Anyone like the earlier armor sets? : V

» Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:54 pm

If not for their vast inferiority... and the RP question of why a man would choose to be less protected when going into battle... I'd love to wear the early armors.

For a Nord, something about the fur/leather/steel look really fits. As my Nord progresses, I feel that some of the armors- Dwarven especially- don't really fit him.

How do you guys feel about this?

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:03 am

The iron and steel sets look amazing. I'm tempted to just wear a steel set and say "screw everything past this," because honestly, all of them look worse. Maybe somebody will make armor mods that improve the look of higher tier armors.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:38 am

I like the Novice Robes, Novice Hood, and leather gauntlets and boots. Really classic look.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:21 am

It was like this in Oblivion too for me. I loved Leather and Iron and Steel. Pretty much all the higher armors I disliked.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:22 am

Yeah i'm wearing full dwarven armor now but it doesn't really feel like i fit in the world anymore. I think i'll go full steel plate after this.

» Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:54 pm

Steel armour looks almost as awful as Dwarven but Iron looks great and the Ancient Nord Steel Helmet is probably my favourite looking helmet in the game.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:54 am

Light armors seem to look better than heavy ones as you level up. I loved the look of fur and hide, then I got leather which was not as cool. But then I got the stormcloak officer set, which was my favorite until I got the savior's hide which is my current favorite. Everything past steel in the heavy armor doesn't really appeal to me.

» Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:57 pm

im gonna stick with dragon armor made from all the bones of the dragons ive killed

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:49 am

While the armour does look far better in Skyrim than Oblivion, I find that the later game armours still look inferior to the starting stuff. It's for this exact reason why I've stuck to Steel Plate and Nordic Steel over Orcish and Dwarven equipment.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:10 am

i like the lower armors too, but i wear light armor.
studded armor was my favorite (very warrior-like) but then i found SCALE and that became my favorite, THEN i found HORNED SCALE or w/e it's called and it was scale w/ a deer head on the shoulder!!!
it's super bad ass and i wear the thief guild hood w/ it

looks super awesome!

» Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:47 pm

I'm an Argonian in Dragonplate. I'm okay with this look.

» Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:45 pm

Yeah, made up armors are hard to get right I guess. Why can't they just take Steel and make it look a bit more evil? Although I think the Dwarven armor is pretty beast.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111118154322/elderscrolls/images/thumb/c/c4/Dwarven_HeavyArmor.jpg/230px-Dwarven_HeavyArmor.jpg

It's very tank like.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:41 am

Don't be too worried about the armor rating. According to UESP the armor cap is 567 (80% Damage Reduction). With Blacksmithing + Heavy armor talents you'll blow right past that, even in iron. In fact, My new character is putting two points in Blacksmithing for steel and arcane smith, and going Nordic Steel all the way.

» Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:05 pm

Dragonscale armor doesn't look as cool as I'd like it to, but I have no real complaints about wearing it. IMO the Daedric armor looks WAAAY better then it did on Oblivion and is the best looking armor in the game.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:16 am

i like the way the deadric weapons look, but prefer dragonplate armor over deadric, i think dragonplate is pretty cool

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:56 am

Not so drastic as Iron/Steel to Dragon/Daedric but IMO Ebony is the best looking set. (Out of heavy, havn't played a light armor guy yet.)

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:08 am

I've stuck with good old fashioned steel armour.

I tried the wolf armour, and it looked a couple of sizes too big...same for some of the other stuff. With the enchantments and smithing, you can still be viable with the plainer armours.

It's only early days for me yet, but I've got something like 170+ rating now, and if needs be I'd throw spells to buff it.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:39 am

Some might say they have succumbed to the Fantasy Syndrome, I disagree, they but about as much as Oblivion.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:15 am

I love the wolf armor. But I felt it was time to move up so I switched to steel plate which I'm content with. I'm also level 27 and still using skyforge.

» Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:46 pm

I love the look of steel plate armor with the ancient nord helmet my favorite so far, plus it has the most badass horns I've seen on a helmet in the game. I wish they had some more viking like armor though and some viking style chainmail.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:31 am

It was like this in Oblivion too for me. I loved Leather and Iron and Steel. Pretty much all the higher armors I disliked.

This. I just enchanted the hell out of Leather in Oblivion. Glass looked soooo bad for a sneaky type. Or for anyone, really.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:57 am

Steel Armor for the win. I like to look rugged, rough, and rowdy. Because, you know, that's realistic. And I'm a Bosmer. I wear the steel set, and an Apprentice Black Hood. Aragorn never wore anything retardedly extravagant, like the Dwarven Armor. That [censored]'s for rich imperials...

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:54 am

I actually love all of the armor sets, I feel cool in every one of them.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:02 am

I love fur armor on my Khajiit but its so weak now.

» Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:45 am

I've gone with Dragonscale everything except for helm since I ground so hard to get the perk. I'll probably change once I've sampled everything and found a combination that I like the look of though (In Fallout, it was Chinese stealth armor with a cowboy hat). So far, the only piece of the dragonscale that I love is the gloves. I also haven't taken off my first dragon priest mask since I took it from that monster's cold dead face.