Most beautiful/cool armor

BetaB17 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 09, 2013 11:59 pm

I only have and only ever will play what vanilla and the dlc's offer. In my personal choice, I rarely find myself wearing the helmets of most sets, replacing it with a hood and later on a mask. I will say though, some have always caught my eye, thus I should make two lists based on two criteria :mrgreen:

Full Sets:

W/o Helmets:

philfredobob · **Posted:** Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:29 pm

Dragonplate is underrated. I don't know what people have against the helmet, I thought it looked really good. I definitely prefer it to Daedric.

Khali · **Posted:** Fri Oct 11, 2013 6:16 am

philfredobob wrote:

Dragonplate is underrated. I don't know what people have against the helmet, I thought it looked really good. I definitely prefer it to Daedric.

The helmet has issues with clipping. Some of the vanilla hairstyles and large majority of mod hairstyles show through in the area above the face. I personally wouldn't like it even if that wasn't the case. Here is why, the horns. Any helmet with horns or other decorations that stick up where your enemy can grab it is just asking for death. If they do not break your neck outright they are going to twist your head around to where you can't see the next attack and thus can not block or dodge it. Just my little dose of realism into a fantasy world.

Then there is the camp of players who do not like any of the dragon armor because it is just plain ugly, I fall into this camp. It looks like something a barbarian from the back hills threw together out of what he found in the village trash pile. I like my armor to be a bit more refined. Bioware did a better job with armor made with dragon parts in Dragon Age Origins than Bethesda did in Skyrim. This is just my opinion though. As we all know beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

philfredobob · **Posted:** Fri Oct 11, 2013 6:39 am

Khali wrote:

Then there is the camp of players who do not like any of the dragon armor because it is just plain ugly, I fall into this camp.

I'm not seeing the ugliness in it, I quite like how it looks. And all the characters I have played have never encountered any kind of problem with clipping with the Dragonplate armour, so there's that.

I've never been one to care too much about realism. And I also never saw a huge problem with the way this helmet worked in regards to that, but I'm no expert so nevermind that.

One last thing, I do not like Dragonscale. I like Dragonplate, but not the light armour version.

Yaije · **Joined:** Sun Jun 14, 2009 7:17 pm **Posts:** 1542

the dragonbone and ugliness thing, i think it has something to do with the color scheme?

imo daedric has this issue of looking well beyond the realm of useful and going far too intricate for use in combat.

House of the Wolf · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 3:38 am

Dragonbone is awesome on stockier players; skinnier players look wonky in it.

CBR JGWRR · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:43 am

Khali wrote:

It looks like something a barbarian from the back hills threw together out of what he found in the village trash pile.

TBF, it is.

perylousdemon · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 6:41 pm

Honestly, I'm a fan of elven armor. The helmet could use a little work, but it all comes together so nicely. Andari has been wearing elven armor since about level 12 or so.

As far as named armors go, I love the DB armor. It's very fitting for any sneaky-type character.

CBR JGWRR · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 6:46 pm

Elven light is better IMO, doesn't have the pauldrons so it looks better, if less protective.

perylousdemon · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:27 pm

CBR JGWRR wrote:

Elven light is better IMO, doesn't have the pauldrons so it looks better, if less protective.

She had that for a little bit until I realized it provided the same protection as leather armor, and I could improve leather armor further at the time. Granted, I use ironflesh on top of my armor to boost my armor rating in melee, but I still feel more comfortable with elven. I don't mind the pauldrons all that much since I'm wearing a snow bear pelt cloak, which hides them completely.

CBR JGWRR · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:41 pm

How could you improve leather armour more, it doesn't have a tempering bonus perk unlike the Elven light armour. And it's heavier by a little bit.

Hrolf Alfblod · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 8:24 pm

^

Maybe perylous didn't have any refined moonstone, but had some leather.

Snail's Pace · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 8:53 pm

perylousdemon wrote:

Granted, I use ironflesh on top of my armor to boost my armor rating in melee,

Does that actually work? I thought the game used whichever armor rating was higher - the mage armor or the regular armor. But I don't know where I got that notion, or if it is right or wrong.

perylousdemon · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 9:11 pm

Hrolf Alfblod wrote:

^

Maybe perylous didn't have any refined moonstone, but had some leather.

This. I got the elven light armor at level 5. Most merchants don't carry refined moonstone at that level. Leather is abundant, though.

@Snail's Pace: You know, I never actually checked to see if my armor rating went up. I just assumed it did. Now I have to boot up the game and check...

CBR JGWRR · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 9:20 pm

There's more than enough Moonstone ore in Whiterun Hold to temper it up a bit and make weapons from...

Armour spells work on top of physical armour, although the mage armour Alteration perks which multiply the strength don't.

Pisik · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:02 pm

It may sounds weird but I like Scaled Armor.

Raynil dralas · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:34 pm

CBR JGWRR wrote:

Elven light is better IMO, doesn't have the pauldrons so it looks better, if less protective.

Agreed, I really miss the multiple armor pieces from morrowind where you could decide not to wear pauldrons or swap them for pauldrons of a different set that looked better.

Dohva. · **Posted:** Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:39 pm

Pisik wrote:

It may sounds weird but I like Scaled Armor.

That's my second favorite next to fur. It looks nice and protects well.

BetaB17 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:18 am

Dohvakiin2012 wrote:

Pisik wrote:

It may sounds weird but I like Scaled Armor.

That's my second favorite next to fur. It looks nice and protects well.

I actually like fur, but I do wish there was more variety amongst them, especially when you consider how common bandits use it.

Snail's Pace · **Posted:** Thu Oct 17, 2013 1:35 am

^ That reminds me that a Windhelm guard referred to my character's studded armor as "the armor of a brigand" and warned her not to commit any crimes on his watch.

Belthazor · **Posted:** Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:34 am

BetaB17 wrote:

Dohvakiin2012 wrote:

Pisik wrote:

It may sounds weird but I like Scaled Armor.

That's my second favorite next to fur. It looks nice and protects well.

I actually like fur, but I do wish there was more variety amongst them, especially when you consider how common bandits use it.

Aren't there like 3 or 4 variations of the fur armor? If any armor in the game has any variation, it's fur armor.

I like Fur Armor, but I like the Forsworn Armor even more. At least for females.

BetaB17 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:12 am

Belthazor wrote:

Aren't there like 3 or 4 variations of the fur armor? If any armor in the game has any variation, it's fur armor.

I like Fur Armor, but I like the Forsworn Armor even more. At least for females.

I was more or less referring to how morrowind did in the past, the material it's made of. Granted you can have your default, but it doesn't hurt to have some that are special in there own way..

Back to the op, why all the love/hate over dragonbone? Yet I get a slight feel dragonscale is felt forgotten at times

philfredobob · **Posted:** Thu Oct 17, 2013 10:14 am

BetaB17 wrote:

Back to the op, why all the love/hate over dragonbone? Yet I get a slight feel dragonscale is felt forgotten at times

Go back a couple of pages, folks seem to like Dragonscale. I honestly don't see the appeal.

Torapa · **Posted:** Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:50 am

For my Redguard Badass Mofo Curnac all his female followers wear beefed upped fur (just kilt) armour. Hey, I quite beng a chauvinist pig because the b*tch*s just hate that s**t!
I personally think the coolest is dragonscale followed by the Ebony mail. I also miss the Morrowind system of armour and clothing.

Pisik · **Posted:** Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:49 am

I also love Alik'r Warriors' outfit.

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