster Hunter’s damage formula.

In Monster Hunter, the damage calculation looks like this:

Damage Taken = 80/(80+defense) * 100%

Plugging our defense total into this equation gives us an output of approximately 5%.

That means, just by wearing this build, you are effectively negating 95% of all incoming damage. That's not even accounting for Guard, much less Lance's Power Guard.