Armor is wearable gear that provides essential defensive stats and passive bonuses to keep your character alive against tough enemies. Your armor rating reduces incoming damage from enemies, especially the infected. Armor is divided into multiple slots — chest (vest), gloves, bracers, pants, boots, and neck gaiter — and each slot can be equipped with a unique piece.
In this guide, you’ll find the best armor set in Dying Light: The Beast—where to find it and how to optimize a defensive build for exploration.
How Armor Works in Dying Light: The Beast
Armor pieces boost defense and grant valuable bonuses such as reduced stamina consumption, increased healing, and bonus damage. Many of the strongest armor sets are hidden behind locked doors and power puzzles, making exploration key to progression.
Since enemies like Volatiles and Chimera can deal massive damage, equipping the best armor is critical for survival. The Soldier Armor Set is the most effective among all sets, as it significantly reduces incoming damage from powerful foes.
Best Armor Pieces to Use
In Dying Light: The Beast, you can equip armor across different slots, either mixing random pieces or completing a full set. For players who prefer a firearms-focused build, the Soldier Armor Set is the best choice. This set provides key bonuses such as increased firearm damage, reduced recoil, and extra damage against human enemies.
These stat boosts make the Soldier Set perfect for a gun-heavy playstyle, allowing you to rely on guns to clear encounters more effectively — especially when facing groups of human opponents.
Soldier Armor Set Bonuses
- +3% Damage from Firearms for each piece equipped (maximum +18%).
- -3% Recoil Reduction for firearms for each piece equipped (maximum -18%).
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+1.5% Bonus Damage to Humans for each piece equipped (maximum +9%).
Soldier Boots
Soldier Boots
To obtain the Soldier Boots, you must complete the Killing Streak side quest. This questline becomes available after finishing First Blood, which unlocks the option to speak with the vendor in Town Hall, located in Old Town.
The Killing Streak is divided into multiple volumes, and each one can only be unlocked after completing the previous entry. By finishing Killing Streak Volume 1, you’ll also be rewarded with the Soldier Tactical Vest, a key piece of the Soldier Armor Set.
How to Get Soldier Boots
- Make your way into the Town Hall to equip the Soldier Boots.
- Get inside the building over there and find the Shopkeeper.
- Interact with this vendor (Doug) by pressing O on the controller to start the Killing Streak quest.
- Upon completing the side quest, move back to the vendor and gain Soldier Boots and 4,000 EXP as a reward.
Soldier Reinforced Gloves
Soldier Reinforced Gloves
The Soldier Reinforced Gloves in Dying Light: The Beast are obtained by completing Killing Streak: Volume 2. To progress this side quest, you must check the killer’s message, a key objective required to finish the volume and unlock this essential piece of the Soldier Armor Set.
How to Get Soldier Reinforced Gloves
- Move to the northwest of the Townhall and southwest of the Railway Station.
- Move up the building on the terrace that is in front of the church.
- Get inside the church and collect the Soldier Reinforced Gloves from the bench on the left.
Soldier Bracers
Soldier Bracers
The Soldier Bracers in Dying Light: The Beast are obtained by completing the Killing Streak: Volume 3 side quest. This armor piece increases defense, reduces incoming damage, and provides bonus stats for firearms and melee combat.
How to Get Soldier Bracers
- Go to the bridge behind the Town Hall and start investigating the area.
- Jump down the bridge quickly, as the infected will chase you.
- You can collect the Soldier Bracers from the left on the bench.
Soldier Neck Gaiter
Soldier Neck Gaiter
The armor piece is unlocked during Killing Streak: Volume 4. This side quest becomes available only after completing Killing Streak: Volume 3. To progress, you must investigate the source of the gunfire in Old Town.
The objective directs you toward a combat encounter with hostile human enemies armed with rifles. After clearing the area and securing the location, you automatically receive the Soldier Armor piece as a reward.
How to Get Soldier Neck Gaiter
- Move to the northwest of the Hardwood Art Gallery and southeast of the Town Hall.
- There’s an abandoned building, and below it is a Bank Store on the ground floor.
- Go to the left of the building while facing towards it and jump onto the other building.
- Turn around and jump on the small platform.
- Climb upward and get inside the building.
- Collect the Soldier Neck Gaiter from the table.
Soldier Reinforced Pants
Soldier Reinforced Pants
The Soldier Reinforced Pants are obtained by completing the Killing Streak: Final Chapter side quest. This mission is the final entry in the Killing Streak questline, and it serves as the climax of the storyline you’ve been progressing through since the earlier volumes. To complete it, you’ll need to track down the killer one last time and face challenging encounters before finally earning your reward.
Finishing this quest not only provides the Soldier Reinforced Pants, but it also marks the completion of the entire Killing Streak storyline, making it a key milestone for players. Fully assembling the set significantly boosts your durability, firearm damage, and survivability against deadly enemies like zombies, Volatiles, and Chimera.
How to Get Soldier Reinforced Pants
- Make your way to the Municipal Library in the Safe Zone.
- Once you get to the abandoned library, get inside the librarian’s booth.
- Collect the Reinforced Pants from the table with a computer.
Soldier Tactical Vest
Soldier Tactical Vest
The Soldier Tactical Vest is obtained automatically after completing the Killing Strike Final Chapter in Dying Light: The Beast. This armor piece offers +1.5 damage resistance, 3% firearms recoil, and +3% damage (firearms). It is an Epic rarity armor with a level 7 armor rating, providing great defense for your firearm build.
