Best Armor?

I know that the best armor during the BWE's was at Ventari's Refuge. Is that still the place to buy the best armor? I was thinking about buying armor there, but when I got to the armor trader I thought that this might not be the best place anymore. Does anyone know if it is still the best place to buy armor?

EDIT: whoops, meant to post this in the Questions and Answers thread...

Sadly no, it's not at ventari's i believe that you first see it at the end of the desert but im still at that annoying elona ranch mission so I haven't seen it yet either

Don't think it's the best anymore, the max defense was only 70 there. I think some of the new areas will have the better armor. However I haven't been in those places, so just a guess.

I think I am just going to buy the armor here and save up for the bigger armor.