Honestly I liked how The Db weren't Physco Cult people like they were in Oblivion

the psyco cult seemed more succesful.
i enjoyed it more

This.

If you were expecting anything other than practical and tight-fitting clothes with a group of shadow-mongering assassins, than you were expecting an entirely different kind of organization.

I love how the "offical Prima strategy guide" shows the assassin class wearing the Nightengale Armor on page 27. So even the offical authors thought the DB armor was ...well.... ugly?
I have kept my Nightengale armor (did thieves questline first) before I started and finished the DB questline...and am lvl 37 now and it still serves me well.

Yeah I wish it didn't look like someone just painted the cloths onto me, and the mask doesn't even appear for my character. Does anyone know if this is a glitch or just some strange assassin prejudice against having stubble?

In terms of just "how cool it looks", oblivion's outfit was cool enough... Skyrim's suit is a bit silly and I too don't like the red colors.

But what bothers me in both oblivion and skyrim....and assassin's creed series for that matter, is that it basically cries "HEY LOOK AT ME I ARE ASSASSIN!"

I can imagine it would be practical for once the night falls and everyone is asleep, it would be good to sneak around target to your mark. However, for traveling I kinda feel forced to carry around a regular leather armor or something and wear it. I can't suspend my disbelief that i can prance around a town without standing out like a sore thumb.

I'd like if you got some sort of way to enchant whichever armor you like with the same enchants as the set gives you, or at least have a spell or something that would disguise you, something like a reverse Mask of the Nocturnal from Oblivion's Grey Fox. Something that would kinda make you a diferent entity while you wear it but would fade away on combat or anything that adds a bounty.

I do have to agree that assasin's use anything to kill their mark. Disguising themselves as an emissary, courier, bard or whatever is very very clever. One of my favorite missions from oblivion's db quest is the one in skingrad where you have to blend in with the croud and kill every single one of them. I was so thrilled when i actually killed all but the last one by turning them on eachother or something. Good times.

I just wished they played a bigger role than they actually do. But I loved the quest line

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Yup I am using the same combination :foodndrink:

@op yes the DB gear (except the hood) looks like crap.

I'm playing a man and the mouth cover doesn't appear for me either. I'm still not sure if it's a glitch?

What I also noticed is that the Knife strap from the waist to the shoulder doesn't appear on my character or the Argonian, yet it appears on the female armor and the armor of the Dunmer guy on the loading screen.


With that said, I do think the armor looks great on the Women. The Men would be better off with something like a black version of the Thieves guild armor, but no pualdrons and instead of a hood, just a black mouth cover. I think that would look awesome!

Lol no.

The only bad thing about Nightingale armour is the cape, everything is bad about the DB armour.

and, once again @above.. the clothes are not practical, they're tight leather. Tight leather is not conducive to freedom of movement.

Yep, it's a bug.

- from the wiki.

I'd even add that the buckle going across the chest doesn't appear on the men either.



Eh, I think it would look stupid with the hood on and no cape. If the cape was made to look more like a cloak, then it'd be cooler. All the cool adventures have cloaks.

agreed. i like the skyrim DB members better but i definitely like the oblivion DB quests much more.

as far as armor goes i think its a bit silly that there is any DB armor to begin with. its supposed to be a super secretive group of assassins. there is a reason special forces guys in afghanistan grow long bears and often walk around in local outfits. if you want to fit in you DONT wear an obvious uniform.

@faamecanic your going to find alot of misinformation in those "official" strategy guides which is why are completely useless and a waste of money especially since you can find everything on the net these days for free. about all their good for is bathroom reading material.

Well, they could have made the outfit a bit less visible... maybe a led and Neon trimmed, wearable A-Frame sign reading "Not an assassin" .

They looked the best in Morrowind, texture/model detail not with-standing.

I think that the Dark Brotherhood light armor was the only decent looking armor in Oblivion. Nothing else really fit properly. A shame it would expire so quickly. Actually, that was a huge problem with Oblivion. Characters looked ugly. Male characters, female characters, all fugly. Didn't matter what they were wearing, freaking ugly.
Actually, the Knights of the Nine armor looked okay, even if it did completely obscure your armor.

I like having a uniform for stealth, I just wished it look cooler. There are times I like to wear normal clothes and times I like to wear some armor. It would have been cool had they added some more interesting quest where you were required to wear normal street clothes and then some where your required to represent the guild by wearing the armor or Black Hand robes which need to be brought back.

I started out wearing all their armor pieces. I really like the head cover, covers up her face halfway in front making her look like a bad girl. Plus, she's an assassin/ thief/bow user, I think that headcover has + 20% damage for bows.

Within a few days, I'm mixing armor pieces. She's a light armor user, and today I found a pair of gauntlets - heavy armor - but she's wearing it because it has a "plus 25% damage for bow" enchant.

I personally liked the dark brotherhood armor on my female assassin.

My male one though? Not so much.

I think I also found a bug/exploit...

If you equip the Nightengale hood first, then the DB shrouded hood (In THIS order..if you do it the other way it will unequip the other)...you can wear BOTH. Kinda glad you can do this as I also play a Thief/Assassin specializing in Bow. So I love the look of the Nightengale hood (those Blue specks for eyes and no facial features is too cool.... but could care less for the illusion bonus).

what if they want to blend in to society

they cant looking like that