User blog comment:Wrath022/Chapter 517: Wendy Belserion, Review/@comment-5268982-20170116121338/@comment-7418318-20170116134104

Though to be fair this is probably the single best moment to don them that the entire series ever had, even more so than the first time Erza used it in the Tower of Heaven.

When the enemy can turn your own armour into a bomb to hurt you, wearing armour of any kind becomes completely meaningless if not outright dangerous to yourself.