right now im really trying to find a helmet that fits well to a more barbaric look on my female dual wielding orc whos wearing predators grace and saviors skin...hoods dont fit that well and all light armor helmets look kinda nnaaa the scaled helmet (not dragon) looks rather awful especially on a girl...

in general i think the item variety rather very bland...most stuff gets repeated 20'000 times...the first armor's, fur, exists at least in 3 versions, even if these versions are all pretty close...i was really hoping this would be the case for all armors...but meeeee..wouldnt be such a problem if all the armor was more realistically looking like the first tier armors but no you look like a [censored] power ranger again later on...

what annoys me especially is the unique items - besides them having mostly pretty bland or even useless statistics (with some noteable exception such as spellbreaker, dawnbreaker or the nightmare stuff), they often dont even feature unique skins (artifacts being the exception)...just the same old skins get reused over and over again and than even with a bland enchantment on it which i can make as good or better myself...

why bothering with unique items if they look like any other item and have advantages like any other items...or have unique abilities that are simply useless (predators graces +1% stamina regeneration..???? mehrunes razor 1% instant kill possibility...???).....

i could think of a hundred unique/experimental and fun enchantmant which you cant copy yourself...and to find a unique skin for every unique weapon cant be that difficult...i mean just giving chillrend another color - CMON

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/index.php?title=Ancient_Nord_Armor&image=AncientNordArmor_Female-png

What about that helmet?

As to the rest of your complaint. Most unique equipment [besides artifacts] have always been just regular items with special enchantments. Sure there are exceptions but throughout TES its been that way.

simply because something was always crapp doesnt mean you cant improve...and it is a heavy helmet... there are some cool nice light armors, but the helmets are all baaaa..forsworn helmet could have been nice but they made it weird...

maybe stormcloak officer helmet but where can i get one

I think the Artifacts should be really OP, most of the Artifacts in Morrowind were nearly as Good as Daedric, worth a ridiculous amount of money but also very hard to Acquire in most cases (Dragonbone Curaiss was in a rather tough Dwemer ruin in the middle of the damn Ocean)
It seems they cut more and more out with each game, Oblivion had less than Morrowind and I have a hunch Skyrim has less again.

I don't really mind randomly enchanted items but I find the Artifacts to be less and less meaningful these days.

I agree. My biggest gripe is the lack of unique skins on the unique weapons.

The frost lady quest- just a ancient nord sword skin, same with ghostblade.

This is the case with far to many unique items, they look just like the other junk, with a slightly different enchant. I use nightingale blade partially because it is a different skin.

i mean lets face it, the only reason to hussle to find a unique items is because it is unique and that means A) unique skin or B) unique abilities...if it has either of that and the questline leading to the item is also rather bland and consists of the always-the-same cave-crawling-and-clearing - than why again??

i just realise, are there different helmets for male ancient nord armors and female ones...weird

another thing is also the "wolf" armor - WHY in gods name if the freakin thing is called wolf armor, didnt they make the helmet not looking like a wolf head? or even put a wolf head on the helmet like the storm cloak officer helmet? a lot of times i cant understand the choices...

It seems like making unique skins, or even models, for rare weapons and armor would be relatively simple to do. Wonder why this aspect was left out. This is one thing I hope gets improved in the next elder scrolls game. Less dungeons/caves, but make them HARD, and have something really unique, powerful, and baddass-looking be the reward for clearing them.

but please realistcally looking badass and not wow looking badass....targe of the blooded or ancient nord armor are for me examples of realistic-badass