Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

I go with bronze and skip iron armor and get wolf... but in troll you probably want to get iron armor.
I don't think I have ever had a full set of troll, just a cape, but this playthrough I didn't even bother with that ha ha.

Bronze armor is the one that should always be skipped. It's only 6 points of protection better than Troll, slows you down 10%, and takes just a stupid amount of mining thanks to needing 2 copper and 1 tin per bronze. It's the most resource intensive armor in the game with the worst stat increase.